yes if you go over there OneCool....If he had that speed I would need to set mine on fire to keep up.Quote:
Originally posted by MrBurns
Do you mean the guy on pcpitstop?
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yes if you go over there OneCool....If he had that speed I would need to set mine on fire to keep up.Quote:
Originally posted by MrBurns
Do you mean the guy on pcpitstop?
MrBurns, thanks for the feedback and the candid opinion on my motherboard. I was originally thinking about upgrading to an Athlon 2600 on my Epox, because it's the highest rated processor it will support, but I gather that's something I should avoid? In regards to affording an upgrade to a 64 bit processor, I've got a healthy six figure income, so money isn't a big issue, BUT I've been doing periodic upgrades from my original PC back in '91, and it gets old after awhile dropping $200 on video cards and $500 on motherboard combos only to have them become yesterday's news in 1-2 years. I've come to the conclusion that it's clearly impossible to keep up with technology and it's a futile effort trying. Based on this, what route would you recommend?
Get the Athlon64!Quote:
Originally posted by jonwes
Based on this, what route would you recommend?
The Athlon64 will last longer than any other CPU because it is the best CPU, is oceable and it will get an additional perormance boost from 64bit-apps.
To stay on top you need to up-grade about every 3 months (total system replacement)Quote:
Originally posted by jonwes
MrBurns, thanks for the feedback and the candid opinion on my motherboard. I was originally thinking about upgrading to an Athlon 2600 on my Epox, because it's the highest rated processor it will support, but I gather that's something I should avoid? In regards to affording an upgrade to a 64 bit processor, I've got a healthy six figure income, so money isn't a big issue, BUT I've been doing periodic upgrades from my original PC back in '91, and it gets old after awhile dropping $200 on video cards and $500 on motherboard combos only to have them become yesterday's news in 1-2 years. I've come to the conclusion that it's clearly impossible to keep up with technology and it's a futile effort trying. Based on this, what route would you recommend?
I'm with MrBurns ....go for the 64 Fx when the new 64bit software is out nothing will touch it.
I just built this system about two weeks ago....in about 3 months I will go 64FX 51.
I have seven other computers in my house that I do very little up-grading on.
But My Main system in the last year.
Soyo SY- KT 400 Dragon Ultra plat
AMD 2400+ (133fsb)@ 2,310
13.5 X 171 fsb 342 vcore@1.750
1 gig Corsair XMS PC3200 DDR400
Cooler master pure copper/with heat pipe 7300 rpm (loud)
Leadtek Geforce 4 A250 ultra Ti 4600 DDR 128 megs
1 100 gig WD 7200 RPM 8 meg cache ata/100 (Raid)
1 20 gig IBM 7200 ata/133 Windows 2000 professional SP3
1 20 gig Maxtor 7200 ata/133 Windows 2000 professional SP3 (clone drive)
1 20 gig IBM 7200 ata/133 WinXP pro SP1
1 40 gig Maxtor 7200 RPM ata/133 WinXP pro SP1 (clone)
Pac Link UDMA 133/100 30awg 40pin drive connectors (on everything)
Sound Blaster Audigy
Linksys 10/100 Ver. 5 (on board lan realtek can’t maintain 100 on home lan)
CDR\CDRW
16X DVD
Antec performance plus series ll 430 watts
NEC XtraView+ Multisync LCD 1920nx 1280X1024
Soyo SY- KT 400 Dragon Ultra Platinum
AMD XP 2700+ @2,492mhz
14X178 fsb356 vcore 1.825
Swiftech water block soooooo quite!!!!
ATI 9700 PRO 128 (changed just for Kod)
1 gig Corsair PC3200@PC2700
3 100 gig WD 7200 8 mg cache ata/100
1 20 gig IBM 7200 ata/133 Win2K pro SP3
1 20 gig Maxtor 7200 ata/133 Win2K pro SP3(clone)
1 40 gig Maxtor 7200 ata/133 WinXP pro SP1
1 20 gig IBM 7200 ata/133 WinXP pro SP1(clone)
PacLink 133/100 30awg 40pin drive connectors
SB Audigy
Linksys 10/100 v5
HP DVDR\DVDRW
16X DVD
Antec performance plus series ll 430 watts
NEC XtraView+ Multisync LCD 1920nx
ASUS A7N8X Deluxe
AMD 2700+@2,500
12.5X200 v1.9
Swiftech water cooling…Air stock
ATI 9700 Pro & leadtek ti 4600
1 gig XMS PC3200
3 WD 100g 100/ATA
1 MAX 40g 133/ATA win2k sp3/winXP sp1
2 MAX 20g 133/ATA (clones)
HP DVDR
DVD
SB Audigy
Nec LCD 1920nx
ASUS P4PE
P4 3.06@3,634 fsb158X23 v1.700, swiftech water
PNY Geforce 5900 Ultra 256
1 gig Corsair XMS PC3500, 2 WD 200g 100/ATA, HP DVDR,
Apple cinema display 22", Enermax 651 watt
Thermaltake Xaserlll case
Abit IC7 max3
P43.2 800fsb@3,984
Thermaltake spark 7+ Xaser edition AS3
1 gig Geil ultra plat PC4200 Dual
Asylum FX 5950 ultra
2 Seagate 160 gig SATA on raid 0 (raptors this week)
Apple cinema display 22"
new Enermax 651 watt
Up-grading is just the nature of the beast....and how much time do you have?
You must have a lot of money!
Nope just work alot:tQuote:
Originally posted by MrBurns
You must have a lot of money!
And I get good prices for my old systems...
I sold the Asus 3.06 for $3400....you know took it to their house set it up...walked them thru everything...and free tech support as long as they own it:)
The only down side to stay honest I own about 6 $199 copies (OUCH) winpx pro.....and I forget which one went where:confused:
I didnt know, that you can get so much money for a used system...Quote:
Originally posted by Beast_USA
I sold the Asus 3.06 for $3400....you know took it to their house set it up...walked them thru everything...and free tech support as long as they own it:)
That's why I up-grade every 3 months over 3 months it will be to old:)
And they need to be extreme systems. (that people just can't buy anywhere)
3 rad 11 fans nexus controller stays about 6-8F above room temp.
New score with ati's patch
7882
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=1663009
Mr Burns,
got it to 4080mhz 255fsb last night finished the water cooling.
fans off 22C just water pump running, fans on full 16.7C.
Why do you use an ATI patch on a NVIDIA card?Quote:
Originally posted by Beast_USA
New score with ati's patch
It's a funny ...the 340 patch lowers the score on nvidia cardsQuote:
Originally posted by MrBurns
Why do you use an ATI patch on a NVIDIA card?
This is because NVIDIA was cheating again.Quote:
Originally posted by Beast_USA
It's a funny ...the 340 patch lowers the score on nvidia cards
Yeah just like NOS used to be cheating.....who cares bottom line who's faster.
ATI gets caught cheating.....nvidia gets caught cheating...every time one is faster the other one says they cheated.
Good for us look how over priced they are right now.....just think if they were only one.....$1500 for 9800xt or fx5950 :eek:
The cheats only make the card faster when using 3DMark, because the driver checks if 3DMark runs and reduces the quality or doesnt render anything which isnt seen on the screen. These things only increase th performance in 3DMark, but not in real games. Everything that also increases the performance in real games is not cheating for Futuremark.Quote:
Originally posted by Beast_USA
Yeah just like NOS used to be cheating.....who cares bottom line who's faster.
ATI gets caught cheating.....nvidia gets caught cheating...every time one is faster the other one says they cheated.
Good for us look how over priced they are right now.....just think if they were only one.....$1500 for 9800xt or fx5950 :eek:
All my games run fine at 1600X1200 if they have it. Or 1200X1080
all highest quality settings....they look better then I can see;)
And I'm using 51.74's for gaming...the only time I ever saw the lag was with my p4 3.06 & ti4600 & 9700pro but I think it was the intel chip. I hated that chip....but I'm really happy with this one!
Also the abit lets you turn off that ###$! thermal throttling intel uses.