I have for sale: SOLD
-Q9550 e0 stepping. Can easily do 4 ghz. $80
-Gigabyte EP45-UD3R. No I/O shield. $75
-2x2 gb (4GB total) kit OCZ PC2-8500 V4GK (5-5-5 timings) $40
$200 shipped for the whole bundle
PLUS you get a Coolermaster Gemini IIS as bonus if you get the bundle:
It's not the greatest...
No seriously these boards have planned obsolence. They don't want us to be using the same video card for 4 years, they want it to break and sell us a new and equally shitty video card. Don't you understand how the coporations think?
I still say that a 120mm fan blowing over your card owns ramsinks and a ramblock combined. Of course you could add ramsinks for extra 5mhz, but the fan would win you much more in the short run. In the long run, it will keep your card from dying for a bit longer. Video cards are very prone to...
Bah, the all-in-one blocks tend to be really bad blocks. And watercooling memory is a waste of time and money. Unless it's chilled, of course, but that's a different story. There isn't much point in putting ramsinks on memory either. The heat transfer on top of the chips _REALLY_ sucks, so it...
Yeah there was this thread on XS... some guy ran his venice as high as 1.2GHz (down from 2.0) without a heatsink. He had a powerful fan though. He could do stock 2.0GHz with a BGA ramsink on it. 1GHz with no fan but with an IHS on (the heatspreader easily quadriples the surface area).
I wouldn't use Sandra to measure bandwidth. I mean, it's purely synthetic. I had a P3, that Sandra thought ran at 10GHz for some reason, and I had sky-high bandwidth scores to go along with that. That orange bar actually went out of the window all the way accross the desktop...
I think that's actually the slow hard drive. Even 7200rpm feels slow to me, but my parents have a 4200 in their machine, and it's ridiculously slow. Takes like 7 minutes to boot windows. Gah.
Of course it's not P6 in a way that Pentium Pro is P6, but... well, it was designed from the ground-up at the Israeli Intel facility, and they chose to base it heavily off the already-successful Pentium III, so in essence, it's very close to P6. Strikingly so.
Now to address other posts that...
It's no longer beating an A64 clock-for-clock :(. Dothan had 10-cycle L2 latency, and that was its bread and butter. IIRC, A64's have 17-cycle. Anyway, Yohah has 14-cycle latency, and as you can see, that's a 40% increase. Without an integrated memory controller, the Intel chips literally need...
You CANNOT use Java for any real-time stuff. For instance, there's GC running every now and then (which makes the execution pause), so you really have no control over how long things actually take.
Oh. Well, BF2 clearly suffers from a lack of features. 4 good maps, one game mode will only take you so far. I thought I would never put it away, but now that I'm a Gunnery Sergeant, I don't want to play anymore. Just bored of it as fuck. That's like... 85 hours of play time? I've spent over...
Yeah, some no-talent programmers write an engine that has piss-poor memory management, and leaks the memory on your video card, but instead of fixing it - they call it 'revolutionary', and everybody is happy.
This is probably why I find myself playing an old, yet fun, Quake3 mod, War3 and...
P-M uses the same architecture as most of their other CPUs, the P6. The first P6 chip was the Pentium Pro, so you see, there really is a lack of innovation on Intel's side. They just finally decided to go with the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" philosophy. Still one has to admit, P-M are...
Bah! Much easier to just laquer all your PCB, so that it will be completely insulated.
You didn't have clamps? :eek: I once did a test loop in the bathtub with no clams, and it kept springing leaks 'cause of the pressure my pump put out. Never even considered skimping on tthe clamps.
I'm pretty sure it could take it. Seen that thread, where they ran a Venice at stock using only a BGA ramsink for cooling it? Well, actually it depends on the heatsink design a lot too. A heatsink that's designed to be used with a fan wouldn't work very well as a passive. However, if you were to...
Yes, and I got <30 with my BH-5. I think I should move to nF4... the BH-5 isn't getting nearly enough volts on this thing here; plus the s939 opterons look nice and promising.
Edit: yes, the test is indeed very glitchy. I think it actually does measure the time it takes to read/write...
Not all are :). You can find them on pc3200 sticks too... also, I beleive that 5ns = 200MHz ;) i
If they were rated for 233MHz for example, shouldn't they be codenamed -4B-D?
(Going by that logic, 266 = 3ns and 250 = 3.6 ns?)
But yeah, the higher-end stuff usually clocks to at least...