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I guess it's all about FPS/$ in the end though, whah?

Rumor was that this beast ("X58 sli Classified") was going to be released at the end of February, but like alot of things lately (my wife is still grumpy about sims3), it's been delayed. Not by much though- apparently second week of March. It will run 3X sli plus a physX GPU and it has PCI-e...

I like the design of this mouse- too bad about the software, but as for the weight- I really do think that there's nothing wrong with a light mouse -the associated illusion of cheapness is just a hang-up that we have. I don't think there's an advantage to having a heavier mouse, and in fact, I...

Well- I used to go to high school with a Rob Williams at Saint John High- if that be you, you're the right vintage.

Here's a couple I found on a worst album site that made me giggle:

I think Rob might be of the right vintage to remember this character- the last time you would have seen him was on Atlantic Gran dPrix Wrestilng. My friend actually has this record!

Nice review Rob! I really like having the four boards there together- and I enjoyed seeing the clear closeup photos- nice to see the board up close. The boards were pretty close, but the memory results were kinda interesting. And the intel the marginal, but fairly clear loser. I am...

I have heard in the past from a couple of people that when running two sticks of ram on this board always put them in slots 0 and 1 so I didn't bother to try two sticks in slots 2 and 3....but on reading the manual (I know, I know rtfm:p ) , I discovered that you can put them either in 0,1 or...

Thanks again (are you a rocket surgeon?:p ) The Ballistix pcbs certainly look like better quality- I'm running them right now at ddr2 1150 5-5-5-12, 2.3V- going for higher soon. Well I tried this, which is what I think you were suggesting: --I put in the firestix and reset the bios to...

Thanks!!- will try that out right now (not sure what you meant buy 'the loading of teh chipset drivers', but, I'll look around to see if I can figure that part out)- just FYI- when using just a pair- the firestix seem to be performing better than the ballistix - haven't tried may speeds over...

One module has 70201P levin on the pcb, and the other has 65001P levin. The batch # i s CL1117M.QB PN 72598 kit no BL12864AA1005.16FD3 I think I know what the problem is. The Firestix are binned as pc-5300!!- it allows for default settings of 200, 266, and 333MHz. (I know this isn't...

Thanks Rob- If I figure anything out, I'll post an update.

The Firestix are 6 layer too (I got that straight from the buffalo design engineer) It's odd- the buffalo seems to want to default to ddr2-667 (I've read that those GMH chips are originally designed for ddr2-667) so I've tried starting them up that way, but I've also tried ddr2-800 with...

Thanks for the quick reply, Rob- I went and tried what you suggested and a dozen other things and still no luck. I am anble to bott with one stick of buffalo together with one stick of crucial- so I'm suspecting that it might just be my first bad experience at the hands of a 680i, rather than a...

Hi- I have sitting here in front of me: two 1GB sticks of Buffalo Firestix pc-6400 4-4-4-9- 2.1V, and two 1GB stick of Crucial Ballistix pc-8000 5-5-5-15- 2.2V. I'm trying to figure out a way to get all four to boot in my 680i, but am having no luck- it won't post at all. I've tried starting...

When you say VDroop, do you mean the difference between what you set the voltage at in the Bios, and what the bios reports as "Current Value" (right next to the entered voltage)? I thought that was VDroop too, and told someone as much on the evga forum the other day, but I was chided for it...

Holy Camoly- I'm more impressed with the SuperPi time than the OC- I can't break 16 seconds at 3.9GHz (e6400)- good memory, and the extra 2MB Cache must count for alot with SuperPi

Thanks guys! and thanks for fixing the link.

I made a little build-log of my watercooling setup- check it out HERE

Yeah- I feel lucky to have this CPU- I hear the newer batches aren't overclocking ver well in general. Perhaps all these e6420s are just failed e6600s they've been binning away for a rainy day.