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Originally Posted by reignofchaos There is only one board and its called the Striker Extreme. The other is the P5N32-E SLI. The only difference between the two is a backpanel display, onboard switches for power on/reset etc and a slightly more tweakable bios. The Striker is simply a waste of cash when the P5N32-E SLI can do what it can. |
First of all u r wrong there are two boards Striker & Striker Extreme, there is a very small difference between them, go check it out urself..
Secondly yes u r right that P5N32-E SLI is an good alternative to Striker extream but it is for budget users....as many hardcore gamers & enthusiast still prefer Striker Extream....because its overclocking ability is more than that of P5N32-E SLI.
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Originally Posted by reignofchaos Alienware makes some of the ****tiest systems on the planet. Its obvious you've never used any. Their QA is so poor that they have the highest number of complaints registered per system in the industry. Then don't get me started on how poor their after sales service is. Go buy one and you'll know . |
India is in there restricted zones, so i'll never get hands on Alienware, so u may be right there..but i'll defenatly go check out there systems..
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Originally Posted by reignofchaos Rubbish. The quads can't overclock as much as dual cores. An E6850 will overclock to 4GHz or more on air while getting a quadcore to clock more than 3.6 or so on air is hard... very very hard. In single or dual threaded apps, the dual core will hand the quad its posterior. You have to remember that more than 95% of the applications on PCs still belong to this category. Hell even at the same clock speeds, the quad will be slower than the dual core cos of scheduling issues. Plus one has to remember Amdahl's law which gives an upper bound to the expected speedup cos of parallelism. Basically means increasing the number of cores on a CPU improves performance sub linearly.
Infact your so called best of the best Striker Extreme has severe issues overclocking quad cores to more than 400FSB i.e. 3200MHz. To overclock quads properly, the board needs a GTL Ref chip and nearly all NF 680i boards lack this. Basically means no quad core overclocking. Been there, done that... 680i boards are absolute crap for quad cores and the bigger more hopeless thing is that they can't support the 45nm cpus at anything more than stock.
What are you trying to prove here? As I said earlier the E6850 will be way way faster than the Q6600 in single and dual threaded apps. In a limited domain, the Q6600 will be faster.
Best of luck... I'd rather spend my 1200$ on something more useful. |
I know that E6850 will be a way faster than Q6600 because of its greater FSB & Clock rate but when both overclocked Q6600 is way ahead of E6850, & also don't forget the Go Stepping in Quad Core Processors, now i am not going to give u every benchmark.
there are only 2 Quad Core processors i.e Q6600 & Q6700 which has less FSB & Clock rate than E6850 other than that comes an Extream series(QX) of Quad Core which is not comparable to Core 2 Duo because they r way way way faster.
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as far as QX9650 is concerned than i would definatly going to buy that as i am insane user buddy & spend as many as buckets of money..on my system..so no more words here.
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According to that generalization, a 7100GS is faster than an X1900XT . Do you think that is true?
The 8800 cards are the only cards till date since the Geforce 4 series cards where NVIDIA has actually outperformed ATI. If you have no clue about the video card world, please don't spew rubbish over here. Go compare a NVIDIA 7900 GTX with an ATI X1900XT. The NVIDIA chip will be absolutely murdered.
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See buddy as i said earlier it all depends upon the taste & budget,
& for the GPUs i'll always prefer Nvidia Geforce 8 series, as thay are absolutley way ahead of ATI
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8800 u know is the king, so please for me ATI is nothing,
till one day when ATI will able to outperform NVIDIA then i would take it...
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for u & all ur friends best of luck in future....