I was wondering if the AM1 set up would have been faster in general but considering what ocnoob is saying probably not, I forgot its only single channel ram and quite a few other limitations. I don't think how ever a 720 trike will be faster than a A8
holy cow that's bad, hows boot up time from button press to done loading on windows start up?
the A8 6600 is up and running, considering a mobo and processor for it was roughly $100 I don't see how an AM1 could have been worth the money. I need something with fast boot and load times for all incase theres a HUGE emergency late project type of thing so its up and on and ready to rock seconds after its been turned on.
so far no version of windows has been installed. I'm trying to get her to check her school for free/discounted copies but shes being a butt about it. shes a student. its for a student, why not take advantage of it.
any way I have been burning it in, mostly memtesting the heck out of it which puts a fair bit of strain on the CPU aswell. temps suck but I am using the stock cooler at stock speeds but its fairly quick at doing a complete run through in memtest. the MSI board detected the ram speeds right away and even has support for intels XMP funky stuffs. a complete 4 core test takes about 4 hours doing one core at a time. for 8 gigs that's pretty good.
on my system, over clocked and unlocked to 6 cores it takes roughly 12 hours to memtest 8 gigs and I have a total of 16 so that's an all day affair and usually just run test #8 since its the one that it usually errors out on if theres a problem. something to be said for the efficiency on this new one