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Well the main disk (os partition) is a seperate drive, the raid array is a second "drive" used for games (slow loaders like fear, far cry, doom3 etc..) so i'm not worried about losing it, just don't want to do it before a weekend if I have to rebuild. Thanks for the info. BTW have you...

BTW I also have a 3700+ i'll be trying to overclock soon, i wanna finsih the clocking on this opty first tho...

Right now i'm using the 1.0 bios (ugh) but i'm gonna flash it, just wary of flashing because the system is running great and has most of my stuff loading already. This is with the default cooler that comes with the opteron, it never got above 50C at full load (both cpus pegged) which i don't...

This is what I got so far.. I am happy with it, I might go higher just to see what kind of headroom I have but 600MHZ overclock for free makes me smile :D Might be hard to see inthe pic but that's 270HTT, 2430mhz, DDR is set at 2.5CAS 266 but running at 175 (with the HTT increase). Ran all...

So if the memory is clocked at 200mhz (400MHZ ddr effective) and the HTT is at 200 that would be a 1:1 divider? if so, would 150 (300MHZ ddr effective) be 1:2 of a 300 HTT?

So I am working with an Abit AN8 32X motherboard and an Opteron 165. My memory can run 400MHZ at CAS2 and 1T timings. I have been reading overclocking dicussions and guides pertaining to this board and a lot of time they talk about memory bus dividers but I'm not sure what they are referring...

thanks for the detailed breakdown killin...

what cooling? I'm just gonna use the stock cooler but my ram runs right now at CAS 2 with 1t timings at 400MHZ so I have good feelings about being able to use a high divider. I'm gonna shoot for 250x9 first, then go for 9x275. If I can hit dead stable at 275 i'll be happy as I don't need an...

Got my opty 165 and Abit A8N 32x in yesterday, loaded up windows, patches, and drivers and everything looks good.. nice and fast already (compared to my last rig) so now i'm ready to overclock.. Wish me luck...

Bingo ;) Saves me about 250 per box (upgrading 2 systems), although looking at the Egg and fry's the pricess seemed evenly set (currently). O RLY? so when you bend a pin and it breaks off you get to remove the whole motherboard and replace it as opposed to returning the CPU? Screw that...

I prefer AMD, having the motherboard socket provide the cpu Pins is rediculous. 939 is stable, and cheap and offers the same performance as an AM2 right now without the added cost of DDR2 (which the intel also requires). I paid 700 bucks and will be upgrading 2 systems to 939 pin CPUs and be...

Because the 4400 is clocked higher, you're paying more for a guaranteed clock speed.

cool thanks to everyone for the info (which im sure was posted before long ago but i'm not an "early" adopter ;)) i'm going with a combo deal ABIT AN8 32X Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI X16 ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail and an opty 165. Heard this is a good overclocker, although abit is...

k then one more question, i'm pretty much convinced to go for the 165, but is overclocking success dependant on the memory or the motherboard? Meaning do I need low CAS latency or a better overclockable motherboard when trying to overclock the opty? From what i've read OCing seems to be all...

"better quality" doesn't mean much to me, another poster said they are cherry picked which would mean run stable at the selected speed, but when buying a low rated processor (like 1.8ghz for the opty 165) this just means it passes 1.8 ghz... although i know sometimes the lower label a processor...

Well I was hoping for more technical details.. what makes it superior? Overclocks better? It has the same cache, memory controller, ht speed, etc... what makes it "better"... The only thing I see that differentiates it from the athlons, is the ability to run multiple processors together.

Same here, ran a 2800+ for 3 years and it just died last week.. handled everything I threw at it.. doh! now i'm going for socket 939 (so I dont have to buy new ram, 300 bucks for 2 GB? sheesh)

So I'm about to build some new systems in the next week or so, with a 939 motherboard what is the better processor, opteron or Athlon? My price point is about 200 for the CPU, considering overclocking, L2 cache, etc.. what gives more bang for the buck? I'm currently looking at the 4400+ at...

thats what i was hoping.. the PCI-E slots seem to conform to specification so it shouldn't matter, and i understand about not using SLI and all, but with one of my systems that is using an Nforce2 chipset and an ATI 9800pro, I had a hell of a time getting the vid card to "play nice" with the...

I have this Sapphire pure crossfire motherboard specs here and I was thinking of putting a single Nvidia board in it (7600GT or so) since it performs better and is cheaper than an equivalent ATI card. Anybody ever try using an Nvidia video card in a crossfire board, and if so any problems...

http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=3140654&subid=12152599&type= I looked at Newegg and the same memory was about 25 dollars more.. so it is a rebate deal but this is the cheapest I have seen so far... Thought i'd share :) -Llama

Please use a different font color next time, violet on black = my eyes hurt, yellow on black = much better. Thanks, SomeLlama

So you're saying the MAC blows chunks because it was only a hair faster than a windows machine bloated with 30 pieces of spyware? Just clarifying...

Don't feel bad, I bought the regular non gt 6800 for 300 when it came out :(

i just have this problem with buying previously free mods that are repackaged (even as an engine port) and then sold. otherwise great price!

Works for me when i click on it in the post...

http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=2634064&subid=10665367&type= Might be value ram (specs not shown) and it's a rebate, but 129 for 2gb is still a great price for corsair ram. ;)

Well it does say: Signals: * Built in NTSC & ATSC tuners * HDTV 1080p, 1080i, 720p, 480p, 480i (ATSC + NTSC) So wouldn;t that mean it can show 1080p?

I second that suspicion!!

Last time I saw a 2x512 deal I made a post asking about 2x1GB memory deals, glad to see Newegg is responsive to customer requests! :) Keep up the good work Newegg...

Thanks for the info on the 40$ gigabit switches, I missed this deal at fry's but I will be grabbing some of these 40$ ones for our monthly lan parties, we're looking to help alleviate lan congestion by offering more bandwidth...

Hey Ed ;)

Isn't Jumbo Frames handled on layer 2? The switch would be layer three so it shouldn't care about how big the frame sizes are? Don't feel bad, they have fry's all over the place but when i went to the fremont fry's they were out of stock, the have plenty in Palo Alto and sacramento tho.. so...

This deal is over... At fry's, price is good till end of today, limit 2! Posted yet? These usually sell for 99 so this is a good price to get gigabit. Forgot linky :) here is the deal: http://newspaperads.mercurynews.com/ROP/ads.aspx?advid=32664&adid=2433252&subid=10016593&type=...

Yah but it only supports 939 processors right? These are 940s.

got a PM that explains the HSF noise and considerations, tried to delete this post but all I could do is this :( Thx Blaine for the info... BTW it's up to 280 now :(

Hey Guys, Been interested in the opteron 165s for a while now but haven't looked into it much, are the multipliers locked on these? Meaning is the only way to overclock by upping the FSB? I know that AMD doesn't lock the multipliers on some procs, like the FX series... I have been...

It would be nice to see memory deals for 1 stick of 1GB ram nowadays, with people preferring 2 GB of ram for their box and most motherboards having only 3-4 memory slots, it makes the 2x512 kinda worthless... something to consider...