building my own pc

colemanyoungerinalaska · Sat Aug 01, 2009 2:22 pm

i know theyve been out for years i used digital unix about 13-15 years ago and open vms i dont know about vista i used it for all of 8 minutes before i reformatted and put 64 bit ubuntu linux on the laptop i had that came with vista. so 64 bit os's are plenty but they arent what i would say is common

colemanyoungerinalaska · Sat Aug 01, 2009 3:06 pm

anyone try windows 7 yet?

solacedagony · Post by **solacedagony** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 6:03 pm

colemanyoungerinalaska wrote:anyone try windows 7 yet?

Got it multi booting on my computer (along with MacOS, XP and two versions of Linux). I think as far as performance, it's comparable to XP. I think they did a lot of fixing up the stupid bullshit of Vista. I actually think this one is probably worth upgrading to.

Bwcad1 · Post by **Bwcad1** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 7:19 pm

I have vista on a pc and a laptop with 0 issues with either.

Vista bashing is old and most of it is unfounded.

Post by **GlassWolf** » Sat Aug 01, 2009 10:58 pm

I have a c2q q6600 in this box @ 3GHz (mild OC) with a pair of SLI 9800GTX cards OCed (factory OC) and love it. I have a friend with an i7 @ 5.4GHz air cooled.
Itel is far beyond AMD at this point, and AMD doesn't have the resources anymore to catch up, although I wish them luck.

colemanyoungerinalaska · Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:24 am

Bwcad1 wrote:I have vista on a pc and a laptop with 0 issues with either.

Vista bashing is old and most of it is unfounded.

i got that laptop right when vista came out there where allot of problems then. i got my little sister a laptop with it on it this year and it seems just fine shes happy with it i just wont be using it ever cuz windows 7 will be here soon

colemanyoungerinalaska · Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:29 am

hey glasswolf are the multipliers locked in the q6600

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k0rnyfr33k · Post by **k0rnyfr33k** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 5:50 am

GlassWolf wrote:I have a c2q q6600 in this box @ 3GHz (mild OC) with a pair of SLI 9800GTX cards OCed (factory OC) and love it. I have a friend with an i7 @ 5.4GHz air cooled.
Itel is far beyond AMD at this point, and AMD doesn't have the resources anymore to catch up, although I wish them luck.

I dont really perfer SLI, price vs. performance it really dosent add up in my opinion... But once i get this thing up and running ill do the benchmark tests and post them up on here

Post by **GlassWolf** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 1:27 pm

SLI is good when you want faster gfx, and you already have the fastest cards on the market, which I did at the time I built that box. Or, SLI works well also, when you just want to add performance when the card prices drop, instead of blowing another $550 on the bleeding edge card that just came out.
Yeah the X is locked on the Q6600, but the bus isn't. Besides, you get more performance from increasing the bus speed, than from increasing the multiplier, anyway.
You can gain performance with lower clock speed and faster memory timings, too.
PS Windows 7 is really sweet. Vista without the overhead.