New PC pimp journal
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9 Nov 2008, 22:52
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Bought new PC, so that needs a pimp journal with lots of bling bling
specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 + OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4
Kingston 4GB( 2 x 2048MB), 800MHz, DDR2
Sapphire HD 4870 512Mb
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F1 1 TB
Antec Nine Hundred
Zalman ZM600-HP 600W
For only 1000€ <3
Sadpanda that i had to install Vista 64bit on it :< (> 3,2 gb)
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Discuss!
specs:
Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 + OCZ Vendetta 2 CPU Cooler
Gigabyte GA-EP45-DS4
Kingston 4GB( 2 x 2048MB), 800MHz, DDR2
Sapphire HD 4870 512Mb
2 x Samsung SpinPoint F1 1 TB
Antec Nine Hundred
Zalman ZM600-HP 600W
For only 1000€ <3
Sadpanda that i had to install Vista 64bit on it :< (> 3,2 gb)
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Discuss!
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only enable it during the winterzzz, then i don't need to turn my central heating on xDDD
cores aren't coming higher then 37° stressed
c-o-o-l-e-r
Why not take a scythe mugen if you're planning to throw away that much money on a computer.
go run Prime95 for 12 hours and tell me you kept it at under 37 degrees with stock HSF
Ya i know that crysis is more graphic stuff then CPU, but still
by that logic I can argue my 3.6ghz q6600 doesn't go over 30c (quake timedemo)
Its alot faster aswell if you want to test your system to see if its abit stable.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=197835
And further talking about temps when you dont know what vcore you are using is abit useless.
im also not overly fond of that intel tester, more heat doesn't necessarily mean better testing... I'll still throw prime95 on for 12-24 hours after tweaking volts/clock
And if you want to know the real load temperture linpack is more usefull because you know why you get a higher temperature?.. Because its getting more stressed :)
Further good components, only your memory doesnt fit with the rest.
And i would have bought 2 Smaller F1' for raid 0. And one 1TB for data.
-can still overclock in the future
-yeah also thought long about the harddrive stuff
first 1 wanted to put those 2 TB's in raid 0, but after reading around i realized it was too risky
then i heard that the performance of those 1 TB drives is almost as good as a raid 0 configuration, because the date concentration is much higher on those 1 TB's
so i decided to drop the whole raid stuff
let's see what the future brings =)
I didnt said memory was bad, its a good brand. Just you wont reach really good clocks with it with low latency. But atleast they do 400FSB so enough room to overclock your cpu.
Drivers are no problem with Windows XP 64bit, i didnt counter them everything works like a charm. Just try it. My printer my G15, webcam everything etc just works fine. But thats the same with vista 64 bit. Just try it and you will see mostly there are no problems.
Also, protip: If you really won't use XP, then use Windows 7.
it's easy to tweak, so after all vista isn't that bad, at least when you take the time to configure it probably =)
http://www.vlite.net/
http://www.tweakguides.com/TGTC.html
for more infoz =)
windows 7 is actually "ok", its worse than xp but better than vista
not sure why i care, i use archlinux
but it's indeed true that there is no need to use windows when you aren't playing games (or play games that are (l)unix supported (ET anyone?)) xD