Ed Downing Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hello everyone, Just got done reading a few posts, apparently a long time ago several people had wondered where I had run off to.... Family had some major medical issues. Everyone is fine now, although at times it was pretty rough. Kind of killed the killer pc thing for me for a couple of years. Money was pretty tight and my heart just wasn't into it. Just now getting back into it. What prompted me to read the Pitstop again is I'm upgrading this week. It will be a slow process to start, but hey I miss it Starting off with an e6600 running on DangerDen water cooling. This weeks specs LOL more as money becomes available. e6600 cpu Gigabyte DS3 2 gig OCZ DDR2 800 4,4,4,15 ram eVga 8800 GTX I lost one of my Raptors, so disk system won't have RAID yet, but I will get there eventually. The plan is to run the e6600 at 3.6 Ghz Link to post Share on other sites
shogan191 Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hey Ed, man it's good to see you. Sorry for the hadships you've been through but glad your here and back. Sounds like you're on the right track with your new system. Not sure how you lost the Raptor but WD is pretty good about RMA. Anyway I sure look forward to seeing you around and know others will to. Welcome Back. Link to post Share on other sites
OneCool Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Welcome back ED Getting a e6600 to 3.6 stable isnt that hard. Its going to come down to the motherboard Link to post Share on other sites
Raptor Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 Hey Ed... welcome back Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Downing Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 HI Guys Went with the DS3 because of money ATM lol BTW you guys read that the q6600 will be out near July at about $300!!! LOL Poor AMD Link to post Share on other sites
OneCool Posted March 11, 2007 Share Posted March 11, 2007 HI Guys Went with the DS3 because of money ATM lol BTW you guys read that the q6600 will be out near July at about $300!!! LOL Poor AMD yep I seen that I wonder if Intel knows something we dont about AMD Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Downing Posted March 11, 2007 Author Share Posted March 11, 2007 I'll be getting one of those q6600's if thats really near the pricemark. MT stuff gets here tomorrow Tracking Number Issued: 3/9/2007 7:21:10 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Description Quantity 19-115-003 CPU INTEL|C2D E6600 2.4G 775 4M R 1 13-128-012 MB GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 P965 775 1 20-227-139 MEM 1Gx2|OCZ DII800 OCZ2P800R22GK R 1 Link to post Share on other sites
shogan191 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 yep I seen that I wonder if Intel knows something we dont about AMD Why, what are you thinking? Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Downing Posted March 12, 2007 Author Share Posted March 12, 2007 (edited) AMD's Barcelona quad comes out very near that time frame. Feature .........................................................Current AMD CPUs.................Barcelona SSE execution width............................................64 bits wide....................128 bits wide Instruction fetch bandwidth................................16 bytes/cycle.................32 bytes/cycle Data cache bandwidth....................................2 x 64 bit loads/cycle..... 2 x 128 bits loads/cycle L2 cache/memory controller bandwidth................64 bits/cycle....................128 bits/cycle Floating-point scheduler depth.....................36 dedicated x 64-bit ops.....36 dedicated x 128-bit ops AN AMD engineer was quoted as saying with the improvements to the chip that the Barcelona will be 30 to 40% faster than the Kentsfields<<< take with a grain of salt plz However thats at the same clock speeds and I don't believe in a minute the chips will overclock like the Conroes or Kents. Edited March 12, 2007 by Ed Downing Link to post Share on other sites
shogan191 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Well that' cool. Glad something might be happening. Link to post Share on other sites
flewpastu Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Welcome Back Ed you're gonna love the new set up Link to post Share on other sites
miggs78 Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 First of all Welcome back Ed.. .. Good seing ya again... Man where's the tracking number, maybe I can be agent zero and come deliver ... (you know theft lol )... And those q6600's look pretty affordable man, good pricing for 'em. I am looking into quad core, since I do a lot of video encoding these days, takes me 8hrs to encode one, so certainly a quad core will really boost it. Thanks for the info... Take care. I'll be getting one of those q6600's if thats really near the pricemark. MT stuff gets here tomorrow Tracking Number Issued: 3/9/2007 7:21:10 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Item Description Quantity 19-115-003 CPU INTEL|C2D E6600 2.4G 775 4M R 1 13-128-012 MB GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 P965 775 1 20-227-139 MEM 1Gx2|OCZ DII800 OCZ2P800R22GK R 1 Link to post Share on other sites
caintry_boy Posted March 12, 2007 Share Posted March 12, 2007 Good to see ya' Ed. Been talking about you over at The Raptor Pit.......with your PC in a wooden box..... Anyhow, glad to see you back. Yep those E6600's are the "cats meow". I took the plunge...... Link to post Share on other sites
Ed Downing Posted March 20, 2007 Author Share Posted March 20, 2007 The 965 NB is one hot mother! I had originally ordered a HSF for it, but it was back ordered. I ended up ordering a Swiftech MCW30 Won't get it until Friday, but maybe I'll be able to push this beat a little farther Link to post Share on other sites
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