Oh, btw, thanks so much for the advice Derivative!!!

Getting some of that artic paste stuff too. Sweet.

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Well.... for anyone who's still interested....I did it!

Put in my new X2 4400 chip, and as derivative said, all it took was one reboot and it had set itself up!

Easy as pie! The hardest part was getting the mother of all heatsinks attached to the board, very tricky but so worth it, it's almost silent.

I've overclocked it to 2475Ghz (x2 obviously, so nearly 5Ghz AMD speed!) and I noticed a difference straight away.

The important test of course was cubase, which at first I noticed no difference!!! But then I found the tick box "multiprocessing" in some deep depth of options boxes, and lo and behold it was faster than I could have imagined.

I loaded up my latest tune I'm working on, and played it at the point that on my old processor it gave up - went all stuttery ect. Played it absolutley no problem, neither CPU's going much above 50%.

So chuffed.

NEVER BOUNCE! UPGRADE!!!!!!

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i got a gig of ram and now i dont need to bounce to audio. damn good investment.

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I bought my systme 2-3 months ago for about 2 000 euros and I must Say even wih the dual cores and the 4 gigs of ram 10 000 rpm hdds and supercooling system, Im not impressed I can maybe add like 4-5 extra atmospheres and then were back where we started, and I barely use more than 2 gigs of ram before the cous overload, So I think The cpu must be even stronger, my 2 cents Buy the strongest cpu you can find and then add ram , or buy a powermac

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Multiproccesing you say where can this beautiful button be found, Im working on SX2,

Edit: I found it , it has been doted already =(

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Intel Core2 Duo is by far the fastest processors out right now. I'd also recommend Corsair XMS memory, TWINX is great.

Current system that I am buying:


Intel Core 2 Extreme X6800
Intel 975X ATX Intel Motherboard
Western Digital Raptor 150GB 10k RPM SATA HDD
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD
Seagate Barracuda 500GB 7200 RPM SATA HDD
HP Carbonite-Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor
HP Carbonite-Black 24" Widescreen LCD Monitor
VisionTek X1900XTX
VisionTek X1900XTX
OCZ Gold Series 2GB DDR2 667
OCZ Gold Series 2GB DDR2 667



Mines just a lil' overboard

Gonna pwn games though

I have a new HP Pavillion laptop. It's a 2.0 GHZ core duo (i think the dual processor is a must).

The best thing about this laptop is that it has TWO hard drive bays. So I have one hard drive with regular windows that I use for everyday stuff, and the other hard drive with a stripped down, fine-tuned for music production installation.

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Originally posted by RoBDaWG The best thing about this laptop is that it has TWO hard drive bays. So I have one hard drive with regular windows that I use for everyday stuff, and the other hard drive with a stripped down, fine-tuned for music production installation.

you dont need 2 hard drives to do that you can do it by partitioning one drive.

bumping this old thread as its kinda to do with wot i waana ask.

basically wuld i get a HUGE difference upgrading my processor from a althon 3400 to a 4800+?

also ive seen alot of opteron processors around that you can overclock to althon fx processor standards, anyone done this? seem like it culd be a good investment. opteron 175 for £180 which apparently you can overcolck to althon fx 55 and for the same price i culd get a athlon 4800+


wot wuld be the best option?

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Originally posted by nutsan wot wuld be the best option?

I dunno. What would be the best option.

I keeed!

I'm going to build myself a new production computer within the next 8 months. Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor QX6700. It's in the pants!

Only because I own stock in Intel.

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Originally posted by nutsan bumping this old thread as its kinda to do with wot i waana ask. basically wuld i get a HUGE difference upgrading my processor from a althon 3400 to a 4800+? also ive seen alot of opteron processors around that you can overclock to althon fx processor standards, anyone done this? seem like it culd be a good investment. opteron 175 for £180 which apparently you can overcolck to althon fx 55 and for the same price i culd get a athlon 4800+ wot wuld be the best option?

Opties tend to overclock really well. I say tend, because with these things your mileage will always vary. You may get a chip that doesn't overclock that well. Or you might get lucky and bag one thats an overclock monster. Thems the breaks. I've known quite a few people on other forums buy Opties with the sole intention of overclocking the living fuck out of them, and I guess the majority of them get pretty close to what they expected out of it.

Just be aware that won't necessarily get FX-55 speeds out of it. This type of thing is never guaranteed.

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Originally posted by Derivative Opties tend to overclock really well. I say tend, because with these things your mileage will always vary. You may get a chip that doesn't overclock that well. Or you might get lucky and bag one thats an overclock monster. Thems the breaks. I've known quite a few people on other forums buy Opties with the sole intention of overclocking the living fuck out of them, and I guess the majority of them get pretty close to what they expected out of it. Just be aware that won't necessarily get FX-55 speeds out of it. This type of thing is never guaranteed.

hmmmmm

its just that an opteron is the same price as a althlon 4800+ so i was wondering how much of a difference it wuld be?

and also my main question is still how much of an improvement wuld i see from a 3400?