Thanks to all thoes who recomended AMD!

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21-12-2004, 07:09 AM
myth

Thanks to all thoes who recomended AMD!

Well, its been three days now with my 3500 and MSI neo 2 plat mobo... at first I was confronted with many problems... after I got some help from Hexus I managed to work out the kinks. However it still wasnt as fast as I thought she could be... So I read that dam manual and I discovered this setting in bios that dealt with the memory settings (1T vs 2T) well it was at 2T but I fixed that and now look at what hapened!

This is at stock with no OC!

http://img142.exs.cx/img142/8422/untitled15ce.th.gif http://img142.exs.cx/img142/9294/untitled32df.th.gif

Well all I can say is wow! This thing is amazingly fast! How fast are you wondering? well lets just say 40% faster then my old P4! :crazy: I plan to do some miled OCing and I'll get back to this thread to post some more results!
21-12-2004, 07:33 AM
myth

Heres that slight OC.. At 3800 speeds :)

http://img151.exs.cx/img151/1936/untitled49po.th.gif

Well, I gues 6.4 gigabytes a second isnt that bad.... :rockon: Any sugestions?
21-12-2004, 11:11 AM
Rave

Yeah- play some games and enjoy it:).

Rich :¬)
21-12-2004, 12:06 PM
LeeumH

Pity you didn't get a Winchester :|
21-12-2004, 03:58 PM
icp222

Why are Winchester better?
21-12-2004, 04:05 PM
Lee H

Quote:

Originally Posted by icp222

Why are Winchester better?

Winchesters are the smaller 90nm cored AMD 64's which run at a lower voltage and therefore it has been found to be better for overclocking.

Other than that if ran at stock speed they will run cooler so this too is a bonus ;)
21-12-2004, 04:17 PM
icp222

Merci...
21-12-2004, 05:16 PM
myth

Quote:

Originally Posted by Rave

Yeah- play some games and enjoy it:).

Rich :¬)

Yep! I love geting 150 fps in CS source with 2AA and 16 AF :p

Edit: and I still need to get rid of this stock cooler... :crazy:
21-12-2004, 06:24 PM
StormPC

Quote:

Originally Posted by WildmonkeyUK

Winchesters are the smaller 90nm cored AMD 64's which run at a lower voltage and therefore it has been found to be better for overclocking.

Other than that if ran at stock speed they will run cooler so this too is a bonus ;)

This is barely half the story. The Winchester is better bang for the buck but the 3500+ has a higher multi and for most people (especially if your RAM isn't that great) it will outperform a 3200+. A good overclocker could probably get more out of a 3200+ Winnie than a 3500+ Newcastle, but not much more.
21-12-2004, 08:02 PM
myth

well my fsb is at 220 and my temp at idel is 48C and load is 64C... I was just wondering if these temps are safe?
21-12-2004, 08:07 PM
StormPC

Yes. Your motherboard BIOS is not at all accurate when reporting temps.

So you're runninf 220x11? DDR440? What memory and timings? 1T?
21-12-2004, 08:56 PM
Thorsson

Quote:

Originally Posted by StormPC

Yes. Your motherboard BIOS is not at all accurate when reporting temps.

But it might be reporting wrong side rather than right side... :inquisiti

Could always try the egg test.
22-12-2004, 06:54 PM
myth

Can you say multi tasking? Each movie has a bit rate of 10 Mb/s :eek: However the GPU still leaves much for my CPU... Dam Nvidia... Just figured I show yous how badly I'm abusing my new CPU! :devilish:

http://img148.exs.cx/img148/9109/unt...copy3nb.th.jpg
23-12-2004, 01:18 AM
tiggerai

hmmmm... me's has got to get me some of that.... soon!