My Computer

[MAD-16V]

Fingers crossed you can fit it all in there

[ROCCO]

if you tell it to.

Yes if you tell it too....or if the company release a patch enabling the support for dual or quad. Even still you need either Vista or Windows 7 to fully use it. XP doesn't support it its too old. For an every day user that obivously isn't as L33T as you they won't know how to edit there .exe to make it work with dual core or quad cores.

[ROCCO]

Where are you getting your information rocco?
Maybe you should look at more recent sites?

Crysis / GTAIV / Call of duty / oblivion / fallout 3 / street fighter 4 / resident evil 5 .

I could go on ..

All of these games support dual core

GTAIV will even utilize all 4 cores on a quad processor.

Even old games like quake 3 and quake 4 will use dual core if you tell it to.


Get factual evidence that games or applications do not support dual or quad core processing before commenting again.

EDIT : In fact Assasins creed will only run on a dual core and nothing less , It is a requirement.

What if your not into games?? And your not running any virtual machines?

[HappySlapper82]

Ok so I just got back from the city and here's what I purchased

• Intel E8400 Dual core CPU @ 3.0Ghz 6mb cache 1333Mhz FSB
• 4x 1GB Kingston DDR2-800 RAM modules
• 2x Seagate SATA 500GB HDD (I am going to run RAID 0)
• Gigabyte 1GB 9800GT Nvidia GFX card hardware overclocked
• Shaw 860W tri-fan PSU

So fingers crossed the poor old HP Media center can cope

Was a non starter. Seems my mother board won't take the new 45 chips. My only option was a Q6600 Quad core but it seems that is no longer available anywhere. Oh sorry 1 little store had a "practically" new one and he wanted $330 for it!!!

[ROCCO]

What board do you have? If you look on the boards website someitmes a simple bios update will fix the problem

[HappySlapper82]

What board do you have? If you look on the boards website someitmes a simple bios update will fix the problem

Not that simple. It's an ASUS IPIBL-LA (Berkely) which is an OEM board that ASUS does not support. Only HP supports this board and they have no intentions of updating the BIOS beyond the current update.

[Kudrow]

I believe I've posted this once or twice before...

my beasts,

2x LG Flatron 24" LCD
AMD Phenom 9950
8GB Ram
Radeon 4870 1GB
Auzen X-Plosion 7.1 connected to Sony 5.1

and my lovely little toy,
2Ghz 13" Macbook

And a shitty power board

[glider]

And a shitty power board

have since upgraded it to a shitty 6 plug powerboard

[hazrd]

no surge protection?



i run a UPS for my gear.. cant afford to lose any more data like my last surge.... 250GB, 5 years of collected data... gone

[HappySlapper82]

I got one! I found the only brand spankin new E6850 core 2 chip (4M Cache, 3.00 GHz, 1333 MHz FSB) on ebay and I won it for only 130AUD! lol