Who's waiting to buy a new PC for SoW?

[kendo65]

I updated my previous post in this thread with a link to the ROF site where they describe problems with running ROF on dual core Win7 systems:

"We are sorry about that but it is not our fault. Win7 have new CPU-thread management politics which is causing much problems for high-loaded multi-thread applications (like RoF) on 2-core systems. We have some attempts to contact with Microsoft - it was useless. So unfortunally we can't do anything here.
4-core systems have no such problems with Win7."

As the owner of a dual core Win7 system myself it is raising some questions about how SOW will run?

Difficult to know just how much the ROF people are passing the buck here?

I will say though that on my recent switchover from XP to Win7 64 the small overclock that ran perfectly on XP caused endless blue screens with Win 7, and I finally had to revert to stock settings!

[lbuchele]

What looks promising is the scalability of ROF from 4 to 6 cores.
Since SOW is newer than ROF probably ( no guarantee) it will benefits from 6 core CPU?
(just wild guessing,of course)

[Skoshi Tiger]

I've always been in the camp of holding off major upgrades untill you really need them. After getting the A-10 Beta I decided to upgrade from my e8500(@3.6Ghz) to a q9400 CPU. (Don't know why I didn't go for a quad core when I bult my PC???)

Now with my new quad core purring along at 3.6Ghz there is a noticable improvement with ROF and A10 seems to have a few less stutters.

Hopefully this will keep me happy till SOW gets released. Then I'll get a more modern graphics card and see what the performance is like before upgrading further.

Cheers!

[dduff442]

Originally Posted by kendo65

I will say though that on my recent switchover from XP to Win7 64 the small overclock that ran perfectly on XP caused endless blue screens with Win 7, and I finally had to revert to stock settings!

I had an o/c, stable under stress and tested for temp etc until it started blue-screening when the hot weather came along in Aug. I actually had to bump *up* the memory clock to get it going again. Maybe your o/c will work again now it's cooler? Its odd it crashes under Win7 and not XP although Win7 does probably put more strain on the machine.

dduff

[Stiboo]

I've only been waiting 12 months to upgrade!

My PC is now 3 years old...yikes....

Even my wife said last week don't you need to upgrade by now?...I almost fell over!

The only thing i'm sure of for a new PC is spending about £1200 with a 24 inch screen..

[kendo65]

Originally Posted by dduff442

I had an o/c, stable under stress and tested for temp etc until it started blue-screening when the hot weather came along in Aug. I actually had to bump *up* the memory clock to get it going again. Maybe your o/c will work again now it's cooler? Its odd it crashes under Win7 and not XP although Win7 does probably put more strain on the machine.

dduff

I have updated my bios recently and have now tried the oc again. So far working ok, but will see how things go in the next week or so.