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25. September 2008 @ 07:46 |
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25. September 2008 @ 08:43 |
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Well that depends what motherboard you have, not what processor.
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25. September 2008 @ 09:12 |
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yea but look, it says
Package "Socket 775 LGA"
thx :)
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25. September 2008 @ 09:22 |
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So?
Socket 775 can support all sorts of CPUs from celerons to 45nm Core 2 Quads, but which you can use depends specifically on what motherboard you have, and which BIOS revision.
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25. September 2008 @ 13:17 |
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sam is right as i have a motherboard from a customer that is a socket 775 but cannot handle a dual core or above. the board & bios was made only for single core cpu's.
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25. September 2008 @ 18:28 |
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ok
i have award bios and my mobo is acer
E661GXM
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25. September 2008 @ 21:53 |
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what is the make & model# of the acer?
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26. September 2008 @ 01:57 |
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26. September 2008 @ 07:05 |
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This is an SiS 661FX board, which as far as I can see, can only support P4s and Celerons.
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27. September 2008 @ 14:57 |
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29. September 2008 @ 00:00 |
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aw
ok thanks
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29. September 2008 @ 17:32 |
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29. September 2008 @ 17:50 |
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Everything I looked at pointed to 775, but the oldest version of it, only supporting Prescott and Northwood architecture chips.
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30. September 2008 @ 04:29 |
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Its about 2 years old, also it has 2 sata ports, anyone know if their sata 2.0?
thanks... so the best it could support is P4 3.0GHz? im just not sure what Prescott and Northwood architecture chips are
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30. September 2008 @ 07:48 |
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The single core Pentium 4s and Celerons.
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4. October 2008 @ 02:51 |
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hey would anyone be able to give me a link to and australian shop with the best CPU i could get, i just dont wanna stuff up and buy somethiing that wont work
thanks in advance :)
Cuz if i have a ATI sapphire hd 3850, i have to have a good CPU dont i?
alltho ive seen many people play crysis on 800x600 with a mix of medium and low settings and it runs at about 20/30FPS pretty good :)
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4. October 2008 @ 11:25 |
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30fps at 800x600 medium is pretty terrible though. I'm sure an HD3850 can do more than that. If not, the AGP version must be miles worse than the PCI express variant.
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5. October 2008 @ 03:49 |
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5. October 2008 @ 06:55 |
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That's just ridiculous. 30fps for Crysis is pretty good, that's all I play it at, if that, but 800x600 medium is a really low graphics setting to have to put up with, I'm using 2560x1600 high, which is 15 times as demanding...
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6. October 2008 @ 05:36 |
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im can use a max of 1440x900
i gota few more questions.
Desktop>properties>settings tab
My color is on 32-Bit at the moment, isnt there like 64 or 84 bit color?
When i upgrade my card, will it allow me to show more?
oh and also, with the psu, can i install it either way so that the big fan can face downward so its not strugling to suck in air right against the top of my tower? :)
and do you think i should really upgradde my CPU just yet, i mean...how many FPS could i loose in a game like crisis or a game like cod4? thanks :)
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6. October 2008 @ 07:14 |
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Nope, 32-bit colour is as high as it goes.
With the PSU, the correct way to install it is so the large fan is pointing downwards so it sucks air in from the case. It should never need to be installed so the fan is obstructed.
As for the CPU, there are a lot of games where a single core will work fine, but Crysis is not one of them. For Crysis, Supreme Commander, and a few other recent games, a dual core is a necessity.
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6. October 2008 @ 08:55 |
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but i can attempt to runit cant i? like, its not going to damege my cpu will it? i got good cooling
thx :)
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6. October 2008 @ 10:24 |
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Oh no, it won't do any damage, but it will just run pretty badly.
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6. October 2008 @ 22:37 |
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ok thanks
weeel, if your not busy or nothin, could you give me a bit of help with overclocking my cpu? if its 2.8 GHz, would 3.0GHz be ok? a good idea? Ive never overcloked CPUs before, only graphic cards... Altho my bios wont allow me to, i could use a program to do it... not that im gona play crysis or anything, but id like to drain every bit of performance outa my computer as possible
thanks sammorris :)
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7. October 2008 @ 07:10 |
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Software overclocking doesn't usually give very good results. You can try it, but take it very slowly.
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