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8. March 2007 @ 21:50 |
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Intel of course!
Originally posted by Mort81:
So who's gonna be the big dog on the porch when nvidia releases their GDDR4 cards?
Yeah, I know that but I meant between nvidia and ATI. Seems this thread had ventured off towards video cards and the new GDDR4 offerings from ATI. Nvidia is soon to release their line of GDDR4 video cards as well. How'd it get back to intel vs AMD so fast.
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8. March 2007 @ 21:53 |
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yeah I knew what you meant Mort. If the R600 performs as the hoax benchmarks predicted, then the 8900 will probably flatten it. If the R600 performs more like I think it should, then it should at least be reasonable competition. At least in the UK market, nVidia cards usually come out more expensive than ATi.
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8. March 2007 @ 21:57 |
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This thread has been off topic so much it's almost irrelevant as far as the topic goes. Progress is moving so slow on the CPU front, except for Intel running away with a one man race, this thread might as well discuss soybean futures.
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8. March 2007 @ 22:01 |
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corn is the best bet though lol
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8. March 2007 @ 23:22 |
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... or pork. LOL
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8. March 2007 @ 23:39 |
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Is someone on holiday?
I'm suprised a big foot hasn't stamped on this thread for going off topic!
P.S. What's the price of cheese at the moment?
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9. March 2007 @ 08:12 |
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BigDK, i don't know about cheese but fuel is to high again lol
BTW whats the X6800 Intel core running. i think that may be my next chip
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9. March 2007 @ 08:20 |
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About the lowest for reputable online vendors is $965 at ZZF and the Egg. Karan-bir (never heard of them) listed having 2 at $910.
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9. March 2007 @ 08:28 |
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aabbccdd,
If you're gonna spend that kind of $ you might as well go with a quad core. FYI my E6600 @ 3.4ghz will outperform a stock X6800 at a fraction of the cost. Mine beats all stock cpu's except the quad cores. Just out of curiosity, what gpu are you running?
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9. March 2007 @ 08:41 |
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yeah for the money the E6600 would be the way to go by OC(ing)
Mort i have the AMD Opteron 185 OC(ed) to 2.87Ghz
i don't have my PC specs in my sig anymore
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9. March 2007 @ 08:57 |
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9. March 2007 @ 08:58 |
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To make room for more Adriana? lol
GTX, Mort, GTX. :D
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Originally posted by sammorris:
To make room for more Adriana? lol
GTX, Mort, GTX. :D
you know it bro lol
yeah Mort that sounds good. i had this rig for about 10 months now so i will probably wait a bit though
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9. March 2007 @ 09:07 |
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GTX, Mort, GTX. :D
Thx, my bad.
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9. March 2007 @ 09:12 |
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lol no worries.
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12. March 2007 @ 03:54 |
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got to say i think this thread needs to have nvidia put in the title somwhere to.
the new 8600 gt and gts care of http://www.fx57.net/?p=481
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12. March 2007 @ 03:57 |
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So GTS > GT ? I'm not up on nVidia terminology, the last geforce i had was a Sparkle GF4 MX440 64MB PCI 1x.
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12. March 2007 @ 08:20 |
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Mort81,
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Newegg has some dam good deals on DDR2 memory right now eg.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16820145034
It's interesting! Of all the memory you could have picked for an example, this one seems to be troublesome. I was reading the reviews and noticed a great amount of the 300+ reviews either mentioned recieving 1 bad stick or had one fail shortly after installing it.
I should be starting gina4xoxo's machine within about a week as she is ordering the parts now. She's got the MB and CPU with the rest on the way. I'm going to use these for memory: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145040
She is going to add another pair down the road so she will wind up with 4x512 for her 2GB. They work a bit faster than 2x1GB in DDR so I assume that it's the same for the DDR2, at least when a MB is limited to 4GB of memory. It may be different for MBs that support 8GB. Don't know!
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12. March 2007 @ 13:20 |
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theonejrs,
Looks like corsair cooked up a bad batch huh. Too bad. Could really hurt their rep. Of all the ppl I know personally and through the forums, only sammorris got a bad stick of corsair DDR2 memory and it was a 512 stick of C5. If I was buying now I would still take my chances with the memory I linked too. BTW the links in your posts aren't working right.
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12. March 2007 @ 13:34 |
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Heh, to make sure I got more RAM quickly, I ordered some more rather than wait for a return (and used the opportunity to change to 2GB of CAS4) and I still went with Corsair.
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12. March 2007 @ 13:38 |
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I knew that. Your new memory hasn't caused you any problems has it?
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12. March 2007 @ 13:39 |
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This set hasn't yet.
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12. March 2007 @ 17:28 |
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Mort81,
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BTW the links in your posts aren't working right.
Yeah! I had yours within the quotes and a . after mine. All fixed! Thanks for letting me know!
I agree with the bad batch theory because no one got a bad set when they RMA'd. Corsair must have known of the problem because they had some info posted at the bottom of one of the pages dealing with replacements under warranty!
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12. March 2007 @ 18:20 |
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Perhaps, although I've seen some blurb from Corsair about returns on one of the websites i use for years.
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13. March 2007 @ 00:06 |
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She is going to add another pair down the road so she will wind up with 4x512 for her 2GB. They work a bit faster than 2x1GB in DDR so I assume that it's the same for the DDR2, at least when a MB is limited to 4GB of memory. It may be different for MBs that support 8GB. Don't know!
It's got nothing to do with the memory, it's the chipset on the motherboard.
You need to check what chipset the board is running and see if 4 or 2 sticks will be better.
Normally 2 sticks is faster, as having 4 will mean you will have to use 2T instead of 1T and the latencies increase, so not sure where you're getting your info.
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