Recent content by FrostigerFinger

Thanks for the response! I've been running the BCLK at 170 for over 6 years now and there was no problem whatsoever. I seem to recall that BCLK overclocking only caused problems on SandyBridge and later CPUs. You don't happen to know why the P55 chipset limits the PCI-e speed of the chipset to...

I'd like to know if it is possible to increase the DMI bandwidth on a P55 board (ASUS P7P55D-E) by increasing the BCLK. The reason for this is my plan to use an m2 NVMe SSD in my second PCI-e x16 slot (only 4 PCI-e 2.0 lanes available) with an m2 to PCI-e adapter. Now, the problem with the...

That's what I thought the smartest solution would be, thank you very much!

Can the card use ALL of the bandwidth available to the slot, or is that only possible for a full x16 card? I know that a x16 card in an x16 slot @ x4 speed is going to get the full x4 speed, but is the same true for an x4 card in an x16 slot @ x4 speed? I'm thinking about using a PCI-e x4...

This would also explain the godly performance of the Pentium paired with a 950.

In fact this result is way too good, the old Conroe seems to wipe the floor with Lynnfield and even Sandybridge, when accounting for the clock rate difference! What is going on.

Here's another ancient one for comparison: CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 (Conroe) @ 2.66GHz GPU: Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTS 320MB GPU driver: 342.01 OS: Windows 7 32 bit Ships: 1 Rocks: 16000 Draw calls: 16022 FPS: 13.32 Surprisingly good if you ask me!

Thank you for this comment. I bought my P2 20 days ago and had no idea that I wouldn't get the full 10 years warranty without a registration within 30 days of purchase!

That's weird, are you sure you didn't accidently break the plastic part of the mainboard?

Haha, meaning no offense :D

Seems the most likely.

we're talking WHILE the benchmark is running in the background right?

The 1060 should be the better of the two cards. Why don't you even consider the RX 480?

Can you check with HWInfo64 instead? cpu-z doesn't show the frequency of all cores, hwinfo does.

Don't you think it's the other way around? The games which favour higher single thread performance are those that use older engines. The latest engines scale way better with 6+ cores. Dual cores will be so obsolete in the gaming scene that most AAA games won't even start up. The quads will be...