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Did I do the right thing ?

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Things change I've changed

Things change I've changed

Soldato
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Just sold my X6800 for 526 smackers, did I do the right thing ?, is that a good price I got ? I sold it ready to purchase the Quad Core Extreme but I'm having secound doubts now as to wether it's going to be worth it, what shall I do now ?, wait until quad core extreme and put in the extra couple of hundred pounds or so, or get a really cheap dual core the like 6300 to tie me other until the standerd (non-extreme) quads comes out, AAARRRGGGHHHHHH I'm so confused, I'm half temped to give the guy his money back and tell him the deal off,

The thiing that's got me all confused is all the talk of late that quad core is not really much use, is that true ?, I do a lot of mutli-tasking ascross 4 screens.
 
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plus unless you do rendering or lots of encoding the performance increase is gonna be negligable at best
 
Is your pc for gaming? Upgrading your GPU will do MUCH more for the PC unless you will be video encoding and stuff. Quad core just won't make a difference in 99% of recent games
 
I'd be surprised if Kentsfield would bring you any benefit to be honest, a well clocked 6300 is a powerful beast as it is, I think you may be disappointed with the upgrade to waud core.
 
im a bit unsure how soon the kentsfield will be with us, but i would personally
get a 6300 to tie me over, and when/if you go to sell it it will be much less of a hit than selling a x6800 then.

btw the rev 304 does work fine with the kentsfields,
(not supported officially but works fine)

overclocking a kentsfield on it is pants though.
 
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NathanE said:
Then you will see a worthwhile benefit. Ignore all the naysayers.
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Depends what he's doing on those four screens, if its just office work and the like a dual core CPU is going to be more than upto the job.
 
I've never known someone to use 4 monitors just for "office work" :p Chances are he's using it for some pretty hardcore stuff...
 
Current games do not have dedicated x2 support at the moment still, so I doubt quad core will be supported properly any time before next years christmas. IMO.
 
Well thanks for your replies, I'm on the way to the post office now to send the cpu off, tbh thinking about it I should have kepted the x6800 but this guy has sent me a few emails and seems very excited about it so I'd feel bad refunding his money, anyway I have a secoundry 3.4 prescott with a 7600gt, that will tied me over for now,

I could'nt even push the X6800 I had even past 3.2 which was a bit dissapointing watching all you guys have fun clocking your 6300/6600's upto the same as mine (and higher in some cases), costing only a fraction of the price.
 
lowrider007 said:
Well thanks for your replies, I'm on the way to the post office now to send the cpu off, tbh thinking about it I should have kepted the x6800 but this guy has sent me a few emails and seems very excited about it so I'd feel bad refunding his money, anyway I have a secoundry 3.4 prescott with a 7600gt, that will tied me over for now,

I could'nt even push the X6800 I had even past 3.2 which was a bit dissapointing watching all you guys have fun clocking your 6300/6600's upto the same as mine (and higher in some cases), costing only a fraction of the price.
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I have got mine to 3.8... dont know whats wrong with yours mate

Stelly
 
Stelly said:
I have got mine to 3.8... dont know whats wrong with yours mate

Stelly
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Not sure sure myself, although...................., when I first built the machine I was messing around in the bios and (don't ask me how) I accidently saved the bios with the maximum multiplier enabled, granted when my machine tried to boot it throw a fit, bios alarm going off like a siren, I could even hear the heatsink compound sizzaling, when I lent down to check how hot the heatsink was I could feel the heat on my face a foot away, felt just like a bar heater :D ,

ever since that day I was never really sure if i'd slightly damaged the cpu or impaired it's overclocking ability.
 
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fornowagain said:
A foot away? Wow sizzling, lol, now own up did you tell your buyer about that?
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tbh no I did'nt, but, from what he had told me via email i'm pretty sure he was'nt going to overclock the cpu, end of the day the cpu work's fine at stock volts and he did'nt ask about it's clockablitiy.

Think i'm going to get an oem 6300 and have some overclocking fun until the quads are out :D
 
I think going quad core is a good move imo. games arnt multithreaded yet. but they will be games desgined to run on Vista etc will be able to use multiple cores hell there are even some now Call of duty 2 eg. I have the money sat and ready to purchase a new machine but im waiting for quad core because I think that they are the future until 8 cores replaces them
 
lowrider007 said:
tbh no I did'nt, but, from what he had told me via email i'm pretty sure he was'nt going to overclock the cpu, end of the day the cpu work's fine at stock volts and he did'nt ask about it's clockablitiy.

Think i'm going to get an oem 6300 and have some overclocking fun until the quads are out :D
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i told ya :D
 
well if you got 526 for a cpu that in your own words sizzled and was hot from a foot away , then id say its bit of a no brainer , pity the chap who bought it more.
 
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