06-25-2010, 12:46 PM
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| Member Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Portland, OR
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|  Just placed my order. . . Ordered: 500gb Western Digital Black 30gb OCZ SSD EVGA 465 GTX Current Specs: CPU: Q6600 (Quad core 2.66ghz 2mb cache) MB: ASUS P5K-VM RAM: Kingston HyperX 4 x 1GB @ 1066 (5-5-5-15) Video: EVGA 260 GTX OS Drive: 240(?)GB Western Digital Black WoW Drive: 30gb OCZ drive OS: Vista-32 PSU: Silverstone 850W Next weeks specs: CPU: Q6600 (Quad core 2.66ghz 2mb cache) MB: ASUS P5K-VM RAM: Kingston HyperX 4 x 1GB @ 1066 (5-5-5-15) Video: EVGA 465 GTX OS Drive: 500gb Western Digital Black WoW Drive: RAID-0 SSD's (two 30gb OCZ drives) OS: Windows 7 Ult PSU: Silverstone 850W . . . which means I get some serious HDD and GPU HP upgrades. . . . giving my old 240(?)gb Western Digital Black and my GTX 260 to my GF and upgrading her OS to Windows 7. -C Last edited by Crispin; 06-25-2010 at 01:04 PM. |
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06-25-2010, 01:30 PM
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| Administrator  Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: USA
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Oh yea definitely lets see some benchmarks of those HDs!!! |
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06-25-2010, 07:17 PM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jul 2009 Location: Manitoba, Canada
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . What model of OCZ SSD? If those are the Sata3 capable OCZ SSD drives running on a sata 3 controller they've been benchmarked with have higher performance than the Intel X25M V2 running on sata2! |
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06-25-2010, 07:42 PM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Is Quad core 2.66ghz 2mb cache enough to box 5 toons in WOW? The Q9550 is 2.83 and 12mb, I was wondering if the mb play a factor in boxing 5 toons? Just a noob when it comes to this cpu language 
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06-25-2010, 08:28 PM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . larger cache equals more data sitting right beside the cpu for it to process equals higher performance. lower cache requires your cpu to use extra clock cycles to pull data from ram memory or the hard drive to cache and so on. The Q6600 is a big lightweight compared to the Q9550 for a number of reasons... an entirely different cpu die used to manufacture the Q9550 cpu. Intel Q6600's will run much hotter than a Q9550 because the 9550 is manufactured with a 45nm die which produces less heat. Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad Spec Sheet Intel Q9650 Core 2 Quad Spec Sheet Last edited by xartin; 06-25-2010 at 08:41 PM. |
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06-25-2010, 11:12 PM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Quote:
Newegg.com - OCZ Vertex Series OCZSSD2-1VTX30GXXX 2.5" 30GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) Still running an ICH9 motherboard. | |
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06-25-2010, 11:24 PM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Quote:
1 copy of WoW doesn't max it out for my raids. 5 copies of WoW puts the hurt on it (~90% usage). I was having trouble swimming on ~medium graphics settings previously. Got my 1st SSD and now I can load all toons into Dalaran and swim but flying/FP's hurt, I can only run 2 toons on a FP at once due to my SSD getting hammered. I'm not dumping any more money into this chipset / ram / cpu. Anything I buy needs to transfer to my new system. Those are the rules I set for myself. Sure I could buy 8gb of DDR2@1066 for like 210$, but why? I could buy 6gb of DDR3@1600 for 210$. Doesn't make alot of sense. I could go buy the Q9650 for like 180? 190? . . . but the i7-920 is only 290$! In short dumping money into this system is a waste, better to save and get the socket 1366 generation, or skip 1366 and get the following generation. Strategy: =========== As I am running an 850w PSU, a new GPU will help render objects faster. A second SSD running in Raid-0 will help with retrieving the data I am having trouble with. The new OS will reduce my resource overhead and increase my available ram, which should help swapping data to /from the processor. -C | |
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06-26-2010, 08:29 AM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . something else i found this morning that has some useful visual reference between the two generations of intel core 2 quads. Note that this is however for the core 2 quad extreme and still the differences are apparent.  |
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06-26-2010, 08:38 AM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Other small edit... the sata3 SSD's were not from OCZ but rather manufactured by crucial Want fast? how about REALLY fast...? ok.... 355MB/s read speed with a single SSD on a sata 3 bus Crucial RealSSD-C300 SATA-III 6Gbps SSD | Crucial RealSSD-C300,Benchmark,Review,CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1,Marvell 88SS9174,SATA-III,6Gbps,SSD Test,Crucial RealSSD-C300 CTFDDAC256MAG-1G1 SATA-III 6Gbps MLC SSD Benchmark Performance Solid State Drive Review |
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06-28-2010, 08:25 AM
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| Re: Just placed my order. . . Quote:
I should get some screenshots of the before and after performance. Can't wait to put some work in later this week. . . | |
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