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Merc
September 7th, 2007, 10:54:52 PM
SO I made a few deals with some other geeks and managed to upgrade again, at very little cost, to a quad core and Asus P5K Deluxe motherboard. Also bought some Team Xtreme RAM with Micron chips. This chip is the q6600 G0 series and it runs very cool and overclcoks like Lee Evans runs a post pattern.

I have only had a few short periods of times to really learn all this new gear but check these numbers out

http://img66.imageshack.us/img66/586/spi12766at4005mhznk3.th.jpg (http://img66.imageshack.us/my.php?image=spi12766at4005mhznk3.jpg)

12.766s ain't bad for a quad and just a couple of hours work. Pete, these quads are truly amazing. I love the thing and it overclocks like hell (as long as you are on water). The G0 stepping rocks. I'll get that SuperPi down to 12.1 by the end of the week easy after a little tweaking. I'm running this little gem at an everyday setting of 3.6 GHz and the RAM at DDR960 44410 2T 2.2v.

Gents, if you encode music or video GET ONE OF THESE QUADS!!! It does the job so fast that I though something was screwed up the first time I saw it. Scary fast stuff and relatively cheap at $275 for a Q6600 G0 chip.

35Pete
September 8th, 2007, 6:08:04 PM
JERK! I hate you with a passion. Die bastard!

Now I want one!!!!!

Merc
September 8th, 2007, 8:31:29 PM
LOL. ClubIT,com has guaranteed G0 stepping on the Q6600. $280
http://www.clubit.com/product_detail.cfm?itemno=A1938452

Team extreme RAM is awesome and very cheap. Micron D9 chips Two GBs for $125 and it overclcoks like nothing else I have used.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820313005

Asus P5K Deluxe rocks and the P35 chipset is the best I have used. $215.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131182

Luckily for me I got the board and the chip used from known good sources which saved me about $100. You have the rest of the stuff but if you are SLI then the P35 is a no-go, it is a crossfire chipset.

Honestly Pete, there is no comparison between the Core 2 and the AMD 64s. Then you take it up another notch with this q6600 that I am running at 3600MHz daily and you have the fastest encoding rig ever made by a huge factor. If you are truly interested PM me and I'll give you more numbers and cooling advice.

Scary Good
September 8th, 2007, 8:51:45 PM
Ok, can you geeks tell me why videos and shit run on my explorer, but the firefox plug ins always fail to get installed when I try?

Merc
September 9th, 2007, 12:53:12 AM
Your antivirus or antispyware may be stopping the install. Turn them off then install.