$20 is a waste of money for that card. Save the $20 and stick with what you have, or add $10-15 more and you can find a used 8800 or 9800 or a 250 with more than double the performance.
I was referring to IPC / total throughput. Not threads. If you compare the benchmarks for these two processors, at stock clocks, the Sandy has nearly double the throughput of the 920 Phenom II. The 8-core metaphor might not be the best, but I was trying to communicate the relative IPC to the OP.
The best chip on the market is Sandy Bridge, for per-clock performance. Overclocking your 920 is a good idea, but won't put you within striking distance of the 2500K. The 2500K is essentially a 4.2Ghz chip (ie. it runs that speed with stock voltage). At stock settings, the 2500K is like an...
The SB-E overclock thread is here, you can post there for help from people with similar boards.
http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2207869
4.2Ghz should be about as easy as raising the multiplier to 42 (assuming base clock of 100), and maybe bumping load line calibration one notch...
The Matrix 580s are extremely quiet both idle and load. I have 2 in SLI, and I cannot tell they are there; the rear and front 120mm chassis fans are the loudest thing in my build.
For a new purchase, I wouldn't go less than 500W. Nothing wrong with the CX500, and it comes with two 6+2 pin plugs.
I've had no problems with the CX430 model, running 2600K + GTX 560, however, it just doesn't give much headroom for the future.
Having a weak processor that will bottleneck a video card still isn't a reason not to buy the right video card. Buy as much video card as you can afford, and you can bring it forward when you change the motherboard + chip eventually.
The challenge is how to use your $200 budget to get playable...
You will be fine with the Hyper (EVO) with a 2500K. They are easier to cool than the 2600K.
A EVO will even take the 2500K to 5.0Ghz as long as you aren't planning on running BOINC or Folding @ Home, or some other 24/7 crunching. The load temps on a 2500K under a 212 EVO at 5Ghz are around 75C...
So help me parse this email from Intel level 2 support.
I bolded the items that lead me to believe the BIOS fix is indeed a software patch for a bug that needs to be fixed in hardware. Besides that, there is no BIOS update for my board that I see addresses the problem.
I noticed a distinct improvement with site performance after the migration, however, I also noticed a distinct drop in service quality in private message notifications. I've been tracking it for a while now, and it is more than just intermittent.
Actually, believe it or not, Intel is telling customers that even first stepping of SB-E does have VT-d capability, and just needs a BIOS update to use correctly. This goes for 3930K and 3960X. The 2500k and 2600K chips do not have the capability period.
Yes, exactly as AK47 says. The ASUS boards put up the RAID notice before some slower monitors even switch out of energy saving mode, which annoys the heck out of me. I have some older Samsung 21" LCDs that I cannot use when setting up these boards. Try just hitting CTRL-I or holding it down...
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