Thorburn Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Just ordered one of those babies, you'll have to let me know how they perform [/ QUOTE ] What motherboard you putting it in? Using a 955XBK until our 975XBX boards arrive and having a few bios issues (although the bios on the board is one I know isn't a very good revision) but got a 950 Engineering Sample (so basically an XE without HTT) thats going into my home system tomorrow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 nforce 4 sli board. Be the asus one i think Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Sounds like it'll be nice, your new Alienware I presume? Whats the total spec of it like? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 This is the spec Intel® Pentium® Processor Extreme Edition 955 w/ HT Technology 3.46GHz 1066MHz FSB 4MB Cache XP Pro with sp2 1 year RTB warranty Blue Chassis Liuquid cooling with Alienice 2.0 video cooling system 4Gb Dual Channel RAM Dual 512MB PCI-Express x16 NVIDIA® GeForce™ 7800 GTX - SLI Enabled Hard Drives - 2x74Gb Serial ATA 10,000 rpm (NON RAID) Hard Drive 2 - 500Gb Seria ATA-II 3GB 7,200rpm Optical Drive 1 - Premium Dual layer Optical Drive 2 - 16/48x IDE DVD-ROM Drive - Black - w/Software MPEG-2 Decoder Sound Card - Creative Sound Blaster® X-Fi XtremeMusic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 16, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 now that should be a tasty system Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Providing i get all the correct parts this is Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 Too much bloody money, evidently... </jealous> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Milo Posted January 16, 2006 Report Share Posted January 16, 2006 I seem to recall my Pentium 3 is running at 500 Mhz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aal234 Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Milo I have that beat, Will post a pic of my toshiba libretto later. Its a 100MHz pentium with 32MB of RAM running from a solid state hard disk (compact flash). The mad thing is it boots faster than most XP laptops as the hard disk is so quick! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Here's my office PC, pretty standard stuff really. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jon Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Here's mine: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Been playing with my new toys today Yes I know it says 6GHz, CPU-Z gets confused with engineering samples when you adjust the multiplier Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NewNiceMrMe Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Pah...try 8 (yes, eight) of these hyperthreading babies in a machine...and check the RAM at the bottom....I just gave CPU-Z a little try in a room not to far from my office.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chav Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Yes I know it says 6GHz, CPU-Z gets confused with engineering samples when you adjust the multiplier [/ QUOTE ] Be careful that you don't break any NDA's James! We get engineering samples too... but not just from your boys! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Yes I know it says 6GHz, CPU-Z gets confused with engineering samples when you adjust the multiplier [/ QUOTE ] Be careful that you don't break any NDA's James! We get engineering samples too... but not just from your boys! [/ QUOTE ] NDA was lifted with product launch on the 15th Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akira Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Now thats impressive, best i'd seen was over 4Ghz on an overclock. Fortunately my system will be liquid cooled so will push it to 4 or just a little over Think i've made the best choice over the FX60, that was struggling to get to 3Ghz...and before you start yes i know its not all about frequencies. I use vmware so the 955 chip was the way to go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thorburn Posted January 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Got a pair set up in the lab at the moment, leaving them both stress testing overnight. Zalman CNPS-7700 system is running at 4.26GHz Vapochill XE-II is running 4.8GHz Unfortunately the D955XBK motherboard I'm using at the moment has some issues so its not entirely stable at 5GHz but once my D975XBX's arrive that should be easy Watercooling and a little tweaking with an nForce 4 board should see 4.26-4.5 with no trouble Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mulkbear Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 Very very slow, i should build or buy a new PC but i am lazy and cheap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danksy Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Very very slow, i should build or buy a new PC but i am lazy and cheap. [/ QUOTE ] Yup that's what I heard too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 That's slow, thats not very slow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
malagus Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 this slow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omi Posted January 17, 2006 Report Share Posted January 17, 2006 [ QUOTE ] Pah...try 8 (yes, eight) of these hyperthreading babies in a machine...and check the RAM at the bottom....I just gave CPU-Z a little try in a room not to far from my office.... [/ QUOTE ] You'd think with all that mahoosive power it would be able to cope with more than 256 colours... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sufu Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Pah...try 8 (yes, eight) of these hyperthreading babies in a machine...and check the RAM at the bottom....I just gave CPU-Z a little try in a room not to far from my office.... [/ QUOTE ] You'd think with all that mahoosive power it would be able to cope with more than 256 colours... [/ QUOTE ] seriously, what are you using it for, some form of database? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mollox Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Interesting that no one really is running AMD chips? Am very tempted to base my next machine on an Athlon X2 chip....or do you all disapprove? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarMad Posted January 20, 2006 Report Share Posted January 20, 2006 Nope they are excellent chips IMO. Intel have been having supply problems with their chipsets recently which might have more people going to AMD than ever before. Even majors in the US like Gateway have got AMDs in each product line now. HP / IBM etc also all now have servers with the Opterons in them, lower energy costs and more powerful chips.. music to corporates ears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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