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HereComesPete wrote: their 2.4 p4 with 512 of ram pos dell .

HaHa, that it *exactly* what I have. Sadly the Ram type in mine (Rambus) at >100 pounds/gig is more expensive to replace than the Mobo+cpu+fresh ram and would actually almost cover a new PCIe gfx aswell (still in teh AGP dark ages, me) so just waiting on the <s>missus</s> boss to approve a budget for a new one

You fail at enabling HTML in your posts

fabyak wrote:You fail at enabling HTML in your posts

*may be slightly really really really hungover

why not just set it in your profile to always allow?

Just a bit of a note:

Intel 45nm stuff is available now, the current specs are totally compatible (on paper, anyway)

Right now, the specs as in the thread should still offer best price/performance, but the 45nm chips will run cooler and faster so bear that in mind if you're trying to make a silent machine or something.

Anyone got any thoughts* on the athlonXP X2 dual cores? specifically the x2 +4800 and x2 +5000 ?

Although....searching for socket 939 CPUs still brings up all socket AM2 CPUs as well, and i definatly think they arent compatible. ho hum. Maybe one of those opterons, they can be had for cheapish. Meh, i dunno.



I'm considering a stopgap upgrade (I'm stuck with socket 939, currently running an athlon64 4000+ at 2.4Ghz) until i can afford to take the plunge into Quad core intel joy. Or until AMD pulls its finger out and produces a half decent processor (Yeah, i know, I know). Any thoughts?

*LOLAMD! is not what i want to hear, i bought it back when they were quite good.

S939 and AM2 are not compatible.

I think 939 went up to 4200+ which isn't much of an upgrade at all.

looks like i'm boned then. new compootar coming soon. sooner than i'd like.

The phenoms are quite good now, its just that their price and power can't match c2d. Plus they are only am2+ so you couldn't have one in a 939.

It's time for a new pc manjam, but fear not, stuff is a lot cheaper than it used to be!

I'm still on a S939 AMD64 3700+, and with the addition of a 8800GTS my rig is still perfectly good for all the games I play. Oblivion is the only one so far where I've not been able to have everything on max, so I don't really see the need for me to upgrade at the moment. Too busy spending money on various trips instead.

The 939 dual cores are rather clockable* though and go up to the 4800+ according to the AMD website.

If you can get your hands on an Opteron Dual Core 100 series 939 running at 2600mhz, such as the OSA185 model (or clock up the OSA180 model), you'll have pretty much the best 939 chip available.


*Well, the opterons in the family are, as well as the 4800.


Edit, if you're running a single core, the dual 4800 will still be a fairly substantial improvement.

Right so I'm looking at getting a sub £50 pci-e graphics card, as at the moment I'm just running on horrid 128mb on board to run teef etc

The contenders i've looked at are the PoV 7600GT 256mb / 8600GT 540M 256MB or the Sapphire HD 3650 512MB

Anyone recommend anything better?

out of those, the 3650 will be best (I think)


Beyond that, used 78/900 might work. (beware though, 7900GTs like to die after 12-18 months due to shit heatsinks)

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:beware though, 7900GTs like to die after 12-18 months due to shit heatsinks

I Think Grimmie can vouch for that.

Lateralus wrote:a 8800GTS my rig is still perfectly good for all the games I play. Oblivion is the only one so far where I've not been able to have everything on max

I did pretty well with Oblivion on a 6600, there should be some tweaks posted in its thread - even with the extra quality texture downloads it played pretty well for me once I turned the grass down, more because it pissed me off than anything.

http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html

That about covers it all, I always use the better textures and the bt mod, it makes the inventory scale properly.

Thinking about it, I think it may have been around the time of Oblivion that I went from 6600GT to 8800GTS, so maybe it was better after that. Think I was still on a 3200 CPU though.

omglol updated

graphics section rejigged for amd not being so shit
prices updated on other stuff.

new list is deject approved!