True quad core power

[gatotsu77]

Last night I rebuilt my computer. I used to have the AMD X2 6000+ cpu coupled with an ABIT KN9 SLI motherboard. I now have the Phenom 9950 BE coupled with a GIGABYTE GA-MA790GP. Video card is the Radeon 4870 X2, RAM is 4gb DDR2 6400 by Patriot, (currently running at 4-4-4-12 @ 800mhz) CPU cooler is the Zerotherm BT92 OC edition, (holy WOW does that thing keep my cpu cool... 31c idle, 41c FULL LOAD clocked at 2.8ghz) 660gb worth of HDD space, (Maxtor 160 and 500) All packed into a huge Silverstone tower, and running on a Gateway FHD2400. I already love the quad core, and will be doing a bunch more benchmarking and posting updates as to just how far I can overclock it. :)

[The Zigman]

I have a Dual processor Xeon 3.2 GHZ dual core clone...

I was lookin at the new Phoenom...
Interesting to see how it works out..

[justahannah]

My husband's in the process of building his computer around the quadcore, one paycheck at a time. The dual core on the laptop and our many console gaming systems suffice for me :P

[J double R]

What is your OS? ive found that XP ran a lot more stable and i was able to overclock a lot more with my Athlon processor than i could with Vista.

[Squawkbert]

A few months back, I went w/ a C2D 8400 (cheapest of the 45nm ones), 4GB 800Mz RAM, Gigabyte P35 MOBO, 8800GT videocard (the 256MB one from Gigabyte - not as much DDR3, but fast as all get-out).

My main PC killing app (Battleground Europe) is running very smoothly at 200-300 FPS if I'm in a quiet area, it dips below 100FPS if I'm in an all-out wide-open "air-quake" session over a busy town. No need to OC anything yet...

[Mgamer20o0]

nice i want a new pc lol

[gatotsu77]

Thus far, I am absolutely loving the new rig. For lack of better words, its phenomenal. (yeah, I had to go there :p:) I'm running the cores at 3.0ghz @ 1.3625v, and to go with the cpu I have 4gb ddr2 8500 (1066mhz) Corsair ram, a Radeon 4870x2, and a Gateway FHD2400 24" 1920x1200 monitor. (Its running on a Gigabyte 790gx motherboard, forgot the exact model number... will update tonight) The Phenom runs great at the stock 2.6ghz, but WOW does it ever wake up at 3.0ghz. Even running Prime95 v2.56 (multi-threaded to load all 4 cores to 100%) I have no trouble running xfire, firefox, acrobat reader, photoshop, etc. in the background and still functioning very quickly. Thus far, 4hrs stable @ 3.0ghz 3.1625v on prime95, and 2 hrs stable on OCCT. (haven't tested longer... got tired of waiting.. cleaned my fish tank while I was waiting on OCCT)

As far as gaming performance.... absolutely stellar. Load times are very fast, every game I play I'm running at 1920x1200, every detail level maxed, and most games I'm running 4-8x antialiasing, and 16x anisotropic filtering. (all the mean while, sustaining 80-100fps) Call of Duty 4 and GRID are perfect examples of this. On Company of Heroes, my 6000+ would run with medium settings, no anti-aliasing, and still occasionally bog down in-game. Now I'm running everything on ultra, 4x antialiasing, and have NO slowdowns, even on 8 player maps.