Sprocket sashays...

[clocker]

Just tried a suicide run into 4.5GHz.
Lost Windows altogether.

Ended up with just a blinking cursor at the end of the boot screens.

Inserted the OS disc and all it saw was the unformatted iRAM, no option to repair or nuttin.

Struck me as odd...usually you'd see a error message of some kind ("corrupted bootloader", missing "NTOSkrnl", etc.) but this time- nada.

Oh well.

[Cabalo]

try to keep the timmings sth like 6-6-6-18 @ 2.1v max. should work with most ram sticks.
If not, try 6-7-7-21 @2.1v.
btw, which are your sticks ?

[clocker]

I'm running these G.Skills.

And yes, I know I probably could start relaxing the RAM timing to pile on a few more MHz but don't feel the desire to do so right now.
Been there, done that.
I mean really...I took a $200 chip and bumped it a full GHz without having to do anything...frankly, it's made me lazy.

Besides, until you post a verified SuperPi result I still have the fastest score around, so where's my incentive?

[Detale]

Oh I cant wait to get a better score

[kaiweiler]

I'd like them to make a program like SuperPi that can utilize multiple cores. Then my score would likely beat yours
My vista experience score is 5.9 all across the board now, but too bad that doesn't mean squat.

[clocker]

This is 32bit Vista.
I should have a 64bit copy in a few weeks.
Right now I'm triple booting Vista and both versions of XP Pro.
I have a partition all ready for Ubuntu but still can't figure out how to get it on a RAID array.

K., how about running the OverDrive beta tests here (must use Internet Explorer).
I'd be interested to see how the processor scores compare.
Anyone else is welcome too, of course.

Bragging rights at stake.

[kaiweiler]

Bragging rights = mine

Literally no tweaking at all aside from bumping the Q6600 to a measly 3Ghz, and it recommends updating my sound and video drivers, which would likely yield a higher result as well.
But top 3% in the whole world is pretty decent...

[clocker]

Holy shit.
That chip is amazing.

Hmmm, wonder if Microcenter is still selling 'em for $200.

[kaiweiler]

Yes, it is a beast. Mine has been proven stable at 3.6Ghz but I just can't deal with the heat load right now so I'm running it at 3Ghz which is still plenty.
Compared to the e8400, I like to think of it as being the big 1 tonne truck, capable of pulling/pushing through anything you throw at it with absolutely no effort. While the e8400 is like the sports car, incredibly fast but extremely high sped.
Something like that anyway....
Notice in my score my crappy Crucial value RAM, only running at 667Mhz. Also your drives are faster than mine are, I'm also running a raid-0 array, but not as efficiently. My drives are both the same size but different specifications, also one is Sata and the other is Sata2. Still considerably faster than booting from a single drive though.
I do wonder why your 8800GT scores 300 points higher than mine. What drivers are you running, and what speeds?

EDIT
Just ran 3DMark06


Sorry clocker...

[clocker]

I do wonder why your 8800GT scores 300 points higher than mine. What drivers are you running, and what speeds?

EDIT
Just ran 3DMark06


Sorry clocker...

169.21 forceware.
Stock speeds, want to upgrade the cooling before I play with the card.

No need to be sorry, you've got a great PC.

Just finished my qualifying run for the official [H]forum OC database..
Should put me #6 in the e8400 class...


Even if I scrape up another couple hundred MHz, it won't compare to that quad though.