New Computer :D

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Yep, dual core 64 bit. :D

Put it on an Asus A8N-SLI board. I have a crappy GeForce 6600 video card, but I plan to get another and tie them together with SLI a little later.

Only muck-up was the first $10 power supply I got wasn't up to snuff. Oh yes, and one of the 512 MB sticks of RAM I got is no good. :grumpy:

I tried the evaluation copy of XP 64-bit, and although it was a little snappier, I couldn't get drivers for my ext2 partitions, so I'll have to wait till it gets a little better suppported.
 
Integra Type R
Congrats. 👍 What was the total cost?
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Thanks.
It came to $1276 on newegg with overnight shipping, but add $176 to that for the other power supply I had to get, and add another $20 or so for the extra fans I'll be buying tomorrow or the day after (right now I have the case open).
 
skip0110
Thanks.
It came to $1276 on newegg with overnight shipping, but add $176 to that for the other power supply I had to get, and add another $20 or so for the extra fans I'll be buying tomorrow or the day after (right now I have the case open).
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:nervous::nervous::nervous: dude. i hate you. i wish i had that much money to spend
 
Robin 2223
How do ya get a dual 64 core? .....Ive got a althon 64 4.4 ghz
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You buy a dual core 64 CPU maybe? :P

The Athlon 64 X2s are dual cores, but the regular 64s aren't.

Nice rig skip! 👍
 
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I prefer the FX57, it has both power and excellent performance.
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At over twice the price of the X2 4200+ ($1011 versus $473) it was more than a little out of my price range. Nor do I think the premium is worth the (marginal) performance increase. And in heavily multithreaded non-video tasks (I'm going to be running lots of simulations/doing some heavy algorithm development on this thing, not gaming), the 4200 X2 actually beats out the FX57!
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Of course, the FX57 wins most of the categories, but not by twice as much...
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Source: http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q2/athlon64-fx57/index.x?pg=1
 
Well, my only mode of comparison is my P4 2.66 Ghz laptop, which ran very hot, between 60 C and 70 C. I am running AMD Cool and Quiet, which will throttle a core down to 45% speed when there is no load on it. With the stock heatsink/cooling and only one exhaust fan in the case, it ran around 50-55 C, which is acceptable I suppose, but a little hotter than I'd like. With another exhaust fan and an intake fan, it idles at 37 C (100F) and stays at 48 C (120F) at full load, which seems to me to be very reasonable. I could probably even O/C it a few ticks with the cooling I have, but as it is it's way more processor than I need.

The power supply, on the other hand, gets extremely hot.
 
Giancarlo
Why is it only running at 2.2 GHz? Doesn't it go higher?
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Well, yeah, I could overclock it higher, if that's what you mean.

But AMD chip speeds aren't comparable to Intel chip speeds. They run a lot slower, but perform just as quickly.
 
skip0110
Well, my only mode of comparison is my P4 2.66 Ghz laptop, which ran very hot, between 60 C and 70 C. I am running AMD Cool and Quiet, which will throttle a core down to 45% speed when there is no load on it. With the stock heatsink/cooling and only one exhaust fan in the case, it ran around 50-55 C, which is acceptable I suppose, but a little hotter than I'd like. With another exhaust fan and an intake fan, it idles at 37 C (100F) and stays at 48 C (120F) at full load, which seems to me to be very reasonable. I could probably even O/C it a few ticks with the cooling I have, but as it is it's way more processor than I need.

The power supply, on the other hand, gets extremely hot.
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Ah. Cool. I'm considering an X2 4200+ as my next upgrade myself, but I was a bit worried about temps. 👍

Giancarlo
Why is it only running at 2.2 GHz? Doesn't it go higher?
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Like skip said, Athlons run at a lower clock. That's what the 3500+, 3700+, 4200+ codenames are for. They're the Intel equivalents. A 3500+ is the equivalent of 3.5GHz P4, 3700+ to a 3.7GHz P4 and so on.
 
Shannon
Ah. Cool. I'm considering an X2 4200+ as my next upgrade myself, but I was a bit worried about temps. 👍


Like skip said, Athlons run at a lower clock. That's what the 3500+, 3700+, 4200+ codenames are for. They're the Intel equivalents. A 3500+ is the equivalent of 3.5GHz P4, 3700+ to a 3.7GHz P4 and so on.
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Athlons run at a slower clock because they are much more efficient and can perform more instructions per clock cycle than the Pentium counterparts, hence it can run slower and do just as much as the Pentiums running at a higher speed.
 
Shannon
Like skip said, Athlons run at a lower clock. That's what the 3500+, 3700+, 4200+ codenames are for. They're the Intel equivalents. A 3500+ is the equivalent of 3.5GHz P4, 3700+ to a 3.7GHz P4 and so on.
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They're actually equivalents of the original Athlon design, not Intel design.

Looks like a beast skip... 👍

Must be some kind of gold covered PSU to cost $176 though
 
Just buy a 7800 GTX insted your saving less space then having 2 6600's, while producing less heat then 2.

But if I had to decide between extra card or extra ram, I would say get 1GB of Dual Channel DDR3200 Ram.
 

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