Post your wPrime 32M times

jevery

jevery

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Nice....Just can't let me stay at the top, can you? :D

Hey I got my 2nd 460, Why don't you start a Vantage thread?
 
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87dtna

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Well, just got done...no matter what I did I could not get under 6 seconds on air cooling due to thermal throttling or BSOD/etc. I7's just run so darn hot.


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jevery

jevery

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Got 6.032 @ 4.2. Don't think I can get a run at 4.3. I'll try. Like you said - heats up FAST.
 
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87dtna

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LOL, .004 to go! :p

You do have a better cooler than me. I'm running a Zerotherm Zen, it's good but not super. That first run at 4.08ghz was the highest I could get with a arctic freezer pro 7, then I switched to the zen. The FP7 is just easier to install thats why I tried it first.
 
jevery

jevery

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Had to dust off the high speed fan to hold the temps down. I'm betting you'll crack 5.7 within a week.
 
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87dtna

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Wow, even with the phase, outside CPU temp was -40c, the core temps reached +37c!!!

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87dtna

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LOL

When are you going to get the cold bug and make me break out the DICE pot instead of the phase unit? :)
 
jevery

jevery

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That sounds like a lot of work. When you get to be my age you get arthritis in your knees, so I prefer to do my OC'ing sittin in my comfy chair. :eek:
 
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87dtna

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LOL, well that I can understand.

It's really not a ton of work. Takes about as long to set up as installing any good air cooling heatsink/fan.....as long as you have a case which has the back of the motherboard exposed at the socket area for ease of installing the backplate.
 
FuryRosewood

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still quite happy with what mine did even if it wasnt over the top, alot faster than the dual core i had before thats for sure. but yea, cant really hold a candle to the intel chips, so oh well
 
jevery

jevery

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I'd like to game with the 955/965 and see for myself, but they're supposedly as good as intel based rigs. I mean I love to benchmark, but that isn't what we do with our machines 99% of the time. You'd think there'd be some benchs that favor AMD though.
 
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87dtna

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You won't have any bottleneck with a 955 or better quad with gaming. You will have higher CPU usage with a 955 compared to say an I5 760, but still not enough to cause FPS loss really.
Although intel is good/better at gaming, it's other things that intel is better/faster at. Rendering, file compression, encoding, etc.

Why do you think I run mostly I3's and I5 dual cores? Because they aren't a bottleneck in games plus they overclock like crazy so single threaded apps run extremely fast.

I only picked up the I7 870 cuz it was a good deal cheap, $200 shipped.
 
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