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hellokitty[hk]
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I've only had one, small square of it stuck to the bottom of my cooler. Came with my E4600.
My first computer build - budget $800-$900
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red1776
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ahhh, the OEM thermal pad...now that stuff is worthless.
captaincranky
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I think we're coming from different points of reference. With the stock HSF right out of the box, my i3-530 runs about 40c. (That would be on a hot day). That being said, that self same 530 probably has the lowest idle current draw in the desktop world. (so why would it get hot)? Don't tell me about the "Atom" and such, I'm referring to real CPUs.
red1776
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ah, I was speaking of just the quality of thermal compound, not the i530 specifically...whats an Atom?
:wave:I thought he was talking about getting a i750?
captaincranky
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He is, but I think the stock cooler is beefier with that CPU. If all else fails you could try and find an old Pent "D" stock HSF. I think some of those, and the regular P-4s had a copper core. I stuffed a cooler from an 86 watt Celeron 356 on my E2200, that worked out pretty good. It is actually about 1 1/2 times as high as the E2200's. But then, I compute at the leisurely pace of the old man that I am.ah, I was speaking of just the quality of thermal compound, not the i530 specifically...whats an Atom?
I thought he was talking about getting a i750?
BTW, Microcenter was selling the Cooler Master Hyper 212 for $19.95 a couple of months back. When that cooler got great reciews, Newegg upped the price to 50 bucks.
The Hyper 212 is a socket 1156 cooler, so you don't think I'm getting too far afield. They're still selling it pretty cheap @ $29.95. http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0315397 Pity they're out of it at their warehouse, but it still shows up at the retail stores.
red1776
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As luck would have it, I was wandering around Micro center today getting a keyboard and a HSF for a customer build and the 212 was still $20.00. I was largely unaware of that place before you started talking about in here, They really have some great prices on a lot of things.
Rage_3K_Moiz
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If you're not gaming, I think the HD 5750 is still a bit of a waste. You can drop down to an HD 5450 without problems IMHO.
LinkedKube
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I ran it the other day with my brother before he headed off to class on his i7 rig. First time I saw 8 threads throttling up simultaneously.
LinkedKube
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Red I'm going to call and pull your noob card. I bought 5 intel ssd's for 94 usd each for a friend of mine in MC 3 weeks ago. He is now raging about super fast load times in mw2, and a w7 boot time of 22 secs from power on,(w7 something I've yet to buy as you know) we need to get you out of the shop more often.
hellokitty[hk]
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But then there's photoshop's GPU acceleration...idk.
red1776
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you don't know how right you are about the last sentence
:haha:. They don't advertise around here and it is tucked away off the main road. I am glad CC kept talking about them though, for $10.00 more on a Corsair HX 650 (than Newegg) its worth being able to take it home....of course my wife hates that its so close.
captaincranky
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OK listen, that's just plain stupid. If you need an i7 to run Blu-Ray on a computer, then maybe you should go buy a hundred dollar Blu-Ray player at Walmart, and use that.
Rage_3K_Moiz
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GPU acceleration isn't such a big deal; Photoshop is still, to a large extent, CPU-dependant. A more powerful GPU shouldn't make a big difference, performance-wise.
LinkedKube
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Hey old man, I was talking about photoshop, not blueray. Us young folk own ps3's we dont need blueray players.
captaincranky
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Well, why didn't you edit my quote to reflect that? Which brings me back to this, "was I right about Blu-Ray not being that hard to run"...?
As to 8 threads with Photoshop CS5, Adobe has a blatant and patent disregard for other people computers. The crap programming they're generating somewhere in the 3rd world is muddled, bloated, piggish, and buggy. To top that off, they think that they're the only people on the planet that correctly implement Open GL. The POS that Photoshop Elements Organizer has become is an abomination. They're using the open source data base, "SQLite", instead of M$ Access", and the program will barely generate thumbnails with anything less that an i3-530 4GBs RAM and a 64 bit OS, which incidentally it's not really compatible with anyway.
Oh, one last thing, Carrie Underwood had a few choice things to say about people with PS3s. And the last line of the chorus is, "the more boys I meet, the more I love my dawg"!
Rage_3K_Moiz
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2 sticks will work, but I don't know if the mobo supports both dual and triple-channel memory.
