New toys :)

Vince

Vince

Vince

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So yesterday I decided that it was time to upgrade the trusty old Q6600... and today I get into work and look whats waiting for me:



All I need now is to get home and throw this into my system :)
 
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Unless you've bought a Phenom II X6 you have wasted your money in all honesty. X4 will be clock for clock the same speed as your Q6600 so you've effictively paid £400 or so for 200-400mhz

EDIT: Posted as I was writing, bit of a sidegrade unless you do anything heavily reliant on more cores
 
Ignore the sidegrade comments.

How can a 6 Core 1090T possibly be a side grade? Especially when it can reach 4GHz easy as pie. I spy 8GB there aswell so his new rig is going to be a lot more beasty!
 
was just shy of 400 for all that lot but to be fair work bought these components for me. They will mainly be used for dev work in sharepoint VM's but will also be used for for the occasional session on F1, Dirt2 etc :)
 
NathWraith said:
Ignore the sidegrade comments.

How can a 6 Core 1090T possibly be a side grade? Especially when it can reach 4GHz easy as pie. I spy 8GB there aswell so his new rig is going to be a lot more beasty!
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Not so much a sidegrade for his usage but I assumed it was for gaming, which would have made it a fairly pointless excercise
 
VinceB1 said:
was just shy of 400 for all that lot but to be fair work bought these components for me. They will mainly be used for dev work in sharepoint VM's but will also be used for for the occasional session on F1, Dirt2 etc :)
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hence the 8GB of RAM for VM allocation?

Nice piece of kit anyway :)
 
frozennova said:
Not so much a sidegrade for his usage but I assumed it was for gaming, which would have made it a fairly pointless excercise
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Yeah but I have a 6 core xeon with 6GB of 2000MHz RAm and x2 480s just for gaming.

Surely my E8500 and 5870 would have done fine?

Sometimes people want more power.

Some people drive fast cars just to go to work and back. This is very similar!
 
Indeed the more cores and memory I have to allocate to VM's the better, not only that but my Q6600 rig has been struggling under the weight of SQL server (without any VM's running) and has been running at close to capacity on memory for a while.

This should allow me to go in with a fresh install on either a couple of 10k scsci disks or raid up a few 300gb segate drives that I didn't use in a build a few weeks ago. My windows has been installed without a format since the day I bought the Q6600 about 3 or 4 years ago so as you can imagine it is in desperate need of a fresh install :)
 
Ahh well its all built and I have finally got it stable enough that it installed windows without all kinds of errors and blue screens. For some reason no matter what I did with ram voltages etc I Just couldn't seem to get it to install windows with 8gb in, so after about the 10th time I took two sticks out and vista 64 went on first time. I have now put the other sticks back in and so far its installing drivers and applications fine without any crashes or lock ups. I am going to run some memory tests to make sure that its stable... You have to love how frustrated you can get with new hardware as soon as opening the boxes is over and done with.
 
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