[QUOTE="cruxe"]

Not to worry... i just realised i bought DDr2 when my motherboard only supports ddr400 :P shows how much of a pc noob i am. lol
But i returned it for a 1gig stick of kingston ddr400 which i can slot straight in with the 2x 512 sticks no problem.

So here are the specs (tell me if its reasonably up to date)

AMD 3800+
EVGA 8800GT superclocked edition
Gigabyte K8N-PRO SLI
2gig of DDR400 ram (2x512 corsair, 1x1gig Kingston)

Sentinel672002

K8N-PRO SLI

Well, it's a socket 939 board...AMD's last socket, prior to AM2. It's a platform on life-support, but not quite dead yet. You would have been better off exchanging the DDR2 for two sticks of 512MB, rather than getting a single 1GB stick. You can't run dual channel with the sticks you currently have. As a result, your CPU's HyperTransport speed is bottlenecked down to mere 400Mhz (PC3200 speed). Dual channel would effectively double that HyperTransport frequency.

In english please... lol, dont forget i am a noob with most of this

Thanks for the help mate. I have already put the 1 gig stick in :S it has helped a little thoughi think. lol

I heard if i was running dual channel it should not matter... as long as the channels have the same rams i can mix between channels if that makes sense.

I also ordered a dual core 4200+ from ebay, i really wanted a 600+ but couldn't find one in 939 for a reasonable price.

So what exactly do you recommend i do with the ram? how do i successfully run dual channel?

Hi i currently run an 8800GT on a 3800+ single core :P it goes o.k but obviously im not getting as much from my card as i should be.

I just ordered a 4200+ dual core from ebay for $100 AU and i was wondering if anyone could tell me if it will help a fair bit or not.
I can run crysis atm on medium but i still experience CPU slow downs and spikes... I was really aiming for a 6000+ Dual core but because i run 939 they are practically impossible to find (and if i do find them they are often way to pricey) So if this dose not help i might be saving my cash for a new motherboard/cpu/ram etc...

Not to worry... i just realised i bought DDr2 when my motherboard only supports ddr400 :P shows how much of a pc noob i am. lol
But i returned it for a 1gig stick of kingston ddr400 which i can slot straight in with the 2x 512 sticks no problem.

So here are the specs (tell me if its reasonably up to date)

AMD 3800+
EVGA 8800GT superclocked edition
Gigabyte K8N-PRO SLI
2gig of DDR400 ram (2x512 corsair, 1x1gig Kingston)

I have another question about RAM now, lol.

I currently have 2x 512 sticks of corsair ram but my mother board has 4 slots (dual channel) i got 2x 1gig sticks today.
now should i put them in the other channel and run it with the 2 512 sticks which will give me 3g of ram. Or just get rid of the 2 512's and put the 1gig sticks in there place?

[QUOTE="cruxe"]Well if i am wrong, which i probably am (find out tonight) What CPU would you guys recommend getting? Bassicly just for newer games and photoshop... would a DC 4800+ be a good option?RedOracle_basic

Forget about AMD. Didn't you hear the guy already told you that your 3800+ runs faster than x2 4400+. Currently generation of dual core belongs to Intel. The recently benchmark shows that even the lastest quad core AMD Phenom cpu performs much worse than Q6600 (Intel quad core base model). Get a Intel Quad Core. If you are restricted to an AMD board, don't upgrade. From personal experience, you won't see much performance gain in game or photoshop from 3800+ to a X2. I had a XP 3500+, upgraded to X2 4000+, same thing, it felt that it's even slower. I ditched the whole thing and went with a q6600, now it's flying. Do some search online on Q6600, trust me, you will only find good words about it. Pair it with a Gigabyte P35 board, you will be able to overclock it to 3.2 gh (quad core x4 = 12.8 GH). wow! I'm not overclocking at the moment since it's fast enough already.

Ok thanks for the advice. I may leave it a bit then due to the money situation :P I just got new ram today (from 1g up to 2g) so that should help quite a bit for gaming. and i got the 8800GT yesterday which runs pretty nice. I may have to download the crysis demo and see how it runs on my system. If i can get it med-high i will be happy. I have a GA-K8n pro sli board which i cant afford to upgrade. But is pretty decent anyway i think.

So your saying your single core 3800+ is better then a X2 4400+ because some guy said he felt it was faster? Thats your problem right there. Try running superpi and compare that. Also post CPU-Z.musclesforcier

No im not saying that otherwise i wouldn't have asked the question in the first place. I just find it strange thats all.
And yeah i will have a look at cpu-z when i get home and post some pics. I could be extremely wrong though

The 3.8ghz thing is just SRL being dumb, it is saying his A64 is equivalent to a 3.8ghz P4.musclesforcier

But why is it still running so quick? quicker than a 4400+ dual core. that just dose not make sense... thats not from testing either thats just what he noticed when using my PC, he said for it to be running that quick i should have modded it. but i havent changed anything since i got it a year and a half ago...

Ok i will post some screenies when i get home tonight (at work now :P )

I thought it was weird when i ran the test for crysis because the CPU type was only just above the minimum but the CPU speed was maxed out on the bar. lol

I will be super happy if i have got a 3.8 thats for sure :)

Im currently doing some upgrades to my pc and came across something quite strange

I recently had an EVGA 8800GT superclocked card fitted in to my PC with a new power supply the guy that put them in for me said it was really odd because i run a single AMD 3800+ processor but he has never experienced one as fast as mine. and he actually said he fits brand new AMD Dual core 4400's and mine even seems to run faster than those... And then i done a system requirements lab test for crysis and it said my cpu is 2.4ghz running at 3.8ghz? im a noob so just correct me if im wrong dont carry on calling me a nub and everything. lol

but is that weird or common. I was planning on upgrading to a dual core 4800+ but i dunno now...