Re: DIY PC

["musashi1977uk" <musashi1977uk@xxxxxxx>]

..... Simon drops a daisy-cutter bomb in Phil's general direction...


--- In ukha_d@y..., "Phil Harris" <phillip.harris1@v...>
wrote:
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> Hey guys ... How about taking this OT posting elsewhere? *chortle*
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> Overclocked PC memory is hardly HA related!
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> [ducks and runs like f*ck]
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> Phil
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Timothy Morris [mailto:timothy.morris@i...]=20
> > Sent: 25 January 2002 00:51
> > To: ukha_d@y...
> > Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Re: DIY PC
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: musashi1977uk [mailto:musashi1977uk@y...]=20
> > Sent: 24 January 2002 21:47
> > To: ukha_d@y...
> > Subject: [ukha_d] Re: DIY PC
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> > Tim, re our previous discussion on Corsair v Crucial Andy has=20
> > actually posted a review of  the 2 lots of memory on OC
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> > http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?
> > postid=3D974616#post974616
> > I think the crunch factor in the whole thing is that Crucial=20
prices=20
> > have substantially risen and Corsair has actually come down in=20
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> > so the differential between the two is far less. This being
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> > I would buy the Corsair (=A3106.50  for 256mb 2700) over the=20
Crucial=20
> > (=A353.30 for 256 mb 2100) if I were looking to seriously=20
Overclock,=20
> > although Andy did  get 192 mhz fsb stable with the Crucial !!!=20
The=20
> > Crunch here is really do you want to overclock if so buy the=20
Corsair,=20
> > if you dont spend your money on upgrading the processor from a=20
1500XP=20
> > (=A392.90) to a XP1900 (=A3164.60). The choice is yours, but=20
personally=20
> > having spent the past 18 months running overclocked
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> > getting that Duron 700 to 1 gig and getting my igig axia to
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gig,=20
> > I feel that the time has come where there are few applications=20
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> > there that will take full advantage of the the processing=20
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> > of an XP1500 let alone a XP1900. Personally I have found
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> > taxes my axia currently. Probably the biggest bottlenecks in
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> > system are my aging Geforce 2 mx (dh) (I keep it cos I run 2=20
monitors=20
> > off it and rarely play counterstrike these days) and my 30 gig=20
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> > GXP75 HD.
> > Anyway read the review it is quite interesting
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> > 205 MHz FSB - no wonder he told me to buy the stuff. If I can=20
> > get an XP
> > 1500+ running at 2 gig I'll be really impressed (but I doubt=20
> > it with air
> > cooling and without doing the voltage mod) The combination of=20
> > the Alpha cooler and aluminium case with 4 fans should keep I=20
> > reasonably cool. Out of interest what sort of CPU temp under=20
> > load should I be looking for?
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> > The only really CPU intensive program I run these days (apart=20
> > from the very occasional game of Wolfenstein) is a real-time=20
> > simulator for model helicopter flying, which in addition to=20
> > using a fully rendered 3D environment at 1280x1024x32,=20
> > actually uses fairly sophisticated modelling equations=20
> > (simulates vortices on the blade tips etc). ATM (PIII 800EB=20
> > and GF 2 GTS) I have to turn most of the graphics options=20
> > right down, and fly in a fairly sparse environment in order=20
> > to get decent frame rates. I'll be beta testing the next=20
> > generation later in the year, and I'm sure that will be even=20
> > more demanding.
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> > Once I've put it together (probably this time next week as I=20
> > want to run Super PI overnight to determine that the fastest=20
> > settings don't generate any memory errors) I'll post some=20
> > 3DMark scores running at different FSB settings which should=20
> > be fairly representative.
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> > Tim
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