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I honestly have to go look in my Device Maneger to see, its been so long....
Abit Nforce2 Ultra Board
Barton Mobile@2400 (think it was 1800mhz stock)
1GB PC3200
*New GForce 6800 GT@Ultra
2 80GB 7200 SATA Hitachi Drive in Raid0 with 8mb cache each
Some DVD Drive
32x Burner
and my 5 or 6 maybe 7 year old SBLive Value sound card!
Building 2.4GHz celeron-D system for my mum with dual channel ddr on i865. Basically a upgrade for her older PIII-t @ 1.2GHz.
Celeron-D's are about like the first PIV's performence wise. I would have made her a tbred or sempron system if I would not have bought the celeron-D first thinking it would work in a Dell i845 mobo.
I have been building a few AMD systems these days. Not bad
Barton 2500+
ASUS A7N Delux
ATI Radeon 9800 Pro
SATA 37Gb Western Digital Hard drive
Audigy2 Platinum Pro (I am a musician)
Delta 1010 8 channel audio PCI recording
1Gb DDR400 RAM
Laptop IBM T40 (1.5GHz)
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Barton XP2500+ @ 2.11GHz
Asus A7N8X-X
1GB PC3200
GeForce 4 Ti4200@4600ish specs
SB Live Value (good cards, hey Dean )
60 and 80GB Seagate Barracudas
and all the rest...
My Barton used to run fine at 2.2GHz, but my Asus board has some kind of fault where the memory won't run over 192MHz when a DIMM is in a slot other than DIMM3 (and I just upgraded from a single 512MB the other week). I always thought it was my stick of Twinmos being a bit incompatible, so it's too late now to send the board back
Anyway, I don't anticipate changes those system specs for a while. Maybe when dual cores are a bit more standard
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Athlon 64 2800+
1xWD 1200BB, 1xMaxtor 200GB SATA
Asus K8N-E
2x512MB Corsair XMS3200
Klipsch Pro Media 2.1
Radeon 9800 Pro, Dell 1801FP - WinTV Theater
Sony CRX320E Combo Drive, Pioneer A04
Microsoft Natural Keyboard Pro - Microsoft IntelliMouse Optical
Win XP Pro SP2
Athlon64 3000+ Newcastle
MSI K8N Neo Platinum NF3 250gb
512mb PC4000 HyperX (which won't hit DDR500 on this board, %%$#@!)
AOpen GeForce FX5900XT flashed to 480/800 (stock 390/700)
SB Live! 5.1 digital
40gb IDE Maxtor (which I might replace with a SATA drive)
Antec TruePower 430W
Red and Blue cold cathodes in a Antec LanBoy case.
So far, so good. It's a little strange dealing with a cpu with an IMC, but I'm getting an idea of what I'm doing finally.
Whats the difference "User Wise" with an IMC vs. Non IMC, I would think alot better speed in memory intensive stuff like photoshop ect...?
I use photoshop quite a bit on this A64 3000+ laptop. Can't say the IMC seems to do much, though. Pretty much, whatever I do either fits in RAM and is instantanious (at least to human perception) or hits the scratch disk, and takes a long, long time.
I can vouch for the 5400 RMP mobile drives though. When I turned the Fujisu HP sent me into a USB2 external and replaced it with this 5400 RMP Seagate, those scratching operations really did get quite a bit quicker. Also lost 15 mins of battery life, but it still has about 3:40 so I'm satisfied.
User wise, just figuring out how to OC it, setting good memory timings, etc. The HT bus can be a mystery as well. You'd think that OCing the HTT would result in a faster HT bus, but from what I've read, your OCing success changes little whether you reduce it or not. I have a certain familiarity with the "traditional" full-northbridge boards, so figuring out how to work the IMC is the tricky part. Maybe I'm just ignorant about it. So far, I've had little time to practice, since I've been working 16 hour days most of the week and might do it again tomorrow. Darn those pesky ice storms.
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