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upgrade from E6550

LOL No, however I will say that a certain company that somehow still exists even though its among the most useless idiots do their prices, that sounds like a holiday camp, but years ago, they did some great kits for the ZX computers.

Seperate Keyboards
Sound Chips
Video Chips
more RAM

And so on...

I did indeed at one time have a 16K ZX81 that ran at 2Ghz that had 8 colours and 3 channel PCM sound.
I also had a wafer drive very similar to the one that the Sinclair QL eventually had that emulated the tape drive, but was much faster

It cost me over a grand back then and... it was still crap.

Oh for the days eh?
 
I had a ZX81. I loved messing around programming on it :)

So I didn't end up getting a Q6600 through auction, but I found a private seller with a Q6600 G0. We reached a deal and I will be getting it beginning of the week.

I'm stilling waiting on delivery of the Scythe cooler. I'll upgrade the CPU after getting that.
 
I got a scythe mini ninja on my AMD 9550. Its fanless and I did bodge a fan onto it for a while but I took it off because it made little difference. Its now a fanless and its just peachy as it is!

My programming years blossomed with the Commodore 16 and Plus/4 and then on the C64 and later the Atari ST... I still use the Atari every day. I now however use my TT and Falcons, not the ST.
 
Hi,
After upgrading the E6550 to Q6600, I'll be looking at getting the E6550 set up separately as a cruncher. I'm looking at RAM options for that. In my currently operating E6550, I have Kingston PC2-6400 sticks (2x1GB, 1x2GB). I was thinking of getting a Corsair 4GB dual channel kit which is also PC2-6400 speed. That would go with the Q6600, and the old RAM in the current rig would go with the E6550.

Before I make that purchase, is there any really compelling reason to get faster than PC2-6400 considering that I will overclock (I'll oc both cpu's)?

Thanks
 
Not really.
Funnily enough, in my EVGA, Im running OCZ 8500 RAM and in the Gigabyte DS4, its got Kingston 7200. In both those systems, Im running stock

The 2xGigabyte DS3 systems are both running Geil 6400 and the Abit QuadGT is running Corsair 6400 and both these are clocked to hell and back.

Never really givin the RAM much thought to be honest... I know the RAM is good to go there, however the BIOS does allow me to keep the RAMS FSB down.
 
Thanks for help. I was thinking that there might be a gaming reason to want to run 1:1 fsb:ram even at overclocked fsb. I'm not a huge gamer tho, but I'll be making good use of the quad core for crunching DC. That and who knows, maybe "Portal 3" will require a quad core... btw I have not yet bought Portal 2 (I will very soon), so NO spoilers please! :)
 
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No spoilers?
Other than, just like Portal 2... Its just like the word HIT with an S in front of it.
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Yeah I've heard ppl weren't that impressed with it. But then I'll be paying less than half of what all those guys paid when it first came out :) I just noticed that it's come down in price significantly recently so I'll buy Portal 2 soon.
 
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