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Which bus do you have (no not route number)

PCI - Express (16X)
47
61%
AGP (8x)
29
38%
PCI (omg!)
1
1%
 
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Post by madness 3D »

Wow it's up there with the quad core core 2's on the CPU test, cool!

That will be useful as i spend alot of time encoding video for my PSP.
(films mainly (The Girl Next Door Flat Out ROCKS)) :D

Yeah i know about the new ram i've budgeted for that :)

Well i'm gonna go for it just gotta scrape together the dough and find one (their pretty scarce on the web) :thumb_up:

I installed the expansion card as well. seems fine (Although i havn't moved the jkumpers yet

And tried my ram in Dual Channel Mode (wouldn't boot)
Spose the upside of getting new ram is that it will (should) work properly :mrgreen:

Thanks again

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Post by madness 3D »

As I said I am going to go dor the 6000+ :D

But i am trying to decide on one last thing :?
If i buy an OEM cpu,
whats the best cooler to buy? :gruebel:

The thing is i need to take into account the size as anything to large may not fit, what with the CPU being horizontally mounted :)
I don't know if i will overclock the processor as its already going to be a powerful beast.

I may decide to go for a retail processor as the price difference doesn't seem to be too huge. (£130 or £145 i think)
Is there a good reason to do this? (warranty or something)
Thanks

EDIT
Just ran CPU-Z 1.40
It says my HT link speed is 880 mhz.
Am i wrong thinking that should be 1000mhz???
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Post by shifty_powers »

Well, i have always had a lot of respect for zalman coolers. If you don't mind the expense, then this is a fantastic cooler and would easily cope with your 6000+ ;) (£40 if ya wondering). However, if you think that it is simply too big, then this might be better for you...

As for you HT link, well you have a htt bus speed of 220, (you have a cpu multiplier of x10 giving you a cpu speed of 2200mhz). So you must have a htt multiplier of 4, giving you 880. Problem is, if you put it upto 5, you'll get a htt speed of 1100, which aint a good idea. For your cpu, you don't want to go above 1000mhz. So it's a bit of a trade off. From what i've read, you'll gain more from the higher cpu clock than you lose from the lower htt speed...
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Post by mattstint »

IIRC you only drop performance significantly if you HTT is lower than 400.

Nothing to lose sleep over ;)
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Post by The_Abyss »

Why are you not considering a dual core CPU?

EDIT - my bad - got confused with the single core-like performance :p
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Post by madness 3D »

shifty_powers wrote:Well, i have always had a lot of respect for zalman coolers. If you don't mind the expense, then this is a fantastic cooler and would easily cope with your 6000+ ;) (£40 if ya wondering). However, if you think that it is simply too big, then this might be better for you...

As for you HT link, well you have a htt bus speed of 220, (you have a cpu multiplier of x10 giving you a cpu speed of 2200mhz). So you must have a htt multiplier of 4, giving you 880. Problem is, if you put it upto 5, you'll get a htt speed of 1100, which aint a good idea. For your cpu, you don't want to go above 1000mhz. So it's a bit of a trade off. From what i've read, you'll gain more from the higher cpu clock than you lose from the lower htt speed...
Okay awkwardly enough i've been running at HT link speed of 1100 for aboput 3 hours to se iof it helped (which it didn't) :oops:
i'll just rush AND SWITCH IT DOWN (FRANTICLY PRESSES POWER BUTTON)
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Post by shifty_powers »

Heh don't worry, your pc ain't about to go up in smoke ;) (Well not just yet :P). It's just a case of it will compromise your stability under load and I'm not sure it will do good things for the lifespan of your cpu ;)

As for video encoding, well it has to be said the intel processors have always had a bit of a lead on that one, but the 6000+ does pretty respectably.

Look here.

To encode the first five minutes of a dvd in divx 6, it takes your poor old 320+ about 15 minutes. Whereas your 6000+ does it in 6:23 :o

Course a Core2Duo does it in 5:19 but nevermind ;) As i said, intel have always been better for video encoding.
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Post by mattstint »

It takes Krusade's Core 2 21 seconds to calculate Pi to 1m digits :o

Mine does it in 33 seconds :(
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Post by madness 3D »

Yeah i know intel's generally kick AMD's ass at video encoding
one thing i've been wondering
not that i'm even considering buying one,
but what is so special about the FX cpu's
they seem to have the same specs but be ludacrously expensive with only marginally better performance :?
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Post by mattstint »

The FX CPUs have unlocked multipliers and are generally clocked higher than their X2 counterparts.

It's pretty much not worth it and you can overclock to FX speeds at a fraction of the price. Plus in my experience, being able to push the multiplier up doesn't really help overclocking and a lower multiplier and higher FSB is often the key.
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mattstint wrote:It takes Krusade's Core 2 21 seconds to calculate Pi to 1m digits :o

Mine does it in 33 seconds :(
You forgot to mention that my C2D is stock and that I did Pi to 32m digits in 22m 11s. :P
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Okay looking at stage 3
I eventually plan to get a 8800 GTS
a) so i can play dx 10 games
b) better framerates etc.

now i play games at 1280 x 1024
is it necassary to get a 640 Mb version
Or am i better going with a 320Mb version

One other thing i've noticed is that there are slightly cheaper versions of these card available from other brands example is there any disadvantage of using these cards over say the XFX versions?
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Post by Krusade »

If you're playing games at 1280 x 1024 you only need the 320Mb version as the 640Mb only out performs the 320Mb when very high screen resolutions are used.

As for the brand go for the cheapest one from a reputable brand. :wink:
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