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The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400, Stock speed 3GHz, Running at 4GHz
 
I'm going to attempt to take my i7 930 over 4GHz, when I get around to a new case and water cooling setup.

Not that anything I do actually stresses out the i7 @ 2.8, except a stress test anyway.
 
neil_g said:
nice.. you got the water rig back up and running?
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yes I have, running one big loop as supposed to two smaller loops, as one of the pumps died

so now the CPU and Graphics cards are on the same loop, with 2 rads

 
Rob 80386 said:
The CPU is an Intel Core 2 Duo, E8400, Stock speed 3GHz, Running at 4GHz
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Nice... I'm running an E8400 but at stock - never really been one for O/C. What's slowing your WPI down to 5.5 (yes, I know it's meaningless but..)? The graphics card? And what does the WPI give your CPU at 4GHz?
 
arad85 said:
Nice... I'm running an E8400 but at stock - never really been one for O/C. What's slowing your WPI down to 5.5 (yes, I know it's meaningless but..)? The graphics card? And what does the WPI give your CPU at 4GHz?
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it the memory causing the WPI to read 5.5

for CPU I was getting 6.5 at stock speed, at 4GHz I now get 7.0

7.5 for Graphics

5.9 For disks

5.5 Memory
 
Isn't that a bit pointless? Think about your electricity bill and try to undervolt - that's a lot more fun and challenge. ;)
 
Weird. I have stock memory (although I have 8G) and have:

Processor: 6.6
Memory: 6.9
Graphics: 5.4
Gaming graphics: 6.3
HDD: 5.9

What was really annoying was that I upgraded from an 8400 to 9500 and my graphics performance dropped (I wanted dual digital outs).
 
arad85 said:
Weird. I have stock memory (although I have 8G) and have:

Processor: 6.6
Memory: 6.9
Graphics: 5.4
Gaming graphics: 6.3
HDD: 5.9

What was really annoying was that I upgraded from an 8400 to 9500 and my graphics performance dropped (I wanted dual digital outs).
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With Memory once you get about to 6GB, you get a higher WEI score the fasterthe memory is. I only have 6GB of RAM, but it's clocked around 1800MHz, DDR3, and in Triple Channel config and I get a WEI score of 7.9.
 
Where do you get this info?
 
Found it,

windowsexperience.jpg
 
Rob 80386 said:
thats impressive,

what hadware are you running
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Core i7 930 @ ~3GHz, Corsair XMS3 3x2GB DDR3 ~1800MHz, Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (rev2), Radeon HD5870 1GB, Crucial C300 64GB SSD, 2TB WD Caviar Green, 500GB WD Cavair Blue, Corsair 650TX.

I've got a crappy case at the moment though, what I have barely fits, and I really want to go Crossfire with 5870s, and add some more HDDs for a bit of RAID action. Cable management also sucks, looks awful, and probably massively hinders the airflow, but the temps are OK even at load, but doubt I'll risk overclocking until I have more space, and better cooling.
 
i havent bothered running the WEI on my systems, its that pointless lol

i did run prime95 on my desktop for 10 hours solid though to prove how stable it was and how the cooler performed :)
 
redddraggon said:
Core i7 930 @ ~3GHz, Corsair XMS3 3x2GB DDR3 ~1800MHz, Gigabyte X58A-UD3R (rev2), Radeon HD5870 1GB, Crucial C300 64GB SSD, 2TB WD Caviar Green, 500GB WD Cavair Blue, Corsair 650TX.

I've got a crappy case at the moment though, what I have barely fits, and I really want to go Crossfire with 5870s, and add some more HDDs for a bit of RAID action. Cable management also sucks, looks awful, and probably massively hinders the airflow, but the temps are OK even at load, but doubt I'll risk overclocking until I have more space, and better cooling.
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thats some setup,

I'm running an Asus P5Q Pro Turbo, it's based on the X48 chipset, 2x ATI 4890 in crossfire configuration, 2GB Geil Black Dragon 1066 DDR2, 1TB Hitachi HDD, Coolermaster cosmos -s case, custom built liquid cooling system.

the X58 chipset and i7 processor will be my next upgrade
:)
 
Ohh.. Look at the size of the willies in this thread ;) :D

(not entirely blameless here as I posted about WEI first ;))
 
neil_g said:
did someone say willy waving?


coreblimey by neilgates, on Flickr

:D
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Only 6G of memory :p

Does photoshop ever use all those "cores" and if it does, does it ever max them out? I hear conflicting reports on how efficient PS is at using multiple threads.
 
neil_g said:
you missed a 4 off after the 6 ;)
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Tee hee.. so I did ;) :D

BTW, I have a Zotak based HTPC, except mine is the Atom/Ion based one (I only run xbmc on mine).
 
arad85 said:
Tee hee.. so I did ;) :D

BTW, I have a Zotak based HTPC, except mine is the Atom/Ion based one (I only run xbmc on mine).
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i used to run an atom based acer revo 3610 as a HTPC with XBMC but i found it struggled with some of my rips, hence the quad core replacement :D

might ditch that case after xmas though, the 60mm case fans are all louder than the missus hairdryer.. :shrug:

i do like that zotac board though, its the same as the one in my desktop.
 
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neil_g said:
i used to run an atom based acer revo 3610 as a HTPC with XBMC but i found it struggled with some of my rips, hence the quad core replacement :D
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Really? The Zotac is the same hardware and is fine with all mine (1080p/H264 High@4.1). The hardware does all the decoding, so you're only doing the demux on the Atom which it is fine for. A film for me uses about 10% CPU (Linux/XBMC).

Anyway, this is waaaay off topic!
 
Yeah, there were some films that just would not play smoothly on the atom that would on a crud spec laptop. sound would start 30 mins into a film etc. got a bit fed up with it and replaced it with what i know best, quad core HTPC :D
 
What software were you using? XBMC on linux?
 
XBMC on W7. using dharma beta4 with DXVA enabled it was pretty good for 90% of stuff. blu-ray on a USB external drive was faultless. but for the other 10% it just could not cope and i got bored trying to fix it.. lol

sold it and the BD drive and used the cash to build the LGA775 ITX box.
 
Welcome! - i5-750 @4.2GHz on a Arctic Freezer Extreme HSF.
 
Gazza_DJ said:
Welcome! - i5-750 @4.2GHz on a Arctic Freezer Extreme HSF.
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Hiya,

Thats quite impressive, if 4.2GHz can be achieved on air, wonder how fast the i5 could be pushed with liquid cooling?
 
I don't see why 5GHz would be a problem on a good liquid setup. 4.2Ghz seems to be the upper limit for the i5-750's for a stable OC. Mine boots at ~4.3GHz, but crashes eventually.

TBF most of the time it runs at stock clocks, I only enable the OC profile in the BIOS when I am doing video encoding, for example.
 
Hmm its threads like this that make me want to drag my opteron setup out and get the dry ice in the pots and see if i can beat my 3.3ghz record. Hmmm or mod them to fit my i5 rig :D. I can see this getting expensive lol

But congrats i remeber the days of 4ghz being a pure dream, now it can be smashed even on air :o
 
And here's me still on single core 1.5GHz POS with RAM measured in megabytes. Ahaa...
 
neil_g said:
least your computer is working.. mines in a pile of bits :|
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neil_g said:
play have just refunded my return postage, hopefully that means my replacement 'board is going out the door today :suspect:
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been in that situation, with Julie, when the ATX Connector caught fiire, then one of the pumps died.

:)
 
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