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Hornet
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 Posted: Sun Feb 21, 2010 10:44 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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Sweet;
The AMD Black Box I heard is a fantastic CPU - a veritable work horse.
850 PSU will be more than enough - running an SLI rig, you'll still have plenty of power left at full tilt.
Ahh! - good old ASUS motherboard can't go wrong there - the best in my opinion.
DDR 3 RAM - what's not to like - GSkill has been making a name for itself in the last few years.
What's not to like in those parts - I'm starting to feel a little squeezed now - your system is coming very close to matching mine - probably score very high on the 3DMark benchmark.
Gook for you Geek - all I can say is you've made all good choices and kept the price down - excellent!
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M2HMGHB
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 12:10 am Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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That looks like a crossfire board Geek. 2 x PCIe 2.0 x16 , support ATI CrossFireX™ technology (at one x16 or dual x8 link)
2 x PCIe x1
2 x PCI 2.2
Looks good though. That chip should give some decent performance. I'd actually consider the 4000 series ATI, the price is dropping quite nicely.
P.S. my I7 is now running at 3.85ghz and the memory is at 1630mhz. |
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GEEK
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 3:36 am Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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| yes it is an ATI crossfire board. I have a ATI card that Blaze sent me, so I will use that for now, and Sammy can have the Nvidia board and 7800's. |
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Carp
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Hornet
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| Posted: Mon Feb 22, 2010 6:09 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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A machine like that and doesn't game - Damn - more money than brains just for surfing the net.
Hell, a Pentium 90 with 60 MB HD and 256 MB RAM running Windows 95 will surf the net just as well, I know I have an old P90 in the closet and it's faster surfing the net than my Gaming Rig.
IE 8 is oh so slooooow!
M2 - your system sounds like it's purring like a wild cat - nice overclock - you beat me in GHz for CPU and are coming close in the speed for RAM. Sweet - are you sure it's stable?
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Carp
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 12:14 am Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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| Thats what I thought also Hornet. And I even so graciously told him I would take and use it for him. But alas he didnt like that idea. |
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Hornet
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 5:34 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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At least you tried - man what a waste though eh!.
Sounds like my wife, she has a computer just for the internet with an Intel Duo Core 8600 @ 3.33 GHz with 4 GB of DDR3 RAM, a 10,000 RPM WD 500 MB Raptor and a BFG 8800 GTS OC 512 2.0. video card.
I told her that's way too much just to surf the net. Besides she only uses it to view a trailer of a movie once in awhile and she's only using 5% of her HD and will never use anymore.
It was her money so I guess I can't say much.
Carp - keep bugging your brother - wear him down, then make a trade with him - hee hee.
Good Luck.
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Darkmage
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| Posted: Tue Feb 23, 2010 11:24 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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blazinglory
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| Posted: Wed Feb 24, 2010 5:01 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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geek, you are a bad influence, its all your fault, remind me to thank you later
i have just ordered some new hardware too
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
ASUS M4A79XTD EVO motherboard...(yup same as yours)
4GB Corsair XMS DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600) RAM
Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
Arctic cooling Freezer 7 Pro v2 Heatsink
and a new samsung hard drive |
"Success is not final, Failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts."
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GEEK
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 12:15 am Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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Sounds like a sweet setup Blaze!
I see you went with the 955 instead of the 965 . Why?
The 965 is 3.4 and the 955 is 3.2, both are 125 watt. humm..
I cant wait to get mine setup!
We can race them...lol. |
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Hornet
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:35 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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What are you running now Blaz? - Thought it was state of the art with a very high end Intel CPU. (i7 Quad core 920) I could be wrong let us know.
Will these new parts help in speeding up your current system?
Want to buy mine - I'm building a new one.
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blazinglory
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| Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 4:52 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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Hi hornet,
Yes this new upgrade will give my rig a nice little performance boost, at the moment i am using a athlon X64 6000 dual core, and DDR2 RAM, plus it will be nice to have a more
up to date operating system, Quad core will help in some of the games i play for sure. Im sure the new mobo and DDR3 will also benefit my gaming experiance also.
Billynomates has now got a i7 920 Quad, Asus P6T Deluxe, 6GB of DDR3. ATI HD5870, ANTEC 900 CASE, 160GB SSD. 850watt PSU. Windows 7 64bit
Nice system,
Looking forward to getting in all in and installed, and hopefully be able to play world at war again |
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blazinglory
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| Posted: Sat Feb 27, 2010 7:53 am Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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hi,
my new hardware will be delivered monday, so i will get it installed asap, looking forward to the extra power |
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GEEK
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| Posted: Tue Mar 02, 2010 1:22 pm Post subject: Re: My computer upgrade. |
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Here are my 3d Mark 06 test scores. The machine is running stock and no overclocking.
Stock scores |
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