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The (new) Official PC building thread!

Discussion in 'Building a new PC' started by creaky, Nov 27, 2006.

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  1. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    whoops, typo! I mean I'd never seen a PWM fan with LEDs! Lol
     
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    Hey Rob, might wanna google "high e8400 temp" seems the e8400 is having problems with its temp readings. Still trying to figure out what it means....
     
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    @random5
    i read some of those reviews. most of them are of people that are getting high temps from really OC'ing(4.0+ghz) or they didnt use AS5 on the cpu. idont have problems with my temps cpu=20-23c and each core about 36-46c and under load the highest it got was 60c so thats plenty cool.

    but now the big red machine is down!!!!!!!!!!! wipeing the HDD reinstalling windows.
     
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    So that's what they call it now.... hehehe. ;P

    How are things going Rob?? I've been messing with mine again (the NEW build) and got it up to 3.82 and she didn't like it. lol. I'll have to do some more research and see what I can do. ;) It's stable right around 3.7 but the GM is GREEDY!!! lol.

    Rob have you decided on a ODD yet?? I still think you should look at a Pioneer or LG. :D You have enough Lite-Ons to start your own store. hehehe. Ooops, maybe that's me. :p

    .....gm
     
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    You should have gotten a E6750, it would have overclocked just as well.
     
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    abuzar1,
    Speed wise that's true! Real World Performance, and the E8400 out performs the E6750 at the same clock speeds. The extra 2MB of L2 Cache helps as does the 42 additional instructions in the chips instruction Set! Similar speeds, but the E8400 wins the price/performance crown hands down, even when installed in an older tech Asus SLI high end MB! I've seen memory bandwidths in the mid 9200MB's range with that very motherboard! I can't wait till the prices start to come down!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    I was talking to GM because he spent an extra 100 and got an E6850.
     
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    An extra $57 tyvm!! :p (well before taxes...dang uncle sam!! $77 after uncle sam has his way with me.... :D)

    ...gm
     
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    Could have spent that on a graphics card! lol
     
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    For GAMES that I will NEVER play on the PC!! I don't think so!! :p I've re-evaluated my position on the GPU front and it makes ZERO sense for me to spend money for something that I will NEVER use. I'll use the E6850 just fine. It speeds thru encoding or whatever with ease. :D

    ....gm
     
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    lol I guess so.

    So guys I made an ad for my PC building services. I'll email it to you if you want to see, just PM me your email.
     
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  12. bigwill68

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    An extra $57 tyvm!! :p (well before taxes...dang uncle sam!! $77 after uncle sam has his way with me.... :D)

    ...gm[/quote]

    Yea uncle sam gets us everytime greens no matter what,hey what you got that e6850 oc'd at anyway? all yea good news robo got this system renewed we wiped it here at work.I brought my system in(blu bye u)..lol and hooked his hard drive up to mine the the other os corporate edition and reinstalled a fresh copy of windows xp home..he's a happy camper now no more ie7 and fire fox you know he like ie6 instead.he's all updated and headed home to put his software back on there that he had now things are right he said..lol
     
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    GM has his E6850 overclocked to 3.7 ghz, while I can manage a cool 3.8 on my E6750 ;)
     
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    This is what i'm getting, just turned it on, no load, and the room i'm in is pretty cold (its 9 in the morning here). I'm using the stock intel fan on the processor.[​IMG]
     
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    So what, 17.5% VAT and import taxes on top of that?
    I don't think so.
     
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    Man, I can't get my Q6600 past 3.2 ghz stable. I can get it up to 3.4 ghz and its stable-ish...but the core temps are a little higher than I'd like.
     
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    Random5,
    I would be far more concerned with the 12v that's reading 13.77v! Sounds like not a very good PS to me!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    Random5,
    I thought the same thing but didn't post. You might try HWMonitor or Everest (Home or Pro) to see if your "readings" are the same. I used PCWizard but found that some of the readings were off or not labeled correctly.

    .....gm

    link for HWMonitor

    link for everest home
     
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    yes its true bigwill stole my thunder..lol the big red machine is back up and running. put windows XP home on it and all is good. no IE7. IE6 is working great ...
    got a disc in now and burning away.
     
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    What voltage you pushing threw it?
     
    GregI6, Feb 19, 2008
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