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Ivy 3550 @ 1.6GHz for months!

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FwFred

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OK, this is embarrassing but I thought I'd share anyways. I've been running my 3550 @ 1.6GHz for probably 8 months. I recall doing some trouble shooting as to why my machine wasn't sleeping when idle. I moved the power profile to Power Saver and forgot about that for 8 months.

I've played some games which I was surprised bogged down my system (w/ GTX 560Ti), but my SSD made it responsive enough where I didn't notice day to day.

Now I'm running @ 4.1 GHz and life is good!
 
VirtualLarry said:
I wonder which is faster, my Q9300 @ 3.0, or your 3550 at 1.6. Would be an interesting comparison.
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I 'downgraded' to my Ivy from my Qx9770 @ 3.6GHz. For what I do, my Ivy @ 1.6GHz was still faster, but that's all due to the SSD.

My Lightroom work is much faster now, and I do notice the browser is more responsive.

Sins of a Solar Empire was crushing my system when it got to late game, so I'm sure this will help.
 
Hey, at least you found the problem. I wonder what percentage of people in a similar situation would run their processor down-clocked until EOL.
 
I actually found it by running Kraken. I usually never run any benchmarks, but I saw a thread on Ars and I was curious. I was ~3100ms so I knew something was off when comparing it to other results. After changing my plan, I was a bit over 1300ms.
 
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toyota said:
the Q9300 at 3.0 would easily beat the 3550 at 1.6. do you really think that Ivy Bridge is nearly twice as fast clock for clock as your cpu?
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RussianSensation used to bring out some benchmarks, indicating that a 2500K was twice as fast as a Q6600 in gaming, at equal clocks.

So I wondered.
 
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