Hardware pr0n...w00t!

[Snee]

Sorry, I missed something there, I thought you said your current room temp was 24-25 and the current cpu temp 28?


Anyway, it's impressive and I wish I could afford something like it.

But at least I know what kind of stuff I'll be getting next time I've got a lot of money to spend. Wahey.

[clocker]

Sorry, I missed something there, I thought you said your current room temp was 24-25 and the current cpu temp 28?


Anyway, it's impressive and I wish I could afford something like it.

But at least I know what kind of stuff I'll be getting next time I've got a lot of money to spend. Wahey.

That was 28C whilst running at 100% CPU load.
At idle, she's around 22C which would be below my room ambient (i.e., not possible).

Still, I'm a happy boy.

[Snee]

D'oh

And I'm slow

[clocker]

Right, then.

I've been making attempts to discover the upper limits of my OC.
Amazingly (amazing because I have no idea about the mechanics of the BIOS), I have actually hit the desktop at 2.9GHz.

For about 3 seconds.

Then Windows decides to crap it's pants and disappears.

My luck at 2.8GHz hasn't been much better...I can stay in Windows, but any sort of benchmark crashes me out.

2.7GHz seems to be fine, I was Prime stable (for 10 hours) yesterday and temps never broke 30C.

Obviously, this all just for bragging rights really, I'll prolly clock back to 2.4GHz for regular use because I can run that at the tight RAM timings (all of my benches have been run at CAS 2.5, but the RAM is rated for CAS2) AND undervolt the CPU.

I must say that the DFI board is really as good as they say (now I'm one of "they"!) as it has easily surpassed the best settings that the Gigabyte could achieve.
Not to denigrate the Gigabyte...it is a very good board, very fully featured AND it's cheaper, but for sheer performance the DFI is king.

Tomorrow I plan on rerouting the waterloop so the GPU is first in line...hopefully this will drop the vid card temps some.

All in all, both Sprocket and I are quite pleased.

[Snee]

Sooo, how long 'til you buy a dual core then?

Bet it's tempting.

[clocker]

Well yeah, of course it's tempting.

I have been trying to keep up on the reviews, but so far I haven't really seen any convincing proof that the x2's are a "gotta have" item.

It doesn't help that AMD, following their usual assbackwards marketing plan, is releasing the high-end chips first, the more reaonably priced units dribbling behind.

Also keep in mind that sometime after the release of Longhorn (whenever that might be) AMD is planning on jumping platforms...different sockets and probably DDR3 RAM.
Such a move will render my current, (nearly) state-of-the-art setup as technically obsolete as socketA is today and none of my core components will be carried forward.

Besides, I think I finally lucked into a "good'un"...one of those fabled individual chips that surpasses it's brethren.
As far as I can tell, Sprocket's Winchester is one of the best around and easily the equal of many Venice/San Diego's whose results I've seen.

And really, let's be honest...a Duron would handle my needs.
I just do this for fun.
Anyway, my next purchases are going to be the Swiftech Storm G4 waterblock and the Gigabyte RAM drive PCI card with 4GB of RAM.
Then I need the second 6800 GT vid card so I can enable SLI.*


*BTW, I did run Aquamark03 a few times at 2.7GHz.
With the card clocked to 415/1.15 (the numbers that "detect optimal settings" gives me) my best score was 79,488.
I'm hoping to crack 80k if my rerouted waterloop decreases temps enough.

[zapjb]

And really, let's be honest...a Duron would handle my needs.

Thanks we enjoy it too.

[Monkeee]

did you try any performance testing? Aquamark? 3Dmark?

[Virtualbody1234]

did you try any performance testing? Aquamark? 3Dmark?

*BTW, I did run Aquamark03 a few times at 2.7GHz.

[Snee]

(don't mind me, I'm just jinxing a bit.)


@clocker, I wonder if you could get a bit extra if you sold that 3500, what with you having proven it to be a good one

How long have you planned on keeping this rig, btw?