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Thanks that doesn't surprise me I guess. I might just do a full upgrade at the time. For now this rig runs everything very fast. The games I play are 3D, but pretty old. I play DODS, CSS, and I might be getting CS Global Offensive. So you see it's not like I'm anticipating Battlefield 4 or anything.

The 8350 8 core looks nice, but for what I use the computer for, I really don't see noticing that extra performance. I'll think about it a bit. Is there anything new coming down the pipe for AM3+ socket (or compatible) anytime soon?

I have a Thuban running around 3.8Ghz. I recently upgraded my video card from an HD4850 to an HD7850 and I was toying around with upgrading the cpu. Only thing is, it doesn't seem like there is anything much better out there. This cpu is about 2 and a half years old.

I do hear what you're saying, but it's funny how whatever industry you talk about, when a corporation manages to dominate everything and buy out all the competition, it's because it's too high tech of an industry for other people to operate in.. funny but they have thousands of people working...

Ya, I don't have my fan speed set to turbo either in the bios, like I normally do in the summer. It's set to standard now, I did that a couple months ago, so it has a higher temperature threshold before it reaches a certain speed. So it lets the cpu get a little warmer instead of speeding up a...

Oh I know what you are talking about, I'd just like to see several different manufactures back in the desktop market, like motorola, ibm, cyrix, alpha, stuff like that, but they are all either the way of the dodo or in the mobile market. I'd like to see at least six different choices. Perhaps...

Yea, that doesn't make much sense to me either, especially since in the typical F to C temperature range that we're speaking about, 1 degree C is about 1.8 or so degrees of F.. so how is C more accurate? Makes no sense. Anyways..

It's always been good for me, been using it many years. My first real Asus board that I built a system with was an A7V back in 2000. So I been using Asus stuff a long time.

That previous Cinebench number was wrong, I just ran the benchmark, the 6 core cpu test and it only went up to 124F. I think the old number I was thinking of that was 140F+ was of running Prime95 on the stock heatsink and a higher overclocked speed and higher voltage as well. I think though...

Oh I'm sorry I stupidly neglicted to mention I'm running a Coolermaster Hyper 212+ and the ambient temps are typically 68-72F. I only get 140F+ running Cinebench benchmarks that use all six cores. I might actually get a bit less now running that benchmark with the cooler weather and I do have...

Seems like the era of competition is over. I'd like to see several different companies in the cpu market, not just Intel with a tiny bit of competition from AMD.

Sorry celcius doesn't mean a lot to me, I'm in U.S.A. and we use fahrenheit, but my Thuban 6 core (1090T) usually idles around 92-94F and running single threaded games like Counter-Strike/Day of Defeat/Team Fortress 2 usually tops around 115F depending on ambient conditions. With multi-threaded...

This looks really good overall, though I have absolutely no interest in 3-D.

Yea, I would be interesting in knowing the reason as well. The PA246Q looks like a pretty nice monitor.

It should be noted that 1.47V is the "minimum" voltage. The northbridge still ramps the voltage up a bit when the cpu is under load. This is how most of the boards seem to operate now, especially the good ones. When I set the voltage to 1.46V, I get BSOD sometimes while gaming. Apparently the...

Yes, I'm running mine at 1866Mhz right now to overclock my 1055T to 3933Mhz. I have it running at stock voltage, but higher latency settings. When I had the 1055T at over 4Ghz I have had to reduce the memory to below 1600Mhz, but at the lower latency settings. I was and still am a little...

I'm looking forward to the Bulldozer if single threaded applications will see all of the cores as one cpu like I've been hearing. That will give quite a performance boost for older applications compared to being run on older multi-core cpu's. 3933Mhz is the highest FSB multiple it will run...

I'm not sure if watercooling would do it with mine. Temperature was never that big a deal with mine even at over 4Ghz.

^^^this I've been running a 1090T since July of last year and I've been able to hit 3930Mhz or so stable with a Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 120mm with one fan with my voltage around 1.47. The cpu idles around 92-95F when the ambient temp in the room is around 70. Single threaded gaming my...

I like fps games, so I'm still on a 20" CRT. I don't really see any alternative as of yet.

When you installed the second fan, did you use the sound dampening material that was provided with the 212+? It was included with the accessories, you're supposed to put them behind all four screws.

I did a little bit of Counter-Strike Source and the cpu temp only went up to 101F, which is lower than my previous idle temperature was with the stock heat sink. I'm very happy with these results! They might even get better as the thermal paste sets up in the next couple days, we'll see.

I've been busy lately, so I finally got around to installing the 212+ today. It was a lot more involved than I thought it would be, I basically had to disassemble the entire PC since the heatsink requires its own standoff screwed to the back of the board. The instructions are a little vague, so...

Thanks guys I went with this http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002G1YPH0/ref=oss_product and some Arctic Silver 5. Anything to keep from having to listen to that stock heatsink fan run 3,000rpm at idle. I may overclock a little, we'll see how things go. Thanks! :D

Where do your temps normally stay? What thermal paste are you using?

Thanks for the suggestion! Since I'm replacing the heatsink as well, I assume I'll be cleaning off the old thermal compound from the cpu with some isopropyl alcohol. What type of thermal compound should I use? I still have some Artic Silver II from the old days, but I assume there are better...

I have the six core Thuban AMD processor with the stock heatsink and fan, I was wondering if somebody could point me toward a larger quieter aftermarket fan for this heatsink?

I always use them to buy fuel. No biggie. I would prefer cash though too, but that's the way the world is going now. Pretty good deal anyways.

I bought the 640Gb version off of Ebay last year for like $80 so I can't say that's a smokin deal. I use it as a backup drive with a 2.5" enclosure I got for about 5 bucks.

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Haha, yea I understand I don't like to create a mess of posts either. I edited the title though so I wasn't sure how the title would look if I edited it back since the titles stick after a certain amount of time. So I changed the original thread to "delete" if any mod catches it.

I created another thread because the contents of the first were edited by me, but your advice is duly noted sir I should have bumped that thread instead!

WTB: NIB AMD Phenom II X6 1055T Thuban 2.8Ghz . ... Anyone who got one in the deal a little over a month ago from Tigerdirect for $149 + the Bing cashback and has an extra they would like to let go please PM me. Must be new in sealed box, offering $150 shipped paypal. I'm in the U.S.A. Thanks

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Indeed, thanks for the reply!! I still have no idea what shiro is talking about regarding CPU base or reference clock. There's bus speed and clock multipliers and that's about all I've ever been aware of. Hopefully he can explain his post further, because I have no idea what he's talking...

Well, you used to be able to ramp up CPU speed, by increasing bus speed back in the old days, I am trying to understand your post. I have the 955 black edition, but I haven't bothered to overclock it because for one I haven't really needed the extra speed so far, two I don't really want to...

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How do you change the multiplier if it is locked? Are you talking about ramping up the bus speed?

This thread brings up a couple of questions, 1. I thought the 1055 was locked, unlike the 1090 Black edition and 2. on Newegg the 955 shows as $159 while the 1055 is $199. I saw I missed the Bing cashback and $50 rebate deal from Tigerdirect back in the end of April, so I have a hard time...

Geez that sucks! As I'm on a CRT, I'm glad I'm only running the 4850. I'm also glad I heard about this issue, I was thinking of upgrading.