EggXpert

Hi,

I am a new member here but a long time newegg customer.  I am about to, or thinking about upgrading my system, which in this case means building a new system.  I have been messing with computers since about 1983 or so I have a pretty good idea about what is going on but as you all know this stuff changes every day, minute, second...  I learned for me to get in and out. wHAT i MEAN IS GET IN WHEN i AM READY TO BUY AND STAY OUT (AWAY FROM SITES LIKE NEWEGG WHEN I AM HAPPY WITH MY CURRENT SYSTEM)  (sorry about the caps) if I look I ewould end up spending all my money..

what I have now is a asus motherboard (stuck with asus for a long time) but I am not thrilled about my current MB it is a P5N32-SLI DELUXE, it just hasnt ever quite worked correctly.  However I will give them this one. I have 2 gig of ram, 4 250gig hard drives set up in raid0, and nvidia 7900 sli cards. and everything is water cooled. I guess thats good for my specs it is asking for, the rest is standard stuff, I do have a 21" flat pannel HP monitor...

My question is about FSB, I am confused about this   FSB: QPI 6.4GT/S  what does this mean?   and should I go for this or the 1600/1333.  I think either way I am going to need new memory, and graphics card, so I will probably be back with more questions.

thanks for any help.

John

Hey how's it going, seems everyone is asking this question in different terms and posts so I decided to do some research and find out so I went to Intels website and here is what I found. QPI = Quick Path Interconnections which boils down to they added memory controllers to the chips and doubled the threads and the speed at which they communicate between the cores, memory, the computer and you. Now mind you this is just my opinion here its just another way to stop us the consumer from OCing the system beyond what they want us too. It does have a turbo mode of 3.4 whatever. Here is the link to their story and please watch the demo video it explains it far better than I can.

http://www.intel.com/technology/quickpath/index.htm?iid=tech_arch_nextgen+body_quickpath_bullet

I am still catching up with this new nahalem business, while I know the turbo mode just increase 1 multiplier if one of the core is max out and goes to next one and max turbo mode is 2 multiplier I think.

core i7 965 stock at 3.2ghz with 24 X 133mhz, with 1x turbo is 3.33ghz 25 X 133mhz and with 2x turbo is 3.46ghz 26 X 133mhz.  Correct me if I am not understanding it correctly.

Thanks guys,  I will check out the link.  I am really wondering about the speed.  I guess this is something really new, I havent searched for anything else about this yet I just ame here first.

 I dont think I will ever get over this, I feel like a newbie everytime I go to build a new PC.. just so much new..

thanks again

"the more you learn the more you realize how little you do know" that goes for everything, not just the computer world.

I know exactly what you mean though, it is insane how fast things change, seems like nvidia was making a new vgraphics card just about every month.  I got my first PC given to me back in the early 80's it was a commadore superPET with a wopping 32k of ram, Ive owned a pc ever since, have a degree in computer science and electronics engineering and I mean it when I say I feel like a newbie right at this moment.  sometimes It just seems overwhelming.  I have found it takes me about 3 days of hard research to catch up where I feel good about putting a new PC together.

Oh then the worst feeling comes over me when a week later I find there is something better that makes what I just built on the verge of being obsolete.  :)

I think I have calmed myself down on building right now,  I had loaded a old game I always liked (Battlezone II) and found the fps were very low when things got going. at first I thought it was just the pc couldnt handle it, and I have not been thrilled about the MB I picked last time.  Well I found that it was just the graphic cards drivers.  From what I read nvidia had stopped supporting DX6 in there newer drivers and that is what was causing the problems. I went into nvidias ftp site and got some older drivers and the game runs as smooth as can be even with all the settings as high as they go.

However the seed is sown, now Ive seen the new MB's, new graphics cards, sound cards, ddr3 memory??? (not too sure about that one either yet) and not to mention the maybe new FSB speeds and intel's new chip  (I am really wanting a quad core   so It may be too late, oh then I always have the exscuse, "I need a new case where I dont have hard drives double sided taped to the case door, and if I get a new case I might as well get a new   this that and the other...   :) 

thanks again guys