The new E2140/E2160 chips

WJA96 · 17 May 2007 at 07:08

E2140/ASRock Mobo/2GB DDR/AGP X1950XT and a SATA HDD - plays anything you can buy now, and I'll wager it'll play anything you can buy in the next 6 months too. Under £320 the lot, and under £80 if you already have the RAM, graphics and HDD.

Big.Wayne · 17 May 2007 at 07:27

WJA96 said:
E2140/ASRock Mobo/2GB DDR/AGP X1950XT

Even though that mobo is cheap there is gonna be a premium paid for the DDR memory and the AGP Graphics card (unless you own those already).

If you spec'ed in a half-decent £70-ish motherboard (P965/650i) you could then load up of DDR2 memory and a PCI-Express graphics card.

The time has come to offload any older parts to the bay/auntie/mate etc and jump into Core 2 Duo ~ DDR2 ~ PCI-E land (for your Primary rig anyhow!).

WJA96 · 17 May 2007 at 07:57

Big.Wayne said:
Even though that mobo is cheap there is gonna be a premium paid for the DDR memory and the AGP Graphics card (unless you own those already).

If you spec'ed in a half-decent £70-ish motherboard (P965/650i) you could then load up of DDR2 memory and a PCI-Express graphics card.

The time has come to offload any older parts to the bay/auntie/mate etc and jump into Core 2 Duo ~ DDR2 ~ PCI-E land (for your Primary rig anyhow!).

It could be Easyrider posting....

Big.Wayne · 17 May 2007 at 08:26

WJA96 said:
It could be Easyrider posting....

Typical!

You have no foundation to say this and your logic is flawed!!

LMAO

Oh Dear poor WJA96 :rolleyes:

You are out of your depth and your reasoning is flawed!

I suggest you do your homework before you make an even bigger fool out of yourself!

Like I said I would rather eat my own head that be associated with 'old tech'

My new uber-doober-scooba will DESTROY everything ha!!

You do not have any experience with these products unlike me, I overclock everything with 'ease' and I have owned every piece of hardware so you must listen to me.

I was the first with Quad Core, I destroyed everyones results in 3D-Bench and Fritz LMAO

So what was your point again?

easyrider · 17 May 2007 at 08:33

Big.Wayne said:
The time has come to offload any older parts to the bay/auntie/mate etc and jump into Core 2 Duo ~ DDR2 ~ PCI-E land (for your Primary rig anyhow!).

By jove I think he's got it.

easyrider · 17 May 2007 at 08:36

Big.Wayne said:
Typical!

You have no foundation to say this and your logic is flawed!!

LMAO

Oh Dear poor WJA96

You are out of your depth and your reasoning is flawed!

I suggest you do your homework before you make an even bigger fool out of yourself!

Like I said I would rather eat my own head that be associated with 'old tech'

My new uber-doober-scooba will DESTROY everything ha!!

You do not have any experience with these products unlike me, I overclock everything with 'ease' and I have owned every piece of hardware so you must listen to me.

I was the first with Quad Core, I destroyed everyones results in 3D-Bench and Fritz LMAO

So what was your point again?

LOL

WJA96 · 17 May 2007 at 09:00

Yep, my suspicions are confirmed. Easyrider and Big.Wayne are one bipolar poster.

easyrider · 17 May 2007 at 10:28

WJA96 said:
Yep, my suspicions are confirmed. Easyrider and Big.Wayne are one bipolar poster.

Please don't compare me.... :mad:

TBH I'm quite flattered in his post.

It shows he not only reads my threads but actually takes notice!

G_Wizz · 17 May 2007 at 10:44

Right, here is the ultimate ddr/agp board for an E2160/4400, probably the only one with vcore adjustment

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Products...x?ProductID=2508&ModelName=GA-8I865PE775-G-RH

Finding somewhere that stocks it in the UK though is a different matter.

YorkshirePadd26 · 18 May 2007 at 11:07

G_Wizz said:
Right, here is the ultimate ddr/agp board for an E2160/4400, probably the only one with vcore adjustment

http://www.giga-byte.co.uk/Products...x?ProductID=2508&ModelName=GA-8I865PE775-G-RH

Finding somewhere that stocks it in the UK though is a different matter.

Is there any mobos that support Core2due and include a pci express x16 slot ? and that are actually any good ?

WJA96 · 18 May 2007 at 11:25

YorkshirePadd26 said:
Is there any mobos that support Core2due and include a pci express x16 slot ? and that are actually any good ?

You mean with DDR RAM? No, not really. You can either buy a £30 last generation Intel motherboard and use AGP/DDR or you can use the VIA880 chipset and then you can have pretty much anything working (slightly slowly) in combination.

Used DDR RAM is currently selling for more than new DDR2 so you may as well sell your good DDR and buy decent DDR2 for much the same price then go shopping for a decent motherboard.

Anything S939 is also holding it's value very well as it is still a remarkably fast platform and lots of people are loathe to switch away from it.

shrek2 · 18 May 2007 at 18:44

http://xtreview.com/addcomment-id-2302-view-Pentium-e2160-review.html

Cairnsey · 21 May 2007 at 00:45

Does this CPU have a 1mb shared cache or 512Kb per core?

melbourne720 · 21 May 2007 at 11:28

Looks like this is the C2D to go for, nice overclocking easyrider.

Go for it Cairnsey, you know it makes sense.

Your DDR & AGP stuff will go quickly on MM, if my experience with my 6800 GT was anything to go by.

Big.Wayne + easyrider = The Big Easy? LMAO

Great impression

Cairnsey · 21 May 2007 at 13:50

melbourne720 said:
Looks like this is the C2D to go for, nice overclocking easyrider.

Go for it Cairnsey, you know it makes sense. Your DDR & AGP stuff will go quickly on MM, if my experience with my 6800 GT was anything to go by.

Big.Wayne + easyrider = The Big Easy? LMAO Great impression

I'd keep my DDR/AGP stuff mel, I'd prob get an ASrock 4core, then gradually phase out my old parts into DDR2/PCI-e as the board supports all this tech. I'm trying to swap my 2x512Mb RAM sticks into 1x1Gb on the MM so I can run it with my other 1x1Gb in dual channel mode. Also, does anyone know about the cache on these CPU's? A comptetior to OcUK states they are 2x512Kb cache, any truth to it?

steve258 · 21 May 2007 at 13:55

AFAIK all C2Ds have shared L2 cache, C2Qs have 4Mbs of shared L2 per 2 cores.

Cairnsey · 22 May 2007 at 01:44

thats what I thought

MikeHunt79 · 22 May 2007 at 03:19

yep... dual cores have shared cache, but quad cores don't.