Jabo

'multi-coreness' - lol. Thanks chaps, unfortunately very under the weather today, so birthday drinkies have been postponed. Still, got some new books to read so being ill has it's advantages Means I might also have the chance to get to the bottom of Sid's processor problem (more later ) Jabo P.S. wibble.

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Pond (lol - more like a lake) and new lawn looking good Jim. Does Helen have plans for getting you decorating indoors during the winter? Jabo

Well, the 6600 gives me a whole 5.6% improvement in Passmark (whoopy-doos), but here's an interesting thing, the CPU test reports a 30% improvement which is probably fair, but all the other component tests (memory, gfx etc) give a worse score than with the old CPU in - up to a whopping 20% (Worse!!!) for the 2d gfx test. Why is this? (Oh and Kev, we were wrong, it's not power related) Jabo

Happy birthday chaps! Jabo

~S~ Condor, welcome aboard. You'll find that the settings we generally fly are a little less stringent than UKDed 1, we normally have externals on for example. As far as training is concerned, best to jump in and learn the hard way, unless you have enough spare time to enrol over at JointOps (some of their instructors fly here - see Painless). It's still learning the hard way tho - lol. You'll need a few addons for the game, but the patriarch should be about with the necessary links before long. Jabo

Likewise Jim, that could have been nasty. On a safer subject, how's the grass?

Thanks Kimo Both chips are rated at 2.4GHz, so there's not much difference other than the additional cores. I think I'll benchmark the rig now, then chuck in the 6600 and benchmark it again. I don't think the MSI board gives me anything I don't currently have on the Gigabyte other than eSATA (which I don't use) and half the number of USBs on the back (which I do) so assuming the 6600 is good then that board and my C2D will be the basis of a new rig for the GF. Jabo

Hey chaps, I've just come into the (legitimate) possession of an MSI P7N Platinum mobo based on the nVidia 750i chipset, it's also got an intel quad-core processor (Q6600) installed. The question is this...Do I swap this board/processor with my EP45-DS3 Gigabyte & its Core 2 Duo or do I swap CPUs or do I do neither?

Yep, that was JR. As a fairly frequent Radio 4 listener, I happened to hear that on the radio a couple of days back. Interesting to see video footage as well. Jabo

Welcome to the pound sir! Jabo

And a sprig of mint old chap. Can't go around forgetting to put a sprig of mint in a chap's Pimms dontcherknow. It's that sort of thing that cost us the Empire. Harrumph. Jabo

Good day all round and even Claire wasn't too bored...lol Jabo

Thanks FT, here's a youtube clip I found which shows just how good the Raptor display was and how annoying the commentator was too! Even more than the French guy at Duxford!! Jabo

And finally, at the end of 8hrs of flying, a true icon. That's the lot, but a fantastic day. Hope you like 'em Jabo

First the Harrier; Then the third and final 'first' - The F22 This display was probably one of the best I have ever seen, tailslides, cobras, vectored turns, the lot Almost time to go, so a walk towards the static park

...and then the Lancaster turned up... ...then time for some more noisy stuff...

This really needs no explanation... Except this one - which is the shot of my life.

So, a week after Duxford I drag the gf along to the Royal International Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. Three main reasons for going; 1. F22, 2. Vulcan, 3. EADS BF 109 (the genuine article - none of this Buchon nonsense) I've seen the Vulcan plenty, but there's always room for another time - The F22 and 109 though - that was going to be two whole NEW experiences. Some other stuff first though; Globemaster III New paintwork to celebrate 558's 50th birthday - good going. Lunatic F-16 (either Belgian or Dutch - I forget which) First 'first' of the day - F-18 Super Hornet Second 'first' - First public outing for the new Airbus A400 - The eventual replacement for the C130 RNZAF B757 At this point we got to the BoB Flypast...

~S~ Bucky, our prayers go out to you all. Jabo

Sounds like mobo or processor to me, especially if you've disconnected everything else. Bundle deals are usually good value, but I'd advise looking carefully at the spec of the contents, sometimes less than scrupulous retailers will hide a pup in there (eg slow memory, or a naff chipset on the mobo etc) Jabo

...in favour of the wall restoration program.

Nice find m8, I shall have a browse I think...

Aw shucks.... Thanks chaps!!!