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Memory Confusion.. Optimal FSB/Memspeed pair?

Gents (m/f), I've been eyeballing the Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3R Mainboard for a little while now. (The mainboard brand/type is not that important, just the fact that it supports stock 1333Mhz FSB CPU's). Goal is a 'kickass home server' so most specifically throughput (raid5 with ich9r) is the...
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- Jun 18, 2007
- Replies: 1
- Forum: Memory and Storage
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

And this fact will indeed mean a 'price premium'. It is at least conceivable that there will be fewer server boards/cpus than consumer boards so thats part of economics. I did account for that. That WAS true. It is becoming decidedly untrue. Source Engine goes multi-core Unreal 3 engine...
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- Post #24
- Jan 17, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

-sigh- I hope you don't mind the above recap, but I don't think I missed much, you still haven't actually said anything constructive like - oh - what 'doing it right' actually means, in your opinion. But to re-iterate, I did NOT post this topic to present to you all with my omniscient...
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- Post #22
- Jan 17, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

That site doesn't even have the xeons, and only one - the slowest - quad cpu. Nice suggestion. Translation: you are jealous of people with more disposable income than you, but since you can't say that out loud you come up with.. drumroll.. retarded! w00t. Now mommy told you to clean your room...
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- Post #15
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

True, but my original primary goal was 'max performance', secondary is 'value' which can be gained by things like stability, silence (very relevant in overclocking), upgradability, future-proofness etc.
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- Post #12
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

Yeah, but not than a stock Q6800 (or similar, not sure if its called that), thereby dropping that option outside my 'money is no object' clause. :) Seriously though, I'm not against overclocking, and maybe I will actually go that path, so you have a very valid point, however purely for the...
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- Post #10
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

Well: 1/ That solution would still be throwing out something. :) 2/ In my opinion any secondhand hardware yields only a marginal profit, often not really worth the effort 3/ I (and my family) own quite a few systems, and we have a tradition of 'passing down' hardware. This hypothetical...
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- Post #8
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

Yeah but there you're already implying that I basically throw away a CPU (and maybe a mainboard). MAYBE this will turn out to be more economically viable than the alternative, but as said, just plugging in another identical CPU to almost double my capacity makes more sense from a 'pragmatic'...
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- Post #6
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

Just assume 'money is no object, insanity is'. If I buy something I need to actually sense (without a FPS counter tweaked to 0.1fps accuracy) that it's better than the cheaper option. Also, of course, providing myself with a viable upgrade path (i.e. empty pci-e and cpu slots) are worth an...
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- Post #3
- Jan 16, 2007
- Forum: Computer Building
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The Gold Enthousiast Core 2 Duo mainboard theory?

Gents, My first post.. but I'll try to not be too n00b, kay? The PC world is in an exciting time currently, vista is coming (in itself boring) and it brings directx10, which in turn requires a new videocard. Getting a new videocard usually also requires a new mainboard to take full...
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- Jan 16, 2007
- Replies: 28
- Forum: Computer Building

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