Try 4GHz, which should be achievable at around stock voltage. It should be more than enough for BF3. I personally don't use sleep so idk what to say about that problem.
Auto voltage is not what throttles down the voltage, that would be EIST aka intel speed step. You can set your voltages with offsets and still use EIST. That way you aren't using to much voltage.
Also, you should be running 4.5ghz 24/7 cough, no reason not to.
Edit. Looks like I was a bit late. Still good choice!
Confused as to how to get offset to work on my Gigabyte board though... I've read this Asus post a few times and think I finally understand what offset voltage means, but don't see the same BIOS setting on my Z68XP-UD3. I think I have to use the Multi-Steps Load-Line? It's rather cryptic though - the options just say Level 1 - Level 10. Or is it Dynamic Vcore (DVID) that I need to use?? DVID only becomes available after I set the CPU Vcore to Normal.
Heh, yep. I tried to look for those specific models listed under kakewalk compatibility page but the shop didn't have them. Remember I asked you about getting my board working on the Apple forum? You gave me a few links but I still haven't had time to look through them...
The 2500k and 2600k are very close when looked at in the gaming aspect. As I just said in my post above, if you are having problems resuming from sleep, disable cpu pll over voltage.
Auto voltage is not what throttles down the voltage, that would be EIST aka intel speed step. You can set your voltages with offsets and still use EIST. That way you aren't using to much voltage.
Also, you should be running 4.5ghz 24/7 cough, no reason not to.
Where I live I'll be forking out about US$430 for 2500K + mobo + 8GB RAM and I figure I can sell my Q6600 + mobo + RAM on eBay for ~ US$130.
I say the Gigabyte Z68X-UD3H-B3
It's the easiest to hackintosh:
http://www.kakewalk.se/compatibility/
Edit. Looks like I was a bit late. Still good choice!
The 2500k and 2600k are very close when looked at in the gaming aspect. As I just said in my post above, if you are having problems resuming from sleep, disable cpu pll over voltage.
Yo wont notice jack of difference if your LGA 775 was OCed to 3.6 or above. My BF3 1080ps 8xCSAA 16xAF high detail, vsync on , game details Ultra tweaked, FPS is locked @ 60fps never goes down below 55fps ,,, once in a while goes to 51 percent for a split second,,,,,,,,
The CPU usage is 65 percent AVG.
The CPU usage on a Sandy would be 35 percent.
Pointless upgrade... Wait until a 8 core 16 thread desktop comes out man your fine.....gl
This is an older post, but I am calling shenanigans.
I have a similar setup, although slower OC at only 3.3GHz and 4GB RAM, but my 560Ti is clocked slightly ahead of yours. I play BF3 at 1920x1200 (so higher res), but on all high settings with no AA, vsync off, and while running around in low intensity scenes is 60-80fps, in big firefights on 64 player CQ, it will drop to 30-45fps. There is no way a Q6600, even at 3.8GHz, with a 560Ti is 60fps constantly in BF3 64player CQ with ultra settings and 8X CSAA, that is not possible.
OK *think* I finally figured out how to do offset on my Gigabyte mobo:
1) Set CPU Vcore to 'normal'
2) Only then is Dynamic Vcore selectable
Currently testing IBT on 20 passes/Very high/1.28V/61C, with DVID is set at -0.065v. (edit: passed - hopefully means it's stable for now?)
I got a BSOD when it was set at -0.075
edit2: passed 2 hours of BF3, but my CPU was logged at 1.6GHz again! (WTF?) Is RealTemp always assumed to be accurate? I guess it is cuz my temps were in the high 30s/low 40s, and load % was always near 100!
Pretty sure he was talking about single player :sneaky: