The All New, All New Spec and Bench Thread!!!

Post by **enderzero** » Wed May 31, 2006 7:46 am

I want to be a super computer buddy too...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed May 31, 2006 9:01 am

Yes, we need more super computer buddies. The current line of super computer buddy parts is steadily decreasing in price. ~$400 for the 1900XT. The X2s and equivalent Opterons are getting fairly reasonable as well. You need to find someone that needs a new computer, so so you can do the "trickle-down-trade-up" operation.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed May 31, 2006 1:15 pm

Made one change in the mouse section...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:36 am

Made a change in the CPU section.

Don't know what it will run at yet, because I haven't installed it. From what I've seen on the HardOCP forums, they run anywhere from 2500 to 2900 for this exact batch. (CCBWE 0551 UPMW)

128K L1 per core
1MB L2 per core

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 10:40 am

BTW: This means that I will have a Venice 3200+ on hand if anyone needs it. (SpidMonxey gets my X2 3800+) The 3200+ is $99 new, so I'll sell it for $50.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jun 16, 2006 8:12 pm

It runs at 2500MHz at 1.4 volts, which runs the memory at 416MHz. That a nice comfortable yet fast OC. I think it would go quite a bit further with a bit of tweaking, but I don't want to push it, and kill the file-system. I'll push it up next time I do a reinstall. The Opteron 170 is a very nice chip.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 6:04 pm

Thats what i'm at 2500 /416 woot! 25% overclock.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Sat Jun 17, 2006 8:36 pm

Clock buddies!

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:10 pm

has anyone bought a physics card yet? all this talk about adapter cards makes me want to play battlefield 2...i'll be back.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Tue Jun 27, 2006 1:55 pm

Don't think I'm going to. I've got multiple cores on my CPU, I'm picking up a Crossfire board (even if I don't do crossfire, I can pick up an X1600 for cheaper than the PhysX card, and use ATI's physics setup.) I hear an X1600 will outperform the PhysX card by a fairly large margin.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:13 am

I made another change to my list in the area of motherboardosity. I suppose I should just post the list again for this page.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:13 am

Dell 2001FP 20.1" LCD
ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe Motherboard
AMD Opteron 170 (dual core 1MB L2 cache per core) @2500 + Zalman CPNS7700
2GB Corsair XMS3299CL2PS (2x 1GB dual channel)
ATI Radeon x1900XT
Creative X-Fi (game audio)
M-Audio Delta 44 (pro audio)
Seagate 7200.9 300GB (system drive)
Seagate 7200.8 250GB (game/storage drive)
Lacie 80GB USB2.0 (detachable drive)
Plextor 16X DVDR/W/+/-/Whicheverthefuck
Antec Smartpower 2.0 500w
Coolermaster Centurion 5 Case
2x XBox 360 Wired Gamepads
Microsoft Wireless Laser Mouse 5000
Microsoft Standard Keyboard
Tapco S5 Studio Monitors
OCZ 2GB USB Flash Drive
Joymaster MkII (MAME controller)

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:15 am

Admiral McNevin: Our super computer buddies computers are drifting apart! Well, at least they look the same.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:35 am

Someone smack me. I was just on Newegg browsing prices for an X1900 Crossfire edition.

I don't need it.

What am I talking about? I love Warren!

But he hurts me...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 03, 2006 9:36 am

Self control....

Self contro..

If I could just...

No!

NO NO NO NO NO!!!!!!

Post by **enderzero** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 6:20 pm

I did it. Finally. I ordered up a new PC. I will soon have:
(*ed items were in old PC)

AMD64 3800 Venice (this will tide me over until I up to a multi core sometime in the future)
eVGA 133-K8-NF41 nForce4 SLI MB
eVGA 7600GT KO edition (580MHz Core / 1500MHz Mem)
*2GB Corsair XMS DDR
320GB Seagate 7200.10
*300GB Seagate 7200.9
*300GB Seagate 7200.8 External
*Creative Audigy 2
*NEC 3550A DVDRW & NEC DVD-ROM
Coolermaster Centurion 5 (welcome to the club, huh?)
Enermax Noisetaker 485W PSU

w000-h000! Should be here before the w/e! Finally!! FINALLY!!!

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:14 pm

Nice, welcome to the Centurion Club!

I like that you have a 7200.10, a .9 and a .8

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:23 pm

Very nice! Now we should all come to some sort of agreement on a good MP game, and play it.

SpidMonX is getting an upgrade in the next day or two.

X2 3800+
2GB Corsair XMS PC3200
7600 GS 512MB (heatpipe cooler/no fan)
BFG NF4

Post by **enderzero** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:44 am

Do you realize that in 3 pages of the All New Specs and Bench thread there are zero benchmark scores?

Well do you?

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 9:48 am

I do! (and I'm quite happy about it) I HATE benchmarking. If someone else would like to hop onto my PC and run them for me...

The Admiral was responsible for the last set of marks I posted. (in fact, he even posted them

)

Post by **enderzero** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:01 am

I know - we conspired to get accurate HDD scores out of you since everytime we post our scores you post scores from a test just slightly different enough to make it unable to be compared to what we just posted.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Jul 06, 2006 10:05 am

Well, now that benchmarking isn't a part of my job, I may become willing to run them here or there in the future.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Mon Jul 10, 2006 12:01 pm

The SpidMonX0rZ Upgrade:

AMD X2 3800+ (dual core) + Opteron heatpipe cooler
BFG Tech NF4U (NForce 4 Ultra board)
2GB Corsair XMS3200 (dual channel)
ASUS 7600GS 512MB (passive cooling)
Creative Audigy 2

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Wed Jul 19, 2006 11:57 am

Updated my list. No longer power supply buddies. Mine decided to stop working yesterday (unless it's my motherboard.) Hopefully the new supply will fix it. It just doesn't turn on. It flashes the front panel lights briefly, and then does nothing.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Thu Jul 20, 2006 9:43 am

Well, got that fancy new suppply, and it still doesn't work. Gotta take the motherboard back today. Great, another winning board from ASUS. I'm starting to share the Admiral's distaste for ASUS. If I had extra cash I'd trade it in for a DFI. The board was already $200 though, I don't think I want to spend the $279 or whatever the DFI board is going for locally right now. I'll just get an ASUS replacement for now. Kinda glad there was not a problem with the Enermax supply though. I'll just use it in the secondary box, move the Seasonic down to the tertiary box, etc.

McNevin · Post by **McNevin** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:15 am

ASUS is POOP, that is all...

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:39 am

ASUS is fine. It wasn't my motherboard, which is why I've been trying to call you for the last 20.3 hours. (non-phone-answering-jerk) So it ended up being *gasp* my system drive. I lost all of my movies, audio apps, and other torrentially acquired goods. RMA is in progress, and I have a different one now. See updated specs.

This is the first Seagate drive that I've had die on me since those chrome, black, and green ones with the checkered flag on them from 1996. It wasn't a read problem either. Some kind of short. If the drive is plugged in, the system won't turn on and the fans will only twitch. Unplug the drive, and everything is fine. Weird business.

R3C · Post by **R3C** » Fri Jul 21, 2006 11:46 am

BTW: go take a look at that ASUS board. I think you'll find that it's quite cool. ASUS A8R32-MVP Deluxe

It has an external SATA2 port on the ATX section by the USB ports. I think that's kinda cool. May eventually have to get that Adaptec SATA RAID box on Newegg. It's about time that I had some properly mirrored storage.

I'm actually setting up something like that here at work. (little RAID box to do non-tape backups onto)

Beeeph · Post by **Beeeph** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 8:55 am

my homie's building a new computer and wanted your opinion on his chosen goodies, what say you?

- ABIT AT8 32X Socket 939 ATI CrossFire Radeon XPRESS 3200 ATX Mobo
- COOLER MASTER Centurion 5 Case
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB
- OCZ Titanium 2GB (2 x 1GB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400
- Antec SmartPower 2.0 SP-500 ATX12V 500W Power Supply
- Open Box: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Toledo 2000MHz HT Socket 939
- eVGA 256-P2-N583-AR Geforce 7900GT 256MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video

Post by **enderzero** » Tue Jul 25, 2006 9:27 am

Don't think he needs too much input. Looks like a rrrocking box. Tell him he forgot a floppy drive.

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