Sorry for the late reply, I was busy the whole day migrating data of all my hard disks to the new 160 GB hard disk. In the last 2 years my 40 GB external HD is empty for the first time.
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hey gx...congrats on purchase of ur new pc..
btw would you mind posting some benchmark results..preferrably wheatstone & dhrystone performance?
Thanx, I m out of touch from the benchmarking stuff, can you tell me how to do the above mentioned benchmark? The only benchmark I got with me right now is Cinebench (As this is the only benchmark I understand *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/10.gif) or Photoshop Filter tests.
The system is really fast & responsive with Vista SP1. Although I am using Onboard Intel GMA X3100 but other then 3ds Max nothing else is slow here. Even 720p HD videos play fine.
How much did you get E6550 and DG31PR for?
Rs 11, 200.
Seems that vendors in lucknow are quite co-operative
Lolz...they are the least co-operative. The vendor is my friend, he opened his shop & sales stuff on our recommendation only & I always buy stuff from him only so he gives me & my friends the best deal possible cos he knows that if he is loosing Rs 1k in my case, then he will earn 10k from the people to whome i recommend his shop....
It's just business.
BTW gx u shd hav gotten a e8200
Nah, I don't need it & neither I had the money to buy it. E6550 is good enough for next 4 years easily. I will upgrade the Memory to 4 GB (maximum supported in my motherboard) with 2 X 2 GB DDR2 800 MHz RAM from Kingston later in about 1 or 1.5 years when prices come down. 32 bit Vista cannot use 4 GB RAM properly, but 32bit Vista + SP1 slipstreamed can see as well as use 4 GB RAM properly. I did not even need to re-activate Windows, it worked fine automatically.
The OS & Applications are now configured properly. I won't be writing a review as review of similar configs are available already everywhere.
The SMPS is a generic 500W SMPS which is doing it's work for now,
I will be buying a branded SMPS next month along with Graphics card & LCD Monitor.
My Windows experience index is 3.3
, due to the weakest link being the graphics card
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What should be the temprature like? I tried everest to see the temprature but I don't know whether it is showing properly or now cos it shows Aux temprature as 124C, now one thing I know...my room is not at 124 C *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/24.gif. These temprature were taken 5 mins after a Cinebench test.
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Something good I like in this CPU is on demand clock speed reduction. Just like AMD Cool & Quite, Intel EIST decreces the clock speed to 1,200 MHz when system is under less stress. I am using the stock Intel Fan which I did not expect to be this small, seems like it is made by cooler master OEM.
I m trying to learn RMClock utility to configure the system. What should I do to properly benchmark?
Here are some pics of the CPU, it;s not worth showing righ now as the motherboard is almost empty *gigasmilies.googlepages.com/10.gif
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anyway whats your need ?? I mean these boards have different purpose so whats the need ??