Originally posted by sammorris:

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As for dual core games, some do some don't, Most I'm afraid don't, but that is changing. For games like supreme commander it's pretty much a NECESSITY. Anybody who has a single core lags network games so badly they're usually voted off the server.

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Thing is, the Core 2 Duo doesn't need 64-bit to kick ass! The E6300 at 1.86Ghz benchmarks slightly better than an X2 4200+ at 2.2Ghz. That in turn benchmarks like a Pentium D at 3.6Ghz. The Pentium D is the dual core version of your processor, so not only are there two cores, a 1.86Ghz Core 2 duo core is like a 3.6Ghz core!
Consequently, since the 2.66Ghz E6750 is now dirt cheap, you can get a cheap CPU that's effectively like a 5.2Ghz dual core version of your CPU!

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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I don't know to be honest, I never messed with AGP aperture settings, so I'm not the best person to ask in that field. For once you've found something I know nothing about!

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My memory is DDR2, known as DDR400, 400 Mhz, 184 pin, motherboard MS-7103. Your post implied that I could take it with me later - in that case shouldn't I invest in one stick? Each stick is $67. I have two slots total currently each has a 512mb stick.

You mentioned your friend did fine with 1 gig.

But now with the x1950 xt agp I'll be running shader 3 and some of this other high end stuff, and I imagine texture memory at only 256 will be taxed, and could perhaps slow me down.

Wouldn't the x1950xt agp (with only 256mb memory vs. your memory of 512mb) benefit from a little texture storage help from main system memory, which it would get if I open up the AGP aperture to 256mb? (Not as good as the memory being on the board itself - but somehow for agp that doesn't work.)

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Overclocking early stepping Northwood cores yielded a startling phenomenon. When VCore was increased past 1.7 V, the processor would slowly become more unstable over time, before dying and becoming totally unusable. This is believed to have been caused by the physical phenomenon known as Electromigration, where the internal pathways of the CPU become degraded over time due to excessive electron energy. This was also known as Sudden Northwood Death Syndrome.

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Finally, the thermal problems were so severe, Intel decided to abandon the Prescott architecture altogether, and attempts to roll out a 4 GHz part were abandoned, as a waste of internal resources. Also of concern was the fact that a review showed that in games, it took a 5.2 GHz Prescott core to soundly beat the performance of an Athlon FX-55 that clocked at 2.6 GHz.[4] Considering Intel boasted at launch the Pentium 4 architecture was intended to support up to 10 GHz operation, this can be seen as one of the most significant, certainly most public, engineering shortfalls in Intel?s history. This also meant that while Northwood ultimately achieved clockspeeds 70% higher than Willamette did, Prescott only managed a 12% rise over Northwood.

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Overclocking record
In 2007, a frequency of 8.32 GHz was reached by an Italian overclocking team known as SFERA OC Team, using a Pentium 4 641 with a FSB of 520 MHz and a multiplier of 16. This is considered the highest clock frequency ever realized on a consumer CPU.

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NVIDIA's video drivers are now multithreaded, so we should see some amount of multithreading action happening in any application that uses the GPU for 3D graphics, even if the game is only single-threaded.

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When you say "it doesn't need 64 bit to kick ass" you're meaning is that it doesn't need 64 bit software, isn't that what you are saying.

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Sam, is this what you were telling Raymond about?

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Sh*t, if they can hit over 8, then I think you can hit 4, Raymond, and I'll be right behind you

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