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except for video editing. When it comes to cpu speeds, video editing is really the only thing that really makes a difference when it comes to processor speeds. ALL of my video editing software except for one program has options to enable multi-threaded\multi-core support which allows me to encode video at such a high rate. Anything else i do on this pc, the FSB and the memory have to control the rest of the normal operations in terms of speed. In a few months, unless something else comes out that fits the bill by then, i'm gettin 2 4870s in crossfire. I seen multiple benchmarks where 2 4870s were faster than a single 4870x2, pulled less power, and were a little cheaper so i cant go wrong there. I do understand though, most games may only be written for 1 or 2 cpus at teh most so single core speeds rule over multi lower speeds. I understand what u are sayin.

UPDATE!! Just OC'ed to Quad 3.5 = 14ghz combined. Benched in Everest - I have Finally Beatin the First Dual Quad Core Xeon Processor of 2 in the list! It's impossible for me to beat the other one but it was my goal to beat one of them. What i just beat is a system that has 2 Quad core chips on 1 motherboard. The bench was FPUs, specifically what is used for video encoding. Just beat her, I'm happy as hell now, hehe. The 2 chips i just beat were Dual Xeon L5320s 8 cores of 1866mhz clock = 14.9ghz... surprisingly i beat it with a lower clock... AND underclocked memory at the moment! I'm running my memory underclocked so if i run into stability issues with these fast OC times, i know it's not the memory.

temperature efficient... my Q9300 is 45nm and it doesn't like high voltages compared to the q6600... Lot's of people have their Q6600 running as high as 1.5v, mine is still not over 1.3v yet and i'm 950mhz higher per core over stock speed. VID is 1.2375. Here is my results- Now, hehe, my 3d, and SM scores suck because i only have a $55 video card in here. this pc isn't ready for gaming yet, that i can say outloud obviously. What it is currently geared toward is just pure processing power capable of encoding video at high rates of speed and it does so very nicely. If you look at that pic, you will notice my CPU score. If you look to the right, i even beat an OC'ed E8400 at 4400MHz by almost 900 points. I don't really know how the point system works, wish we were comparing Everest to compare but i know it cost money so i understand. I'm happy so far, still tweakin so not done yet. I've been able to encode video so far with a 1 apss of up to 2,600 FPS! That's an 80:1 ratio! For every 1 sec of time that has elapsed, the pc has passed 80 seconds of video. Now, when actually encoding, the FPS drops some since that is when it does it's actual writing. The most it's gone up to so far is 880 FPS, that's still a 29.3:1 ratio. In lamen's terms, i can backup an entire 7.7gb DVD-9 to 4.37gb DVD-5 with 2 passes in less than 8 minutes. My last pc, hehe, Sempron 2800... it took about 2.5 hrs to do the same thing, lol. YOU MAY HAVE TO REFRESH THE PAGE IF THE PIC ABOVE ISN'T BIG ENOUGH. Photobucket resized it on me and i didnt know, it's fixed now.

Car audio... might want to disregard my post as well, thought you were referring to home audio too, hehe

go with 15.5 cubes net for 2 18s. Multiply height x width x depth, then divide by 1728 to get cuft.

ok, i'm downloading 3dmark06 v1.10. I'll be postin some pics of results soon. I still cant believe that's your core temp but then again, i've always heard that quad runs hotter than dual, but that's insane if it's that much difference.

pssssh.... Be the first to Overclock your home audio setup while maintaining stability, hehe. Benchmark your setup with an SPL meter, hehe. You better be doin 130s and i dont care if it's DBs or GHz either.

same here, i still got a 5yr old asus here, it has OC abilities but if u are planning on goin high up, it doesnt have all the voltage settings required to get the most stability and control over precise areas as this new board i have does.

Is that Core temp or CPU temp? that def sounds like CPU temp to me. My CPU temp with my overclock right now is only - 22C at 19% work load I dont know my max temp for CPU because it's directly irrelevant to safety. Yours is already dual 3.0 stock so you'll def get higher speeds on your single cores, 1.2 over per is Terrific! I like to compare so i can have a comparison. Do you have Everest 4.60 Ultimate? If you do not, let me know a benchmarking tool we can compare tests with. I'm curious to compare. I know the battle of the cpus out there are the E8400 vs Q6600 vs Q9300 so this should be interesting.

hehe, i dont even wana go Graphics on this card i have... It doesnt have a fan on it yet it idles at 131F and maxes at 174F during gameplay... that's ridiculous. It's already at 750mhz Core\1000mhz RAM. I have a program that can adjust it's voltage just like a cpu but havent researched OCing graphic cards yet. Those little software progs that come with graphics cards to OC them are not stable and will only cause excessive heat generation due to the fact that you can not control voltage. I run my software that came with it just to monitor the temp on my other monitor.

if u think its the remote, get a relay, go to 12volt.com and get a diagram of how it should be wired and wire everything to the relay, relay must be grounded and ran directly to the battery as well as the remote line will just be used to activate the relay. See if that fixes it.

yea, i've been goin over all my other pcs i've built but notice that their mobos i chose are very restrictive on what settings can be changed. Like this one mobo i have, only thing i can change on it is the RAM timings... that isn't overclocking at all really, hehe. This board i have, Asus P5Q Pro, i've got someone else online that just purchased it because it has literally every possible setting for OC-ing and this, for price reasons, is Asus's budget board, but man does it come with a LOT of features. You can get it for around $130-140. It def. beats their other boards that range all the way up to $400 for the price.

if u want some money back, cancel it and contact squaretrade for a warranty. If it was a brand new legit purchase, they'll sell you a 3yr warranty for 10% of what u paid for it.

I've caught a sub on fire before, bout 6 yrs ago. Smoke was rollin out of both ports. Burnt straight through the spider at both terminal leads. Cause- excessive clipping below tuning. Time taken to cause this once bass started - approximately 20 seconds.

you can also try www.amprepaircenter.com They are in Ohio. Also, PM me about the subs if you're gettin them this weekend.

if u mean good as in rated power, it's just a hair shy of doin what it is rated at, if u give it just an itty bitty push of clipping, it will definitely do rated power. Tested do to around 1947w @0.5 ohms, rated to do 2kw at 0.5 ohms to let u kow, 80% efficient. if u buy from qualitycaraudio.com, you'll get full 3yr warranty through lanzar. If u dont, then go to squaretrade and get your warranty through them for 2 yrs.

Well, this PSU i am refering to, i'm thinkin about buyin it for my new pc i just built because it only has 1 rail. They have an article about it somewhere on their site about that PSU and why it's so much better than multi-rails, bla bla bla. That's what got me thinkin about this. I just don't understand why a PSU of such magnitude can be so cheap compared to bench supplies.

this topic is interesting to research about. IT is better off saying, good luck finding a bench power supply able to handle the amount of amps a decent amp will draw for the money... All bench supplies i have seen stop around 55 amps and are over $500. That's too much money for a project. Now, a company called Silverstone makes very nice PSUs and they just so happen to have a 1,000w PSU with single 12v rail at 80A for $189 after rebate. That makes for an interesting project if i can find the proper information for doing this and even if it's safe.

Well, i just got power back after 2 days of no power from the winds of Ike. One of my pc's PSUs is fried. Another one of my pcs is having random so called software crashed. A 5.1 amp in my room is completely fried. My KVM switch is damaged. My 51" TV is completely fried. One of my surge protectors is fried. Everything that got damaged was on protectors?!?! This just goes to show you that protectors are somewhat worthless. My ps2 was wired directly into the all and it's fine... go figure. So far, repair costs are about $800-1300.

I am trying to learn and since i have nothing to tell me whether i am understanding anything i "Assume" to be true or not, i need guidance, hehe. We all know what a disk array is, a backplane, etc....I want to build my own and have the edge that it will be cheaper compared to it's expandability potential. I need it to be standalone so lets start from scratch and fill me in on anything here. I will acquire a case with many 5.25 external bays for the purpose of using backplanes. Found an awesome deal for a backplane that uses 3 bays for 4 SATA drives for under $100 with great reviews so it's sold me on that. Now, without a motherboard required, i install a PSU that is strong enough to power as many drives as i want. I do the PSU wire trick so i can turn on and off the system via kill switch on the PSU itself. Question #1- Is it safe to power off all the drives via the PSU switch when i am done with the drives? I do not know what's different when it comes to doing a hard shutdown(kill switch) or when using an OS and letting it shut down Now, i have the backplane installed with all proper wires feeding into it... Let's say i have 4 drives, for example. Can I do the following with success? Run 4 sata cables from the backplane into this- Please read description Then run them out of that case via that bracket into a real computer using the SAME bracket? Then take it's 4 internal ports directly down to the motherboard? Or use that bracket and run all 4 cables out of it into this- SATA External Port Multiplier Official Website Then from there.. into an esata to internal SATA bracket that would run directly to sata port on motherboard. Remember, if you forget or do not know, this is to NOT require a motherboard in the external storage system and NO PCI RAID controllers of any kind in a pc that it connects to. Any pc it connects to will have RAID support on the motherboard. Also note - ALL drives will always be ran JBOD and JBOD only so if i list any type of wiring configuration that may make that impossible, let me know.

Found out that somehow the low and high limit for the generator to run at had been locked somehow to the low limit. What happened is the generator was then only putting out about 105v but also at 50hz. This would force electronics to start drawing more current to try and work properly thus causing excessive current draw and smoke, etc. we are looking at attempting to install a 100A single phase line reactor that one of my friends might be able to get.

i still wish i won it... it weighed 101 lbs, not that heavy at all for that size.

Well, when my city lost power from Ike's winds, our generator somehow malfunctioned and damaged a lot of my equipment that was on surge protectors... We are in the process of getting hard-wired protection, regulators and new protectors so that should take care of all that. Anyway, it damaged a PSU, my razor, 1 surge protector, my 51" rear projection tv and some plugs. Well, after a week of researching and researching, i'm slowly getting things back out of my pocket and in about 25 minutes, hopefully i'll post on here a deal of a lifetime but if i dont win this item i'm bidding on, then i don't care. I had planned on upgrading one of my pcs before this happened... I'm still expecting too especially now! I just won me a Quad 2.5ghz processor(Intel Q9300) on ebay for $198 ShiPPeD! Newegg is going to be shipping me an Asus board that supports ATI Crossfire with 4 GB of Corsair DDR2 1066 memory for only $290 for both the board and memory. I'll be postin back soon on this "item" i'm trying to win for an ungodly low price. Let's see what happens.

ehh.. i missed it but some other people just got a deal of a lifetime. 60" Pioneer Plasma TVs for $1559.00 shipped Brand New! I was only $30 behind.. oh well.

I will sit about 8-9ft away and i am trying to stay in the $900~$1200 range. If i went as high as $1,300... it better be for a real good reason. Again, i would go higher but this is an unexpected purchase so the funds are spontaneous.