New Motherboard And Cpu Came Today! (update: New Video Card And Psu)

[wL<3bass]

hope you dont have many compatibility issues with the 64 bit version of windows

I run 64bit of vista and have no problems...

[iggster1986]

he must disable 2 of the cores to get "real" o/c'ing potential. Quad cores dont o/c well unless you do this...

BTW for the next couple years or so until more games utilize more than 2 cores, clockspeed > cores

nice mobo man

the newer benchmarks like 06 and vantage utilize all 4 cores and a quad does overclock well.. I have mine at 4ghz 24/7 and bench around 4.5 or so. disabling 2 cores gets me to like 4.55 but for everyday the quad is faster.

You are right about the games though, but crysis and unreal tournamet 3 and some others utilize all 4 cores.

BUT IMO if your only gonna game an e8400,8500 or even an e8600 is better then a q6600...

I own a qx9650.

[Torres]

You are right about the games though, but crysis and unreal tournamet 3 and some others utilize all 4 cores.

you sure about that? only game i knew of was half life 2. UT3 might...but i didnt think crysis did. no big deal but i was just under the impression it didnt. the expansion to crysis is supposed to have some work done to the engine to run smoother on more medium-based machines so it'll run even better yay