Could need an opinion.. (AMDX24600+ & G-Skill 4Gb)

TwL · **=| ~TwL~ |=** nForce Padawan

Well, box sets you can check on these benchmarks...

When system set was as stock standart when I brought it and installed it on same benchmark 79116 Points total on crystalmark. System is Windows Vista x64.

(in all sets the Processor is below 40 degrees under stress, except on last test it is 44 degrees maximum. Using some very quiet specially made processor fan (3300RPM) and 120mm back fan + 92mm fron can ofcourse 144mm power fan.)

Here's the earliest OC I did on box worked very well.. Except kept hearing weird like Metallic sound when memories loads. Not a big deal but I wanted to OC them as is (Real 400Mhz)/800Mhz... So continued and wanted to egt the Base Clocks in CPU & In Memories still getting clean 100k results... (Memory CL was as not mentioned 4-4-3-5-3-21 'stock standart')

and here we go... Few months later...

This one was not OC'd at all it was improved only by software & OS. It has basic set nothing else and yet it's going over 100k nicely. (now to think of it it had one tweak and that is that I changed Memory latencies up from 5-10 on tRAS gaining the tRP latencies of 13 which was few times better syncronized it seems.)

and I continues wanted to see what would this new tweaking set of Software & OS do if I would like to do simlar OC as on first screen. With again on Metallic sound on memories, however..

In here there is OC and tweak..

Now my question is I can run every single thing in gaming world with out a single drop & can do major work on this box, but still considering to buy an Intel Quad-Core & some better chipset as for example on the test box there is only 512k L2 size on 4600+ Processor which is around 2-4MB on each core on new Intel Quad-Core's (that means that this processor can bunch memory through only 512k on highest speed which would be around 19000-22000MB/s anything above 512k will go around 6000-7050MB/s and writing is pain in the ass around 4070-4224MB/s. Thinking if that 2-4MB Core L2 Cache size could do that 19000-22000 MB/s all the time or alot better than now). Should I buy a new box or keep this one and continue "tweaking work" as for now wait for even better machines to come alive?