Intel vs. AMD

Fair enough. If you're after 3Ghz, might as well use Arctic Silver.

 

@sammorris,
Arctic silver 3 is what I will use.

 

3? I heard 5 is the best stuff, or do you still have a tube of that lying around? In which case use it, there probably isn't much difference between them.

 

Jesus Sammoris, you are only 19??? WHooo ... i thought you were in you 30's or somthing.. cool..

Got a question, should i get an X1900XT and flash it to the XTX?
or should i get the lxbox360.. i used to be an console fan.. i just dont
know which one would last me ... u know.. my budget is 485.00.. and then
i am going to try and do a Raid 0 to speed things up and add another gig ... That should be fun... But seriously, what do yall think?

 

an X1900XT. It'll play more games, make them look better, not overheat, and you can get XBox 360 controllers for PCs anyway. It's a win win situation!
I'm 18 btw.

 

Jesus..
Well..
hows about this...
Hard drive... exactly what i have now to run in raid 0

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16822144701

X1800XT Meh... Good and better than the 7900gt

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16814127180

and a gig of GSkill

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?item=N82E16820231046


or just get the 1900XT.. i am just making sure that the 1900XT wont hogg up me memory...

 

How will the X1900XT hog up your memory? The only memory it uses it owns, there's no Aperture-increasing or Hypermemory going on...

Nephilim, cool, that's OK then, how I wanted it.

 

i am sorry i am used to my 6200.... and that is 256mg turbocache...
i did'nt know about it... but what do you think about it?
u think that the X1900Xt is my best bet?

 

Erm, Nephilim, do you know why FIHSNERD was banned? Can you send emails to people when they're banned on AD by finding out their email? This guy seems like he was shortly to order some stuff and now can't. It may have been his own fault for getting banned, but I'm sure you see that puts me in an awkward place.

 

Yeah that's what I thought. I don't already know his addy, hence why I was asking - can you access those from AD?

 

Hey I had a question about Corsair memory. Someone on xtreme-source mentioned that he had 8 different Corsair sticks die on him in three years, on three different setups. This person has good PC knowledge (Crowy would like him- DFI guy), but that just seems strange to me. What're the odds of something like that happening? What would be some possible causes of that?

 

@Tokijin,
Quite possible if his board supports memory overvoltage and he had changed the jumper on his board to give him up to 4volts in the bios.Maybe he was giving his ram too many volts thus shortening the lifespan.I havent had a real good look yet to see which ram can support
those kind of voltages but thats what I will do when I can afford to upgrade to some top of the line memory.

@sammorris,
You got it in one.I still have a tube of AS3 here.

 

Now at 2.68GHZ stable.CPU voltage .25 volts over stock.
CPU temp@34 degrees
Ambient room temp about 12 degrees.

 

crowy,
How about some Sandra benches for Math and Memory bandwidth remember to move the slider on the bottom to show memory timings and speed. For the Math same thing to show the processor and it's current speed.

Got my D940 all together and running great at 3.71GHz. Memory timings of 3-4-4-8 at 464Mhz. All on a 928MHz FSB.

Here's the CPUZ



The Math



The Memory Bandwidth



the Multi-Media



It runs x2 4400+ numbers and cost $200 less. I'm real happy with it!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

It runs damn near 4800+ numbers. Well done!

 

sammorris,

I appreciate that. I ran Prime95 all night and when I got up this morning there were no errors! That's a good thing. Max temperature was 41C. It's now idling at 29C with an ambient temp of 31C. Like I said, I think my theory on 2 seperate lower wattage heat sources is correct. Look at my Prescott which is a 90 watt CPU, but with a single source of heat. While the Zalman cools it pretty good it's still not near as good as it is on this computer. I've got it stressed pretty good so there should be lots of heat to liberate, but if the temperatures aren't as high to begin with then theres got to be lower temps which is exactly what I've found. I think the key is better disapation because of the 2 cores which spreads the heat over a wider area of the chip giving the heat more area to escape to the cooler's heat sink surface! I mean, I am using the same cooler on both machines and this one is even OC'd a bit more than the prescott, 3.71 vs 3.64!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

Yep, top stuff. How exactly is it 2ºC lower than the room temperature? I can't quite work that one out.