Who Went (Amd) dual core then switched back to single?

[harris1986]

Hi guys, after my opty 148's mem controller crapped out on me, i changed over to dual core. I was surprised at how zippier windows was but my only main concern at the minute is that i have had to crank my fans up in my case and on my heatsink to cope with the increased heat especially around the pwmic area!

So i'm just wandering how many of you guys switched from dual to single core? (also which cpu's you went from/to?

 

[harris1986]

Maybe not but i know for a fact that there are some. I'm just curious as i'm mainly a gamer although i do other desktop stuff aswell (video editing etc) but it just felt like my opteron 148 at 2.8ghz was performing equal and above (in games) than my opteron 170 at 2.6ghz and the 148 was also cooler by a long way! Which would you say would be the best bet?

 

[harris1986]

interesting vogon , i think i will wait for my 2gig of gskill zx to arrive and see how much of a performance boost that will give me should make my cpu a lot more stable!

 

[harris1986]

OT, I think the memory controller on my opty may have died aswell, can you give me a bit more detail about what happened to yours?

Thanks

Hi there Joe, innitially it was strange one morning i switched my comp on did the usual, turned it off came back to it in the afternoon and it's wudn't even power on, i checked everything. Took the comp to my friends did the same, i changed ram to single channel and it booted fine! i thought it was the mobo at first so bought a new board and had the same result, went back to my friends and tried his cpu in my board and booted fine in dual channel memory, tried my cpu in his and wudn't boot in dual channel! So got 2 new cpu's now both of which work fine in dual channel.

Guys in what you have said in that i should get some good cooling for the pwmic area, how would i go about fixing a fan to that area (i have a akasa eclipse)? if i lay the case flat i can wedge a fan in there but obviously wudn't stay there when upright!