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[Plomien]

There is a gigabyte board for the nvidia as well, either that or look at the XFX as its been an excellent board for me and runs nvidia nicely

I understand that, but it wont be the price I am pating for this one.  

No probs, I had a gigabyte board before the XFX and it is still running in my sisters PC albeit on 8x AGP
So either would be a good choice, also ATI cards seem to be catching up with Nvidia again, although there have been some driver issues.
get your drivers from http://www.techpowerup.com/softmod/ and you should be fine

[Mr Skrunts]

There is a gigabyte board for the nvidia as well, either that or look at the XFX as its been an excellent board for me and runs nvidia nicely

I understand that, but it wont be the price I am pating for this one.  

No probs, I had a gigabyte board before the XFX and it is still running in my sisters PC albeit on 8x AGP
So either would be a good choice, also ATI cards seem to be catching up with Nvidia again, although there have been some driver issues.
get your drivers from http://www.techpowerup.com/softmod/ and you should be fine

I was considering an upgrade abbout 6 weeks ago, bought the 8800GTX 768MB which is what set it all off and am runnning a Gigabyte GA-8n-SLI with a 3.0 Gig CPU etc.

Fancied a duel core but asked on the forum and then started considering the Quad core.

Then chatting a way last week to a mate he said he had just bought a quad core extreme and board, so out of curiosity I just mentioned his old stuff as listed earlier, or the same board and CPU with 3GB of DDR3 as the board takes both.  Made an offer and he accepted based on the DDR3

Things have changed slightly since we 1st spoke, I am now getting 4GB DDR2 plus a load of bitz and pieces so for the speed of CPU it's still a good balance.  So just looking for an ATI as mentioned.

Also since I was offered it I have just started building a machine I bought parts for quite a while back,

Is going to be a test bed as it takes DDR and DDR2, plus also has AGP and PCI-e slots for the graphics.  Thats got a 3.4 single core and 4GB of ram to go in it.  

So one way or annother my older AMD server is about to get an upgrade to a 64bit jobbie.

It kept me out of mischeif over the weekend.  

[TheBoy]

I'm using a Zalman CNPS9700 LED on my overclocked core 2 dual, and will keep it when I pop a quad in this autumn. Can definitely recommend the Zalman. If you are not overclocking then use a standard Intel.

Have fun

Pat

Oddly, I've found the Zalman fans to be desperately unreliable. And noisey after a while, so I tend to stick away from them now.

I don't overclock any more, stability is far more important than an extra squeeze of cpu - you would hate it if oof kept hanging.....

[Mr Skrunts]

I'm using a Zalman CNPS9700 LED on my overclocked core 2 dual, and will keep it when I pop a quad in this autumn. Can definitely recommend the Zalman. If you are not overclocking then use a standard Intel.

Have fun

Pat

Oddly, I've found the Zalman fans to be desperately unreliable. And noisey after a while, so I tend to stick away from them now.

I don't overclock any more, stability is far more important than an extra squeeze of cpu - you would hate it if oof kept hanging.....

Totally agree.  Every for rliaabilty these days.  I have a Zalman cooler like that, its still in its box allthough it is for an AMD.

[TheBoy]

I'm using a Zalman CNPS9700 LED on my overclocked core 2 dual, and will keep it when I pop a quad in this autumn. Can definitely recommend the Zalman. If you are not overclocking then use a standard Intel.

Have fun

Pat

Oddly, I've found the Zalman fans to be desperately unreliable. And noisey after a while, so I tend to stick away from them now.

I don't overclock any more, stability is far more important than an extra squeeze of cpu - you would hate it if oof kept hanging.....

Totally agree.  Every for rliaabilty these days.  I have a Zalman cooler like that, its still in its box allthough it is for an AMD.

I've found the intel stock coolers to be the most reliable - never had one fail myself, and one ever seen one fail, and that was it belonged to a smoker, and it was clogged solid with that 'smokers dust' sticky stuff.

[cem_devecioglu]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

[TheBoy]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

[cem_devecioglu]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

[TheBoy]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

I'm glad it is not apparently affecting End Users currently  

[Mr Skrunts]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

I'm glad it is not apparently affecting End Users currently  

Sounds like you are in Baby sitting mode.  

[TheBoy]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

I'm glad it is not apparently affecting End Users currently  

Sounds like you are in Baby sitting mode.  

Methinks a new disk controller will have to be bought very soon, but they are £400-£500  

Nearly got a new base server a few weeks back, but they seem to have doubled in price  

[cem_devecioglu]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

I'm glad it is not apparently affecting End Users currently  

Sounds like you are in Baby sitting mode.  

Methinks a new disk controller will have to be bought very soon, but they are £400-£500  

Nearly got a new base server a few weeks back, but they seem to have doubled in price  

What happened with the disk controller, have reliability issues or performance ?

[Mr Skrunts]

Just out of curiosity. What spec is the OOF server.?  

Also what disk controller is it?

[TheBoy]

Rule is "the chain is as strong as its weakest part" (something similiar  ) whatever it is for those going after high spec pc components I strongly advice 15K RPM disks as the latency is half compared to 7200 disks..

Remember that any icon you click on your desktop is on your disk

Disks are vitally important, and can easily destroy perfromance.  Take the OOF server for instance  

Currently no problem with OOF server

I'm glad it is not apparently affecting End Users currently  

Sounds like you are in Baby sitting mode.  

Methinks a new disk controller will have to be bought very soon, but they are £400-£500  

Nearly got a new base server a few weeks back, but they seem to have doubled in price  

What happened with the disk controller, have reliability issues or performance ?

Performance. Crap Southbridge RAID.

[TheBoy]

Just out of curiosity. What spec is the OOF server.?  

Also what disk controller is it?

Intel Core2 Quad
4G RAM
Pair of 320G SATAs, now in RAID0 to get perfromance back up to usable standard (and yes, it is backed up very regularly!!)
Crap Southbridge RAID.
Windows 2003 R2 Server 64bit

There is other stuff, not just OOF running on it.


Need to get away from that RAID controller onto something worthwhile, and hence allow us to go back to fault tolerant disks.