Intel vs. AMD

Think Iv'e been banned from dvd hounds!!!

 

This is what you see if you save dvd hounds in your favourites then right click then properties:



Rehab for recovering after dawn addicts????

 

Lol people who made addict status and then either got banned or got cheesed off with the website. The former in the case of brobear, and the latter in the case of Sophocles.

Hehe, yeah you did well with an ECS and Jetway board that lasted that long, it's not all that common. To be fair, two of my mates have had ECS boards (one of them still has) and they've lasted alright, they've just been unremarkable on the performance and settings front, but I suppose you get what you pay for. Having said that, the A8N-SLi SE board I ordered for my new build wasn't expensive, about £60, and although it's not top of the range it has plenty of features, is made by a reputable brand (DFI are good too, so dw I'm not doing a brobear) and is good for many years of service with SLI, and loads of Serial ATA, enhanced and possibly overclocked goodness. For the money, it's much better than buying a Premium or heaven forbid, an A8N32.

 

LMAO..
that is good..
i had a msi rx480 that did me for 6 months..
aurgg.. the program that me parents have only supports ie and firefox.. so i got maxthon.. to many bars though..
a little help real quick.. is their anything yall think i could use in my computer other than a new video card?

and when is intel supposed to drop the prices on the pentium series??
same with AMD?

thanx guys,
FIHSNERD

 

No idea about any forthcoming price drops (though probably around the conroe release), AMD the day after the conroe release for cert, so 24th July. My MSI MS-6775 (KT6M-ILS) has lasted me 2 1/2 years and counting, despite the slight issue I had in october... It survived a PSU hammering as well!

 

crowy,

Ya think??? I do agree with you in the fact that rocks shouldn't have been thrown in the first place. You did all that was asked in providing benches to prove your point, so to be greeted with skepticism and sarcasium was kind of a slap in the face. Next time you slap back I might suggest that you take that armored glove off first!

Personally, I'm reall happy that you have found something everyone else seems to be missing with their 3800+s. It may just be something that can only be accomplished with a board comparable to yours. People tend to have this notion that if Joe Blow can do it, so can I! But there's too many variables involved. 2 CPUs made side by side on the same assembly line may have different characteristics and limits.

I'm just as happy for you as I was for Sophocles when he built both his Opteron 175 and 170!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

@sammorris,
that was the only thing lacking on the ecs board until I flashed it with the Honeyx bios.Then I was able to adjust the fsb,hence 1700 @ 1677mhz.
The jetway was just a basic board but proved to be a reliable workhorse.

@theonejrs,
Thats correct no 2 cpu's the same,no 2 ram modules the same.Then you have to consider the power supply,quality of components on the motherboard and the list goes on.My results are what Iv'e got with what I have.The guy that purchased all the components for me and sent them here(it was cheaper to have him do the running around than me spend $100
+ on fuel) has a 3800x2 as well.He told me he was having trouble getting to 2.3ghz with his.I told him I had got to 2.6 ghz the day after I put it all together so he was a little disappointed with his results.There are others over @ DFI street who have mixed results also.
Some are having trouble getting 2.5ghz stable others are getting the same or better than me.
On a side note,here is a math bench I took a few weeks back @2.9ghz
on one of our 3 degrees mornings while still using sandra 2007.Notice the MIPS and MFLOPS are lower than 2.85ghz when using sandra 2005.I'm sure thats why we all prefer 2005 over 2007!

 

Crowy,
We have a rule a DVDhounds. We don't ban adults or knowledgeable people. Sorry about that.

 

@64026402,
I think its the same on AD
Anyway, I said what I have to say and won't make anymore comments on the events of yesterday.Have a nice day.

 

crowy,

I doubt very much that that's the reason. I think change for changes sake is a bad thing as it sets 2 standards. If it meant something, fine but this doesn't as you can't make a comparison to older benches that are meaningful. It also puts the meaning of MIPS in jeopardy. Like I said in a previous post, MIPS should be just that, MIPS! It's like SiSoft re-defined what MIPS mean, which is rediculous.

I also hate that you can't maximize the benchmark window so that you can see what you are comparing yours to! It's also hard to read in the thread. That's why I switched back real quick!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

@theonejrs,
Thats fair enough.
Wonder why there is such a difference though??

 

crowy,

Yeah!!! It's like starting a war with yourself. I mean, does that make previous benches bogus? Maybe it's a future advertising thing! But which benches do you believe? How can you change how many million instructions per second your CPU does? Are they going to give back the money people paid for past versions of Sandra because they're flawed?

Seems pretty silly to me!

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

64026402 Read this:

and this:

His salesmanship of DFI and lack of knowledge about good boards bothered me?You can say buy ASUS but I can't say buy DFI?Your saying I don't know a good board from a bad one??
IF this isn't a personal attack I don't know what is.?If you took the time to read the various review sites around the web you would soon see that DFI boards get some of the highest praise of all the boards ever tested.But wait,don't tell me, they don't know what there talking about either,Right??I don't go around saying ASUS are rubbish because the fact is they are'nt.But the overclocking options on the Lanparty/expert boards are second to none.And with regards to me not being much of an overclocker,what I like to do is find the maximum Hypertransport bus frequency (fsb) possible while maintaining stability with ram @ loose timings and LDT/FSB frequency ratio set @100mhz and LDT set @3x.This isn't something you can do in 24 hours.With the amount of options available on this board I am still tweaking to get the last possible mhz and keep it stable.Once I achieve that then I will lower the cpu/fsb ratio and start raising the LDT/FSB,run memtest until I can get stability there with no errors.There is more to do after that but can't be bothered to go into it right now.Once I achieve what I want I will post results and you can believe them or not.
Regards,Crowy.

 

theonejrs,

I believe I will believe sandra 2005(because it's older and wiser!)LOL.

 

crowy,

I believe I will believe what I want to believe when I want to believe it and I believe you have one un-believably fast computer. Believe it! He! He! Believe that too!!!LOL I believe that you will LYAO at that one!!!LOL

Happy computering,
theonejrs

 

theonejrs,
Well I'm back at it again,I have dropped the ram timings down slightly and my memory bandwith ia now at 5432.One quick question,How much of a role does the video card play(if any) in cpu and or memory benchmarks?I ask this as I am waiting on installing my 6800gt(it's in the wife's computer and hers won't be here until tomorrow)
I am currently using an old Matrox 2/4x agp card with only 32megs of ram.

 

Boxwrench,

None that I'm aware of. It could make your computer seem slow to look at but the bus for the video comes after the CPU and memory and it's usually 33MHz for PCI, 66MHz for AGP and 100MHz for PCIe. Believe it or not the old Matrox isn't too bad if you use the Matrox drivers instead of the ones in windows.

Happy Computering,
theonejrs

 

theonejrs,
Thanks for the speedy reply.I think this must have been one of the better Matrox cards,it's a G-400 dual head and even has a cooling fan.I've tried the Matrox drivers from they're sight and it turned the wifes screen pink (that's how she wound up with my 6800gt)..I installed it in the prescott build with xp drivers and it looks fine running 1280x1024.I'll hold on to this one...it makes for a good spare,just incase!

 

Boxwrench,

My Dell Precision came with that model installed and the video was bog slow. If you opened my computer, and drag the box all around it would make pleats on the screen until it caught up. After I loaded the Matrox drivers, that problem and most of slowness went away with the box moving smoothly around. I don't know what's causing the pink. Did you try different resolutions? It also might be that her monitor is not compatable with it. Matrox still makes this card for the server market which makes it about a 6 year old design, but not bad for what it is. It's fun with 2 monitors as you can open a different window or program in each one.

I have an XFX-400 AGP 4x w/64 MB of ram you can have in a week or so. It's in my Prescott right now. It will do her's just fine and you can get your 6800 back. Just PM me.

Happy computering,
theonejrs

 

theonejrs,

Thanks for your generous offer but I already bought her a 6200.It should be here later this morning along with a new router I had to buy...the smc has been acting up lately.

I know it wasn't a monitor issue as we have a pair of Dell E196fp's (I use one and the wife uses the other.)

Again, thanks for the offer.