Sprocket sashays...

Well, she's good at 3.1GHz now...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...r/474ad1fa.jpg

Boring I know, but necessary nonetheless.

Well, since yesterday I've tested Sprocket with OCCT at both 3.2 and 3.3GHz.
Passed both speeds for four hours and don't see the point in posting pics...they are all beginning to look the same.

PCPS looks like this at 3.3GHz...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...r/24d8864a.jpg

However...beyond a 450 FSB I start to have real problems (3.3GHz= 7.5 x 441 and I've been increasing the bus by 14 for each speed increase, so the next logical step was 7.5 x 455) and I'm not sure how aggressively I want to pursue the issue.

I still have no real idea of what common vCores are- there just aren't many folks running these chips yet (and I suspect the 9300 will always be the bastard child compared to the 9450, so there may never be many to compare with...).

I might just cool my jets for a while and see what happens when my copy of Vista 64 shows up and I can install the rest of the RAM I have.
All in all I can't really complain...I've got a 32% overclock with low temps and (apparent) stability.

I do wish I'd held out for the 9450 but chances are good I'll be able to finagle one in the semi-near future and in the meanwhile I can spend some time trying to figure out the vid card (lately, the bus link has stayed at 16x, so the voltage bump seems to have fixed that issue but I still can't figure out why it scores so much lower than K.'s card...).

Oh so it was voltage causing the vid card to drop to 1x? I guessed right (granted not on the first try) :)
What was it running at instead of 3.3v?

And I am getting much higher video scores because my card is overclocked and I disable a lot of Vista's eye candy before running a test. Set Vista preferences to adjust for best performance and I bet you'll get another 750-1000 points on your video, Vista is a hog.

OK, I'll try that now.

Edit: Yowzah!
Now we're getting somewhere (and this card is running stock!)...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...r/99f03cc1.jpg

:)
Much better

Couldn't have done it with you, K.
Thanks.

Don't get too excited, you still have yet to break 10k ;)

True, but I'm going to use the roundabout road to get there.

Disk and memory scores can both be increased without having to screw with my CPU clock.
Memory score won't help much but the disk will.

Seems to me that despite your efforts there's only one conclusion we can make from all this - Vista is a POS.

All in all, we haven't really learnt anything new. :sigh:

Hi lynx, long time no see.
How did we reach that conclusion?