Lunsankya 2

[jonesybunny]

Today I bought the new parts for the 2nd incarnation of Lusankya as the first one died before it could come to any real use. (Talking about PC's here, folks).

MB: ASUS M4A78-EM
CPU: AMD Phenom II Black Edition. 2.8Ghz Triple Core. Socket AM3
Cooler: Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 (supports AM3 according to Zalman site)
Memory: OCZ 4GB (2x2) DDR2 PC2 8500HDD

Comments

[damanique]

Holy crap, there's such a thing as triple cores? o_O I never knew. Why not go for a quad core, though?

[jonesybunny]

Not much that uses quadcores (or triplecores) and this CPU is actually quite good.

This review convinced me, the guy at the store was nice enough to let me read it. Other customers confused me for an employee.

[porsupah]

Yanno, if I were ever to make power supplies, I think I'd explicitly ensure never to name any model "Fatality". =:D

Hope PC3-8500 DDR3 SO-DIMMs come down in price soon.. I'd like to max out Dandelion to 8GB, but not at the current levels. ^_^; Still, that's mostly be for music purposes, and it'll take me some time to really need more than I could currently exploit.

What are some decent cross-platform benchmarks? SL's one I wish existed, but there are so many variables.

[jonesybunny]

Fatal1ty is the nickname of a legendary player who won several cyberathlete competitions, as far as I know. I guess some companies like Creative, OCZ and Logitech were so happy with his marketability they involved him in making hardware with his name on it. See here: http://www.fatal1ty.com/products/

Not sure what you mean with the benchmarks and SL.

MMm,

[animakitty]

Mmmmmmm, black edition. *drools*

I need to start getting a parts list together for a media PC for the parents. Something that'll play nice with their big TV and let Mom check her email as well as all the nice streaming and digital media playback stuff.

[iqbunny]

Looks like a nice build. I rather like my Quad core Phenom II. Great for transcoding video.

[nidomedia]

What do you use to transcode? The programs I have found up to now usually only make use of one core. Except maybe one, which managed to use about 50% of my other processor as well; but it failed to deliver the quality and speed of pretty much any of the other programs I have seen.

Or are you just transcoding multiple files at the same time?

[iqbunny]

I use handbrake for transcoding http://handbrake.fr/

Uses as many cores as you can throw at it. It will also do batch transcoding if you want. You can also tweak just about any option you can think of. It will also happily do subtitles.

Good luck and enjoy ^,^