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Are you sure the Xeon requires FB-RAM? Some of the Xeons are basically identical to the standard Core 2 chips. Fro example, the E8400 and the Xeon E3110 are basically the same chip and you can run the E3110 with standard DDR2.

How hot are your cores at 3gHz under load? With 4 instances of CPU Burn-in v1.01 running (in error checking mode) using CoreTemp 0.97.1 my 4 cores are at 56C, 54C, 52C, 52C respectively @ 3.0gHz (no vcore change).

And I only just got my Q6600. :(

I meant your list of characteristics. HID's aren't quite 140lm/watt, but some are close. They're broad spectrum and can do very high wattage.

Sounds like an HID bulb. ;)

What a crappy review. :rolleyes: Their testbed is clearly too noisy to be testing the SPL of the HSF's when almost all of them are below the noise floor of the system.

How do you know he's mentally ill? :confused: Maybe he lost a bet, or had a game of truth or dare get out of control?

The pushers of CFL bulbs somehow assume that all electricity comes from the dirtiest of coal powered plants when that is not even close to being correct.

Very funny! I'm glad it's not me.

She's not as hideous as you two make her out to be. She is definitely better than average, but she's certainly no model.

That depends on the video card and CPU. So far I haven't tried it on my Q6600, just my AMD X2 4200+ with a nVidia 8600GT. The CPU usage is below 20% I think (due to the video card acceleration). I honestly haven't paid a lot of attention to it.

I don't think I'd be relying on Anandtech to review cameras.

Yeah, the penalty for Visa fraud is pretty serious. I wouldn't want to mess around with it. My wife and I did the fiance' visa.

If she has a green card there shouldn't be any problems even if you are married. The problems occur when someone is here on an educational Visa or a tourist visa or similar and they get married overseas to a US citizen they will often not allow the person back into the US because they don't...

I got mine for well under $400 after a $30 rebate, a Paypal promotion, and a $45 coupon from Overstock.com. It was $500 - $45 coupon w/ a $30 rebate, and Paypal was running a promotion where you could get back $50 back if you spent more than $250 at any of a few stores. Link to monitor It...

I hope she's got a green card or whatever already (assuming she's not a citizen). Otherwise the USCIS is really screwy about letting people back into the US who are here on an educational VISA or the like after they are married to a US citizen.

PowerDVD Ultra unfortunately. Hopefully someone else will come out with a decent program soon. I'm not 100% sure it's just relabeled, but it's made for Corsair by Seasonic. link Maybe not a lot depends on where you sit on the efficiency curve. I just don't need the extra capacity, so I saved...

Yikes! :o

I have a nice 24" widescreen LCD myself with a Samsung S-PVA panel. It's great. :D

How much did that set you back?

Honestly, not a lot. I would like to be able to decode Blu-Ray and HD-DVD. Occasionally I do some MPEG-2 / xvid / H.264 compression. Mostly my intentions to replace the PC come out of concerns about the longevity of the old PC. It is water cooled and I don't know how long the pump will last...

It's a G0 (SLACR).

Here's how mine looks in Windows at idle. XP says it's at 2.4gHz. The Gigabyte tool says something else. As soon as I put a load on it, it jumps to 2.4gHz in the Gigabyte tool.

That can be very misleading if you have EIST (Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology) turned on in the BIOS (assuming your board supports it). I have it turned on for my Q6600 and when it gets into windows the system is running at only 1.6gHz not the speed I have the chip set to.

I've tried several different programs and they all give me different numbers, so I'm not sure who to trust. I haven't tried MBM but I'm told it doesn't work on all boards, especially newer ones. I'll have to give it a shot later today Speedfan was spitting out absurdly low numbers (idle under...

What are you using to monitor the temperature?

That depends on your motherboard. My Gigabyte board has a windows app that allows me to change things that would normally only be accessible from the BIOS. I haven't really tried it out though.

That's probably why it locks up doing xvid. :p From what I've read 3.5gHz is very fast for a Q6600, especially one with the stock cooling (presumably) and no Vcore adjustment.

So the article says. I'm a geek. I'd still like to take a look at what it does show cause it sounds pretty cool.

I never said I was the expert. I just don't get your comments. They seem kind of random, coming out of left field. I asked for comments on a new build to replace my old PC. You came in and suggested I keep my old system and put in a killer storage subsystem. That's nice and all, but it's...

How fast are you running your Q6600?

I guess I could try that...

I ran it overnight last night and it did 11+ passes, so I guess the memory is OK. Now it's time to heat up the processor.

And not a single picture of what the image from it looks like. :(

Well it completed two passes at 4-4-4-12 without error.

Memtest86+ made 2 successful passes at 800MHz with 5-5-5-15 timings at 2.0V. I'm trying the 4-4-4-12 timings at 2.0V now.

Does anyone else test the RAM of new systems they build before installing an OS on them? I've always done this since I was stung by bad memory back in college. My tool of choice has been GoldMemory. I haven't had any problems with it on the various machines I've tried it on until today. My...

I think the problem is specific to nVidia chipsets.

Who said there was anything wrong with it? I just didn't see any point in buying something that oversized for the other hardware I have spec'd. Why would I want to do that? I don't need a faster than normal storage solution. My old hardware only has PCI slots, and any "fast" storage subsystem...

I would think CF cards with CF to IDE adapters would be your best bet then.

I didn't realize that. Thanks for the tip... However, to date, I usually don't use any thing more advanced than Windows Explorer to backup my system. I generally just back up my data, not the OS install itself. I should probably change that though... :D

About $900.

Ok... First, I'll acknowledge that this didn't turn out to be a very low cost build. Oh well... That said, here's what I plan to get to finish out the build: CORSAIR CMPSU-520HX Power Supply SAMSUNG Spinpoint F1 HD753LJ 750GB 7200RPM 32MB HD x2 for RAID-1 (Tannin would be proud even...

Yes it depends on the memory multipliers. It looks like they are: Auto 2.50 3.00 4.00 2.00 2.40 3.20 3.33 So, you can set the memory multiplier to any of those, so your memory will run at the FSB (100-700Mhz in 1Mhz increments) * the multiplier you set. So, assuming you could push it that...

The manufacturers are already pushing 13.6MP point and shoots. I wonder when the madness will stop? :(

So, for example the Q6600 has a 1066MHz FSB. Changing it to 1333MHz would put the chip to 3.0gHz, but I could run 800MHz DDR2 in both cases correct? As I understand it the memory would vary from 800MHz at speeds in between 2.4gHz and 3.0gHz, or above 3.0gHz though.

Of course... You're just arguing with me because you agree with me! Why didn't I think of that.

Why should you be? Those of us who go out and bust our asses every day to better ourselves, and climb the pay scale ladder resent the fact that we're supporting a bunch of leeches with their hands out. If you really feel so strongly about supporting those who make less than $15 go out and help...

I didn't say I wanted legacy support for 5 year old hardware. I also didn't say I wanted the fastest possible system either. Why toss out good working hardware for no reason? I'm not about to replace my solid NEC DVD burner with an Optiarc POS. It's not like asking for a single IDE channel to...

If I plan on overclocking will I need 1066MHz memory, or can I get a decent overclock with the 800MHz DDR2 stuff? I noticed that I can get 4GB of DDR800 stuff for the same price as 2GB of the DDR1066 stuff.