does anyone here have an E2180 with an X1900 / X1950 ?

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if so, can you run some bench marks for me and post them here as i want to compare performance to my current CPU to see if its worth me up grading. thanks.

 

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hi all, sorry for the late reply, works been busy today. basically i am on a 939 AMD opteron 170 @ 2.9Ghz, X1900XT and 2 gig of DDR PC3200 XMS at present and i want to see if there will be enough of a performance increase to justify me changing my rig out. This change would only cost me £50 once ive sold my own kit and keep me going for the next 8 months until AM3 & phenom are fully established and a bit more reasonably priced.

to do this, i need benchies from people with similar specs to what i am looking at upgrading to, i can then bench using the same software and compare the results from my own system.

another added advantage is i have water cooling so i can push the 2180 quite high, i.e. 3.5Ghz +

 

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what board are you using uvmain ?

 

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I'll be building a rig consisting of the following, E2160, P5E, Ocz 6400 Ram, and a x1950 xtx running in crossfire.

I'll bench it in single mode and then in crossfire and let you know what my findings are, I'll probably use 3dmark06,05 and aquamark.

The E2160 will be overclocked to around 3ghz if it goes that far.

a super pi 1M result and some avi to DVD encoding results would be useful too if you dont mind?

 

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I built my rig up last night quickly,

E2160 @ 3150mhz stock cooler @1.295v
Asus P5E
X1950 Xtx's in Crossfire
OCZ 6400C4 xtc Ram

In 3dmark06 i was getting about 7000marks in single mode,
Cards set at overdrive max so 695/1098
In Crossfire about 12000marks.

Further tweaking will be done but so far the rig is pretty good I'd say.

I need to tweak/configure the processer and the memory properly.
And get to grips with the best drivers for my X1950 xtx's as I'm using Cat 7.11 and i think the best is probably 7.8 or 7.9 as my old rig prefered these over the newer driver.

afraid its not the graphics power im interested in as such, its how much punch the cpu has.

i play supreme commander and that games all about the CPU power, graphics power is secondary. i also do lots of encoding too