Get up and running with Dual Core for around £155inc

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

At least WPA works though eh!

LOL works here too and actually I prefer bringing the interfaces up and down manually it's a lot quicker than going control panel, networking start stop etc


xxx@vaio-xxx-net:~$ iwconfig wlan0
wlan0 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"T1-Private"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.412 GHz Access Point: 00:14:BF8:F6:78
Bit Rate:54 Mb/s Sensitivity=-200 dBm
RTS thr:2346 B Fragment thr:2346 B
Power Management:off
Link Quality:100/100 Signal level:-68 dBm Noise level:-256 dBm
Rx invalid nwid:0 Rx invalid crypt:0 Rx invalid frag:0
Tx excessive retries:0 Invalid misc:0 Missed beacon:0

xxx@vaio-xxx-net:~$ psg wpa
root 4625 1 0 09:08 ? 00:00:00 /sbin/wpa_supplicant -Dwext -iwlan0 -c/etc/wpa_supplicant.conf -dd

[Aragorn]

Good review of that Asrock board at anandtech. Might be just what I was after - I can stick with my Radeon 9800 Pro and 1Gb of DDR400 Make the upgrade a bit easier to stomach.

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Good review of that Asrock board at anandtech. Might be just what I was after - I can stick with my Radeon 9800 Pro and 1Gb of DDR400 Make the upgrade a bit easier to stomach.

LOL exactly the same kit I have....

Maybe I should be on commission

[Gareth]

Oh, this is so tempting... certainly makes the cost of upgrading easier to swallow by doing it progressively.

Think I'm gonna have to speak nicely to the financial controller in our household tonight.

Wonder if I could squeeze in a nice, silent case in at the same time.... anyone got any recommendations of which ones to go for, if I do get the thumbs-up on this?

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by Gareth

Oh, this is so tempting... certainly makes the cost of upgrading easier to swallow by doing it progressively.

Think I'm gonna have to speak nicely to the financial controller in our household tonight.

Wonder if I could squeeze in a nice, silent case in at the same time.... anyone got any recommendations of which ones to go for, if I do get the thumbs-up on this?

Well offer her breakfast in bed : Seen link

http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/10/10/cheap_thrills_uk/

Originally Posted by CrC-3rr0r

Yeh but my point is that it'll be tricky to max out all 4 cores in everyday use and even if you do wheres the bandwidth going to go ? Surely the harddisk wont be able to take it hence becoming a system bottleneck.

Anyone know if the filesystem can handle a dual core unraring on 1 core and unziping on the other core simultaneously.

I mean how does the filesystem react to that ?

I run apps off different drives not just one I can shrink 2 dvds at once I can burn 2 + at once I can play games and run AV scan as long as it does not scan games hard drive etc Lack of hard drives does bottle neck the dual core

---------- Post added at 16:36 ---------- Previous post was at 16:35 ----------

Originally Posted by Aragorn

Good review of that Asrock board at anandtech. Might be just what I was after - I can stick with my Radeon 9800 Pro and 1Gb of DDR400 Make the upgrade a bit easier to stomach.

Thats exactlly what Bopdude is running with a P4D805

---------- Post added at 16:36 ---------- Previous post was at 16:36 ----------

Originally Posted by Gareth

Oh, this is so tempting... certainly makes the cost of upgrading easier to swallow by doing it progressively.

Think I'm gonna have to speak nicely to the financial controller in our household tonight.

Wonder if I could squeeze in a nice, silent case in at the same time.... anyone got any recommendations of which ones to go for, if I do get the thumbs-up on this?

It is a good upgrade path route as later if you need to just buy a higher speced board

[The Jackal]

Yeh well we'll see how it performs when I install it 2morrow night.

Now what do I install vista or xp (I have to keep the masses happy : Look darling fast machine ! - the last one I built she said her work pc was faster FFS ) ? linux is gonna go it after I see how baldly it performs with xp... It'll be dual boot.

Thinking of partioning it like the :

2x120gig RAID0 ext3 20gig 10gig NTFS and the rest FAT32 made via linux so that both os's can see it.

Thing is that if I partition it like this wont I reduce the RAID performance gain ?

Well I wouldnt use raid in house anyway. I would have as many single drives as possible.I doubt dual booting from a raid drive will cause any slowdown as the other systems wont be running.I would only run operating systems off it an use other drives for storage and processing etc

[The Jackal]

Originally Posted by zinglebarb

Well I wouldnt use raid in house anyway. I would have as many single drives as possible.I doubt dual booting from a raid drive will cause any slowdown as the other systems wont be running.I would only run operating systems off it an use other drives for storage and processing etc

Well I got a win2k3 server running on RAID0 @ home and it really does fly the thing messing it up is of course NTFS and the need to defrag it. Mind you the card I used is a dedicated RAID card - I might have to do the same thing with this box as I'm not sure if I can trust the onboard RAID.... we'll see I'll give it a pop and post back the results over the next few days

[bhoywonder1967]

Originally Posted by Stuart C

I got one of those boards on Saturday, with a E6600. I currently have 1 Gig DDR (PC400) RAM, and a GForce 6600 AGP. I'll be replacing the Memory when I get some more money, but the Graphics Card will have to wait until DX10 cards come down to a reasonable price.

I'm pretty sure I am not getting the best performance I could for games, but that's probably due to my card being AGP. I have to admit, while good performance in Games is nice, it's not a major point for me, as I tend to use the Xbox 360 for games anyway.

But, for DVD and Video work, it rocks. Nero was encoding a DVD at almost 400 frames a second!

Got mine on Saturday too, only I went el cheapo and bought the P4 D805 instead, runs superbly with my DDR1 and a 9600XT.

Not reinstalled windows yet, probably do that at the weekend.

Got the board and CPU for £110.00 minus delivery from Aria.

Zingle, I didn't get the cooler you recommended, budget couldn't stretch to it. The stock cooler pretty good, not checked the temps yet but it not too loud.

change it later if you oc it and run it hard it will sound like an helicopter taking off lol

[bhoywonder1967]

I doubt I'll overclock to be honest, It's already way faster than my previous CPU. I think it's time to start saving for one of those C2D's, the E6600 looks rather nice.

[The Jackal]

Waaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh loopy missus wants me to go to pick her up so will most prolly miss this delivery....

Had to explain to her that I'm waiting for a delivery.

' What for ? '

' Errrr CPU '

' Do you really need it ? '

' Errrr yes '

Then I suggested ' Oh I'll pick you up sod the delivery ' (in the hope that she'd say something like dont worry wait for your delivery) .............

She replies.

' OK DONT BE LATE ' : FFFFFFFFS

---- Additional

The mobo says no 3.3V AGP cards could cause damage : what are 3.3V agp cards ? Will my HIS Radeon 9800pro be ok ?

All I have to go by is this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Accelerated_Graphics_Port

and the fact that some users on forums claim to be using a 9800pro with this board

there old if it fits it will be fine older cards with that voltage have different notches iirc

[keithwalton]

Yes 3.3v agp cards are first and 2x generation cards.

All agp 4x and 8x cards will be 1.5v and as Zinglebarb has quite rightly said there are notches to prevent installing incompatible cards.

Is that the mobo that wires up an agp slot via a pci-e bridge ? i seem to remember you take a hit on performance because its not true agp.

Asrock do some cheap upgrade boards, i remember they used to do one talled the hdtv-twins, which had ddr1/2 and was based on an ati chipset (better than via tbh) which may of had only a pci-e slot and no agp but it did have an onboard ati x300 which suffices as a budget video card and allows you to live with that for a month until your next paycheck.

As for those waiting for dx10 card prices to fall, thats not going to happen really until early next year when the Amd.Ati R600 arrives to compete with the Gf 8800, that and we actually get some use for dx10 (ie vista and games that support it).

currently the gf8800 is a dx10 card in name only as there still arent any dx10 drivers for it! nevermind any dx10 apps to run on it!
Still its not bad at running dx9