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My new project
texasboy:
--- Quote from: Quantum on April 07, 2008, 10:53:23 am ---
--- Quote from: texasboy on April 07, 2008, 07:15:00 am ---Sata HDD and PIONEER Sata DVD/CD optical drive are so much faster than the IDE drives.
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No, they are not. HDDs and DVD/CD drives don't yet have a high enough I/O to make the technical specifications of SATA any more useful than that of IDE. However, new hard drives which are a bit faster, bit quiter, more reliable and have higher platter density tend to be SATA based, so if you've got one of those then it'd be very good, but it's not really to do with that it's SATA.
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Point taken Quantum. Running 160GB Hitachi s-ata 7200rpm.
Messing around very slowly, running cpu at 2.56 ghz(2,33ghz stock),fsb slightly over 1400, temps went up to 38deg for cpu and33 for mobo.(stock intel heatsink) will change if temps get too high.
3D benchmark now up to 10,714. Havent touched the 8800gt yet.
Tks for input.
cheers
Upped the CPU TO 15% 2.683GHZ fsb 1533 (766x2) very stable so far. temp up to 40-41deg. Can you recommend a good heatsink cooler for core2 duo ?
Quantum:
--- Quote from: texasboy on April 10, 2008, 08:05:23 am ---
--- Quote from: Quantum on April 07, 2008, 10:53:23 am ---
--- Quote from: texasboy on April 07, 2008, 07:15:00 am ---Sata HDD and PIONEER Sata DVD/CD optical drive are so much faster than the IDE drives.
--- End quote ---
No, they are not. HDDs and DVD/CD drives don't yet have a high enough I/O to make the technical specifications of SATA any more useful than that of IDE. However, new hard drives which are a bit faster, bit quiter, more reliable and have higher platter density tend to be SATA based, so if you've got one of those then it'd be very good, but it's not really to do with that it's SATA.
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Point taken Quantum. Running 160GB Hitachi s-ata 7200rpm.
Messing around very slowly, running cpu at 2.56 ghz(2,33ghz stock),fsb slightly over 1400, temps went up to 38deg for cpu and33 for mobo.(stock intel heatsink) will change if temps get too high.
3D benchmark now up to 10,714. Havent touched the 8800gt yet.
Tks for input.
cheers
Upped the CPU TO 15% 2.683GHZ fsb 1533 (766x2) very stable so far. temp up to 40-41deg. Can you recommend a good heatsink cooler for core2 duo ?
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To be honest, you should be able to push it to 3 GHz without too much trouble. However I'd be careful to run extensive tests like 2 Prime95 torture tests running on each core for several hours.
There are a myriad of good Core2 heatsinks, the best is the Thermalright 120 Extreme, but you need to really buy a very good 12 CM fan to go with. Another fantastic one is the Noctua NH-U12P.
If you read through this review you'll get to a chart comparing all the major heatsink players: http://www.anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3268 in terms of noise, cooling at idle, cooling at stock, maximum over clockability and highest stable over clock.
texasboy:
Looking through the comments the Freezer 7 Pro wins hands down. I have two of them in use ,and although somewhat large,they do the job.Will check out Thermalright.
3D Mark now up to 11,001. And you thought an old man couldnt have fun. >:D.
tks
cheers
billyfridge:
OMG Tex...that stuff is easy ::)
After much thought, and research, I've decided to dispense with my two free standing speakers on my desktop PC and use the built in speakers in my monitor.thereby freeing up room on my desktop for more important things like coffee cups, my mobile phone, porn CD's, and my signed pic of Wayne Rooney.
To do this I had to buy a audio extension lead off ebay (99p + postage £1.26p) I thought 'bugger the expense, it's worth it' so you see Tex, yer not the only one doing a 'major project'. [coffee]
[LOL!]
Quantum:
--- Quote from: billyfridge on April 10, 2008, 10:26:12 am ---OMG Tex...that stuff is easy ::)
After much thought, and research, I've decided to dispense with my two free standing speakers on my desktop PC and use the built in speakers in my monitor.thereby freeing up room on my desktop for more important things like coffee cups, my mobile phone, porn CD's, and my signed pic of Wayne Rooney.
To do this I had to buy a audio extension lead off ebay (99p + postage £1.26p) I thought 'bugger the expense, it's worth it' so you see Tex, yer not the only one doing a 'major project'. [coffee]
[LOL!]
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Built in speakers make me sad [sad]
Their quality is so low, I got shinny new Z4 logitech 2.1 speakers this year as a birthday present, I've not been able to hit maximum volume on them and my computer playing something loud because it hurts my ears so much!
And the quality remains fantastic at any volume, it's really got me in to high quality audio files which you couldn't really tell the difference before on standard PC speakers.
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