Need some suggestions for building a custom PC...

[Terranova 10+ year member]

I don't OC, but does the 6600 do it better?

If you get the G0 stepping it clocks like no bodys buisiness.

 

[Terranova 10+ year member]

Wow, Sh*t thanks man, I never even hurd of that untill now.

They also have a Voltage increase program, but I doubt you have an eVGA card. If you do I doubt it's the right part number. Here is a link anyways

http://www.evga.com/articles/00462/

Also I notice you are using SLI, eVGA has a SLI performance patch out but im not sure if it only works with eVGA cards or not. Heres the link

http://www.evga.com/articles/00463/

But you need the latest driver so here it is as well lol

http://www.nvidia.com/Download/Find.aspx?lang=en-us

 

[dvrmstrng 5,000+ posts]

reading this thread makes me question my next computer buy...was gonna go for a nice laptop or possibly a macbook but it looks like you can do some real damage with some of this stuff...

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

The Q66 is still more expensive then the Quad I chose, I have no idea why..

That is because the Q6600 is a much better cpu than that Q8200 you posted.

 

[Terranova 10+ year member]

reading this thread makes me question my next computer buy...was gonna go for a nice laptop or possibly a macbook but it looks like you can do some real damage with some of this stuff...

For $900 you can get a Desktop computer that will literaly destroy any and every game you throw at it (even Crysis). As for a Laptop, Ha you'd be lucky to get 10FPS at 640x480 lowest settings in crysis depending on the laptop you buy. If you happen to get a laptop that can play crysis decently (I don't think they really exist yet) you'll spend about 3k+.

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

The 66 is 2.3 stock i got it 4 on water and 3.5 on a zalman 9700 110 heat sink
It does wonders on my 780i

Chase, every time I see you post, you are telling someone false information. You obviously know nothing about PCs. The Q6600 is 2.4ghz stock. Also, in an earlier post you told the OP to get an Intel CPU but he can choose between an Intel and AMD board. WTF? Are you dumb? It doesnt work that way. If you are getting an Intel chip, you have to get an Intel board.

 

[Terranova 10+ year member]

That is because the Q6600 is a much better cpu than that Q8200 you posted.

Which I don't really understand why. It's a 45nm process, 4mb of cache still a higher FSB and uses less power. I don't understand //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

Oh, 2x4mb cache on L2. Balls

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

Which I don't really understand why. It's a 45nm process, 4mb of cache still a higher FSB and uses less power. I don't understand //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/tongue.gif.6130eb82179565f6db8d26d6001dcd24.gif

The Q6600 has double the L2 cache. They both can overclock decent, but Im sure the Q6600 can go farther than the Q8200. I would take an E8400 over a Q8200 anyday. Not over a Q6600 though.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

Sup guys just put together a new 1337 build...

The 10.6" long gtx260(216) is massive. It makes the 110mm Zalman 9700 look small. The CPU is getting great airflow, the (2)120mm and 80mm fans **** air in from the front of the case acorss the gtx260 and Zalman heatsink and exhaust it out the rear 120mm.

Here's a few pics, towards the bottom I've got some screenshots showing the 120-200fps steady I get in cod4 with all graphics cranked as high as they can go...

(new) Intel Wolfdale E8500 6MB L2

(new) Zalman 9700 Heatsink

(new) 4GB Kingston HyperX PC8500 1066mhz 5-5-5-15(stock)

(new) XFX 780i Motherboard

(new) Corsair 850watt powersupply with +12V@70A

(new) BFG 260 gtx 216 OC2 MAXCORE 896mb video card oc'd to 741/1211

Silverstone TJ06 BTX case w/ (6) 3.5" bays and (5) 5.25" bays

X-Fi Platnium with front I/O Panel & Remote

(2) DVD/RW 22x sata burners

(1) 1000GB 7200rpm 32mb cache Seagate

(2) 74GB 10,000rpm 16mb cache WD Raptors in Raid-0

***13,000 BTU in room blowing into front 120mm intake, all fans on max rpm***

3Dmark03: 58,461 points

3Dmark05: N/A

3Dmark06: 19,016 points

For normal 24/7 operation I'm using the below overclock...

CPU Clock: 4512 mhz

CPU FSB: 475 mhz

CPU Multiplier: 9.5x

Memory Bus: 475 mhz

Memory Info: 950 mhz 5-4-4-14 1T

Memory Ratio: 1:1

Rated FSB: 1900 mhz

For max oc benchmarking I'm using the below overclock...

CPU Clock: 4750 mhz

CPU FSB: 500 mhz

CPU Multiplier: 9.5x

Memory Bus: 500 mhz

Memory Info: 1000 mhz 5-4-4-14 2T

Memory Ratio: 1:1

Rated FSB: 2000 mhz

Favorite part about this new PC is that I only spent $550 total for all of the "(new)" items saving almost $400+ compared to buying new, gotta love having a good connection.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

*(2) 21" 170hz CRT's for pc gaming(these bad boys blow away every LCD in both image quality and performance)

*32" 1080i LCD for movie watching / xbox360

*Sennheiser HD595's Headphones

*x-Fi Platnium with optical out to

*Harmon Kardon AV430 Receiver

*12" 600wrms powered sub by Velodyne

*(4) JBL E20's ~ Infinity C25 Center

The 2nd pic down with the (2) 21"ers is my current setup...

FPS gamer setup w/ 170hz Sony Trinitron FD 21" CRT's...

Front of tower...

Setup from above...

13,000 BTU blowing into front intake fans...

Clean as Fck...

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

These are pretty old pics below, but was my fav setup back in the day...

I'm allways throwing different posters under the thick *** plexi...

In the past I've had some crazy cooling methods going on, below is a couple of 80mm fans installed into a exhaust hose which is ******* in filtered cold winter air in from outside the blows onto my video card, it ran cool as fck...

 

[Digital Designs 10+ year member]

Also, the Q6600 has a higher FSB multiplier so it can overclock higher.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

newest setup...

(new) Intel Wolfdale E8500 6MB L2

(new) Zalman 9700 Heatsink

(new) 4GB Kingston HyperX PC8500 1066mhz 5-5-5-15(stock)

(new) XFX 780i Motherboard

(new) Corsair 850watt powersupply with +12V@70A

(new) BFG 260 gtx 216 OC2 MAXCORE 896mb video card oc'd to 741/1211

Silverstone TJ06 BTX case w/ (6) 3.5" bays and (5) 5.25" bays

X-Fi Platnium with front I/O Panel & Remote

(2) DVD/RW 22x sata burners

(1) 1000GB 7200rpm 32mb cache Seagate

(2) 74GB 10,000rpm 16mb cache WD Raptors in Raid-0

I posted all of the above pics to give you ideas on what setup to get, let me know if you have any questions about what you see above

 

[Terranova 10+ year member]

The Q6600 has double the L2 cache. They both can overclock decent, but Im sure the Q6600 can go farther than the Q8200. I would take an E8400 over a Q8200 anyday. Not over a Q6600 though.

Ya the E8400's are amazing. On ocforums.com peeps have gotten those up to 4.2-4.5 on air it's crazy. But I still like my E6600, I don't think I'll upgrade until I can get an i7 build going.

 

[SHiZNiLTi 10+ year member]

Ya the E8400's are amazing. On ocforums.com peeps have gotten those up to 4.2-4.5 on air it's crazy. But I still like my E6600, I don't think I'll upgrade until I can get an i7 build going.

Yep I agree, got my E8500 stable at 4.75ghz, the stock speed is 3.12ghz. Im using a Zalman 9700 headsink and Artic Silver 5 thermal paste.