Welcome to the world of 45nm technology!

[SuitsBlue]

tell them you paid for next day delivery, and that you have to work tomorrow. will they waive their delivery charge or reimburse your days lost wage.

shysters.

 

[Dylan]

Update on my computer. Unfortunately the original 4+Ghz overclock was doing fine. Stable in stress testing in Prime95, but now I loaded up some games and started upping the detail levels and it started wigging out a little. Had to back the clocks of to 3.6Ghz with a 1.21 V vcore. I did some digging as to why it was unstable, and I have isolated it to my RAM! I got DDR2 800 speed ram and with the FSB so high it was actually making the RAM unstable. So until I upgrade to some DDR2 1000 or 1066 then my CPU will remain at 3.6Ghz. Although I have shown what it will do. I think I could get it up higher as my temps were more than adequate (highest I hit under Prime95 load was around 45 deg C------PARTY!!!!), and I have a cheap but effective Artic Freezer Pro 7. Just think of the temps with a Zalman CNPS fan in there! w00t!!!!

In short. Get a 45nm chip, either the E8400 or the Xeon version, the E3110. They rock.

 

[SuitsBlue]

two different markets.

do you not have ram fins? and a quiet fan specifically modded just for them?

how noisy is your rig? and how often do you clean all the dust out of it? my pc picks up more dust than my dyson hoover.

 

[Dylan]

This is my RAM:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16820145175

This is my CPU cooler:

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186134

The RAM isn't overheating, it just can't cope with the higher Front-Side Bus that my CPU runs at at 3.8Ghz+. But the way the RAM and Cooler are oriented on the mobo, the cpu cooler sucks air in right through the RAM heat spreaders!

 

[Dylan]

Update!!!

My computer is finally finished for now!

I upgraded the video card (prezzie for my birthday!)

From this:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150183

To this bad boy!

http://www.newegg.com/product/product.aspx?item=N82E16814150267

It came with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. So if any of you have COD4 on the PC, I volunteer myself for target practice

COD4 only runs, maxed @ 118 fps