Now running SandyBridge

General Computing Hardware & Networking
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This little present to myself arrived yesterday :slight_smile:

Aria SandyBridge DT Build

It has replaced a Q6700 with 8Gb ram and GTX460 gpu. A full set of pictures etc is on the way, but OMG it’s a sweet machine. Really liking EFI bios, boot time even with three sata controllers is sweet :slight_smile: Overclocking … wow, what can I say, 4.5Ghz with ease, 5Ghz at a push.

More importantly, HFM.net is estimate 30-35 thousand ppd in folding at home :lol: Even with that running, the four VM’s and my work stuff, I now have snappy virtual machines as I can add a gig more to each one and two gig to the important one. 16Gb of ram, there was a point where I would have laughed so hard if you told me you had built a machine with that much, how things have moved on :slight_smile:

DT.

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What are you going to do about the SATA issue?

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DT got the B3 revision of the chipset :wink: thats not affected by the issue.

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yup, I waited for the B3 and pretty much got it to day it came out :lol:

That’s a first for me, normally I let others find fault for a few months before I buy :smiley: