Thats the only thing keeping me from getting a 2600K. Is that i will never get another chip that clocks as well as mine does
Now that I see this post, I should do a suicide run on my 2500k chip. Yesterday I ran 4.6ghz on 1.20v trying to make it unstable which I couldn't! I ran 20 passes of "high" IBT with AVX and it would not crash.
My 2700k will be here and I bet it won't o/c as good but I want HT for the GTX 680.
I demand 24hr stable Prime95
I looked at that and it didnt explain it very well. I know its an extension, and its for codes. But what does it actually do, any why is it better?
Intel® AVX is a new 256 bit instruction set extension to SSE and is designed for applications that are Floating Point (FP) intensive. It was released early 2011 as part of the Sandy Bridge processor family and is present in platforms ranging from notebooks to servers. Intel AVX improves performance due to wider vectors, new extensible syntax, and rich functionality. This results in better management of data and general purpose applications like image, audio/video processing, scientific simulations, financial analytics and 3D modeling and analysis.
Measurable Intel® AVX performance gains in SONAR* X1
SONAR* X1, the latest generation of the SONAR* product family, has code optimized for Intel® AVX enabled processors. Running on a processor such as in the Intel® Core processor family, Cakewalk* saw CPU gains while playing back projects which exercise the optimizations described earlier.
To verify Intel® AVX gains Intel engineers tested the following workloads on2.2GHz Intel® Core software development vehicles configured in Table 1, running at 2ms audio latency. Measurements were performed by measuring CPU cycles spent with and without Intel® AVX. The non AVX test was performed by disabling AVX in the BIOS.
HardwareOSMemoryCakewalk*Intel® Core 2.2 GHZ64-bit Windows 74 GBSONAR* X1
Workload- A was a project with several audio tracks and plug-ins typically used in high track count benchmarks. In this workload, CPU cycles were reduced by 1.23x or a net gain of 23% CPU bandwidth, when running with Intel® AVX enabled as compared to AVX disabled.
Workload- B was another benchmark project with several plug-ins used for high plug-in count benchmarks. In this workload we noted a reduction of CPU cycles by CPU cycles by 1.44x or a net gain of 44% CPU bandwidth, with AVX enabled.
Workload- C was a real world multi-track project from the SONAR* sample content disk. In this workload we observed a reduction of CPU cycles by 1.10x or a net gain of 10% CPU bandwidth, with AVX enabled.
Heres a quote from the following intel link. http://software.intel.com/en-us/avx/
Here a quote from the following link http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/utilizing-intel-avx-with-cakewalk-sonar-x1/
It does look like it has advantages that can be implemented in software. It's just a matter of if any software you use, want to use, or may need to use in the future has been optimized to take advantage of it.
Wait, i might be understanding this wrong, but it said FLOPS, which wouldnt that help with encoding video? Like a graphics card..................but which is better, my 2500K or my GTX470 for video encoding w/AVX
I'm not really into encoding video so I wouldn't know which would be faster.
Video encoding is one thing that can benefit from AVX as long as the app has been optimized to take advantage of it.
I demand 24hr stable Prime95
i think a legitimate issue arises here: if you only use your computer for gaming, wouldn't it be beneficial to turn off AVX, and overclock more for better gaming performance and lower load temperature? i mean...if no game uses AVX anyway...
unless that "this copy of Windows is not genuine" in your screenshot has something to do with it
I demand 24hr stable Prime95
Lol nice spot, I missed that. Seems to explain a few things....
Its really easy to get that message actually. Install windows with new motherboard, once in windows adjust the date and time and that message will pop right up on reboot. I never activate windows until the 180 day period expires just in case of issues.
how do you not have that running?Thats because of MMX or AVX or whatever its called. I dont have it running, so my GFLOPS are less than anyone who has it running.
Seriously, what is the reason for 24hr prime run? why not 365days 24/7 prime run since it's up and running for more than those days.
Like grimpr and many have said, 30mins-2hrs are fine. Anything beyond that is just waste of electricity. Almost no applications come as intenstive as running prime. If your computer is stable for 30mins+ within reasonable temps, stop worrying.
how do you not have that running?
Is AVX turned on by default?? Where do I check?
I dont have SP1 installed, i dont need/want it.
I smell a filthy pirate. SP1 is great - why wouldn't you install it?
Considering the first screenshot itself says "This copy of Windows is not genuine" that's a safe assumption.
Considering the first screenshot itself says "This copy of Windows is not genuine" that's a safe assumption.