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post #341 of 542
11/20/09 at 10:57pm
yes. I want to see if they revised the motherboard
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post #342 of 542
11/20/09 at 11:11pm
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Just put my system back together again. Give me a sec.
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post #343 of 542
11/20/09 at 11:17pm
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Here it is.
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post #344 of 542
11/20/09 at 11:30pm
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Windows 7 64bit - CPU@3.25Ghz and GPU@stock.
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post #345 of 542
11/21/09 at 12:39am
ok. i see that it's the same. that i was wondering.

did you get a chance to do re5?
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post #346 of 542
11/21/09 at 12:45am
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not yet. been mainly test 2 machines at once.
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post #347 of 542
11/21/09 at 12:57am
how is it so far. do you see any being more stable then the other???
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post #348 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:05am
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Nope, the difference right now is in the OS. Vista 32bit vs Win 7 64 bit.

Here's my highest GPU stock 3DMark06
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post #349 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:10am
ati's are better with win7 then vista.
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post #350 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:16am
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Yeah but I'm better with Vista since I've used it more. Just the version I'm used to is call Windows 2008 server.
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post #351 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:19am
lol. oh ok. i used server 2003. and it was much better then xp by a long shot. but there was just no sound.
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post #352 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:21am
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Have you tried OC'ing your proc further yet?
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post #353 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:24am
yes i have tried. right now i am at 3.125ghz. and my fsb is 1000 my ram is 1333mhz.

i did the thing and i tried
1066 cpu
1333 ram
/fail
1066 cpu
1066 ram
/fail
1066 cpu
800 ram
/fail
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post #354 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:34am
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Try 1030:1030. That is an older proc so it could be an issue.
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post #355 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:35am
ok. i'll try it now.
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post #356 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:45am
no. that didn't work. my notebook wouldn't even boot with those.
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post #357 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:49am
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Have you played with the proc it came with yet?
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post #358 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:54am
nope. it was either a p8600 or a t9300 and i choose the t9300 because of the 6mb cache vs the 3mb cache. and the max overclock on the p8600 is 3.0ghz were as the t9300 was 3.125 in the bios.
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post #359 of 542
11/21/09 at 1:59am
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what about the fact your bus is running under 1066 as designed.
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post #360 of 542
11/21/09 at 2:02am
well i originally thought it would surpass 1066 but it didn't but i also looked up the stepping and it's a c0 stepping.

there was a site i found c0 vs e0 stepping. and e0 was cooler, can overclock higher and is a much better cpu overall but the c0 at the same clock speeds was faster. i believe it was because the cache is closer the cpu or something towards that lines.
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