Conroe is in stock at Newegg

[error_f0rce]

I like your rig Alec and your graphics card rocks!! One thing though, if I may: I can't possibly imagine when you play Quake 4 that your 512mb of RAM isn't holding you back. If you upgraded to a gig I think you would see significant performance increases. What fps are you getting now?

Also, what 3DMark05 scores are you getting?

 

[Jimmy 2004]

I like your rig Alec and your graphics card rocks!! One thing though, if I may: I can't possibly imagine when you play Quake 4 that your 512mb of RAM isn't holding you back. If you upgraded to a gig I think you would see significant performance increases. What fps are you getting now?

Also, what 3DMark05 scores are you getting?

He has a point - only just noticed it. 512MB must be a huge bottleneck on a system like yours and RAM isn't too expensive anymore...

 

[evil bill]

I bought a matched pair 1024MB (2 x 512MB) Corsair XMS TwinX Pro PC3200 (complete with activity LEDs lol) from £65 from Microdirect 4 weeks ago. It was actually £5 cheaper than the regular TwinX. Must have been a mistake though coz they dropped it 2 days later

 

[Alec§taar]

I like your rig Alec and your graphics card rocks!!

Thank you, it cost me quite a bit, but worth every penny imo! It has been EXACTLY 10 years since I last put together a disk setup (using IDE/EIDE electronics-based HDD's that is) w/ a caching controller onboard!

They do make a diff., imo, & on diskbound I/O tests (or portions of benchmarks programs, typically).

(Last one I had (& still do have it around running Windows NT 3.51 fully patched) on a 486 Dx/4 133mhz, 32mb 30-pin 60ns FastPage RAM, All ISA/Vesa Local Bus slots, Diamond Stealth 64 video, & a TekRam DC-690 series 16mb caching controller - running a pair of Western Digital 4500rpm "Caviar" 424mb diskdrives).

One thing though, if I may: I can't possibly imagine when you play Quake 4 that your 512mb of RAM isn't holding you back. If you upgraded to a gig I think you would see significant performance increases.

Well, the way I use my CENATEK "RocketDrive" Solid-State disk makes up for it, acting not only as my paging file location (pagefile.sys placement on 1st of 2 partitions & temp ops on 2nd partition w/ webpage caches, logging, & other stuff - see signature below) but also as a temp ops area!

Helps a great deal - when folks say "you need 1gb or more of RAM" I just explain how/why this one is setup as it is... it works well, basically paging IN RAM (very fast).

When I get the DDRDrive x1 PCI-express Solid-State disk in here, which uses DDR (vs. my current SSD using PC-133 SDRAM) & PCI-Express x1 slots (vs. my current SSD using PCI 2.2)?

This will ALL be even faster than it is now (best for seek/access, near 0ms speeds as is).

What fps are you getting now?

This is a tough one, as I do not know the commandline or tilde ~ console area command to run a test on it, nor is my version of it (SMP model) any longer "frame-rate capped" because of its "tweaked" in-game config file... it varies WILDLY w/ that setting in place.

Also, what 3DMark05 scores are you getting?

Don't run 3dMark here... I consider it a decent test, but not "real-world" enough!

E.G.-> Whenever I see reviews of CPU's, vidcards, you-name-it? I almost immediately go to pages with Quake 4 or Doom III on them as the tests (as I own those games, so I get a GOOD idea of what a particular part can do for me, performance-wise, w/ games I already own!)

* Seems more practical to me this way - a TRUE "lab practical" more-or-less!

APK

 

[POGE]

Alec... read your PM's.

 

[Alec§taar]

Alec... read your PM's.

Sure, will do...



* See you soon!

APK

P.S.=> Sorry man, that oldie rig of mine's "gone w/ the dawn" & sold long ago, like I said in "pm"... just memories now & some photos left is all... apk

 

[FLY3R]

Woot!!

 

[EastCoasthandle]

newegg has completely removed the site for x6800...spanked?

 

[PVTCaboose1337]

WOW! This is going to be big. Cannot wait to see some reviews.

 

[XooM]

all 975x and 965 boards are build to hit 333mgh fsb@normal settings so normaly ocing shouldnt be a prob


and on xtremesystems two people reached 5 gig on a conroe with water cooling

if by "water cooling" you mean liquid nitrogen (CPU @ a bit over -125C iirc; the chip coldbugged below -125C)

 

[wazzledoozle]

So is the E6300 single core or dual core? I had heard that it would be single...

 

[XooM]

dual core. no single-core conroe-based chips until Q1 07 last i heard.

 

[Jimmy 2004]

These look like good value then.

 

[wazzledoozle]

Sweet, dual core conroe @ $200

 

[KJY9]

Hmm I think I've stepped back in time.
either that or people just don't keep up with tech news?!?
#1) The first wave of Conroes are out and gone...SOLD OUT across the net!
After calling around, the earliest I've heard for restocking is the 22nd of July.
I'll believe that when i see it as Sintel has a reputation for "paper launches". I hope I'm wrong and they hit the streets in full force by the end of this month, cuz this cr@ppy Pent D is really getting on my nerves. Why i switched from my OCed 4200+ is beyond me.
If the conroe OCs like the reviews state, and perform as in the reviews, AMD will have a tough time competing in a price/performance war with Sintel.
Although the giant can be dumb, I believe he's learned some things in the past few years while playing second fiddle to AMD in the price/performance wars.
Peace out

 

[15th Warlock]

I don't see how this can be a paper launch, as the conroes aren't supposed to be officially on sale until July 27

 

[KJY9]

I don't see how this can be a paper launch, as the conroes aren't supposed to be officially on sale until July 27

Hmmm I never said it was a paper launch this time.

Since you didn't get it the first time, I'll quote myself again

"I'll believe that when i see it as Sintel has a reputation for "paper launches". I hope I'm wrong and they hit the streets in full force by the end of this month, cuz this cr@ppy Pent D is really getting on my nerves."

 

[error_f0rce]

Hmmm I never said it was a paper launch this time.

Since you didn't get it the first time, I'll quote myself again

"I'll believe that when i see it as Sintel has a reputation for "paper launches". I hope I'm wrong and they hit the streets in full force by the end of this month, cuz this cr@ppy Pent D is really getting on my nerves."

Man, I don't understand how a Pentium D @ 4GHz just isn't doin it for ya... what are you trying to do that it's not letting you?

thnx for posting your stats btw, 'preciate that.
(p.s. your systems specs say '939' instead of '930' )

 

[KJY9]

Man, I don't understand how a Pentium D @ 4GHz just isn't doin it for ya... what are you trying to do that it's not letting you?

thnx for posting your stats btw, 'preciate that.
(p.s. your systems specs say '939' instead of '930' )

thanks for the heads up on the "939"..typo fixed now.
Must have been a freudian slip to when I had my X2 4200+@2.6Ghz.

It's not that it's "not doing it for me"...it's just slower than my X2 was..sluggish...slower benches and apps.
Once I start video encoding it moves along well....apps just don't snap like they did on my X2 rig.
I've got my Badaxe ordered along with 2Gb of new ram...just waiting for the Conroes to become available...then we'll see how she does

 

[15th Warlock]

Hmm I think I've stepped back in time.
either that or people just don't keep up with tech news?!?
#1) The first wave of Conroes are out and gone...SOLD OUT across the net!
After calling around, the earliest I've heard for restocking is the 22nd of July.
I'll believe that when i see it as Sintel has a reputation for "paper launches".

How did I not get you? I was answering to you on the basis of what you implied at the beginning of your post.

You talked about the possibility of it being a paper launch because it won't be back on stock until July 22nd, and I was only stating to you the fact that the processor won't be officially available until July 27, though the proc was available for sale well before that date, thus, this completely eliminates the possibility of it being a paper launch.

Read your own post

Peace

 

[KJY9]

How did I not get you? I was answering to you on the basis of what you implied at the beginning of your post.

You talked about the possibility of it being a paper launch because it won't be back on stock until July 22nd, and I was only stating to you the fact that the processor won't be officially available until July 27, though the proc was available for sale well before that date, thus, this completely eliminates the possibility of it being a paper launch.

Read your own post

Peace

Right ..possiblilty of a paper launch because the official release date is not here yet...you just said it yourself and so did I.
I never said it was a paper launch yet.
Is that clear enough for you?!?!?

 

[15th Warlock]

I don't see how this can be a paper launch, as the conroes aren't supposed to be officially on sale until July 27

Did you actually read my first post?
I don't see where are you going with this Is there a point to this nonsense?

 

[error_f0rce]

Man, now you guys are confusing me... argh... stop it

 

[Jimmy 2004]

Man, now you guys are confusing me... argh... stop it

I stopped following this thread long ago...

 

[KJY9]

Did you actually read my first post?
I don't see where are you going with this Is there a point to this nonsense?

I'm sooo sorry....I just noticed that you were from Central America and English probably isn't your primary language.

I'll stop responding to your posts, because the end result is a mess.

TY