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The Official PC building thread -3rd Edition
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Red_Maw
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10. April 2009 @ 20:59 |
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Originally posted by Sophocles:
I was merely suggesting the possibility of an error and wanted to express caution. I suspect that $135 for a Q9550 is probably below wholesale prices, but if he can get it for that then great.
There was no intention of inferring anything about anyone's post, I was just merely repeating what im told me when I asked where he got cpus at ridiculously cheap prices. And I'll be digging around to see if I know anyone who works for intel now ;)
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10. April 2009 @ 21:17 |
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Nope! Never been a Geek! Got into Electronics when Tubes still ruled and made the transition to Transistors, ICs and such, without difficulty. Played Sports most of my life. Baseball, Ice Hockey and Football. Computers sort of came along with Consumer Electronics, so it was a natural thing for me. More a case of being in the right place at the right time than anything else. Building a computer back in the late 80's was an adventure. There were no books, no internet and no place to go, but maybe your supplier, and that was it. The manuals, at least for the Jumper Settings, was usually pretty good You were self taught by your mistakes! Believe me when say that most motherboards had at least 50 jumpers on them, everything today that you easily set in the bios. At the prices in those days, you didn't make many mistakes. Finally General Electric came along and started a service called "Genie", so people started talking to one another on it, sort of a very basic Forum in text. You could finally chat with people all over the country without Long Distance Charges.
I guess the reason you don't see many Computer Geeks in my age bracket is because we were all older then and we were the first of many Computer Buffs to come. Geek or no, it's still Fun! ;<)
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ddp
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11. April 2009 @ 00:09 |
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& what about us mods?
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11. April 2009 @ 00:26 |
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Originally posted by ddp:
& what about us mods?
The biggest geeks of all!!! LOL. Totally funnin with ya
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11. April 2009 @ 08:10 |
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There was no intention of inferring anything about anyone's post
No inferences taken your post was polite and completely appropriate. I just have a need sometimes to explain my reasoning, and that's all that was.:)
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11. April 2009 @ 15:13 |
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didnt get a q9650 after all
got a core i7 965 EE instead
now i need a new motherboard and some new ram
and possibly a cooler
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11. April 2009 @ 15:18 |
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You definitely need a cooler unless you're willing to put up with the stock one.
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bigwill68
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11. April 2009 @ 15:29 |
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Done out of Here!
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11. April 2009 @ 15:33 |
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As far as I'm aware the Rampage II Extreme from Asus has the overall i7 overclocking record with the 965.
We don't hate Biostars in here, but tend to recommend other brands purely on grounds of familiarity and design.
The Biostar is actually one of the boards I had lined up for i7 if I were to switch to it. Funs have put a stop to that upgrade, but since Gigabyte boards can't do quad graphics, I'm left looking at other manufacturers.
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bigwill68
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11. April 2009 @ 15:40 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
As far as I'm aware the Rampage II Extreme from Asus has the overall i7 overclocking record with the 965.
I gotta search to prove you wrong on that 1 dude if so it won't last long...
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11. April 2009 @ 15:46 |
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For the record, it was 5510mhz the Asus achieved.
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bigwill68
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11. April 2009 @ 16:03 |
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11. April 2009 @ 16:06 |
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Not bad. I'm as impressed by the 4.2Ghz with the TRUE, to be honest.
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bigwill68
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11. April 2009 @ 16:14 |
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11. April 2009 @ 16:25 |
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waittttt, WHAT!?!
a 25x multiplier???
lol, i officially dont have a clue how the new core i7s work
how do you overclock?
i thought that since i got the i7 965, i would just raise the multiplier...
whats the difference between the i7 940 and i7 965???
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11. April 2009 @ 16:28 |
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I believe the 965 is multiplier unlocked, the 920 and 940 aren't.
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11. April 2009 @ 18:21 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I believe the 965 is multiplier unlocked, the 920 and 940 aren't.
so then do i even need a high FSB motherboard?
cant i just jack up the multiplier and overclock that way?
-im1992
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11. April 2009 @ 19:03 |
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Tbh, any X58 is high end. Up the multi as far as you can go and proceed from there.
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11. April 2009 @ 20:32 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
Tbh, any X58 is high end. Up the multi as far as you can go and proceed from there.
now the i7 940 has a "qpi" of QPI: 4.8GT/s
and the i7 965 has a "qpi" of QPI: 6.4GT/s
so lets say you overclock an i7 940 to 3.2ghz, will it perform the same as an i7 965?
or is this "qpi" thing locked?
what does it do?
thanks, im1992
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11. April 2009 @ 22:24 |
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The memory multiplier is unlocked on the i7 920 and 940 so you can raise the qpi to 6.4 with just on option in the bios. The qpi is the interconnect for the cores. The only other differences are the locked core multiplier and a thermal feature that stops the 920 and 940 from exceeding 130watts.
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11. April 2009 @ 23:04 |
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Originally posted by krj15489:
The memory multiplier is unlocked on the i7 920 and 940 so you can raise the qpi to 6.4 with just on option in the bios. The qpi is the interconnect for the cores. The only other differences are the locked core multiplier and a thermal feature that stops the 920 and 940 from exceeding 130watts.
so is the i7 965 worth the extra money? will it overclock higher then the i7 920/940?
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11. April 2009 @ 23:53 |
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If you are getting it for $500 That is a great deal and I would go for it. But if you were paying retail it would not be worth it because the 920 can overclock almost as high.
GAMING COMPUTER - Intel q9550 @ 3.4ghz | EVGA GTX 260 core 216 | Gigabyte ds3l | 6gb Gskill DDR2 800 ram | Silverstone 700 watt psu | WD 640gb hdd | Seagate 300gb hdd | LG dvd burner | Samsung dvd burner | Antec p182 case | logitech 2.1 speakers | logitech g11 keyboard | Samsung 25.5in 1900x1200 monitor | 19in 1440x900 secondary monitor | Windows 7 64bit | SERVER - Gigabyte 785g motherboard | AMD Phenom 9650 | 6gb ram | three 1.5tb hdd | Seagate 1tb hdd | WD 750gb hdd | two 300gb hdd | Maxtor 200gb hdd | Ark rackmount case | CentOS 5.5
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11. April 2009 @ 23:59 |
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Anyone using XP-Pro 64 bit, beware of the latest version of Service Pack 2. It totally destroyed my win 64 to the point that it wouldn't boot and there was no way for me to be able to do a system restore. makes sense as if you can't get the OS to come up, it's a little bit hard to restore anything!
Russ
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12. April 2009 @ 01:55 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
Anyone using XP-Pro 64 bit, beware of the latest version of Service Pack 2. It totally destroyed my win 64 to the point that it wouldn't boot and there was no way for me to be able to do a system restore. makes sense as if you can't get the OS to come up, it's a little bit hard to restore anything!
Russ
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that absolutely sucks man, hope you recover all your files!
Originally posted by krj15489:
If you are getting it for $500 That is a great deal and I would go for it. But if you were paying retail it would not be worth it because the 920 can overclock almost as high.
hmm yea
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12. April 2009 @ 02:04 |
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Originally posted by im1992:
Originally posted by theonejrs:
Anyone using XP-Pro 64 bit, beware of the latest version of Service Pack 2. It totally destroyed my win 64 to the point that it wouldn't boot and there was no way for me to be able to do a system restore. makes sense as if you can't get the OS to come up, it's a little bit hard to restore anything!
Russ
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that absolutely sucks man, hope you recover all your files!
im1992,
I didn't, but I don't store anything on the boot drive at all. All my storage is on a different physical HDD! I did all the other upgrades and it was running fine, so when it told me that updates were ready for my computer, I went ahead and did it. It was the last time I saw anything on the screen too, because one it was done and re-booted, that was it. Post screen and then nothing! video was on, but just black! No error message, no nothing! It just never booted XP!
Russ
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