Conroe upgrades help!

[PP Mguire]

Your system should run everything. My LAN rig is crappier than that and it runs games max. Good advice, stay outa porn

 

[Nukem]

LMAOROTFL!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[meefle]

lol its not porn.... its something between my mobo and video card. I cant update my driver cuz then my comp wont boot and when i play certain games with my current driver it restarts and windows comes up with a driver error problem thingy (but thats not the subject). and like Nukem said.... its what i want and what i want is... A CONROE... NOT AMD, NOT A CURRENT INTEL!

 

[Nukem]

I know it sounds stupid... have you tried rebuilding from scratch? and get the latest BIOS and drivers? It sounds like something in the core OS might be corrupt...

 

[meefle]

havent tried new BIOS but yea... i've tried rebuildin, RMAin old parts..... crap like that.... thats why i need to get this stuff cause i cant stand not bein able to run limewire, HL2, CS:S, Deus Ex, etc. Thats y i'm in a hurry, the only game i can play now is RA2 Yuri's Revenge and Halo (o yea dont forgot Solitaire )

 

[Nukem]

what about internet spades??? LOL

try to update your BIOS... I mean... as P.P.Mac said... what you have now should run all the latest with no problems... Something sounds screwy to me...

 

[meefle]

lol yea i kno, also my mobo company also has some known issues with video card support (at least their older boards did and mine is kind of an older board) But i am goin to get a conroe anywayz even if i get this comp workin right cuz i will give these parts to my parents since they need a new comp.

 

[idiotec]

I was under the impression that Intel was only going to be using DDR2-533 except for the extreme edition which I believe has a 1333FSB and thus uses DDR2-667...although I heard these specs way back when conroe was just announced and have no idea how accurate they are now

Well, for 1:1 support you are correct, at stock speeds any ways, but just as a FSB 200 P4 had native DDR2 533 support, Conroe at FSB 266 with have native DDR2 667 support.

You get this through just running upward divider on the memory. As you would expect, running memory faster than the FSB does not improve bandwidth 1:1 with the frequency increase, but does produce some performance gain.

The other piece is of course overclocking, and any speed DDR2 will work, you just might not have the options to run the RAM at its full speed without overclocking.

Keep in mind that with the lower frequencies of Conroe paired with higher FSB, the multi's are low so FSB starts getting pretty high when you OC. If you look at what they have done so far, a E6600 has been doing 3-3.3Ghz on air. Let's say you get one that does 3.2Ghz, it would take a FSB of approximately 355 to get there. So that would mean a slight OC of DDR2 667, or an underclock of DDR2 800, but you might be able to tighten the timings a bit which has shown to help Conroe somewhat (this is assuming you run the RAM 1:1).

I am planning on going DDR2 800 as it will take any RAM question-ability out of the OC options. It also looks like Conroe has multies unlocked downward, in which case in the example of 3.2Ghz you could run DDR2 800 full speed 1:1 with an 8 multi.

Anyways, I babbled

 

[PP Mguire]

Technicaly Conroe IS current Intel Anywho you should just do a format and start from scratch. Should get all that porn off of there lol. Also when you do it install chispet drivers first, video, sound (if not onboard), then games. Of course other **** comes later.

 

[meefle]

alright thanks, i'll probalby get some 800 sticks (2Gb if i can). I'm hoping i can get the conroe to 3.2 or so with my scythe ninja and i hope the new DFIs will be nice too. I'll wait a couple days after they come out to see if i should get a DFI or MSI (the MSI looks promisin from the ppl on XS)

btw P.P. Mquire..... i kno how to install drivers and to install reformat once i get my new parts.... but i guess you never kno sometimes with some of the ppl on TF.

i have a question about video cards quick. Whats better in performance the X1900GT or the X1800XT (either 256MB or 512MB).