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Oct 30, 2020
well amplified sound crystal clear
Burr Brown DACs!!
A nice mid range soundcard from 2000s era. Windows 7/8/10 beta drivers are avaliable
installation was easy and has a software based graphics equalizer where you can also
control the Dolby headphone and speaker settings. A nice replacement for a Audigy2
although it has tone controls...to manually adjust bass and treble- but if you have
a external amplifier it could be considered superflous...
Oct 30, 2020
CAS10 speed with plenty of bandwidth
the last of the DDR3s- the high end ones.
Along with the Ripjaws units from GSkill these Doiminator Platniums are high
end with low latency (sub 60ns latency on the right motherboard). CAS 10
timings are some of the fastest and you should be hitting 31/34Gb/s in
memory transfer on AMDFX or Core I7 systems of that era. Well worth
the money and that head spreader is quality and keeps the chips cool
Dec 01, 2022
old glory
1 of 1 found this helpful The best of AM3. The 9590 does exist but it run as hotter
than a overheating radiator on a sunny day and with less
than 10% at top end bandwidth and a ton of extra power load.
May have overclocked their 8350 to 4.7 and running faster.
AMD officially says these chips max memory bandwidth
is 1866Mhz but even the early 8 series is capable of 2133
and 8350 2400Mhz on a decent board.
Water cooling recommended. 4.3 to 4.5 GHz its peer the 7700k.
Unlike the 7700k you have windows xp compatibility...
Some people are still using these boards with upgraded
TPM modules today. The only issue is the pegged PCI-X
16 x2 speed. Most are running retro games so the bandwidth
issue isnt such a big deal.
Originally the Sledgehammer AMD series was panned as
too hot and lacking single core performance. In time
however its multi-thread performance outshon the 7700k
as single core performance in 64bit days is well in decline.
Especially when you consider all the background apps
drivers and ultlity software in modern OS these days.