Just have a quick question,Should I run my ram at 1066 or 800, I was told since I overclocked my Q9550 to 3.4 (fsb 400) dropping my ram to 800 and changing the timings to 4-4-4-12 I would get better performance.
Oh, and I have my Q9550 running at 3.4 on 1.2v, is that too much or not enough, sorry for the noob questions, I'm just trying to learn as much as I can, thank you for your time.
A little better now. Clocked my 4870 to 780/1090. My Q6600 underclocks itself and then brings itself to 2.44 when programs run, so dont be confused about the numbers in cpu-z.
My bios say its only running around 28-30C idle, so I think I have some good room for volting and OC.
I twiddled a bit around in the bios (havnt tried yet to see how far it goes tough) and I did reach the maximum clock of my cards (at least, according to CCC)
3.78GHz (at 1.5v ) on the CPU, ram at 820MHz. and the cards at 820/1211
jsut gotta push it a bit more, and I'll be in 3rd place maybe, haha. not bad for a complete last gen pc. (Q6600, X38 motherboard and 3870's)