Yes i have sold my x6800 on E-bay for the same price i brought it for £380 notes i might be off line for a while, while i try to get hold of another processor. Skel do you know anything new about intels processors? i sold it cause i heard there are going to be price cuts. I really dont know what to get to replace it i might just buy a cheap E6600 for about £150 til i have decided. I might wait till the new 1333 fsb ones appear. Also thinking about Quad but they are too expensive atm.
Cause i know this is going i thought i would have one last blip to see what i could squeeze out of it and as i speak im running at 3.82ghz @ 1.45v on stock! its going to be a shame to see it go but i know now was the time to sell otherwise ill just lose money on it!
Any ideas on cheap meantime processors?
I have sold my x6800
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BlacKBlazE
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Re: I have sold my x6800
Well either wait for the price drops on the old processors. Which an E6600 would be a good buy or get the E6320 or E6620 when they come out. Not sure what the price is going to be.
I have the E4300 which is 1.8Ghz default clock, mine is running at 3.0GHz at the moment but I will be overclocking it a bit more. The CMOS clear jumper is right under my graphics card so it is extremely hard to reset the CMOS. So I got a nifty little switch that goes on a PCI slot that I can just flick on for 10 seconds then turn off to reset the CMOS
I was actually considering selling my E4300 on ebay to someone who didn't know about the price cuts then getting an E4320 or maybe the E6320 for the same price. But I think I will just stay with the E4300 and save myself the bother.
STALKER which is supposed to be excellent on dual cores (and quad) doesn't really work well on them at all. Although I am sure that is just the game. It either uses 100% of core 1 and 0% on core 2 or 50% on each.
Dual core is sufficient...for now, no need for Quad.
And black....AMD FTL!!
I have the E4300 which is 1.8Ghz default clock, mine is running at 3.0GHz at the moment but I will be overclocking it a bit more. The CMOS clear jumper is right under my graphics card so it is extremely hard to reset the CMOS. So I got a nifty little switch that goes on a PCI slot that I can just flick on for 10 seconds then turn off to reset the CMOS
I was actually considering selling my E4300 on ebay to someone who didn't know about the price cuts then getting an E4320 or maybe the E6320 for the same price. But I think I will just stay with the E4300 and save myself the bother.
STALKER which is supposed to be excellent on dual cores (and quad) doesn't really work well on them at all. Although I am sure that is just the game. It either uses 100% of core 1 and 0% on core 2 or 50% on each.
Dual core is sufficient...for now, no need for Quad.
And black....AMD FTL!!
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Re: I have sold my x6800
Download and run SuperPi and see how long it takes your athlon to calculate pi to 1million decimal places. I would guess you get around 30seconds or so.
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19seconds on the slowest core2duo. 
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my cpu is running @ 3.5ghz atm and it took 36 seconds?
Super PI is single threaded, so its relevance as a measure of performance in the current era of multi-core processors is diminishing quickly. As the calculation times become faster and faster, Super PI is also becoming a rather poor stability test due to the need for a stability test to run long enough to stress the hardware. Try Orthos or OCCT for their stability testing since those are multithreaded programs.
Super PI is single threaded, so its relevance as a measure of performance in the current era of multi-core processors is diminishing quickly. As the calculation times become faster and faster, Super PI is also becoming a rather poor stability test due to the need for a stability test to run long enough to stress the hardware. Try Orthos or OCCT for their stability testing since those are multithreaded programs.
Re: I have sold my x6800
36 seconds on your X6800?? That is wrong.
SuperPI isn't supposed to test out your hardware, it's just a benchmark. The faster it is the faster the time will be.
SuperPI isn't supposed to test out your hardware, it's just a benchmark. The faster it is the faster the time will be.