errr ... is 5.4 score for vista considered good? ...how does the rating goes?
seeing from ur siggy, ur system is already like king of the hill ...but vista only gives u 5.4 aah? ...aiyaaa damn vista

u already bought ori vista kah? ...

This post has been edited by mmohdnor: Feb 7 2007, 11:09 PM

if u see the screenshot u can understand it clearly

vista rated the system using 5 main components:

1) processor (calculations per second)

2) memory (memory operations per second)

3) graphics (desktop performance for windows aero)

4) gaming graphic (3d business n gaming graphics performance)

5) primary hdd (disk data transfer rate)

so each of the component will have their own subscore.. but the base score is determined by lowest subscore, which is in my case 5.4 (for my primary hdd)..

the question here is why vista choose lowest subscore as its base score? not the average of the 5 subscores?

IMO it's becoz microsoft wants us to make sure what is the bottleneck of our system. let say like mine, for the other 3 components i got 5.9 each. and for 1 component i got 5.7. so the bottleneck is my hdd, and if i want to improve my pc performance, i need to buy a better hdd like raptor or scsi haha..

thx bro for da info..hv u tried new bios?hows?better then 0801?

Ok, I got an E6600 with DS3. If you were me, which RAM will you buy? I'm going to overclock to at least 3.2Ghz.

1) Corsair 6400 XMS2 CL4 4-4-4-12 2 x 1GB = RM1150
2) Mushkin 6400 HP2 CL4 4-5-4-11 2 x 1GB = RM1150
3) Kingston 6400 HyperX CL4 4-4-4-12 2 x 1GB = RM990

go buy same ram like me.. mushkin EM2. cheaper than hp2 but i've tested 3 pairs of this EM2 and all can do high fsb with quite respectable timing

Are you overclocking your E6600? what speed you got now? your system is stable is it because you are using watercooling? I'm not planning to use watercooling.

should i just top-up RM100 to get a Micron chip? fyi EM2 is using Aeneon and HP2 is using micron D9GMH.

This post has been edited by kando: Feb 8 2007, 02:05 AM

me will go kingston hyper-x... thought corsair xms2 is cheaper than hyper-x now??? i never oc my ram... maybe only little so dunno much bout ram but 3.2ghz (around 360 fsb), any 667 ram will do mah... but if going super tight timing, divider than... no idea lor...

already BIOS to 0803, kinda ok laa
but havent thru heavy oc yet
maybe need to change my RAM 1st

kinda fed-up with my cheapo KVR

agree with irenic...
i already answer some of ur Q at DDR2 Discussion thread....if u wanna go around 3.2Ghz...i dont think u need WC...just buy 3rd party air cooling heatsink for better performance than the stock intel...

This post has been edited by flatfinger: Feb 8 2007, 09:46 AM

yeah..come on bro get new ram..huhu wat it wud be waiting ur gud news oc on this new bios..hope perfom better w/o bugs

w00t?? only waiting for me arr?

urs dunt want OC??

hehehhe...he's waiting for his tuniq to arrived

huhu yeah waiting it arrived..damn tempting to oc but too hot on stock cooling now

will update once i got my hsf..if not im not waiting urs la..hahaha

i'm using ab9 with e6600es, now oc at 3.006ghz with stock voltage n zeppelin 667 (4-4-4-12) rams without any problem (run superPI, prime, orthos, toast, occt)... i tried 370 fsb but only manage with 1.5 vCPU, 2.2 vdimm, 1.40 vmch n 1.65 vICHIO... stock cooler... i didn't bother to change the hsf coz i'm in aircond room, so till it hit over 70 celcius than i'll change... have any1 tried higher fsb with their e6600??? especially es??? i tried at 380 but i max out the vmch n vichio with 1.56 vcpu... n 2.3 vdimm... i passed superpi but failed orthos n the rest... planning to change to hyper-x 6400... coz i'm only wanted to max out at around 400+ fsb... can it be done n has any1 did it b4??? pls share ur experience... tq...

hurmm.. 400 x9 = 3.6Ghz
w00t, nice clock but to make it stable, i dont think so

Does anyone have problem like Crash 2 Desktop when running applications while in onverclocked setup? I mean using Core 2 Duo CPU

no probs with me.
it could be the instability of ur system. not enuf vcore or something

dude, dont u think this shud go into the Intel Core2 Duo thread?

bro, what your processor stepping? can I know?

i'm more interested with the mobo can go more than the proc so maybe here v can discuss it??? i can get a lot info for ds3 (mine still RMA) n 965pt ther but seems like not many ppl using abit n not much info supplied in ther... any abit user care to share???