Living a New Life

[PreyBeans]

After 2 years of suffering with a Core 2 Duo E7500, Intel GMA 4500, 4gb DDR3 RAM, 240 watt PSU, 320 GB HDD, I'm finally able to build my mid-spec PC for sim-racing and some video editing. I'm so happy right now even though it's a mid-range graphics card, I'm finally able to play games I only dreamed of back then. Here are the specs!

CPU: Intel Core i5-4460
GPU: Palit Jetstream GTX 970
RAM: 16GB DDR3
MOBO: Asrock Z97 Extreme 4
PSU: 600 watts

[Helpful Tech Witch]

is there a point to this or is it just a look at what I have post?

[adarw]

5 minutes ago, PreyAtLTT said:

Core 2 Duo E7500, Intel GMA 4500, 4gb DDR3 RAM

ddr3??!

 

[PreyBeans]

1 minute ago, adarw said:

ddr3??!

 

Yes, my setup could be below mid-spec, but I'm really happy with it

[BondiBlue]

6 minutes ago, adarw said:

ddr3??!

What's surprising? Core 2 Duo systems used DDR, DDR2, and DDR3. 

[adarw]

Just now, BondiBlue said:

What's surprising? Core 2 Duo systems used DDR, DDR2, and DDR3. 

yea ik, ive never seen nor read on this fourm about people having ddr3 core 2 duo systemes lol

[BondiBlue]

Just now, adarw said:

yea ik, ive never seen nor read on this fourm about people having ddr3 core 2 duo systemes lol

You're talking to one right now. Most of my primary Core 2 Duo systems use DDR3, such as my 2009 Mac mini and a couple Dell machines. 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, adarw said:

yea ik, ive never seen nor read on this fourm about people having ddr3 core 2 duo systemes lol

Most of the ddr3 boards are g41 which is an ass shit chipset, cant even reach 400fsb while my g31 reaches 542 (limited by hdd)

 

900 and newer chipsets use ddr2

40 chipsets use ddr2 and ddr3

I think older than 900 has some ddr ram but most of the boards with ddr ram seem to have an agp slot and no pcie slot

[Moonzy]

15 minutes ago, adarw said:

yea ik, ive never seen nor read on this fourm about people having ddr3 core 2 duo systemes lol

Benchie in my signature

[Somerandomtechyboi]

15 minutes ago, Moonzy said:

Benchie in my signature

Lmfao 3090 + q8300 = maximum bottleneck xD

 

Too bad g41 is crippled to 400fsb, g31 demolishes 41, 43, and even some crappy 45 mobos, my g31m s2c does 542fsb and there is no board  i have that can actually compete with it, p5q maxes out at 530 which is pretty sad

 

Spoiler

 

Heres a run at 540 cause 542 is abit too unstable

 

I could submit to hwbot but im lazy

¯\_ (ツ) _/¯ 

 

[RoseLuck462]

Is there a story of scraping together your new pc?
 

Anyway congrats! Always nice having a fresh build 

[Ya_Mi]

Ahh man, remind me when the first time i build my PC back in 2018 and i've waited to not play Battlefield 1 until i got a capable PC that could max out everything, RX 480 arrived and this is literally me when i play the game.

 

 

[da na]

9 hours ago, adarw said:

ddr3??!

 

I use Ddr3 daily.

it’s fine. 1333mhz is still competent. Heck, 800mhz is still fine for most users!

[adarw]

10 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

I use Ddr3 daily.

it’s fine. 1333mhz is still competent. Heck, 800mhz is still fine for most users!

no you dont understand, theres nothing wrong with ddr3 or ddr2 just i never saw/heard people use ddr3 on core 2 duos (yes ive seen that they can support it before)

[da na]

42 minutes ago, adarw said:

no you dont understand, theres nothing wrong with ddr3 or ddr2 just i never saw/heard people use ddr3 on core 2 duos (yes ive seen that they can support it before)

Yeah, most 775 cpus can run with DDR1, 2, or 3 depending on the board and chipset

[BondiBlue]

1 hour ago, adarw said:

no you dont understand, theres nothing wrong with ddr3 or ddr2 just i never saw/heard people use ddr3 on core 2 duos (yes ive seen that they can support it before)

Plenty of people do. Later Core 2 Duo systems offered DDR3 support, and plenty of those machines are out there. For example, the Dell OptiPlex 380 and 780 were both extremely common machines (I own at least one of each), and they used DDR3. The OptiPlex 780 actually supports 16GB of RAM, which was quite a bit for a Core 2 Duo system.