Intel vs. AMD

crowy,

It just adds to an already heavy cooler. Since it sits in the middle of the fins and is a couple of inches outboard of the mount, it's weight just adds more leverage.

The earthquake thing is a way of life here in So. Cal. Usually they are fairly gentle but occasionally you hear a bang like a car hitting a wall or telephone pole but most times it just gives a rolling motion. The 8 to 10" was my personal worst that I've ever seen. Most houses here are built on concrete slabs so most of the time the house just moves with the slab. It's when the slab tries to move in different directions that the most damage is done. During the Northridge quake, several 2 story apartment buildings became 1 story as the lower floor collapsed and the top floor settled itself on top of it. At first glance you would never know that there was 2 floors to begin with. Had that quake occured a couple of hours sooner, many more people would have been killed as they all would have been in bed when the quake hit!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

Check the new benches using sandra 2005!!
Have'nt finished yet.
I have a few more tricks to up the memory bandwidth which I will do shortly.
Check the mips!!
Check the memory, excellent timings.Not sure why its showing 2T though memory is @ 1T
Roomtemp here is 17c
Cpu temp is 29c.
Cpu voltage is 1.47v

 

The computer is fine..
i am still swaying from saying F'it and just jetting a 1900XT refurb with the power adaptor with the dvi to vga adaptor..
i dono.. have to go do the yard..
have fun,
FIHSNERD

 

Hey crowy.. i fyou switched out that value ram.. you might be able to get tighter timmings and higher speeds..

just noticed..
FIHSNERD

 

crowy,

That would be a bit chilly for me, in fact it would be downright cold. I'm a lot more comfortable at 21C which is 70F!
Have you run a decent length Prime95 run on it yet?

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

Burrr..
jeeesss..
i am at like 75 or somthing and i am cold..
i think i would freze my *** of in crowys house..
lol
any of yall play battlefront 2 or age of empires 2 or 3 or anything??
i am bored

thanx,
FIHSNERD

 

Garfield sucked? That's a shame. I'd still like to see it. I generally don't like buying refurb stuff, no matter how good their people are, stuff that went wrong before probably will do again.

Hehe yeah good point crowy, I'd be more concerned for my wellbeing if there's 10 inch tremors going on! Like your cooling benches eh?
Don't talk to me about earthquakes I've just written about them last week in a Geography exam!
Holy cow, that's a fast 3800!!!

Fihsnerd: as i said before, I avoid refurb stuff, especially GPUs. Do it if you like, but good as ATi and newegg are, I wouldn't trust it.

 

back to my old self..
i will probably just get
the X850XT refurb (sorry Sammorris)
and the spectra..
i dont want the benQ
even though it is an hell of a deal..

i am going to play battlefront 2..
have fun,
FIHSNERD

 

The sceptre's a much better monitor anyway. I don't mind you getting an X850 refurb, I mind a lot less than you buying, say a 6800, but all I'm saying is just be careful, that's all.

 

so the higer end cards are what you want me to stay away from.. Refurb wise..

and the pixel pitch on the spectra is better than any of the other 20.1 wide screen monitors that i saw.. or at least in a reasonable price range..

 

how did you manage to trade your 850XT for a 7800GTX???
i would soo do that. i think..

 

hi people,i was looking in this pc magazine and the new intel processor has been unveiled its called the intel core 2

http://www.intel.com/pressroom/archive/releases/20060508corp.htm


oh and i saw a new laptop brand called rock who has a brill laptop with nvidia geforce 7900 512mb graphics for like £1000 including a duo processor, 100gb and all the top of the range stuff.

 

Nono, it doesn't matter which card it is, X300Se or X1900XT-X, I just avoid refurbs personally, but that'll probably be great. I just wouldn't be comfortable spending all that money on something like that.

 

what do you mean..
i need this stuff..
thae video card that is..
myne sucks..
it is bottlenecking my computer and it is pissing me off..
or can you think of anything that i might need other than anything that i posted?
thanx,
FIHSNERD

 

FIHSNERD , i traded cards but it wasnt for even lol the 7800 GTO is a 600 dollar card so was the X850 XT when i bought it though

 

@theonejrs,
Have'nt run prime on this configuration as yet.I will do that tonight when I go to bed.
@FIHSNERD,Although this memory is performing better than expected,I would love to get some top end stuff.However at the moment the budget won't stretch that far

 

Just been down the road so while I was out thought I would give dual prime 95 a test run.
Just over 1.5 hours(not long I know,)but so far looks promising.I will
let prime run again tonight so should have a result that runs around 12hours in the morning
Any way here's the results so far.
(Watching those 2 cores running @ 100% kind of scares me!!)

Here we are with both cores @100%

Here we are just after I stopped prime.

BTW, ran sandra straight after to check the cpu temp(should have ran it while prime was still running I know but already closed prime.Temps were @ 31 degrees both cores.Room temp @ 16 degrees.
If all goes well tonight I will run sandra in the morning while prime is still running and get the temps again.

 

I'M thinking of upgradeing my memory.Seems most memory runs at 400MGz.DOES faster memery inhance Computer speed? If so would this be a better selection
K-Byte 512MB PC4200 DDR2 DIMM Memory 533MHz $70.00ea
K-Byte 512MB PC5300 DDR2 DIMM Memory 667MHz $75.00ea
PNY Optima 2-Pack 512MB PC2-4200 DDR2 DIMM 533MHz $140.00pr

seems everything is about the same price frm 400MGz to 533
Or does the CPU control mem speed

 

Fihsnerd: I'm saying I'd rather buy a new card than worry about a refurbished one with a limited warranty.
aabbccdd: Heh yeah, the X800 Pro I have was £289 when I got it, which in literal translation is about $550, even tho you would have been able to get one for less due to VAT and all that.
Sixteen degrees room! Brrr, Sometimes I wonder whether my fridge is even that cold!
Faster memory is either PC4000 (Ludicrously expensive) or DDR2. If you have a late intel board (socket 775) or a very recent AMD board (socket AM2) then you can use DDR2, otherwise you can only get 4000. However, unless you plan a major overclock, 3200 RAM is FINE. You won't see a difference, heck most of us even OC with 3200.

 

hey guys..
i am sorta pissed..
i know this isnt the right forum
but i downloaded a bt that was nfsu black edition.. and it said it was a media file.. so i changed that.. to multiple things.. what do i open and install it from? it said it was like a 750mg file which is bogus ..
and this bittorrent crap is soooo slow..
and my computer runsss.. s l o w ... is their anything else that i can use to download games.. ??

thanx,
fihsnerd.