To be fair ECC ram should work in a non-ecc motherboard.
So wait was the 8400GS in the 110T before? Because if so that's why it was running slower. An 8400GS is not fast enough for dolphin.
Wasn't the whole point of the new motherboard to allow you to OC (which you can't do without a good cooler)?
Why is that a bad thing? You're not going to be using any xeon specific features anyways.
Except for the xeon sure.
I thought you said it was slower.
Depends on the game, settings, revision, OS, GPU, and drivers. It should be roughly in the neighborhood of 1.15-1.25.
Nobody can say for sure. Performance doesn't always scale linearly with clock rate. I would expect it to be closer to 25% faster since the xeon should scale better at higher clock rates.
So wait was the 8400GS in the 110T before? Because if so that's why it was running slower. An 8400GS is not fast enough for dolphin.
Quote:What I hadn't considered was the cooler. The Dell has a pretty big heatsink on it but the mounting bracket looks different than the ones I've seen online. It has screws instead of those 1/4 turn fasteners. Maybe they're 1/4 turn screws, but I might need a cooler too. I guess if I'm going to overclock, I'll need one at some point anyway, but I was hoping to use the stock cooler for a while first.
Wasn't the whole point of the new motherboard to allow you to OC (which you can't do without a good cooler)?
Quote: I've read that it might be detected as an i7, but still work.
Why is that a bad thing? You're not going to be using any xeon specific features anyways.
Quote:Is this something you would have put together a few years ago?
Except for the xeon sure.
Quote:Here's something else I was thinking about. Since the X3440@2.5Ghz gives me about the same performance in Dolphin as the E8400@3.0Ghz,
I thought you said it was slower.
Quote: can I assume that the performance per clock of the X3440 = 1.2 times that of the E8400?
Depends on the game, settings, revision, OS, GPU, and drivers. It should be roughly in the neighborhood of 1.15-1.25.
Quote: Or, if I can get the X3440 up to 3.6Ghz, will it be 20% faster than the E8400@3.6Ghz? That would be a lot of fun.
Nobody can say for sure. Performance doesn't always scale linearly with clock rate. I would expect it to be closer to 25% faster since the xeon should scale better at higher clock rates.
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