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    x1950 crossfire on ga-p35-ds3p?

    Thanks
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    x1950 crossfire on ga-p35-ds3p?

    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?
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    Possible First time OCer

    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...
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    Possible First time OCer

    Oops. Memory is Corsair XMS2 not XPS2
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    !!! Need a quick video card recommendation

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

    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...
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    !!! Need a quick video card recommendation

    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 :(
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    !!! Need a quick video card recommendation

    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...
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    Need fan for Q6600???????

    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?
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    Video card recommendation please

    sounds like a plan.... thx
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    Video card recommendation please

    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...
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    Three monitor question...

    Thanks all
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    Three monitor question...

    Anyone have any specific information?
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    Three monitor question...

    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 :)
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    Three monitor question...

    I plan to buy a socket 775 motherboard and add a PCIe video card (not sure which yet). I need to drive three monitors. I tried this with my last (AGP) mobo and ended up putting in a second vid card (PCI). Does anyone know of a combination where a video card (perhaps the X1650PRO or the...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    Thanks all, please consider this thread closed :)
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    By 'making it worse' I mean this: Most apps don't have the priority to really take over the machine and leave me with an unresponsive mouse. NVidia's drivers do and sometimes when an app misbehaves, the NVidia desktop manager sometimes gets involved with the misbehaving app in such a way...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    The NVidia PCIe cards mentioned seem a lot cheaper than the Radeons. The GeForce 8600GT at around $100-110 or the 8500GT for $75 for example. I would be fine with just grabbing one of these but every time I have a program start hogging the CPU, NVidia desktop management seems to be making it...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    Found this on Tom's Hardware in a Bearlake review: Intel utilizes the second hard drive in a RAID 1 array (mirroring for data protection) to speed up reads, as data is available on two drives. According to Intel benchmarks, this helps to speed up application loading and also to reduce Windows...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    BTW, thanks all who are monitoring or responding to this thread. :)
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    Lopri: That sounds like a well thought out analysis. Thank you. I have examined the state of my system during periods of slowness and, most of the time, the CPU is pegged with a single process eating 95%+ briefly (if it's not brief I cannot get enough control to get any useful information and...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    Thanks for the tips. High responsiveness is the main thing; throughput matters to the extent it impacts responsiveness. Some questions come to mind. 1) I suspect that a lot of the slowness I am experiencing comes not from any one app being an excessive hog but a coincidence of lesser hogs...
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    Recommendations please: Raid, tri-view system

    I want to build a new system when the Intel price drop hits but need some advice on parts. Here's what I'm about - 1) App Launch Speed I intend to RAID up some SATA drives to help with the disk I/O. P965 motherboards with integrated RAID have apparently been a challenge but I'm hoping the...