Ultimate PC Build....

but then you share cpu power, memory bandwidth etc between 2 monitors effectively doubling the calculations the cpu has to do or show the same on each monitor, or run each monitor in low res....

Just a waste of time and money when I have a 43inch dlp screen, why would i need more monitor space....

waste a grand + the vat on 2 cards that are as much use as a healed fanny..

:D
 
naffa said:
:( well.. maybe quad sli is the thing of the future :p
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Only if nvidia rest on their laurels and dont make a single card as fast as 2 in the near future, which I doubt...

SLI isnt new, its been a 3dfx trick for years... started with the voodoo cards, no surprise it shows up in their new owners cards

:D
 
Sitting here waiting for Citylink to deliver my bits, gotta get them part assembled for shipping to Cyprus at 7.30 tomorrow morning... whats the bet they show at 5.30 when I have visitors tonight... sheesh...

:(
 
Arrived, built, and packed ready to ship to cyprus..

Fingers crossed it all works, as otherwise its gonna be a pain to rma, not that I have ever rma'd anything more than a few stix of ram before

:D
 
djunknown said:
any1 else think this could be to do with the operating system
its been known to have its problems
professionalx64 :confused:
any1 else agree??
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Well its cooking my noggin at present...

Just random total lockups... no warning, no load, no heat... Just bosh... total screen freeze, mouse freeze etc etc...

And I had to buy the only pc case without a reset button on it... sheesh...


:mad:
 
Been stable now for about an hour while downloading and playing itunes....

Have ordered XP32bit and XP Media Centre, both of which I need now I have so many PC's.. lol, will try them when they arrive...

Things I have noticed are that the V-Core voltage is extremely unstable, but I have no familiarity with AMD cool and Quiet, so was wondering if that may be the software cooling? it varies from about 1.35 to 1.45 which seems extreme to me...

Managed to get a few minutes on B&W2 running everything to the max last night, just awesome quality, hope to try half life 2 lost coast as well once Steam has finished downloading it... lol

Another worry is the amount of IRQ sharing on the system...

IRQ 0 System timer OK
IRQ 1 Ideazon PS2 Zboard OK
IRQ 6 Standard floppy disk controller OK
IRQ 8 System CMOS/real time clock OK
IRQ 9 Microsoft ACPI-Compliant System OK
IRQ 9 SCSI/RAID Host Controller OK
IRQ 12 Microsoft PS/2 Mouse OK
IRQ 13 Numeric data processor OK
IRQ 14 Primary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 15 Secondary IDE Channel OK
IRQ 17 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 18 Radeon X1900 CrossFire Edition OK
IRQ 18 Intel(R) PRO/1000 MT Desktop Adapter OK
IRQ 18 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 19 Radeon X1900 Series OK
IRQ 19 Creative SB Audigy 2 ZS (WDM) OK
IRQ 19 ULi PCI to USB Open Host Controller OK
IRQ 19 Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller OK
IRQ 20 OHCI Compliant IEEE 1394 Host Controller OK
IRQ 21 Marvell Yukon 88E8001/8003/8010 PCI Gigabit Ethernet Controller OK


18 and 19 seem very busy... you are then very reliant on the drivers sharing properly, which I have never trusted, and was one reason why I went back to intel, as they seem to share so much less...

Anyway, I am keeping my fingers crossed now, if it all goes belly up I will get one of the new 580 boards as soon as they are instock and try that....

:D
 
Ran Some numbers on the system with Sandra...

HTT is running at 1000mhz x2

D/S 25263 mips
W/S 9401/10696 mflops

Integer x16 38790 it/s
Floating X8 59972 it/s

RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 4762 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 4784 MB/s

Int Buff'd iSSE2 (Integer STREAM) Results Breakdown
Assignment : 4665MB/s
Scaling : 4624MB/s
Addition : 4881MB/s
Triad : 4881MB/s
Data Item Size : 16 byte(s)
Buffering Used : Yes
Offset Displacement Used : Yes
Bandwidth Efficiency : 74% (estimated)

Thats with everything stock, just downloading 3dmark 06, 05 keeps quitting out, but I guess thats down to them not supporting x64 properly yet, 06 probably do the same, but we will see...

:D
 
dont do overclocking anymore...

did the whole phase change thing, watercoolin, TEC's etc, and got some pretty good scores with an old p4 2.26 and an Athlon 2700, but after killing a few chips and mobos with experimental volt mods, and constantly buying mobos to get the chip faster and more stable, I decided to just spend the cash on the best hardware....

More Stable, less hassle (usually) and less worries

:D

And it wouldnt boot at 14x, so may need to up the voltage... Thats where I draw the line

:D
 
well it didnt last, day 3 and its all gone belly up again...

Endless lockups and freezes...

Removed the Audigy 2 after reading the asus forum, still no better....

This is so frustrating, gonna start looking for a new mobo I think...

Shoulda gone with the DFI like I first thought... Never had any luck with Asus mobo's

:mad:
 
quad sli is as much use as a healed fanny...

unless you wanna run 8 monitors (ghey)

:p

Think I have narrowed it to USB devices... hadnt noticed that when it crashed either my ipod or my smartphone were plugged in, so have removed both USB interfaces, disabled usb, and gonna try now...

Doesnt help that the alarm keeps going off to say vcore has dropped to 1.30v or gone over 1.40v...

:rolleyes:
 
benjo1989 said:
Asus Crossfire > DFI Crossfire :o

if youre having that many problems with the Asus board, the DFI would be worse.. the Crossfire chipsets atm are shocking.. should have have got the quad sli like naffa said ;)
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That I doubt, as the problem appears to be linked to the Uli part of the board not the ATi part of the board...

DFI and Sapphire use the ATi southbridge...

:cool:
 
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