2.6 Ghz: any reason to upgrade ?

[Reenk Roink]

You guys want me to join in here?

cos your all right.
your just wording your selfs wrong.
(atleast thats what i see from what ive read so far)

Yay! A debate .

(I'm rooting for you ShambleS... )

[Just A Girl]

Yay! A debate .

(I'm rooting for you ShambleS... )

I cant see what's to debate.
no body has said anything hideously incorrect.
(unless i want to be pedantic about things)

Cache size/ tweaks. Have been a factor all along.
But Its also become more of a selling point for cpu's these days than it used to be.
So there you go. Every 1 is right.
But they just didnt word it right for Some people to agree.

So i dont see where theres a debate.
unless you just want to be annoying and debate the littlest word being out of place.
But that would just be petty.
Wouldnt it orangat?

[doc_bean]

Or just run a stress test program like rthdribl.

I ran 3dmark06 and it didn't crash, maybe it's related to a special effect or to something else than my gfx card (hard to know what though...).

[Paul Peru]

Getting a bit OT, sorry.

You could change the cooler to one of the Arctic Cooling NV Silencer series. I did it for both my old 5900XT and new 7800GT and they run cool and quiet.

I had one on my 9800. Loved it. Silent, efficient, and keeping the case cool as well. My current 6800 has a solid 2 slot backplate, so I'd have to cut it to accomodate an AC solution.
There are 2 tiny whiny fans, and nice heatsinks on both gpu and ram. I tried putting a bigger fan from an A64 stock cooler over the gpu, and it worked great for the gpu and ram, but the card became unstable due to the voltage regulators overheating. (known problem for 6800 cards) I'll need to find a way to cool that part better. Or sell it and buy a 7800 GS.

As for the other discussion here, I think a main reason why the A64-chips kick ### is the on-chip memory controller. The importance of cache size can vary greatly between apps.