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savj14:
Would any of these bundles be good for overclocking and making a nice MAME macine?
http://www.directron.com/spring-motherboard-combo-6.html
http://www.directron.com/holidaycombo2.html
http://www.directron.com/holidaycombo8.html
Silverwind:
Upgrade arrived!
Core voltage is 1.280v.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=530032
Iron Maiden:
Hey peoples. I got myself a couple of goodies for my new MAME rig..
Core 2 Duo E8400
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R rev2.1
Gskill 2 Gig 800Mhz (might get 2 gig of 1066Mhz cuz I stole this from my main PC)
8500GT PCIe
My question is 1: will the 8500GT be ok? It should be right? I'll overclock the CPU to 4GHz so...? And 2: is 800Mhz ram ok cuz I'll just try and keep it at stock speed so as not to disrupt the overclock. My aim is to play all the MAME games that work at the moment..
Cheers
Steve
PS Great thread BTW :applaud:
taz-nz:
--- Quote from: savj14 on March 18, 2009, 04:19:51 pm ---Would any of these bundles be good for overclocking and making a nice MAME macine?
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Not really, almost any system can be overclocked to some degree, but to get a good overclock you need to get the basics right, that means a good motherboard, CPU, RAM and heatsink.
If your shopping a Directron I suggest the following:
Intel Core 2 Duo E7400
Cooler Master Hyper 212
Gigabyte GA-P45-DS3L motherboard
Corsair DDR2-800 2x1gb kit.
Total $297 less $13 mail in rebate on the ram brings you to $284, not as cheap as any of the combos but a better base for overclocking. You can use the old X300 you talked about in your earlier post for graphics, it should do the trick for MAME, but probably isn't Vista ready.
--- Quote from: Silverwind on March 18, 2009, 11:46:01 pm ---Upgrade arrived!
Core voltage is 1.280v.
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Very nice Volts, and great overclock too, probably has a more to give with a little more voltage. :applaud: :cheers:
I've really got to replace my old engineering sample C0 stepping E8500, it's likes the volts a little to much and I'd really want to be at 4.5ghz+ stable at sane voltage on a day to day basis.
--- Quote from: Iron Maiden on March 19, 2009, 12:58:38 am ---Hey peoples. I got myself a couple of goodies for my new MAME rig..
Core 2 Duo E8400
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R rev2.1
Gskill 2 Gig 800Mhz (might get 2 gig of 1066Mhz cuz I stole this from my main PC)
8500GT PCIe
My question is 1: will the 8500GT be ok? It should be right? I'll overclock the CPU to 4GHz so...? And 2: is 800Mhz ram ok cuz I'll just try and keep it at stock speed so as not to disrupt the overclock. My aim is to play all the MAME games that work at the moment..
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1) The 8500GT will run MAME no issues.
2) The DDR3-800 ram will be an issue unless you want to overclock it too, to get your E8400 with it's 9x multiplier to 4ghz you'll need to run a FSB of 445Mhz, which mean your RAM will end up running at 890mhz or DDR2-890, so I'd suggest the getting the DDR2-1066 ram, that way you don't have to run your ram out of spec to get to 4ghz and it also mean you can look at running a 500Mhz FSB with the CPU multiplier at 8x to gain a some more FSB preformance.
What heatsink are you planning on running ?
Iron Maiden:
--- Quote from: taz-nz on March 19, 2009, 04:49:47 am ---Hey peoples. I got myself a couple of goodies for my new MAME rig..
Core 2 Duo E8400
Gigabyte GA-EP35-DS3R rev2.1
Gskill 2 Gig 800Mhz (might get 2 gig of 1066Mhz cuz I stole this from my main PC)
8500GT PCIe
My question is 1: will the 8500GT be ok? It should be right? I'll overclock the CPU to 4GHz so...? And 2: is 800Mhz ram ok cuz I'll just try and keep it at stock speed so as not to disrupt the overclock. My aim is to play all the MAME games that work at the moment..
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1) The 8500GT will run MAME no issues.
2) The DDR3-800 ram will be an issue unless you want to overclock it too, to get your E8400 with it's 9x multiplier to 4ghz you'll need to run a FSB of 445Mhz, which mean your RAM will end up running at 890mhz or DDR2-890, so I'd suggest the getting the DDR2-1066 ram, that way you don't have to run your ram out of spec to get to 4ghz and it also mean you can look at running a 500Mhz FSB with the CPU multiplier at 8x to gain a some more FSB preformance.
What heatsink are you planning on running ?
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Thanks very much for your help.. Yes, I was unsure about the overclocking of the RAM as this Asus MB that I have as my main PC ( Asus P5N32-e SLI) allows me to run the RAM and the CPU at independent speeds. I've got my Q6600 Quad running at 4Ghz and I can run the Gskill 800 at 800Mhz... So this Gigabyte board is different in that respect? I have tried this Gskill ram right up to 910 but it does have the occasional lockup with it that high.. 890 is still a little high so I just leave it at 800 and have the timings at 4,4,3,5... Anywho....I'll look at some 1066Mhz stuff then.. Any brand will do seeing as I wont be overclocking it yeah? I was thinking of running a Cooler Master Geminii S Universal CPU Cooler. What do you think? At the moment I have the stock intel cooler from my Quad core bolted on.. Its a little bigger than a stock intel Dual Core cooler and has a bigger copper footprint, but as yet I havn't fired anything up cuz I'm waiting on the 8500GT...
Again, cheers for the help. I've been pointing many newbies to this thread... I think it should be put up on a pedestal.