So proud of my x2!

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I've thinking about my latest purchase for the past few days and can't
get over how much I like it.

I upgraded from a 2000+ on a flaky motherboard to an x2 3800 with a new
motherboard and a zalman 9500 cooler.

Having gone from about 50-60C down to 38C (both cores at full load) is
shocking, for lack of a better word.

I'm love with the speed, I'm in love with the dualcore which makes the
machine so much more responsive, I'm in love with the cooling solution
that doesn't risk crushing your core like all the socketA coolers did.

I use the machine as a developer / photoediting machine and it
absolutely shines at all tasks given to it.

The price was also something I thought about a lot: ~350$ for the x2,
another 100$ for the motherboard and 50€ for the zalman. Not TOO scary,
considering I bought my first AMD, a K6-200mhz, for about 200$. :)

Well, that's just my quiet rant about how good it feels to live in 2005,
when computers are fast and cheap, and in the case of Athlons: efficient
and cool.
 
EdwardH said:
I've thinking about my latest purchase for the past few days and can't
get over how much I like it.

I upgraded from a 2000+ on a flaky motherboard to an x2 3800 with a new
motherboard and a zalman 9500 cooler.

Having gone from about 50-60C down to 38C (both cores at full load) is
shocking, for lack of a better word.

I'm love with the speed, I'm in love with the dualcore which makes the
machine so much more responsive, I'm in love with the cooling solution
that doesn't risk crushing your core like all the socketA coolers did.

I use the machine as a developer / photoediting machine and it
absolutely shines at all tasks given to it.
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Mazeltov! Congratulations, and blessings on you and your machine. :)
 
Wind it up to 240x10, easy to do with a single +.1v bump in voltage.
Temps
hardly go up and you've got a 4800+ (almost). Keep the memory at 200
if
need be, there's not near as much of a performance hit as there used to
be
running asynch.

At least that's what I did...
 
Wind it up to 240x10, easy to do with a single +.1v bump in voltage.
Temps
hardly go up and you've got a 4800+ (almost). Keep the memory at 200
if
need be, there's not near as much of a performance hit as there used to
be
running asynch.
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I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 and the only setting I can change is the
FSB (and perhaps the HTT?).

So it's not much of an overclocker's board.
 
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I've got a Gigabyte GA-K8NF-9 and the only setting I can change is the
FSB (and perhaps the HTT?).

So it's not much of an overclocker's board.
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I haven't looked at that board specifically (and Gigabyte boards
generally aren't aimed at overclockers, although there are a few
exception), but in the BIOS, hit CTRL-F1 and see if any of the options
that magically appear are worth it.
 
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