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Thursday, 8th May 2008

My New Computer Q9450

After waiting for 5 years, I longed for yesterday to come. It is the time to buy a new computer. As usual, I always buy my computer from Fuwell. I think together with Li Xiang, my family and my mom’s office, we bought at least a total of 5 computers from them.

Enough of story, lets bring on the specifications:

» Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450 2.66GHz 12MB Cache 1333MHz - SGD$467
» Asus X48 Rampage Formula Mainboard - SGD$539
» 2x Crucial Ballistix PC6400/800 4GB Kit (2GB x 2) - SGD$458
» 2x Western Digital Caviar 500GB SATA II 3.5″ HDD (16MB) - SGD$254
» Leadtek PX9800GX2 1GB DDR3 PCI-E - SGD$878
» Samsung SH-S203 20X SATA DVD Writer - SGD$41
» Cooler Master CM690 Black ATX W/Side Window - SGD$125
» Cooler Master M700 Modular 700W Real Power PSU - SGD$229
» 2x Cooler Master 12CM LED Fan - SGD$24
» Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate OEM (64 bit) - SGD$285
» Hardware Installation - SGD$10

Total Cost of CPU: SGD$3,310

Total Cost Of My Computer:

» CPU - SGD$3,310
» Dell 2408WFP UltraSharp 24″ Widescreen Monitor - SGD$921.67
» Bose Companion 2 Speakers - SGD$199

Total Cost: SGD$4,430.67

*UPDATE* My 3DMark06 score is 14,154.

Front View - Cooler Master CM690

Side View - Cooler Master CM690

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Posted By GaMerZ On 12:38 In Blog | 11 Comments

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Shaun
Comment #1 14:01
Thursday, 8th May 2008

Congrats on yr new comp, though quite pricey too :X

Good on your side to go for the Q9450 instead of the Q9550 as I personally find $300 more for an additional 0.17Ghz is not worth it man.

The windows experience rating is crap haha, I have not ran mine, and it gave me a 1.0 rating anyway haha. The best bet is to post your 3D mark 06 score man do it do it!

GaMerZ
Comment #2 14:46
Thursday, 8th May 2008

Yea, I have not installed 3Dmark 06 yet, lol got lots of things to install. When I first installed it gives me a 1.0 rating also.

Shaun
Comment #3 22:23
Thursday, 8th May 2008

I think based on your specs you should get at least a 14k 3dmark06 score and beyond, but not sure whether your additional ram will actually be of any benefit at all, cus 8GB is really overkill.

How come you got so much ram usage at startup? Think you have alot of redundant programs running. The baseline for vista should be 1GB. Mines around there as well after some tweaking.

GaMerZ
Comment #4 12:13
Friday, 9th May 2008

8GB should be overkill currently, but I think it should be enough to last till 5 years later. I can’t seem to get 3Dmark 06 to run as I got an error with OpenAL. Must try again when I have time time.

I optimized it to ensure that the minimum programs to run. I got only 7 startup programs, 2 from Nvidia, 1 from NOD32 and the rest from MS.

I got a feeling Vista will detect how much RAM you got and then use, since I got so much, vista must be thinking it can eat as much ram as it wants. lol

Jayce @ Pretty Girl
Comment #5 13:09
Friday, 9th May 2008

Wow. A really great system for gaming. Wishing that I have the money to buy a system like yours.

Shaun
Comment #6 13:25
Friday, 9th May 2008

I think maybe you are using the ultimate version of vista, so maybe there are more processes running the background on default.

OpenGL errors? mmm but wont they latest drivers from nvidia solve it? Go “dxdiag” on the search prompt and check, esp yr dx and opengl driver versions.

Oh yea I believe you updated to Vista service pack 1 for direct X 10.1 too right?

Detect? Nah, vista is not that smart, it just eats up what they have for them.

GaMerZ
Comment #7 15:13
Friday, 9th May 2008

Shaun: Nope not openGL but openAL, lol it is by Creative. I have not updated to SP1 yet because I installed Chinese language pack and SP1 is not compatible with it and hence windows update refuses to update for me.

Jayce: You will get you chance =)

Shaun
Comment #8 16:00
Friday, 9th May 2008

creative drivers.. oh the irony…

Any interest in Daniel K drivers?

Go google for “danielk vista support pack audigy”, they have 64bit versions as well, those worked, creative ones didn’t, well for me at least.

GaMerZ
Comment #9 17:50
Friday, 9th May 2008

I did not buy Creative soundcard, I am using the integrated one =D

@ltantic
Comment #10 10:39
Saturday, 10th May 2008

Take your system and head on with alienware PCs. ~lol…

GaMerZ
Comment #11 11:59
Saturday, 10th May 2008

I don’t think can unless I SLi the 9800