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Amd vs C2D choices choices ???

PU7E said:
what do you make of the dfi rd600 mobo ?
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Looks like a good board. I haven't seen anything about the "rd600" chipset though. I'm sure it's good. I would recommend the asus though, that would be my choice.

Up to you, but 680 is the concensus on this forum at the moment.

Edit: wish the mountain mods website didn't excite me so much :o :D
 
joeyjojo said:
Looks like a good board. I haven't seen anything about the "rd600" chipset though. I'm sure it's good. I would recommend the asus though, that would be my choice.

Up to you, but 680 is the concensus on this forum at the moment.
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that asus is a nice mobo and it has a 8phase digital pwm :D im hoping for a r600 to put in it soon would that board be ok for it ?
 
joeyjojo said:
Edit: wish the mountain mods website didn't excite me so much :o :D
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yea it exites me iv seen the cases on there at a few lans and wondered where they came fron and really liked them and plus iv found a uk reseller of them :D
 
PU7E said:
that asus is a nice mobo and it has a 8phase digital pwm :D im hoping for a r600 to put in it soon would that board be ok for it ?
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I'd check out some reviews and get some opinions. The 680 boards come highly recommended around here though.
 
its a nice mobo :D and does come higly recomended im stil conserned though it i eventually went crossfire as iv heard bad things about crossfire and nvidia chipsets
 
Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard 1 £69.99 (£82.24)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Allendale" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - OEM 1 £101.99 (£119.84)
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC6400C5 800MHz Value DDR2 Dual Channel Kit (GX22GB6400DC) 1 £94.99 (£111.61)
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri): £8.25 (£9.69)
Order Total: £266.79 (£323.38)
3.3ghz atm whlist running Orthos for stability test.
Swiftech WCing
Temps
Low 20's idle
Low 40'S during Orthos.
Very impressed with this hardware.
Btw, i have a fan on the chipset and i lapped the CPU
 
braveheart said:
I never buy Intel - prefer with AMD as Im still using S939 with FX-55 San Diego seem great run all way since I bought June 2005.
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If you were buying a new system now you'd be a fool to pay more money for an inferiour product.

It'd be like paying £100,000 for a micra when you could have a 4 seater Tuscan that's better in every way for £50,000.
 
Zefan said:
If you were buying a new system now you'd be a fool to pay more money for an inferiour product.

It'd be like paying £100,000 for a micra when you could have a 4 seater Tuscan that's better in every way for £50,000.
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But the Micra has better fuel economy.... ;)
 
Kamakazie! said:
But the Micra has better fuel economy.... ;)
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I know that's in jest, but note my inclusion of "better in every way", a get out clause for posts like yours :p
 
PU7E said:
since the release of battlefield 2, as i said above im a pc gamer 2gb just doesnt cut it anymore with vista and what im aiming for
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what exactly are you aiming for?
Vista isnt really much of the platform its supposed to be for games, and really, isnt vista supposed to be less of a resource hog?
 
peetee said:
what exactly are you aiming for?
Vista isnt really much of the platform its supposed to be for games, and really, isnt vista supposed to be less of a resource hog?
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No its not supposed to be , its meant to shift the resources from the CPU to the GPU for all gfx work as much as it can making the desktop gfx & games less cpu bound than before.

And to use as much ram as it can to speed things up.
 
Final8y said:
No its not supposed to be , its meant to shift the resources from the CPU to the GPU for all gfx work as much as it can making the desktop gfx & games less cpu bound than before.

And to use as much ram as it can to speed things up.
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Lots of games are CPU intensive. I have just run through lots of games with my new C2D ([email protected]) and all showed improved frame rates from my [email protected].
LOMAC/COH/MTW2 and surprisingly COD2, also FEAR is miles faster.
The beach landing in COD2 is completely smooth, my 3700SD at the same settings could achieve this.
 
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