Common Noob Myths

[nOcLuE98]

These are some common myths that are asked about by noobs. This is here to compile a list of questions that they will now have the answer to. If you have any to add, please PM me. or post them, they will be added.

1- "But that doesn't have many watts! How can that be enough to power my system?"
-Amps are what matter on a PSU, not wattage. So when a 500 watt is suggested, if it was suggested by a trusted member and not contradicted, then it WILL supply your system well.

2- "Core 2 Duo < Intel Pentium D"
- "Why the fudge are you recommending a Core 2 Duo, its slower than the Pentium D I had originally, its got half of the Core Clock speed, for a person with 5,000posts you are really moronic!!"

- Pentium D may have high clock speeds, but they are slower than the Core 2 Duo, in fact theres a darn good chance the Pentium D EE < Core 2 Duo e2180

3- "That video card is old! it cant keep up with this one"
-It is not all about the name of the card. Just because it is an 8 series card, does not mean something like a HD2600XT can't beat it, or hold its own.
Benchmarks/comparison: Bjorn3d.com - The HD2400 and HD2600, Reviews 'n news for the beast within us!

4- "I am gonna tri-sli my 8800GTS 512mb's!!!"
-um, actually you are NOT going to tri-sli anything unless you have a 8800gtx, 8800 Ultra, 9800gt, 9800GTX, GTX 260 and GTX 280 at this point. (You can tell by the multiple bridge)

5- "So this "agp" card and this "pci-e" card, they are the same no?"
- NO! agp is an older interface, that is being phased out. Please don't cut it to make it fit!!

6- "That card is pci-e 2.0! it won't fit, this board only has pci-e 16x!"
- They both fit in each other. backwards compatible.

7- "I am gonna use SLI, and then plug in my second monitor!"
- Good luck with that. When SLI is enabled, you CANNOT plug in a second monitor to the two cards that are working together in the SLI. You can use a third card to support the second monitor, but not two monitors when SLI is enabled.

8- "Oh man, these crossfire cards are gonna rock with my dual monitors"
- go ahead, crossfire supports multiple monitors.

9- "You suggested a 780i, and a 3870x2... but that video card is an ATI card, it won't work in the nvidia board.."
- yes it will! Go ahead, any ATI card will fit into a nvidia board, and a nvidia card WILL fit into a motherboard that supports crossfire.

10- "I can't wait to do crossfire 3870's on my 780i motherboard"
- Sorry, you CAN use a SINGLE card on an nvidia board, but you CAN'T crossfire on an nvidia board.

11- "Yes! I have the money for a second 8800GTX on my p35 board!"
- Sorry, once again, you can't do SLI on a crossfire motherboard.

12- "I just cut the bottom of my graphics card, so it would fit into a slot, is that wrong?"
- DON'T EVER CUT COMPUTER EQUIPMENT. Unless you have been instructed to do so by verified directions, or you want to waste hundreds of dollars on your equipment.

13- "I have a 6ghz cpu! My 3ghz dual core, adds up to 6ghz!"
- No! you do not add the speeds of cores to get the speed of your system

14- "DDR3-1333 is faster then DDR2-1066!"

Quite the contrary. DDR2-1066 at 4-4-4-12 outperforms DDR3-1333. DDR3 shows it's muscle at DDR3-1600 and above. Below that, theirs barely a performance gain."

15- "OH NOES I don't got SLi Ready Memory, so I can't run SLi!!"

Quite the contrary. SLi-Ready RAM is a gimmick, you can still use normal non-certified RAM

Benchmark Results - Tom's Hardware : Tom's Ultimate RAM Speed Tests

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