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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Feb 27th at 6:35pm 2005

? quoting Dred_furst
ive just ordered some new stuff:
This mobo
This memory
This processory
This case
These green cathode lights

/me advises: take a moment to seek out some 939 pin motherboards and processors. you get more bang for the same buck it seems. and even if its not more, the future is in the 939 pin direction.

google search benchtest "939pin vs. 754pin"

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Posted by $loth on Sun Feb 27th at 6:49pm 2005

Yea 939 is the one AMD are going to use in the future as 754 is only going up to 3700+ and it also has the added benifit of dual channel memory.
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Posted by Crono on Sun Feb 27th at 9:11pm 2005

I have to agree.
However, I don't why you guys are just going apes**t over "AMD64". Take a look at the FX-51/53 series. Those are actually faster then most 32-Bit processors (the AMD64 clocks to a few Sempron and P4s)

And honestly, I'm appaled by the low cache sizes on the AMD 64. The 64-FX are double the size: L1 - 512Kb, L2 - 1Mb.
But they cost like $800

This is just a question, but why did you choose Corshair ram? I'm not saying they're bad by any means, but, if there is ram that's cheaper, then the price should override the brand. Have you honestly ever had ram fail on you after a period of usage that you didn't do anything to? (Like pull it out of the system, which will fry your entire system) I haven't. And the thing is, most "No Name" ram, is called that because they're put together by not known companies, but the actual chips on them are fairly mainstream.

So, I'm really wondering why you'd choose the 2nd most popular brand of ram, yet you didn't take any consideration (obviously) for the motherboard/chipset.

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Posted by satchmo on Tue Mar 1st at 2:23am 2005

My computer parts just arrived today. I bought Kingston PC3200. The two sticks of 512 MB were pretty cheap compared to some other brands, and I've known the Kingston brand for decades now, so I trust them.

I've had RAM fail on me before. Those were the ones I bought from Fry's Electronics (a warehouse of electronic parts in California). They were extremely cheap when I bought them, so I wasn't too sad when they failed after only a year of use.

Anyone ever had problem with Kingston memories?

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Posted by Gwil on Fri Mar 11th at 4:51pm 2005

For Orph

'03 - 10046 Marks (along those lines)
'05 - 4627 Marks

Not done '03, will give it a quick run now

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the 05 test?? i consider my machine quite powerful. it stutters massively on the 05 test. in fact one of them only runs at 1 fps


Mine too, on the second run of the flying boat/sea beast thing, jumps to 2/3 FPS in places but mostly levels at 1fps. Sucky huh!
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Posted by Orpheus on Sun Mar 13th at 2:40pm 2005

did a couple final tweaks. this is about as good as its gonna get with my current card.

still not a shabby result.

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Posted by Dred_furst on Sun Mar 13th at 5:29pm 2005

i'd have to disagree with you on the motherboard, i spent a lot of consideration on it, and it had the most reasonable price. its a bit late now about the higher socket, my new one has been sat here for the last week, and is very nice! the 512mb ram is much better than the 256 "unnamed" brand i had before, and my usb mouse doesnt continually freeze!

anywho, i did do consideration, the via chipset imo is better than the nforce ones
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