My undervolting technique (on this, or any other of my past boards) has been thus-
Clock like crazy and up the voltage as neccessary.
after a few days with LOTS of burn-in period, keep the CPU overclocked, then begin dropping voltage. On some of my past boards I've had to do it in increments...
I agree about the "real world" programs part for stress testing (who wouldn't?), but I find that Just Prime etc doesn't cut it. I'm a FIRM believe that you need a variety of stress testers that do different things.
Example, I can play C&C Generals, 3dMark, Rainbow6- Raven Shield and DivX...
hmmm, it would appear I gotta not let the reply window sit open for 45mins or so before posting a reply without looking back at the webpage :P
I agree with EVERTHING he said except the memory part. TRY it just as Thor86 said, but be sure to bench in between RAM timing changes on the way to...
OMFG d00d!!! I guess I shoulda read your sig, eh? :P didn't realize you were packin' that kinda hardware. Who cares about optimizing when your 3dMark score is nearly 18 thousand...?!?! Here I'm all happy 'cuz I'm gettin' ~16,600-17,100 depending on overclock (And still can't get good frames at...
Yeah, Thor's right dude. Hook us up with more details and maybe we can help you. I got the same Kingston etc too.
lol, the sicko performance seeker in us all just can never get enough MHz/bandwidth. It's only 'cuz I'm broke and can't afford another cpu that I don't go harder after more...
personally, I've found Prime, sandra Burn-In, etc to be just a good precursor to the REAL tests. Video encoding. I've had systems that will pass prime95 no problem, but the go to encode an AVI into DivX and my temps are higher than in prime and it's more likely to crash.
warm up with sandra...
I am running the stock cooler and it's great. I'll take the lower noise over the louder/better performing heatsinks anyday. 2.4c @ 3.3GHz rock solid. I can go to 3.47 stable (but much hotter), but the memory runs slower (2/3 ratio vs 4/5 at 3.3GHz)
My advice? Do like ErikaeanLogic said and...
Oh, and to answer your question anomaly, I originally planned on buying a Canterwood way back in March/Feb somewhere around there. I wanted the extra 5%. But once I saw the features that were being offered for the price, I decided to play "wait and see which mobo turns out to be the real...
I agree with you two, I think the Canterwoods will pan out to become the better boards in the long run. If not now, then definitely when we hit the 2nd generation of these boards sometime later this summer/early fall.
I do wonder about one thing tho...
Intel has had all their fabs...
I know this is an old and nearly dead thread, buuut....onza, I'm running Kingston Hyper X 3500 275fsb at 4/5 ratio (meaning 220 for the RAM) with absolutely rock solid stability. I like this stuff 'cuz I got it cheap ($69 for a 256MB stick) and it gives me the room I need to clock pretty well...
I'm currently running at 3.3GHz with the STOCK cooler. I've taken it to 3.4 stable, prefer the lower temps and higher memory ratio (4/5 instead of 2/3) at 3300MHz. My temps are nice.
You found a way to pick nits anyway tho, eh? :P /flamerwar on just kidding. That's interesting though, I did not know that about the Q3 codebase. The game is from '98 so I haven't tried SMP since the abit bp6 and pre T&L cards.
Well I think anybody who's got any sense knows who made...
resale value on a computer? Are you kidding me..? That's like trying to make a money off of buying gasoline and storing it in a huge tank at your home (farmers do this sometimes since they need the gas for their tractors etc). The profit only comes if you have a buyer, otherwise who gives a...
I could go through all my saved webpages and bookmarks to dig up some thermal compound comparisons, but that's a pain in the a** for something as ridiclous as this issue being debatable. Anyone who thinks AS3 or anything else doesn't help temps, fine. Use toothpaste for heatsink compound (I did...
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