Whats your pc got under its hood?

[chicaboo]

Can I jag some parts off your old PC?

[phildough]

If anyone needs spare parts ask me, I have enough parts here to build about 4 decent pcs

[Ice88]

Originally Posted by 70NYD

niice

i just got a new comp last week cus my old one shat itself (well the 8800GTX512 did but i need a new procesor anyway

Asus P6T SE and a 960 (not oc, not going to be ) so at 3.2Ghz
triple channel matched 6Gb of ram 1600Mhz (board has room for 3 more )
GTX470 1280MB
powered by a corsair TX 850
all on a 7 64bit system
2233BW samsung screen (will be replacing it with RX, this one is almost 2 years old now and i want 3D)
and a whole heap of crappy hard drives haha (i tend to keep **** from over the years and rather than deleting i just get new hdd )

my old comp was amd athlon 64 X2 (6000+ yeah right more like 5600lol) with 4Gb of ram and the GTX8800 with 512mb of ram and a 600W power supply (mind you i got this just before crysis came out, the original one in jan 2008 and it ran fine up untill sunday 2 weeks ago when it went belly up and kept blu screening from what i gathered was either a total cpu failure or a gpu overheating and failure)

Fixed.

[70NYD]

Originally Posted by Ice88

Fixed.

choice
fixed my post accordingly

[Ice88]

I know im a twit. Not usually anal about stuff... Except when someone butches the English language.

[mkid]

well 2 days ago my 3 year old laptop acer aspire 5520 G motherboard decided to have a heart attack and as a result it died. as i was quoted 900 bucks to fix it. today i picked up another acer. its a aspire 5741 G.
which came with a xbox360 arcade, 3 year warrenty, and $300 surge protector
for the tidy price of $1400
so here the specs

old laptop
AMD Turion 64 x 2 TL-60 ( 2.0 ghz, 2 x 512 cache)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400m G 128mb dedicated graphics card
2GB ram
15.4 inch lcd screen with crystal eye webcam
160 GB HDD
ACER NPLIFY 802.11 wireless
windows vista Home Premium
blue tooth
DVD super multi DL drive

new laptop
Intel Core i5 processor430 twin core (2.26GHz, 3mb L3 x 2 cache
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M CUDA 1GB boostable to 2.747 GB with Turbocache decated graphics card
15.6 inch HD LED LCD with webcam
4 GB ram
HDMI out put
640 GB HDD
ACER NPLIFY 802.11 wireless
Windows 7 Home Premium

one downside is no bluetooth which is annoying
but is so much faster than the old one
bringing old laptop down to computer town down the road who will take the old HDD
out and put it in its old case with a USB cable so i can get all my old stuff off it
i have my BG workshop manual on there and im replacing bushes this weekend so makes it a little more difficult but oh well

[Ice88]

Originally Posted by mkid

well 2 days ago my 3 year old laptop acer aspire 5520 G motherboard decided to have a heart attack and as a result it died. as i was quoted 900 bucks to fix it. today i picked up another acer. its a aspire 5741 G.
which came with a xbox360 arcade, 3 year warrenty, and $300 surge protector
for the tidy price of $1400
so here the specs

old laptop
AMD Turion 64 x 2 TL-60 ( 2.0 ghz, 2 x 512 cache)
NVIDIA GeForce 8400m G 128mb dedicated graphics card
2GB ram
15.4 inch lcd screen with crystal eye webcam
160 GB HDD
ACER NPLIFY 802.11 wireless
windows vista Home Premium
blue tooth
DVD super multi DL drive

new laptop
Intel Core i5 processor430 twin core (2.26GHz, 3mb L3 x 2 cache
NVIDIA GeForce GT 320M CUDA 1GB boostable to 2.747 GB with Turbocache decated graphics card
15.6 inch HD LED LCD with webcam
4 GB ram
HDMI out put
640 GB HDD
ACER NPLIFY 802.11 wireless
Windows 7 Home Premium

one downside is no bluetooth which is annoying
but is so much faster than the old one
bringing old laptop down to computer town down the road who will take the old HDD
out and put it in its old case with a USB cable so i can get all my old stuff off it
i have my BG workshop manual on there and im replacing bushes this weekend so makes it a little more difficult but oh well

Sure its an i5 and not an i3?

[RustyKaos]

Haha. You got that from Harvey Norman with the free xbox 360.
That model is an i5 just the entry model which will still do its job. I have to say I am not impressed with the i7's at all and find the higher end i5 to be faster.

[mkid]

yeah it is a i5 its written all over it and says it in the computer settings
and it has a twin core
i3 single core
i5 twin core
i7 quad core
i use at home and uni a lot so its kind of my own home computer as well
therefore i didnt want a i3 as i have been told by my mate who is doing computer science that i3 slows down heaps when about 25% of the hdd is used up
so therefore its only good if everything is kept off it
and i7 isnt worth the extra cost as it is not fast enough for the price
as rusty sort of said above and i was fair disappointed as well at the specs a i7 pushes in a laptop
this is for laptops tho and in a desktop this could be a lot different
also i3 cannot be overclocked and i5 and i7 can
so after a few months i might turn it up a little bit dont want to damage it tho
but my mate told me to go i5 and im happy i did also these are the exact specs i wanted so im really happy with it

and your right rusty i did get it from harvey norman hahahaha
bloke was a bit of jerk however so i asked to speak to another salesman
next guy was real nice and helpfull he threw in 3 years warrenty and a surge protector
so that pretty cool and i got a free xbox360 with thanks to deals they have going on

[Ice88]

Originally Posted by mkid

yeah it is a i5 its written all over it and says it in the computer settings
and it has a twin core
i3 single core
i5 twin core
i7 quad core
i use at home and uni a lot so its kind of my own home computer as well
therefore i didnt want a i3 as i have been told by my mate who is doing computer science that i3 slows down heaps when about 25% of the hdd is used up
so therefore its only good if everything is kept off it
and i7 isnt worth the extra cost as it is not fast enough for the price
as rusty sort of said above and i was fair disappointed as well at the specs a i7 pushes in a laptop
this is for laptops tho and in a desktop this could be a lot different
also i3 cannot be overclocked and i5 and i7 can
so after a few months i might turn it up a little bit dont want to damage it tho
but my mate told me to go i5 and im happy i did also these are the exact specs i wanted so im really happy with it

and your right rusty i did get it from harvey norman hahahaha
bloke was a bit of jerk however so i asked to speak to another salesman
next guy was real nice and helpfull he threw in 3 years warrenty and a surge protector
so that pretty cool and i got a free xbox360 with thanks to deals they have going on

Ahh your counting physical cores as opposed to thread processes.

Who ever told you an i3 cant be overclocked was seriously mistaken.

[mkid]

sorry i mislead you
i ment in laptops
i3 cant in laptops but it can in i5 and i7 laptops
well that is what ive been told by domaine, computer town, harvey norman, joycemain, lappy king, rebyte computers and at uni
im not sure about tower computers
but i could be way off
but how many cores deems if it is i3 i5 or i7

[Ice88]

Its kinda tricky thing as physically there's only two cores. But each core has two threads so logically there is four cores available to both the i5 and i7.(eight if HT is enabled for i7(i7s are still called a quad core though)) Now the issue arises in that how do you label cores?

In the past we called a dual core a dual core because it was two cores which could handle a single thread each, today we have 1 core handling multiple threads. By no way is it a standard but people have adopted counting threads as cores, whether this is because windows show 4 cores and thus is easily understood by the populace im not sure but it is generally how they are counted.

Any cpu can be overclocked in any application if you have the knowledge. Overclocking in a laptop is asking for trouble specially in Australia with standardised cooling for world over.

[70NYD]

Originally Posted by Ice88

Its kinda tricky thing as physically there's only two cores. But each core has two threads so logically there is four cores available to both the i5 and i7.(eight if HT is enabled for i7(i7s are still called a quad core though)) Now the issue arises in that how do you label cores?

In the past we called a dual core a dual core because it was two cores which could handle a single thread each, today we have 1 core handling multiple threads. By no way is it a standard but people have adopted counting threads as cores, whether this is because windows show 4 cores and thus is easily understood by the populace im not sure but it is generally how they are counted.

Any cpu can be overclocked in any application if you have the knowledge. Overclocking in a laptop is asking for trouble specially in Australia with standardised cooling for world over.

ok ok wait a minute now. i7 can be a dual core as well (2 physical cores) and that the i7 6 series. the i7 7 and 8 series i dont know much about but the 9 series are all 4 physical cores and with HT you have 8 logical paths (threads).. the i7 980X has 6 physical cores and has HT so u end up with 12 logical paths the 1600price tag is something i couldnt justify. this is all related to desktops and for laptops i have no idea

[Ice88]

Originally Posted by 70NYD

ok ok wait a minute now. i7 can be a dual core as well (2 physical cores) and that the i7 6 series. the i7 7 and 8 series i dont know much about but the 9 series are all 4 physical cores and with HT you have 8 logical paths (threads).. the i7 980X has 6 physical cores and has HT so u end up with 12 logical paths the 1600price tag is something i couldnt justify. this is all related to desktops and for laptops i have no idea

I actually got my numbers wrong, anyways. I based my post off of mkids and linux reporting 4 cores. (still had 1 core disabled from the other day).

I do not know of any i7 6 series, i do know of an i5 6 series however. i7 8 series have the same number of threads as blomfield

[chicaboo]

You know you could save all this confusion by buying AMD...

[Ice88]

Will do when bulldozer comes out most likely

[70NYD]

i was gonna get a phenom II x4 965 before i got the i7, but the HT part of i7 really pulled me towards it. i allways got AMD b4 and this is the 1st time i got a intel. so far im happy, but the 965 probably woulda been the better way to go cus a its cheaper b it has a higher frequency but i wanted to try something different haha. i dunno which one is better in reality cus i never tried a x4 965 but i would like to compare
and cris the i7 6 series is for laptops. i got that info from wiki haha thats where i did my research for cpus b4 i bough

[Ice88]

Ahh well i dont know **** about laptops cept mac stuff

[70NYD]

Originally Posted by Ice88

Ahh well i dont know **** about laptops cept mac stuff

and i dunno **** about mac haha

[mkid]

Originally Posted by 70NYD

and i dunno **** about mac haha

same here
plus there too expensive
and it always seems like the trendy and metrosexuals have them