The (new) Official PC building thread!

the 6850 and 8400/3110 are all good processors. here are the benefits of the wolfdales: full 6M cache as opposed to 4M shared cache as with the conroes, they use less energy, more OCable. sure there is a chance of electro-migration but this is true with any cpu that is excessively over-volted. further tests have revealed that the wolfdales are not anymore prone to electo-migration than other C2D cpus.

the 6mb cache (not shared) is what attracted me to them. less energy and good OCability are just bonuses. I really want a 9450 quad core now. as with the 8400/3110 the L2 cache is what I'm attracted to. 12M L2 cache. the 9450 won't OC as high as my 3110 but with it being quad core and having 12M L2 cache, it will run circles around my 3110 at stock 2.66ghz and should OC to at least 3.6ghz, probably a tad higher.

 

I very seldom agree with Morty but sometimes he just makes some sense.... hehehe. J/K.... he's a really smart fella....

Morty I'm all over that Q9450 in a year or so I guess. It's just difficult to justify the price with the Q6700 as an interesting buy right now tho.... Q6700 link at the EGG

Got my case and HDD today... Only thing is I'm to tired to deal with it right now!!! I'm do some building tomorrow!!!

.....gm

 

How much more will a Q6700 overclock from a Q6600? Is it REALLY worth the 100 dollar difference in performance?

 

It's actually $60 NOT $100.

Is it all about how much something will OC or how it performs out of the box?? Who really knows but I'd be more willing to pay a couple more bucks for the Q6700 for that guaranteed performance. Boozer you have been very lucky and I hope it holds up but at some time you're gonna get a "sub-par" cpu and NOT get the HUGE OC that you've been getting... I know, I know, you love to OC and sell your systems but I'm talking about keeping a system longer than I keep a pair of underwear!!! lol.

....gm

 

Still mulling over the Q6600 vs Q9450 debate in my head. Electronmigration accounted for the 9450s still seem to overclock reasonably well, but they're a full double the cost of the 6600s... I'm not sure that's something that can be justified. How much different really is the power consumption?

 

ok ive been running the Folding at home program. it has made 1 complete work unit with no errors. but then i got the little windows pop up thing stateing a error with the program. is this what happens when there is a erro with the puter in the program or is it just something happend with the program itself??? does that make sence?

http://i72.photobucket.com/albums/i196/Cincrob/folding.png

 

You can esily get a Q6600 for 175.

 

@Russ
you gotta explain this folding to me??????

[14:16:31] - Shutting down core
[14:16:31]
[14:16:31] Folding@home Core Shutdown: FINISHED_UNIT
[14:16:34] CoreStatus = 64 (100)
[14:16:34] Sending work to server


[14:16:34] + Attempting to send results
[14:16:42] + Results successfully sent
[14:16:42] Thank you for your contribution to Folding@Home.
[14:16:42] + Number of Units Completed: 4

[14:16:46] - Preparing to get new work unit...
[14:16:46] + Attempting to get work packet
[14:16:46] - Connecting to assignment server
[14:16:47] - Successful: assigned to (171.64.122.70).
[14:16:47] + News From Folding@Home: Welcome to Folding@Home
[14:16:47] Loaded queue successfully.
[14:17:01] + Closed connections
[14:17:01]
[14:17:01] + Processing work unit
[14:17:01] Core required: FahCore_79.exe
[14:17:01] Core found.
[14:17:01] Working on Unit 05 [April 29 14:17:01]
[14:17:01] + Working ...
[14:17:01]
[14:17:01] *------------------------------*
[14:17:01] Folding@Home Double Gromacs Core
[14:17:01] Version 1.91 (April 11, 2006)
[14:17:01]
[14:17:01] Preparing to commence simulation
[14:17:01] - Looking at optimizations...
[14:17:01] - Created dyn
[14:17:01] - Files status OK
[14:17:01] - Expanded 644512 -> 2257321 (decompressed 350.2 percent)
[14:17:01] - Starting from initial work packet

how do i know if it isnt working the way it should? it hascompleted 4 work units but twice i got the error ith the windows program thing above...

 

I ran FAH for a while and never got that. I stopped using it because it wouldn't work properly in dual core and kept forgetting which work units it had done.

 

so what do you think about that sam? is the program working like it should then haven a error with the program or is it failing as do to my system not being stable for it??? i dont know what to think with it as for i have never used it before. i would think it is haven a problem with the program. it shows it hascompleted 4 work units

 

well i didnt know we had a folding forum here? do we? i'll do a search. thanks fo the info creaky

 

I don't remember getting that problem, but it's been a while since I folded so it may just be a big with the latest version, not sure.

 

what everyone take some sleeping pills????lol

 

ddp you shouldn't say so much at once. You'll get tired.

Robert of Cincibatti.... what can I do for you?? NOTHING I'm sure but I'll try to brighten or dull your day whichever you prefer...

Just stuck that 750GB in the AMD machine to do some house cleaning.

Gonna try and get to the new Thermaltake case later but it's looking a bit dim atm...

....gm

 

GM,

what thermaltake case did you get?

theone,

how's those new dominators working out?

 

This one right here. link to case

I think Russ is liking the Dominators but I'll let him answer with all the details. Maybe running at 1056 or something like that and passing tests atm. Russ where is you at???

...gm

 

well ive finished a work unit with folding,no errors. i dont know if it puts as much stress on the CPU or not but my temps were only 56c while running it.

now here comes the twist. turned off folding. tried OCCT and Orthos. both failed. OOCT had a code 1???? what was that again? so i rebooted and tried the test again(OCCT/Orthos) both were fine. whats that all about???

so then i went to back down my OC a little bit from 3.7ghz to 3.6ghz (with a 8x multi) and raise my mem a bit with a higher freq.450mhz. hit f10 to save. rebooted it did the double boot and was set back at stock settings??once again whats up with that???? so i redid it again and im now @3.51ghz and once again stable i guess???lol

any thoughts?