05-16-2005, 01:52 AM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: Uvita, Costa Rica
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So I just built this....
... and felt like gloating a little.
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum 2x wd caviar 250GB sata 16x dvd+-RW 52x cdrw 16x dvd-rom 2x 1gb kingston 3200/400 ddr amd 64 4000+ msi radeon x850-xt platinum [pci-e] sb audigy 2 zs platinum 1.4mb floppy/memstick reader added an acer 20" widescreen panel $3800 us |
05-16-2005, 02:57 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Upright
Location: Uvita, Costa Rica
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No raid yet. It's got 4 slots for solo sata devices, and 4 more for raid. Until I start with video dumping & whatnot, not really gonna need raid. Will be taking this with me to costa rica, using it as my game rig & camcorder dump. burn off the kids movies to dvd & ship to familia in the states.
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05-16-2005, 08:44 AM | #4 (permalink) |
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Location: texas
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why do you need a cdrw, dvdrw and dvd-rom? geez.
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05-16-2005, 11:57 AM | #8 (permalink) | |
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Location: Uvita, Costa Rica
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I never trust reading my burns on the burner that made them anyway. |
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05-17-2005, 08:20 AM | #9 (permalink) |
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Location: Southern California
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And Gloat you should. Not too shabby - you should post some pictures.
So with the new Intel Chipset Mobos, they are selling that DDR2. It doesn't seem that AMD based boards are using it. Any way you or anyone else can get technical on me and explain what is happening here? I also saw the new Playstation3 uses DDR3. No idea what is happening there either.
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05-17-2005, 05:55 PM | #11 (permalink) | |
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Location: WEEhawken, New Joisey
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05-17-2005, 07:03 PM | #12 (permalink) | |
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Location: San Francisco
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Second, at the moment, DDR2 does have higher bandwidth than DDR, but generally higher latency as well. Some applications are bound by bandwidth and some by latency, so it's not a clear advantage all the time to be using DDR2, not to mention the fact that DDR2 is more expensive. (Also, might I add, high-performance DDR can be clocked high enough to hold its own against DDR2 in the bandwidth department as well.) These are also major reasons why AMD systems more or less dominate Intel systems in games, because games are generally latency-bound rather than bandwidth-bound (coincidentally, lower network latency is also more important than bandwidth for online games). The combination of low-latency RAM and the on-chip controllers means AMD systems are much better suited to those type of applications, but less suited to things like video encoding that require high bandwidth.
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05-17-2005, 08:16 PM | #13 (permalink) |
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Can you explain what you mean by saying AMD Cpus have memory controllers on the chip, and intel systems have it off the cpu?
Are you talking about the memory chips that you buy and put in the memory slots? If so explain how amd has memory inside the cpu etc? Im guessing you are talking about a different type of memory... thanks for any help on the subject. ps I found this site to be pretty helpful http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR-II
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05-17-2005, 08:56 PM | #14 (permalink) | |
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Location: San Francisco
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05-17-2005, 09:07 PM | #16 (permalink) |
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Thanks n0nsensical, sorry for derailing the topic but could you explain what being in dual channel means? Im trying to understand all these memory terms. Like when someone says.. "Got 2 sticks running on a ASUS P4P800-SE and it works great! And that's in Dual Channel, and not overclocked"
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05-17-2005, 09:51 PM | #17 (permalink) | |
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Location: San Francisco
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05-17-2005, 11:21 PM | #18 (permalink) |
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Intel places the memory controller on the northbridge chipset, while AMD places it in the CPU. This means that upgrading from DDR to DDR2 means you must buy a new CPU, Mobo and RAM for the AMD while on the intel only needing a new CPU and RAM. This is, however, not a major concern for most people. Having the memory controller on the CPU does allow the CPU and RAM to communicate directly, not having to pass through the northbridge chipset, this brings certain advantages as outlined in the informative posts by n0nsensical above.
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05-18-2005, 08:45 AM | #20 (permalink) |
Psycho
Location: North America
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All that money and it's out of date already. DVD-ROM, CD burner, and DVD burner = 2 things that are a waste of money, DVD burner will do the jobs of the others. Don't trust your dvd burner to read what it burns? you send these dvd's to family, if you can't play it what kind of assurance do you get that they can play it. IMHO if my dvd burner can't play a dvd that it burned, it's not a very good/compatiable burn.
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