CPU upgrade

[VH100R]

gonna upgrade my P4@3.2GHz to a E4600 (2x2.4GHz) overclocked to 3.2GHz.

just waiting for an Asus P5K SE motherboard + Kingston 2 GB DDR2 (800)

I know Its a modest setup but these new E4xxx sure got excellent reviews in the overclock department and they are cheap processors.

 

[kev]

This is great news!

 

[Notuern]

From what ive read, the E-series is the most badass processor you can get without coughing up about 700$.
Im hopefully going to get my new gear soon, which is going to be:

Motherboard: Asus P5N-E
Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3,0ghz / 4mb cache(Was aiming for an intel with 6mb cache, but i dont want to wait another month for it.).
Ram: Corsair XMS2-6400 2*1024mb
Graphics: Asus Extreme GeForce 8800gtx 768mb
Disk: Seagate Barracuda 500gb / 7200rpm / 32mb cache
Chassi: Arctic Cooling T2(Supposed to be completely silent)

And later uppgrades will include a badass soundcard and 2gb of extra ram.
The reason i havent chosen a soundcard yet is simply because i have access to my schools studio which has the M-Audio ProjectMix I/O, and i cant really afford one yet. ;(

 

[kev]

IMO the Q6600 is still the best bang for the buck processor on the entire market

 

[Notuern]

IMO the Q6600 is still the best bang for the buck processor on the entire market

Yeah, atleast for various types of editing software and rendering.
I would have bought it if i didnt want to have a gaming station this time(I havent been able to play any new games for about 2 years. ).
Im wondering whats going on right now, because both CPU's and RAM is getting cheap as f*ck.
Maybe a new standard is on its way???

Edit: Poked around the web abit and found rumours about Pentium 5 hitting the market in 2010, maxing speeds at 15ghz, quadcore with 32mb cache(Apperantly some guy at Intel said this at his blog, but was forced to delete it.).

 

[whitedamp]

I would have bought it if i didnt want to have a gaming station this time.

? The Q6600 is very good for gaming! I have one with 2 Gb RAM and a Nvidia 8600 GT (mid-end card) and I play Unreal Tournament 3 with EVERY setting on max and with the hightest resolution (1280) possible with a very smooth frame rate. I´m pretty sure that I can play Gears Of War, Call Of Duty 4 and Bioshock with everything on max too (don´t know about Crysis, probably not).

 

[Ouroboros]

Graphics: Asus Extreme GeForce 8800gtx 768mb

You may want to consider getting two 8800GT's and using SLi. The pair will cost you around the same as a single GTX, and the GT's actually have higher bandwidth per card and very similar clocking speeds, which can be OC'ed higher than the stock GTX's. This is what I have in my PC, I seriously recommend it.

 

[SpewChunks]

I have an athlon XP and it kicks the lama's ass! I can run captain comic and space invaders on it.

 

[Notuern]

? The Q6600 is very good for gaming! I have one with 2 Gb RAM and a Nvidia 8600 GT (mid-end card) and I play Unreal Tournament 3 with EVERY setting on max and with the hightest resolution (1280) possible with a very smooth frame rate. I´m pretty sure that I can play Gears Of War, Call Of Duty 4 and Bioshock with everything on max too (don´t know about Crysis, probably not).

Well, when playing games you have a bigger advantage of high clockrates then multiple cores sence its not performing as much multipletasks as a Audiosoftware or such(Of course multiplecores is still a good thing.).
One of my goals with this computer is to atleast max Crysis on DX9 without any slowdowns(Will take some major tweaking.).

You may want to consider getting two 8800GT's and using SLi. The pair will cost you around the same as a single GTX, and the GT's actually have higher bandwidth per card and very similar clocking speeds, which can be OC'ed higher than the stock GTX's. This is what I have in my PC, I seriously recommend it.

I was thinking about that, but then i thought about having two extra fans in the chassi and such, so it felt like it was more worth aiming for a single card that is better.
And when the 8800 gtx starts getting old, i can buy an other one and i will have a pretty good computer again(I know this isnt completely true.).

 

[kev]

I had the priv of building a system with two 8800gt's a few weeks ago, but crysis doesnt react great with two GPUs (not a massive diff between 1 and 2). The way to go at the moment is to get the newer model of the 8800GTS, that thing clocks to buggery! I'm not sure what you mean by the slow core thing tho Notuern. I have my Q6600 sat at 3.6ghz and if that isnt fast enough i dunno what is hehe P.s I got caught in the ram crisis lol, Got my 2 x 2 GB a couple of months before xmas at a good price (£130) and the month after that KABOOM, RAM just fell through pissing me off big style. You can pick up 2 x 2 GB for £45 now *cries*

 

[ApolloSpeed]

yeah, Im probably gonna upgrade to in a month or two.

I currently have an E6600 2.4 dual-core, 2gb ram, 500gb harddrive.

But today when I did a render mixdown on an 8 song project, it took about 50 MINTUES!! Ofcourse I had about 34 tracks, lots of fxs and 7 instances of revalver going on.

Being I hear that Reaper splits work across all cores, if I jump to a Q6600 2.4 quad-core....I should effectively "double" my speed.