Thanks to all thoes who recomended AMD!

[myth]

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!



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! I plan to do some miled OCing and I'll get back to this thread to post some more results!

[myth]

Heres that slight OC.. At 3800 speeds



Well, I gues 6.4 gigabytes a second isnt that bad.... Any sugestions?

[Rave]

Yeah- play some games and enjoy it.

Rich :¬)

[LeeumH]

Pity you didn't get a Winchester :|

[icp222]

Why are Winchester better?

[Lee H]

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

[icp222]

Merci...

[myth]

Yeah- play some games and enjoy it.

Rich :¬)

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

Edit: and I still need to get rid of this stock cooler...

[StormPC]

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.

[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?

[StormPC]

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

So you're runninf 220x11? DDR440? What memory and timings? 1T?

[Thorsson]

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

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

Could always try the egg test.

[myth]

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

[tiggerai]

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