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Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
Why do these "comparisons" always feature the "David" CPU overclocked and the "Goliath" CPU at stock speeds?
LOLOL..
Love this comment.
Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
Why do these "comparisons" always feature the "David" CPU overclocked and the "Goliath" CPU at stock speeds?
Originally posted by: Flipped Gazelle
Why do these "comparisons" always feature the "David" CPU overclocked and the "Goliath" CPU at stock speeds?
Originally posted by: Andrew1990
hmm, I kind of remember seeing how all Phenom II X4s were supposed to easily overclock past 4.2GHz+ on air. We all know how that turned out.
Even so, I am most likely picking one of these up to put in my system.
Originally posted by: LoneNinja
Originally posted by: Andrew1990
hmm, I kind of remember seeing how all Phenom II X4s were supposed to easily overclock past 4.2GHz+ on air. We all know how that turned out.
Even so, I am most likely picking one of these up to put in my system.
I don't recall any source promising 4.2Ghz+ on air other than some dumb fan boys in forums. I've seen a lot of people claim their Phenom II to reach 3.8Ghz on air and that's all AMD claimed it would do, beyond that it was water cooling to get above 4.0Ghz.
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: Kraeoss
so umm f@h is a benchmark now ? hrmmm what will be the next benching app ? btw i am trying to convince a friend to wait till april to build his am3 rig because he's running a sempron and an onboard video card and wants to play the latest games
No, not a benchmark, just what I use the most. Check benchmarks on the games or software you use/play the most. Then look at the prices in your range, and decide what's best bang/buck.
If I were to start from scratch right now, I would get 3 or 4 slot pci-e motherboards, and the cheapest cpu I could find, and populate the box with 9800 GT cards. For F@H, thats currently the best bang/buck/ppd. The quads I have are left over from last years best bang/buck which was 2 smp units on a quad.
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Can anyone find that AMD slide that was floating around here that showed how much overhead they were supposed to have?
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Can anyone find that AMD slide that was floating around here that showed how much overhead they were supposed to have?
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardwa...4-940-and-920-review/1
Specifically http://images.bit-tech.net/con...nd-920-review/oc-8.jpg
Originally posted by: Idontcare
Originally posted by: Ocguy31
Can anyone find that AMD slide that was floating around here that showed how much overhead they were supposed to have?
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardwa...4-940-and-920-review/1
Specifically http://images.bit-tech.net/con...nd-920-review/oc-8.jpg
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
Crazy talk! I run my machines 24/7 under loads equal to prime95.This is exactly why I do not run prime any more for more than 10-15min. The hardware we use is not made to take this kind of beating
Originally posted by: VirtualLarry
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
Wow, check out the first page of posts. Nothing but comments from people that are AFRAID to run Prime95 for 8 hours, for fear that they will burn out their mobos.
Is this because so many people on XS are afraid to run prime, because they aren't that stable with their overclocks, and using the mobos as a FUD excuse?
Or are there endemic problems with socket AM2+ mobos VRM sections, still, ala the 780G debacle in which Phenom 9850s would burn out mobos, because they couldn't handle 125W TDP CPUs?
I OCed my Q6600 to 3.6Ghz, at 1.33v, and I ran Prime95 25.9 64-bit overnight, no problems at all. (OTOH, sometimes when I run OCCT:linpack, it hits temps so high that my mobo shuts down.)
Crazy talk! I run my machines 24/7 under loads equal to prime95.This is exactly why I do not run prime any more for more than 10-15min. The hardware we use is not made to take this kind of beating
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
Originally posted by: poohbear
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
"only getting to 3.7ghz". i'd be quite happy w/ "only" 3.7ghz for a $145 tri-core w/ 7.5mb cache.
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: poohbear
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
"only getting to 3.7ghz". i'd be quite happy w/ "only" 3.7ghz for a $145 tri-core w/ 7.5mb cache.
If the "only 3.7" get whuped by an only 3.3 Q6600, then it sure makes a different.
Originally posted by: poohbear
Originally posted by: Markfw900
Originally posted by: poohbear
Originally posted by: Duvie
Unfortunately reality showed up and told the real story.....
http://www.xtremesystems.org/f...howthread.php?t=213248
prime stable and water is only 4.2ghz range.....air was only getting to 3.7ghz
"only getting to 3.7ghz". i'd be quite happy w/ "only" 3.7ghz for a $145 tri-core w/ 7.5mb cache.
If the "only 3.7" get whuped by an only 3.3 Q6600, then it sure makes a different.
are the q6600s selling for $145?
Originally posted by: Markfw900
The $145 is a tri-core, not quad-core, and thus price in this example doesn't count.
The thread Duvie linked to was 940/920 overclocks.
As for the poster, he runs superpi and calls it stable ? I don't think that counts either, I could probably do that on my 940.