Recent content by Pryde

C2D does better with high FSB than tighter timings. DDR2 1000 @ 5.5.5.15 is much better than DDR2 800 @ 4.4.4.12 ( At least with gaming ). Go for 2x2 or 4x1 for dual channel and try to match your memory.

Lower Power -Imagine large server farms, power savings would be astronomical. No Leakage (mostly CPU) -A lot of the area of the core is there to protect against leakage ( eg Hi/Low K ) without any leakage you can drastically reduce the area of the CPU. ( Profit! ) -Also allows you to...

You obliviously dont know the 680i chipset. Ram speed and CPU FSB speed are unlinked. This allows you to OC your CPU and know that your ram inst the limiting factor and vice versa with the ram.

Go for the P35, if your only looking for a ~3.2Ghz OC it will easily handle it. There is very little difference between P35 and X38 except the price. As for the CPU go for the Q6600, its the same price as the E6850. Only difference between the two is the FSB but you can change that by...

Thats exactly what it should be, Games don't stress the CPU, they stress the GPU. I don't know what the CPU usage in CoD2 is but in BF2 my CPU runs at 30%, while orthos runs at 100% reason why there is such a change temps. Orthos temp shouldn't go above 60C ( for a stable moderate OC ) in...

Orthos just pushes your CPU to 100% usage, only in loading times in games will push your CPU to 100% and then it is usually for less than 1 min so no need to worry. My C2D E6600 @ 3.2Ghz runs at about 30% usage during BF2 (it depends on what game you run CPU usage). You can use task manager...

I run my E6600 at 3.2Ghz (400x8) for everyday use and only pushed it higher once to see how far it would go and benchmark (433x9=3.9Ghz). 3.2Ghz is considered a "safe" overclock.

Striker Extreme sucks, you can get just as good OC on the eVGA and BFG at 2/3rds the price . Only thing Striker adds is a bit of bling and esata

A quick search of google revealed 4 good over clocking tutorials on the 1st page alone

OCing your CPU should have no real affect as long as you have stressed it for 24 with no errors, even 1 error could throw a spanner in the works

If your NB HS gets hot enough to melt the fan I woundnt be worrying about the fan melting

Have you tried setting it to 400+ skipping 360s, some boards crap out at certain FSB.

Alot of what direct 10 is about is not improving graphic qaulity but improving the way the GPU works to increase preformance. As can seen the the unified Shaders, and the new Geometry Shader (which is hardware based as well). Also allows the direct link between the GPU and Memory bypassing...

First off your figures don't add up .0015 cents a kilowatt? Im paying 0.1475 cents a kw, roughly 100x more than you My system draws in about 200w at idle but when im gaming it gets around 400-450w, if my system was idle for 16 hours a day ( more around the 20-22 hours a day ) it would...

Hey, Im having trouble with a Acer/Benq 1648a DvD Drive I reformatted my hard drive and installed Windows XP Home Edtitons just fine from the DvD Drive. But when I get into windows I get the DvD Drive Icon (not the thing like BF2 Icon the wee drive+cd standard windows icon) in My Computer...