Recent content by samene

Thanks

I've no experience at all with crossfire. I was reading about the internal bridges and it seemed like they were too short to span the distance between the PCIe long slots on the GA-P35-DS3P. Does this mean that x1950 family cards cannot crossfire in that mobo?

bump

Ok. Just found Prime95 v25.3. It changed the temps quite a bit I ran the torture test blend for an hour and the peaks (apparently during Test3) got to 60 58 59 61c with the fan running quiet. I put it through again with the fan on full voltage and it came in at 57 56 57 58c So I...

Oops. Memory is Corsair XMS2 not XPS2

Is all this stuff overkill for me? Should I just go with the cheapest POS PCIe two-port card I can find?

I have one (Cooler Master TX2) on my q6600 and, after running it at stock for a couple weeks, started playing around with clocking it today. I did not hit a point of instability but maybe I got high enough to see how CM TX2 works. I haven't OC'ed anything since the Slot 1 days so I may be up...

Ok. I'll scratch the mixed mfr options. Thanks for that tip. Just read something that x1650 pro is bad for crossfire. Picture less clear than when I started :(

Current components: I have a GA-p35-ds3p motherboard and Q6600. PSU is a 500W Ultra. I have a PCI GeForce fx5500 so two monitors are dark :( Time to fix that. Usage/Gaming: I mostly care about having snappy windows performance. I don't even own a 3d game but I don't want to spend money...

I am getting a ga-p35-ds3p and a q6600 g0. Do the coolers you recommend (Tuniq, TR 120) fit on that board without mod/probs?

sounds like a plan.... thx

I use three monitors so am planning to get two NVidia PCIe boards and span my desktop across all three. I have not been playing any games and do not expect to do much in the future (and in any case I would not be looking to have a game's display span monitors). I don't even run my monitors at...

Thanks all

Anyone have any specific information?

So you're saying that you have no knowledge of any specific motherboards and no knowledge of any specific cards? Since I have not selected a mother board nor have I selected a card I guess checking with the manufacturer could take quite a bit of legwork :)