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?
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...
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 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...
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 :)
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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