[QUOTE="xxscottjonesxx"]Interesting, id just sell the alienware laptop for a small fortune, and getting a laptop for a gaming system is the worst thing u can do and any body will tell u the same, u cant upgrade the graphics drivers and its just a waist of money. especialy alien ware lol u can get a 3x better desktop for half the price in most online storesxxscottjonesxx

try windows 7 on the laptopferret-gamer

i agree with ferret gamer, windows 7 has all of the strengths of vista, all of the cool features, and the compatibility of xp. idk what you're talking about it but I've been using it since it was released and the only crashes i get are from my cpu way to overclocked and low voltage, and bad Nvidia drivers when i overclock my video cards to like 760mhz:P

so i would say go with it, btw, I'm using the 64bit version, and my buddy has a laptop from late 2006, and it's running windows 7 like a champ.

oh yea, and it uses like half of the resources that vista did, right now i have like ~45 processes, and only using ~1.2 gigs of ram, with word, itunes, and many Internet pages open.

The only choices i would consider are Q6600 and Q9550.X360PS3AMD05

i concur (haha), no but really, the Q9550 is awesome, i overclocked mine to 4.1ghz on air!:shock: and you can push it to like 3.4ghz on stock volts.

actually even the Q9450 is pretty good, but i think it's pretty close to the Q9550 in price,

but the Q9x50's have a larger cache, 12mb, same size as the core i7's. and it does make a difference,

me and a friend of mine benched for ourselves, an E8400 and an E6600, same clock speeds, the E8400 blew it away in 3dmark tests and games, only difference was the cache (8mb vs 4mb) and 65nm vs 45nm, (but 45nm just makes it cooler and use less power, no real performance increase.)

so that's my opinion

EDIT: actually my mistake, the i7's have an 8mb L3 cache, and like a 1mb L2 cache. idk how that helps.

sorry, i saw the page you had for that link, and it was like the start page for a prebuilt site, and i just assumed it was. when i get some free time i'll try and set one up for you.

I didn't make myself very clear, but I'm building a seperate computer from the one that has the e6600...

By the way... did they rename the e6600 or phase it out? I can't find it anywhere....

But as far as overclocking goes could I get a e5200 or e5300 to 3ghz?

I've never built my own computer before, let alone overclock...

GANGSTA287

This CPU is miles ahead of the e5200 and only like 40$ more, and for a quad either the Q8400, or Q9400, or if you wanna go really good, get the Q9550, it's probably the best bang for buck out there right now, very fast, and very good for gaming, where the Q8xxx series is more meant for multitasking and less gaming

Just to let you know Evga's support isn't that great. I got banned on their forums, from awful moderators, they seem nice on the outside. What happened to me was they gave me a false RMA number, so I made a thread about it, it got locked. I didn't know why, I made another one, also locked. I tried again just to ask why because the moderators never responded to my pms. Then suddenly I got banned. That's it. I asked all the other moderators and even Joe Darwin the head of EVGA RMA and he never responded to one email. They are pretty bad, just to let you know. Their motherboards are alright, but I'd recommend getting an Asus motherboard with a xfi soundcard, evga ones have cheap realtek soundcards. I've dealt with Asus and they are very professional, they give you 1 day shipping on their end. Evga makes you pay, stay away from them, they are nice on the outside, jerks on the inside. (On a sidenote I even made the folding@home team with them, and it was one of the strongest teams in the world, they repayed me by banning me and deleting my thread and saying they started it, even though I technically have admin, but I'm not an ass).

Also on their forums, there have been people who have complained about the RMA department, (they talk like you are drinking buddies).

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