[Alien]

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

@Alien: Mobo is an ASUS Crosshair

Lucky git! No wonder you can't afford a more expensive heatsink! That's what I hope to get eventually. [Okay, so if I had the money I'd actually have an L1N64... [img]Download Failed (1)[/img]]

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

I'll just clean off the gunk from cooler/cpu and remount the HSF!

Good idea, remember, the AS needs to be as thin & smooth/evenly spread out as you can get it.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

Gonna try mounting the 120mm fan in the front of the case, drill some mounting holes for it and some extra air holes in the chassis front too!

Cool, that should hopeully improve your airflow significantly.

Originally Posted by Web-Junkie

You're explanations are fine BTW, unless you just WANT to do those pics in TrueSpace

Well, I do need the practice. Maybe after I've had a play with the new version...

Originally Posted by keithwalton

Alien : I did see that pic this morning on l'inq, and well its very questionable since its a digital camera pic of an unkown amd cpu thats running at 3GHz, im pretty sure it would be quad core to get a score of 5.9+ (core 2 duo needs 3.6GHz+ to reach that) however we have no way of linking the machine in the pic to that score.
They could of used extreme cooling to get it to hit 3GHz, or they could of used a lower speed quad to get windows to record the score, and then put in a dual core chip to get that screen grab.

Cynical, much? It's just a shame they only mentioned the codenames Barcelona [the core] & Phenom which is a partial model name, there'll be Phenom X2 [Kuma] & Phenom X4 [Agena]. Of course, there'll also be the Agena FX, but that's socket F [quad FX platform].

Originally Posted by keithwalton

I'd be very pleased if amd has got there quad core to 3GHz on air cooling as this would give intel the hurry up (they're currently backing off development) However there 'blizzard' of name drops suggested that they would launch at 2GHz for the bulk of machines (some 77%) with 6% being 2.3GHz and above, and 17% being 'energy efficent'
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3050

Did you notice this bit from page 10:

In a demonstration designed to prove that Phenom isn't broken, AMD featured a quad-core Phenom X4 processor, with standard cooling, running at 3.0GHz. While Phenom won't be anywhere near that clock speed when it launches at the end of this year, AMD expects to be at 3GHz within the first half of 2008.

So apparantly it was a quad core.

Originally Posted by keithwalton

I do wonder if amd have been building some barca's @90nm as they really seem to be having trouble with 65nm to the point of they are already talking about 45nm being next year and yet they have yet to ship mass volumes of 65nm chips, only really the energy efficent chips so far and some of the low- mid end desktop chips

I somehow doubt it, the 2.4 Ghz Agena's supposed to use 89W, & my X2 [Windsor, 90nm] is rated as 125w, so I'd think they'd have to be using a smaller process.