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Tiger Direct has them for $259.99(GO) they were like over $500 a few days ago..

Really easy to get 3GHZ
10x300FSB

or 10×333 = 3.3GHZ

(IF you are lucky with water 10×400 4GHZ) >:D
(even if you can’t get 4GHZ and want 400FSB you can always lower the multiplier to 9)

Whats nice is the higher multiplier gives you more flexibility and it doesn’t but as much stress and heat on the northbridge.

Like for instance loading Photoshop CS3 would start faster on Vista 64 than Vista 32 and both would load faster than Windows XP.

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 5:43 PM

Wait till they start shipping 64-bit apps. You’ll be asking how come they didn’t do this years ago.

Netapplications measures machines that are actually connected to the internet and in use..

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 3:55 PM

How are they going to OS fingerprint a box behind a firewall? The only thing they can rely on would be useragents from a web browser and not like that can’t be “fixed”. And no way is anyone sending logfiles to them either. I’d bet most of the Vista machines they are picking up are home users who don’t have a clue as how to lock down their boxes or format and install XP, so they stick with what shipped.

Again, in a business environment, Vista is not a player. I have more Macs than I do Vista boxes on my network (my techs wipe and install XP). I have more Linux boxes than Vista, but XP /w SP2 rules the roost with about 90% share. For now. I’m seeing a steady increase of Macs among the student and faculty.

I’ve also had a few folks I know outside of work upgrade (or purchase new) their home PCs and all of them but one went with Macs. The lone Windows person was my daughter. She got a laptop (HP) for Christmas that came with Vista. Dog slow with a gig of ram. Upped it to two and now it is tolerable. I give it a couple more months and it too shall be a penguin hangout.

From everything I’ve read (Network Computing, Windows IT Pro, eWeek, etc.), most businesses are taking a pass on Vista. Most of them plan to hold on to XP and jump to Windows 7. Others are planning to jump to another platform. I’m laying the foundation for application virtualization and Web 2.0 apps so that it doesn’t matter what is sitting at my users desk. They can blow it up and all I’ll need to do is drop a box with a browser in front of them.

Of course that brings up a whole different topic: security. Oh well, gotta go earn my keep.

Good luck, I would be Happy with 400FSB 3.2GHZ(but with water may be able to get more, but would probably be unnecessary)

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 6:36 PM

Thanks! I’m partial to AnandTech’s forums for OC over the years; that said you are correct and those are good links. Getting anything more that 3.2 is “just asking for it” for what I’m doing. A mild OC (which is what it is considering water is involved) is fine by me.

I’ll drop a note here or there if I see you and I don’t venture too far off OT. TTYL!

One Sticky
How to guide: Memtest86+, Prime95, and SP2004

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=2057083&enterthread=y

Sticky 2
HOWTO: Overclock C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals) – A Guide v1.5.2

SkinnerVic on April 16, 2008 at 6:08 PM

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/

sure that they can give you a hand.

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 5:56 PM

I don’t game on it though – it’s a necessary evil on computations, SQL, OLAP and compiling work. The 9800 wasn’t released, and I don’t need that much horsepower. I just need three outputs (not SLI) and it handles itself.

I also don’t mind spending a couple dollars when I spend 9+ hours a day and it’s my livelihood. I’m gonna have to benchmark and Prime this new proc before I’m comfortable rolling as “safe” with the OC.

SkinnerVic on April 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/679/7/

Could have just gotten Geforce GX2

SkinnerVic on April 16, 2008 at 5:53 PM

Oh you are going all out. >:}

that makes me even more jealous.. .:P

I’m jealous.. just wondering.. how come you went with the 780i, and not just the cheaper P35?

I like GSkill! I’m using that right now in my system(its an old Opteron s939 system with regular ddr) ;)

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 5:29 PM

Complex and simple all at the same time. I had the following requirements:

– Running 20″ HP LP2065 x 3 = Two Video Cards
– Need to have NO fan on NB or chipset (water cooling)
– Need to run 3ware PCIe 4x card…

That leave you with only a couple options – all of which point to 3 PCIe 16x/8x slots. I opted to go with the 780i because it meets the 3 slot requirement, it’s PCI 2.0 and doesn’t need a fan on the heatpipe. The two 8800GT Superclocked Edition EVGA cards and the 3ware are happy a clams, but it sounds like a frickin Harrier Jet. I’m soooo looking forward to getting it hooked into my water cooling setup again (pulling my old Opteron 185 machine off the hoses to put on the new one). She won’t make a peep unless I’m completely whipping her, but I have this to thank for that (crazy Austrians).

Superfetch, analyzes how you use the computer and what programs and files you frequently use, and it keeps those programs loaded into memory(which can be accessed, and read faster than a hard drive nanoseconds compared to milliseconds)

MMMmmmm…

Already bought – it’s what’s letting me type this. Running 8GB of GSkill DDR2 1066 on a P5N-T Deluxe.
SkinnerVic on April 16, 2008 at 5:11 PM

I’m jealous.. just wondering.. how come you went with the 780i, and not just the cheaper P35?

I like GSkill! I’m using that right now in my system(its an old Opteron s939 system with regular ddr) ;)

Chakra Hammer on April 16, 2008 at 4:12 PM

Already bought – it’s what’s letting me type this. Running 8GB of GSkill DDR2 1066 on a P5N-T Deluxe. She putts right along without the Q9450; I can only imagine what I’ll be able to do with. As for the OC, I was going to shoot for a 400FSB, but I would be happy with 3.0Ghz. I’m going to savage those cores with VM’s (hence the 8GB RAM and 3ware RAID).