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[jcrouse55]

Congrats to Fighter25 for over taking me in real short order with his fantastic folding rig. I will be getting with you guys the end of this month when I get back home to Florida for some help with setting up my i7 rig down there and I am going to replace my GTX260 with a pair of GTX460's.

But congrats again to Fighter25

John

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Congrats fighter25, you've astonished me with your recent contributions; amazing PPD! I must start folding again!  I've been meaning to sell the 460 but I haven't gotten a very decent offer yet.  Should just pop it back in and run it for the time being!

jcrouse55, on Sep 2 2010, 02:36 AM, said:

Congrats to Fighter25 for over taking me in real short order with his fantastic folding rig. I will be getting with you guys the end of this month when I get back home to Florida for some help with setting up my i7 rig down there and I am going to replace my GTX260 with a pair of GTX460's.

But congrats again to Fighter25

John

Sounds great John, can't wait to see the 40,000 + PPD beast!  

[fighter25]

Thanks John and Toby!
Can't wait to have someone making some big contributions with me guys!
Fold on!
Colin

Edited by fighter25, 02 September 2010 - 06:46 PM.

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Just wait until I upgrade to either Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer  

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Double post

Edited by Toby Werner, 03 September 2010 - 06:15 AM.

[fighter25]

Toby Werner, on Sep 3 2010, 07:15 AM, said:

Just wait until I upgrade to either Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer  

I'll be getting Sandy Bridge. No doubt. And probably not for gaming. Just to have it and to fold on it.

Edited by fighter25, 03 September 2010 - 03:39 PM.

[jcrouse55]

What is Sandy Bridge?

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Intel's successor to the current Nehalem (Core iSeries) architecture; planned to be introduced later this year.  Just read online today that there were benchmarks run with a Sandy Bridge Quad-Core processor at 3.1GHz, featuring Hyper Threading for a total of 8 threads.  Says that it performs quite near the performance of the Core i7 980X, Intel's six-core processor which if true, is absolutely stunning.

Intel Sandy Bridge
First Sandy Bridge Benchmarks

[jcrouse55]

Thanks Toby looks very impressive! I have a chance to get a Core i7 980X for $600.00 used from Craigslist. What do you think, is it worth getting for FSX? And will it help the performance enough to justify the cost?

Thanks John