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I assumed from what I read a while back with the quad being 2 dual cores bonded together that it would treat core 1 as a primary, and then 3 as a secondary, filling 2 and 4 as needed and a consequence would be higer levels of activity in 1 and 3 before 2 and 4, but I guess they got it working as a true quad better than they guy who wrote the article expected. Still, it seems strange to me to see most activity in core 3, dunno why, just does.

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:Q6600? yay.

That's the one. Got the £25 quid cheaper unboxed one that only has 1 yr warranty and no stock cooler.

Using my big Zalman Tritium cooler that works in-line with the airflow of the case. Seems 5-8°C cooler under normal load, which is I guess down to the low power technicals.

woo!

I'm still liking my Q6600, it's nice to have a machine that folds stupidly well, and keeps my room warm

FatherJack wrote:Yays, it finally came:



Fista sez:



up from 5.3 from the Dual, all running at stock speeds or lower.

:O that's just annoying, my ram lets me down... for some reason, i get a fista confusababble score of 4.9

what Ram are you on? We seem to have matching everything elses

I'll tell you whats letting you down, your OS, get rid of fista and 'downgrade' to XP, far better. (unless you're dual booting, in which case nm)

HereComesPete wrote:I'll tell you whats letting you down, your OS, get rid of fista and 'downgrade' to XP, far better. (unless you're dual booting, in which case nm)

Dyslexic Dwarf wrote: :O that's just annoying, my ram lets me down... for some reason, i get a fista confusababble score of 4.9

what Ram are you on? We seem to have matching everything elses

I think FJ is on PC8888 or PC9200 (though, i'd assume running at 8500 speed), Wouldn't worry too much, the scores in fista are just there to remind you that XP works better

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
I think FJ is on PC8888 or PC9200 (though, i'd assume running at 8500 speed), Wouldn't worry too much, the scores in fista are just there to remind you that XP works better

ahh that explains, im on mere 6400 LOL

For what i use Th pc for fista is ok, for now. It seems it but if i'm honest i've only used it a week and i knwo shit all about computers anyway I just thought it'd be easier as i had a fista disk right there when i finished the build, or i would have had to wait 3 hours for an XP disc patience you see

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:I think FJ is on PC8888 or PC9200 (though, i'd assume running at 8500 speed), Wouldn't worry too much, the scores in fista are just there to remind you that XP works better

It was called 9136 when I bought it, but I think it's equivalent to what they now call 9200, 1150MHz 5-5-5-18, although it still scores 5.9 with it supposedly set to 800Mhz - the BIOS wants to overvoltage everything if I set it higher, and it's not really neccessary as of yet.

The minscule performance increase I get running it at full speed suggests that the BIOS is lying a bit, or that the current systems aren't really ready to keep up with it yet.

Dunno if it's just the fact that air temps are generally cooler this time of year, but my GPU temp seems on average 15-20°C cooler since I got the low-power quad.

right, I've made the final upgrade I'll do for quite a while:

AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ (AM2, 2.6GHz)
ASRock 939Dual-SATA2 w/ AM2 CPU EZ Upgrade
2x1GB DDR2 800 Transcend aXeRAM
Radeon HD 3870 512MB GDDR4
Seagate Barracuda 320GB 7200.10 SATA 3Gb/s
Hitachi 60GXP 40GB 7200RPM
Samsung 48x CD-RW
Mad Dog 16x DVD-RW
Auzentech X-Mystique 7.1 soundcard
D-Link 802.11g Wi-Fi
AVerTV TV Tuner
AZiO BTD603-132 Bluetooth
Logitech Internet 350 USB Keyboard
Logitech MX400 USB mouse
Samsung 900DF 19" CRT
Apple Studio Display 19" CRT

Changed somewhat recently, copypasta tiem GO

Antec P180 case
ASUS M2N SLI Deluxe
eVGA 8800GTX 768MB
AMD Athlon64 X2 6000+ w/ Artic Cooling Heatsink
4GB Kingston 800MHz/PC6400 DDR2
2 x WD 250GB HDD, 1 x Seagate 500GB
LG DVD-Ram Drive
Benq Senseye FP222Wa 22" Widescreen Monitor
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Platinum 7.1 Fatal1ty
Hiper 580W Type-R Modular

Updated:

Lian-Li PC A16 Black (teh sex, no lights)
Enermax Infiniti 650W SLi Modular PSU
EVGA NVIDIA nForce 680iSLi Black
Intel Quad Core 6600 @ 2.40GHz *
Zalman Tritium "nVidia" CPU cooler
2GB Corsair Dominator PC9200 RAM @ 1066MHz
Dual-RAIDed 76G Raptors for OS and "fast games" (ie: Steam) + WD 500G Caviar + external drives total c. 1.95TB (all WD motherhubbards!)
BFG NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB Factory OC to 626Mhz, 1Ghz RAM
Asus MWU22 + Acer AL1916
Creative SB X-Fi Extreme Gamer Fatal1ty
Saitek Eclipse II *
Logitech G5
Windows XP Pro (32) and Windows Fista Enterprise (32)

*=new kit.

£2.5k and counting, mostly bought in March. Next upgrade is 146G Raptors.

Crysis still runs like shit.

FatherJack wrote:Crysis still runs like shit.

I do remember the multiplayer beta settling down after a few minutes to being slightly jerky on occasion, but no doubt the single player really ramps up the 'I'm going to eat your cpu/gpu/ram and I'm just a leaf/waterfall/alien monstrosity'. Think the new build will be needed before I crysis.

Antec P180 case - Going to upgrade to a gonk or something in the new year, need more spaces.
E6600 - OC'd to 2.7ghz - Q6600 Go Stepping Low Wattage on the way
Thermalright Ultra-120 EXTREME CPU Heatpipe Heatsink
Corsair 2gb DDR2 PC26400 800mhz - getting another 2gb's end of ebay month.
GeForce 8600GT
Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Gamer
MSI P6N Sli Platinum
2x150gb Raptors Raid0
10x500gb S-ATA2 Seagate Barracudas - 1 running on E-S-ATA
G5 Mouse
G15 Keyboard
2port S-ATA raid card
4port S-ATA raid card
24" Dell Ultrasharp
17" ViewSonic


After new case, going to upgrade PSU, then a decent 16or24port Raid card, then gfx :D

Ty, if you're running 32 bit Windows, don't bother with having 4 gigs of memory as it won't be able to see all of it

fabyak wrote:Ty, if you're running 32 bit Windows, don't bother with having 4 gigs of memory as it won't be able to see all of it

especially with how much hardware you're running.

going to chuck a copy of fista or 64bit pro on a partition

But I know that

For those that don't know/understand the limit, read This


Out of interest Ty, how much memory does your windows see?

Tukkake
Intel Q6600
8GB OCZ PC2-6400C5 DDR2
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L
500GB WD RE2 HDD
7900GT (old and fucked, just in there to try to make joint ops run better)
480W Tagan modular PSU.
Silverstone TJ01

In short, a slight upgrade from

Bukkake
2.8ghz P4
2GB ddr2 4200, ECC, I think
Intel/dell mobo
80gb maxtor HDD
Dell case/psu