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post #21 of 43
1/30/08 at 9:10pm
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Originally Posted by almmohd View Post
thanks for the info pdonket, it's a tough choice for the cpu since it's both the same price. Dual core 2.33 ghz on the m1710 is pretty good and meets my needs really so i was thinking that maybe the quad should be fine and absolute best performance is not required



I think they did something wrong with crysis. I mean if COD4 can look that good and not need a monster machine, what were they thinking when they did crysis.
Exactly what I'm thinking. Performance is just atrocious in comparison to CoD4 when CoD4 is exceptional in the way it looks. I must say that the new mapping system of Crysis is great....just for sure ahead of it's time
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post #22 of 43
2/1/08 at 5:03am
I have a quad sitting at 3.2ghz and has been for prolly 4 soliddd months now, its on 24/7 and I game about 10 hours a day, well I use to for the first 2 months, then I got a job, so don't game much no more...I max out all settings on all games, doesn't hiccup, its just absolutly smooth as butter no joke!
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post #23 of 43
2/1/08 at 7:01am
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can't see you pics, you're using one gfx card?
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post #24 of 43
2/1/08 at 1:16pm
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Originally Posted by almmohd View Post
Core 2 Duo E6850 Processor 3Ghz or the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad-Core Processor, 2.40 GHz, 8M L2 Cache, LGA 775 BX80562Q6600 SLACR, with G0 stepping


which would you buy if the price was the same?
If you are gaming a lot, then E6850, not many game can use all 4 core yet. for other stuff use then Q6600



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Originally Posted by galahad05 View Post
So...the only 8-core motherboard solutions sit in the AMD camp?
No, Intel Xeon mother broad can have two socket 8 core system. I am sitting in one of them right now typing this post. I believe there are 4 socket 6 core mobo out there some where....... I don't have the rich blood and need for 16 core yet .... so 8 core is not for AMD only
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post #25 of 43
2/2/08 at 2:01pm
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The new 45nm Wolfdale line-up includes the E8200 (2.66GHz), E8400 (3.00GHz) and E8500 (3.16GHz) processors that are expected to operate at lower temperatures - and thus reduce fan noise - as well as receive newer SSE4.1 instructions and ship with a larger 6MB L2 cache


When comparing the E6850 and the E8400, both of which operate at 3.0GHz we see that the E8400 is 14% faster in the OpenGL rendering test and 9% faster for the multi-GPU rendering test. The E8400 is much faster than the E8200 in both tests while it is only slightly slower than the E8500.
http://www.techspot.com/review/85-in...roe/page2.html
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post #26 of 43
2/2/08 at 2:38pm
Ya, pick up a penryn
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post #27 of 43
2/2/08 at 5:02pm
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Originally Posted by pdonket View Post
Ya, pick up a penryn


this is what I'm thinking bout right now:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad-Core Processor, 2.40 GHz, 8M L2 Cache, LGA 775 -
or the
Intel E8400 3.00GHz FSB1333MHz L2-6MB Scoket 775 Cpu Core 2 Duo Processor (BX80570E8400) -

Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, eSATA, RAID

or its 750i counterpart

Corsair 2GB PC8500 1066Mhz 240-Pin DDR2 RAM (Twin2X2048-8500C5D)

would like a 1000W sli power supply

Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM SATA 32MB Cache 3.5 inch

Video card(2?) 8800 series ? was looking out to see what will happen when the 9000 series is released, waiting on that b4 i start any buying

Any suggestions would be appreciated
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post #28 of 43
2/2/08 at 5:22pm
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Originally Posted by almmohd View Post
this is what I'm thinking bout right now:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 Quad-Core Processor, 2.40 GHz, 8M L2 Cache, LGA 775 -
or the
Intel E8400 3.00GHz FSB1333MHz L2-6MB Scoket 775 Cpu Core 2 Duo Processor (BX80570E8400) -

Asus P5N-T Deluxe Motherboard - NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI, Socket 775, ATX, Audio, PCI Express 2.0, Gigabit LAN, S/PDIF, USB 2.0, Firewire, eSATA, RAID

or its 750i counterpart

Corsair 2GB PC8500 1066Mhz 240-Pin DDR2 RAM (Twin2X2048-8500C5D)

would like a 1000W sli power supply

Barracuda 7200.11 1TB 7200RPM SATA 32MB Cache 3.5 inch

Video card(2?) 8800 series ? was looking out to see what will happen when the 9000 series is released, waiting on that b4 i start any buying

Any suggestions would be appreciated
For your uses, I still am going to have to say that i think the E8400 would be better.

I'd say also that the 780i would be a better board although both are probably perfectly fine and have similar upgrade paths.

Also, although not mandatory by any means, I think you may find a general price/performance value with 4gb of 800mhz ram than of 1066mhz ram. I don't think the difference in performance will be all that astonishing and 800mhz ram will cost you dirt by comparison (last time i checked)
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post #29 of 43
2/4/08 at 8:57am
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800MHz Ram? really? i was planning to run dual boot btw with xp and vista, with xp running most of the time. do you recommend any particular brand of RAM or will anything do?
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post #30 of 43
2/4/08 at 9:12am
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Originally Posted by almmohd View Post
800MHz Ram? really? i was planning to run dual boot btw with xp and vista, with xp running most of the time. do you recommend any particular brand of RAM or will anything do?
Hmm

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820231122
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145176
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820145184

Basically anything from a major brand you like, that has a price that you also like
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post #31 of 43
2/4/08 at 10:46pm
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If the G.SKILL 4GB(2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory - Retail is good stuff I might but it
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post #32 of 43
2/5/08 at 12:53am
Gskill is reputable, as long as the newegg consensus is generally good, you can trust that the product won't be a total POS.
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post #33 of 43
2/9/08 at 8:47am
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i'm putting together my wishlist for now, so far ive only bought the hard drive. I am only waiting for the release of the new graphics card series to start buying stuff, don't know if I will buy one from the new series or what though.

This is what I am looking at now:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Wolfdale 3.0GHz L

ASUS P5N-T Deluxe LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 780i SLI

XFX PVT88GYDD4 GeForce 8800GTS 512MB DDR3 678MHz PCI Express 2.0 SLI Ready Video Card (

I need a recommendation for a power supply, may not put in a second graphics card until a couple months after.
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post #34 of 43
2/9/08 at 9:06am
Antec, PC Power and Cooling, Cooler Master, or Corsair for the power supply from my personal (and MANY others I know) experience.

If you're planning to eventually run SLI, get something no less than 650w (the Corsair 620w is fine).
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post #35 of 43
2/9/08 at 9:08am
Also, I'd stay away from XFX (I won't go into my hatred for their $hitty product and quality control here).

Go with eVGA. You get the added bonus of their 90-day step-up program, which is WELL worth it. Once their out, and you're still within your 90 days, you can upgrade to a GeForce 9800-class card and pay only the difference in MSRP for the cards (say you get a card now that's $349.99 and the card you want to step-up to is $449.99, you pay $100).
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post #36 of 43
2/9/08 at 9:44am
Thread Starter 
really is XFX that bad? the last too i bought were XFXs, one of them might be going bad but it lasted about 4 years.never bought an eVGAs is there anywhere i can see a comparison chart or something?

I don't qualify for the step up program cause i am not resident in the US
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post #37 of 43
2/9/08 at 11:53am
Specifications wise, they're all about the same. Some have higher factory overclocked parts, but that's about it.

It's all in terms of the quality of the components (voltage regulators, capacitors, etc) that's used on the boards. My experience is less than even poor with XFX. 5 GeForce 6800 GT's later, and well, I wasn't a happy camper. Several people I know in real life have had similar (some less extreme, some worse) experiences, and there are plenty more if you do some searching around. eVGA on the other hand, is nearly the exact opposite. While there are horror stories (there are with every company, it's unavoidable) there are FAR fewer than with basically any other company (BFG is a close second in terms of being good) out there. Bottom line is, if you want to save yourself a few headaches, go with eVGA.
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post #38 of 43
3/29/08 at 12:20pm
Thread Starter 
ended up buying the q6600. i see though that several of the games i play seem to be using the 4 cores unless something else is being reported. gears of war, MS FSX seems to be using the 4 as well as a couple other games.

it is running really well. i'm very happy with it. haven't overclocked as yet, and crysis is looking very good too on high settings in xp (my graphics card is a 9600gt).
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post #39 of 43
3/29/08 at 1:32pm
Speaking of the Q6600....I went back to my local Microcenter yesterday. They still have over 200 of those quads selling for $189US - in store only.
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post #40 of 43
3/29/08 at 4:46pm
I would have went with the new Wolfdale CPUs if it was me.
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