kris23

yea.... but i simply do not have an extra $30 bucks..... im tapped out with this

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kris23

i lika da quad core!

its currently sitting nice at 3.4GHz, i need new thermal paste

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CDsDontBurn

running a 1:1 ratio i hope?

stock cooling, or something better?

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kris23

yea 1:1

my cooler is a scythe ninja copper, good but i lost my thermal paste so i had so stick with the residue that was left on it so i cant OC any higher until i get new paste. 40C isnt that bad but i dont want to 100% stress it till i get some paste

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CDsDontBurn

go down to fry's then! they're open until 9pm. there's one off of the 60 and 605 interchange over at the far west end of city of industry.

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kris23

nah.... dont feel like doing that much for a tube of AS5... rather get something better from the egg

besides no moneys yet

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CDsDontBurn

brick and mortar stores like fry's and (way back when) PC Club are the best for these kinds of situations.

they offer the same product for essentially the same price as you would get the product online after taxes and shipping fees are added up, AND you get to have the product in your hand by the time you check out.

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[hobo]eclipse

was it an E0 revision?

kris23

yup... E0 SLB8V man so im happy.... its even one of the real new batches with the i7 style core 2 sticker... mmm shiny

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kris23

haha yea..... well i can play games and stuff... just cant run stress programs like Intel Burn test without a massive spike.... im fine for now

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OmegaRED

Late to this topic but thought I'd throw in my 2 cents:

Great idea to stick with LGA775. I would only go to i5/i7 if you've got money to burn and absolutely must have the latest.

I've got a Q6600 based gaming PC and I also have an nearly identical Q9550 Gaming PC sitting right beside it which I built for my sister (same ram, case, cooling, drives) and I've gotta say the Q9550 blows it out of the water! Without any tweaking of the voltages I've got it at 3.5ghz and temps are lower than my overclocked Q6600. I could definitely go higher but not much point as her graphics card isn't as powerful as mine (9800GTX).

In my opinion, it would be best to get highly overclockable DDR2 ram and a good motherboard (I've got a Gigabyte EP45-UD3R in my sisters PC and it is way better than my EVGA FTW) paired up with the best graphics card and sound you can afford. Once you throw in an SSD drive or Raid SSD suddenly having an LGA775 based system doesn't feel so out of date

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kris23

yea once i popped the Q9550 in this system it really took off! now i just need some shiny new DX11 cards...... and maybe a set of OCing RAM or 2...... maybe even..... a H50 cooler? sooo much stuff to think about....

lol im not so broke anymore since i sold my grandma one of my modded flashlights for $120.... funny how much she wanted it the moment i turned it on....

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OmegaRED

Right now the only killer "must have" upgrade I see in the future are the SSD drives. That's the only thing I can see which will bring a high end quad core gaming PC up to the next level of performance.

I'm going to wait until the fall when Windows 7 hits and hopefully a couple of fast high capacity SSD drives will be cheaper then.

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kris23

yea SSDs are incredible in terms of performance......... they make the old must have items like velociraptors ancient history....

hopefully Intel or Samsung or Crucial come out with something nice

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BlueMak

How can you trust your data to ssds? Anyway, good purchase with the CPU.

Although you are all crazy overclockers.

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Mac Daddy

I thought I had replied to this good call on the Q9550 I have been looking at it myself its cheaper than the Q6600 here.

I am faced with exactly the same dilemma as you Kris I want to upgrade my E6550 and also want to try i7 ... but I have 2 X38 boards here one DDR2 and one DDR3.

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BlueMak

If you can get the Q9550 cheap, save your money, buy it and gain the performance. As you said buying the i7 would mean buying a new mainboard and (perhaps?) new memory.
Either way you will want to upgrade in a couple of years (at least for gaming).

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Mac Daddy

True enough and I might do that Bluemak thanks for the post. Not meaning to hijack Kris's thread but were both running E6550's. I am not sure which mobo to use with it the ASUS DDR3 board was damaged in a shipping accident and the regulator sink and pipe have never been right. But if I use it for the watercooling mod I will be stripping the heatpipe off anyway.

The only issue with it is the main ATX power socket is damaged. I have been trying to find a source for just for the socket I have the equipment to replace it at work.

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BlueMak

When I get damaged mainboard, I just write it off as lost money. Not worth the risk with the other hardware connected to it, plus my data.

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

CDsDontBurn

how long ago was the board damaged from the shipping carrier? if not too long ago, then i would suggest that you file a claim with them for the cost of the motherboard.

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Bolletje

Arg, for a DQ6 it's bad. And that E6550 has such a low MP. That's annoying when overclocking. Even with 400 FSB you aren't above 3 GHz :')

Back-up your data? There are plenty of cheap ways to do that. An external hard-drive for example. Or you could just take a RAID1 setup with 2 Harddrives for important stuff and the SSD for boot + games or so...

BlueMak

Or just not use SSD?

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The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis
This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm Sic semper tyrannis.

Bolletje

You can, but it's nice stuff to work with. Still a high price-tag though...