The Pond Quad Core Thread

[Fluff n Stuff]

Ah... I have the Q6600, so it has the lower multiplier 'nStuff.

[MrNovi]

Of course for higher than 333 One may need really good ram, Any favorite brand? Kingston HyperX maybe or OCZ Platinum?

If it don't say Corsair on it, I don't use it. It's in every one of my folding rigs.

[scruff35]

Well I just received my Thermalright 120 Ultra Extreme, and Scythe S-FLEX 120mm. So all that remains is the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad psu. Then I can start crunching.

[JokerCPoC]

Well I just received my Thermalright 120 Ultra Extreme, and Scythe S-FLEX 120mm. So all that remains is the PC Power & Cooling Silencer 750 Quad psu. Then I can start crunching.

Well I think I'll just get an 850w OCZ psu for PC5 as the ram seems to check out just fine at both 266MHz fsb and at 374MHz fsb, I have an 850w OCZ in PC1 and It has a Quad core cpu. Besides I can get the 850w for less than the 750w and besides It's a known psu design to Me.

[JokerCPoC]

Good News everybody! I sold My old K8N-DL motherboard, 2GB Super Talent Registered Ram and Two 270 cpus for $405 total on ebay, So after shipping, insurance and tracking I should have about $395.95 or so!

[MrNovi]

[thelmores]

thought you guys might want to read about a "real" Quad core! LOL



http://weblog.infoworld.com/yager/ar..._big_ir_1.html

I laid my hands on Barcelona for the first time just three days ago in the form of a two-socket server with a pair of 2 GHz quad-core Opterons, model 2350. The details of that system and the results of my early testing will follow very shortly, but where Sun and IBM had me saying, "wow", "that's remarkable; who dreamed this up?" I looked at the details of Barcelona, wondering where AMD could make its mark in a field already filled with such beautiful engineering.

Now, sitting on the floor in front of Barcelona (by remote control), I am speechless. I'm running all eight cores, full-out, and watching a watt/ammeter keep a record. The evening started with an all-night burn in. During that burn-in, with all cores kicking at 100 percent, I didn't expect when I saw: 2 amps, measured at the outlet, or just 300 watts. When the workload dropped to idle the power utilization came in at 1.3 amps, or 149 watts. I continued with the testing proper, which is not yet in a state that permits me to share the results, and verified those results.

This is not a wimpily-configured box: 8 GB Registered ECC DRAM, on-CPU I/O, memory and SMP node controllers. There are two banks of RAM for each socket, and as I'll explain when I get to the results, each socket's shared third-level cache turned out to be a major win.

thought you guys might want to read about a "real" Quad core! LOL

[Fluff n Stuff]

It'll be real when I can afford it 'nStuff...

[Edit... $389... wow! I'd heard they would come out costing a lot more 'nStuff~! ]

[UncleBob]

Nice to see!!

[Ned Slider]

Nice to see!!

You got one on pre-order yet

[JokerCPoC]

It'll be real when I can afford it 'nStuff...

[Edit... $389... wow! I'd heard they would come out costing a lot more 'nStuff~! ]

Ditto, If It were just the cpu, It wouldn't be so bad, but It's worse as I'd have to buy a motherboard too, Among other things. Besides I only have $369.94 right now and It's going on more important items right now.

[Jay See Bee]

You got one on pre-order yet

UB is not interested in quad cores, he likes the dual quad cores

[Fluff n Stuff]

Ah.... he has TWO on order, then...

[Jay See Bee]

Ah.... he has TWO on order, then...

No but soon

[JokerCPoC]

UB is not interested in quad cores, he likes the dual quad cores

Hey If Octo Quad cores existed He'd be interested I'd think.

Just think of the psu He'd need for that monster.