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#1 jjjhsmith
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[QUOTE="cubiclegeek"]To dispell some myths perpetrating from this thread: 1) RAM overclock-ability has no bearing on how much you can overclock your processor. They run on separate busses and can be overclocked independently (at least on current hardware). Independent of overclocking the bus, RAM timings can also be tweaked and for select processors (engineering samples, extreme editions of Intel processors), multipliers can be tweaked. 2) In many ways timings are just as important as the clock speed the RAM runs in. RAM clocked at high speeds with poor timings can be worse than lower clocked RAM with good timings. You can also achieve higher clock speeds by relaxing the timings on your RAM - you need to find a good balance of clock speed vs. timings. So clock speed not necessarily equivalent to faster RAM. 3) Name brand usually carries with it a reputation and a warrantee, what's more important is the chip manufacturer of the RAM (i.e. Samsung, Hynix, and etc.), not the reseller brand (i.e. OCZ, Corsair). Reputation will get you things like better warranties, lower defect rates and maybe (and I stress maybe) a higher chance of higher overclocking room due to the better chip selections. Resellers don't guarantee overclock headroom, only that the RAM will run at bare minimum the sticker speed (i.e. 1066MHz, 5-5-5-18 2T advertised RAM will run at those speeds if you use it on a supported mother board). How much overclocking you can do on any particular device is based on luck of the draw. 4) The blanket statement of .5 FPS increase due to overclocking is false. If you look at gaming benchmarks there is definitely a larger net gain between the x6800 and e6600 processors of more than 0.5 FPS in most cases. Since the only difference between an x6800 and an e6600 is the multiplier and resulting clock speed (2.4GHz vs. 2.93GHz), if you overclock the e6600 to say 3.0GHz (which is very conservative and can be done in most cases with stock cooling) you will see equal or better performance in those games. Tom's Hardware has a CPU guide you can use to compare benchmarks here: http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html?modelx=33&model1=430&model2=432&chart=169. I've personally given up aggressive overclocking ages ago, since I don't have the patience anymore to tweak settings small steps at a time and running stress tools overnight to find the optimal stability versus performance. I have a conservative 3.2GHz on the processor and I just run the RAM at the stock 1066 on my system. I've heard of people pushing the e6600 up to 3.6GHz on air and 4.0GHz on water.

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#2 jjjhsmith
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My power supply is only a 250 W (but dell rated so supposedly its closer to a 300ish) and I've never had problems with overclocking my comp. Luckily its a northwood core so it's not pulling as much juice as the newer (lol newer) P4s but it really seems like you should have been. My guess is you didnt have a surge protector.
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#3 jjjhsmith
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Correct me if I'm wrong but why would overclocking cause the system to draw more power than normal if the card is not volt-modded? I thought it was the additional volts that caused the extra power draw, not just simply overclocking a GPU. If the system is at load, it should be getting full power draw. Of course, it is 1:40 in the morning and I've only slept for 2 hours in 2 days, so maybe I'm just confused.
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#4 jjjhsmith
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[QUOTE="Jiggly_Wiggly"][QUOTE="jjjhsmith"] Do I win for highest upload?

lol haxor

Lol I just tried the test in IE to compare to FF and got 3610 Down, 842 up. Firefox for the win!
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#5 jjjhsmith
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Do I win for highest upload?
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#6 jjjhsmith
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Instead of running an a game, are there any dual core users that do any video encoding to test while running SuperPI? I think that would be more realistic in terms of hard CPU usage instead of a game, which generally tend to be more video card limited.
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#7 jjjhsmith
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Just save your document as Rich Text Format .rtf and it should open in pretty much anything. At least in my experience.
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#8 jjjhsmith
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5-6 for me. 2 gb of ram would really help, but it still plays any game I throw at it with respectable settings. Albeit, the newest of the new are really showing the strain on the system, but I think it will hold me out until Vista SP1 and quad cores are out and common place.
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#9 jjjhsmith
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[QUOTE="Frags-o-Plenty"]Yeah, that's Grade 10 chemistry. The problem with that is that the only portion of an atom that should move away from the nucleus is the electron. If you have a positively charged electron, you've just created anti-matter, which will effectively disappear the moment it contacts true matter. The other possible part that could be moving through our own manipulation is the neutron, which, as its name implies, is neutral anyway. And if you separate the neutrons, you will have a hell of a lot of radiation on your hands and a probable (if not inevitable) nuclear reaction, meaning that this backfires. Literally. The other part you may be referring to is the quarks. Those are subatomic, and if you are referring to those, as far as I know, you may be right. However, what you have stated there is not correct as is.



You would have a positron then.  It is a known and observed type of beta decay.  Just an FYI.
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#10 jjjhsmith
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Yeah well, torrents are not uhh so uhhh legal. Anything about non legal things gets locked.supergamer1289
Just because torrents can be used to propagate the distrobution of illegal media does not necessarilly that all torrents are illegal. I frequently use them to get demos that are put up on torrents because I get them much faster that way as compared to using GameSpot's servers.