The (new) Official PC building thread!

Alright DEFINITELY not getting DDR3 ram and I can get the Q6600 for 175. The Q9450 is NOT worth double the amount.

 

Same story here, the Q6600 isn't much over £100, the Q9450 is nearly £250.

 

Q9450 is not getting tested as I wish in my EX38-DS4 I can tell you that.

 

I agree about the Q6600, it's "cheap" and GOOD!!! I've been eying the Q6700 tho... lol. Just can't seem to justify it tho.. GREAT cpu for the cash!!!

What's wrong with DDR3 RAM?? COST??? It's coming down as we speak... lol. It is getting cheaper but the good mobos out there that use it seem to be a little more than the standard/good mobos that use DDR2... at least from my observation...

....gm

 

I just don't see how DDR3 is much faster, and given the price tag it should be.

Sigh, who started the rumour mill up again?
http://neoseeker.com/news/8022-nvidia-9900-gtx-priced-at-499-ati-hd4870-coming-late-june/

Speculation hasn't been this broad and unpredictable since the 8800GTX. Both cards stand to be significantly faster than any single core card currently out there. While I've no doubts that nvidia can one-up themselves given the downturn of late, I'm a little dubious that AMD will release a single-core 9800GX2 beater at a circa £200 price tag, more than a little dubious in fact. Well, time will tell I suppose. The forecasted date for something to happen is late June...

 

GM, 4GB of DDR3 RAM is about three times as expensive. I can run that 4GB at 1066mhz(DDR2) at cas5 or 1333(DDR3) at cas7. It's not worth the price difference when performance is nearly identical.

Deadrum, why what's wrong?

 

GM, 4GB of DDR3 RAM is about three times as expensive. I can run that 4GB at 1066mhz(DDR2) at cas5 or 1333(DDR3) at cas7. It's not worth the price difference when performance is nearly identical.

Deadrum, why what's wrong?

 

abuzar,

deadrum will have to fill in the details but his mobo will not let him OC. it reboots or gives him BSOD when he tries to do even small OC. suprise suprise, it's a gigabyte. sorry that just wasn't right. I really do hope you get it straightened out deadrum.

 

You still have a very immature attitude towards motherboards Mort, and it's not like you...

 

mort.... xD

and Azubar, if you say that the CAS7 is worse than CAS4, then you might aswell use DDR400 CAS 1.5

as the speeds increase, the latencies do, but the rate of data transfered is much higher.

the data is Quad pumped on the DDR3s, so you get double the amount of data on the rising and falling side of the RAM clocks.

please dont post propaganda without facts. xD

thats why the FBS 1:1 MHz, for DDR2 was Half the rated speed, Vs 1/4 the CPU Quadpumped FBS, and nwo its 1/4 DDR3 to 1/4 FBS

so 1600MHz DDR3 is the effective of 400MHz (aka 800 MHz DDR2 / 400MHz DDR1) to the 1600 MHz FBS (effective of 400MHz FBS) so they are truely 1:1

DDR3 is worth it from 1600MHz, due to the datarate being much higher (even with its higher latencies) then 1066 DDR2

 

Oops, sorry didn't know about the quad pumped thing. I am NOT trying to spread propaganda BTW.

I just got my Monitor!!!

 

notice the "xD"

and is that the dell one?

 

I can't disagree with you. you are right. one of the charactor flaws I have is I told ya so. IMO the mobo is the most crucial component of a build. even more so than the cpu. it is the heart of the system so to speak. that is why I try to emphasize going with a top end mobo right up front. you can always easily upgrade the cpu or memory.

I offered my opinion prior to everybody jumping on the gigabyte bandwagon but nobody listens to me. sorry I feel this way but I can't apologize for my charactor flaw.

 

shaf,

why are you jumping on me. I never said anything to contradict that or even anything about it. I agree. must be pick on Mort day.

 

Yeah it's the Dell 24inch. It's HUGE! lol

 

AHEM....everyone?

i have been arguing against it for a long time aswell.

its just that sam is LOUD AND PROUD (not gay xD)

and gets to the others before we do

btw, check these out:

http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_jump.cfm/87039/4032039

and read ahead, (only a few posts, and agree with one of us)

 

mort i was laughing at your post, because it so true, the rest of my post was directed at boozer....

i actually like you, your one of the few with NuckNfuts who stick up for Asus

 

very nice

 

Hell even I will say it, when you are going for high end go for Asus. But other than that Gigabyte is great for the money!

It really isn't right for Mort to say that just because Deadrum has a Gigabyte board it doesn't overclock well at all. Look at me, I have a cheaper Gigabyte board and I did 4Ghz on my E6750.

 

my personal experiance of GB mobos, would never let me install on OS, (neihter XP nor vista) on the two i had (one being the RMA of the other)