Which PC will be faster?

xrapidx

xrapidx

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Hi Guys

I have the following two PCs and need to decide whichto use as a workstation, and which to use as a media center.

PC1:
Intel D915GUX <-- keep getting page not founds from MTN on this board.
Intel 3GHz CPU
2x 512MB 533MHz DDR2 <-- The board takes 533, can anyone tell me if 4x 1GB 667MHz will work? If so, consider it to have 4Gb



PC2:
Gigabyte GA-K8N Ultra-9
Athlon64 3200+
4x 1GB DDR400

The workstation will have an ATI X800 card.... for the occasional game

I'd ideally like to use PC2 for the Media Center, cause then it saves me buying a soundcard with SPDIF Coaxial In/Out... Anyone know how much the speed would differ between the two?
 
Probably not much of a speed difference, but seeing as the second already has SPDIF you may as well use it as your media PC and stick the X800 in PC1.
 
alf101 said:
Personally, I'd choose the one with the best monitor for media.
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Lol... <censored> :p

The Media Center connects to a crappy Mecer 37" LCD (for now).... I see a 60" HiDef in the distant distant future...

The Workstation connects to a 22" Samsung 2232GW from Sahara :p The workstation will be used mostly for SSAS, SSIS, MSSQL, VS.2005/8, and my games.... so needs as much speed as possible....
 
I'd say they're quite evenly matched... I don't think the Intel board supports DDR2-667 though...
 
xrapidx said:
Arn't DDR2 memory modules backward compatible? Not sure where I'm going to get 553s...
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Yes they are, they will underclock themselves. What I meant was that it doesn't support DDR2-667 running at full speed ;)

So it'll work, just not at full speed :)
 
WKJ?:beanie said:
Yes they are, they will underclock themselves. What I meant was that it doesn't support DDR2-667 running at full speed ;)

So it'll work, just not at full speed :)
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Ah...thanks. Thought so, been awhile since I purchased any hardware, think the Gigabyte MB and CPU above was my last purchase in 2005.

So you recon its a safe bet to switch the two? PC1 to workstation (with 4GB) and PC2 to Media Center?
 
xrapidx said:
Ah...thanks. Thought so, been awhile since I purchased any hardware, think the Gigabyte MB and CPU above was my last purchase in 2005.

So you recon its a safe bet to switch the two? PC1 to workstation (with 4GB) and PC2 to Media Center?
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Probably what I would've done myself, yeah :)
 
SoftDux said:
I think the Quad Xeon with 32GB RAM & 10X SCSI HDD's will be a bit quicker than the other pc :) :) :)
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I recon I've proved that wrong once with the above AMD box running SQL 2005... it was 10x faster than a server spec'd almost like above... took them (IBM/DELL <-- can't remember which) two weeks to trace the problem the the firmware on one of the controllers.
 
Is memory really this cheap now?:
128X64DDR2667 MEM 1024MB, 667Mhz, DDR2, 240-Pin Memory Module R175
 
Me to... but I closed my account at Rectron, so Sahara it is :p

I ended up ordering it anyways, R8xx wasn't bad for 500GB....

Ordered 2x 1GB DDR Dimms as well, I figured the board already has 2x 512GB DDR Dimms, so I might as well be happy with 3GB.

Thanks for all the help.
 
xrapidx said:
Me to... but I closed my account at Rectron, so Sahara it is :p

I ended up ordering it anyways, R8xx wasn't bad for 500GB....

Ordered 2x 1GB DDR Dimms as well, I figured the board already has 2x 512GB DDR Dimms, so I might as well be happy with 3GB.

Thanks for all the help.
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Always a pleasure ;)
 
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