TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[J-Man]

Hey, Corsair Dominator RAM cooler. Will it fit onto the triple channel RAM I'm about to order?

 

[Fitseries3]

they have a new one for your ram. idk where though

 

[J-Man]

I can't find the cooler seperate, it only comes with the 1866MHz RAM.

 

[King Wookie]

I'd love to watercool my Core i7 (next month) but can't find the 1366 kit for Swiftech Apogee GTZ.

Try these guys:

http://www.sidewindercomputers.com/swapforincoi.html

Their shipping to South Africa is pretty reasonable, so you should have no issues.

 

[coodiggy]

I read about 5 pages into this, nice job on the overclocking/3dmark score, but I haven't bene able to run 3dmark, I don't have it so I don't know what the 3dmark numbers relate to in terms of gaming smoothness/fps etc.. I do however have aquamark3 on my quad core photo machine... It's Interesting how things have changed in the last 8 months, can that thing run Aquamark3? if it does can you post cpu score gpu score and max/min fps results from aquamark3? I'll send you a neet desktop photo

 

[JrRacinFan]

Ok please someone answer me this. How much of a performance hit is there when you have HT disabled?

 

[Binge]

HT? Depends on the app. No performance loss when gaming. Some programs may see a performance increase.

 

[Binge]

I read about 5 pages into this, nice job on the overclocking/3dmark score, but I haven't bene able to run 3dmark, I don't have it so I don't know what the 3dmark numbers relate to in terms of gaming smoothness/fps etc.. I do however have aquamark3 on my quad core photo machine... It's Interesting how things have changed in the last 8 months, can that thing run Aquamark3? if it does can you post cpu score gpu score and max/min fps results from aquamark3? I'll send you a neet desktop photo

I'm on it now man, results in a moment.

 

[JrRacinFan]

HT? Depends on the app. No performance loss when gaming. Some programs may see a performance increase.

Oh ok cause a few pages back I saw someone post a higher clock with HT disabled thats used little to nothing extra over the vcore they used with HT enabled. Just beginning to learn the i7 stuff via reading. By the time I go i7 they would be out for a while and many many other guides/threads will be posted about them.

 

[Binge]

 

[kid41212003]

HT? Depends on the app. No performance loss when gaming. Some programs may see a performance increase.

There are performance loss in MOST of games.

Games only see performance increase if they use up to 8 threads.

If games only support up to 4 threads, that's mean it only use 2 cores, and 2 virtual cores vs 4 true cores (HT disable).

EDIT: I think this is the Vista problem, it's shifting through all the cores according to load, and It thinks virtual cores = true cores.

I hope they will fix this in Windows 7 or the next SP for Vista.

 

[LiveOrDie]

fitseries3 my memory is not on evga X58 Series Memory Support list, this could be the problem, theres other people with the same problem, theres lack of Support for 3x2gb sticks, the only person with out problems running 3x2gb stick is a guy with his memory on the list, i think the next bios update will fix this problem, i dont get any cold boots so thats not a problem.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Man, FIT i remember when you told me the chip is fast as fuck ( the 920 ) I said yea, but how much faster would it get in everyday use, well at 4.2GHz, heck yeah it does get faster, everything just like opens up like instantaneous, extracting, installations, everything is just super super quick.

Man, this is awesome!!!

 

[LiveOrDie]

Man, FIT i remember when you told me the chip is fast as fuck ( the 920 ) I said yea, but how much faster would it get in everyday use, well at 4.2GHz, heck yeah it does get faster, everything just like opens up like instantaneous, extracting, installations, everything is just super super quick.

Man, this is awesome!!!

would i be able to hit 4.2 on air with my specs, do u mind send your setting my ways i would like to try

 

[coodiggy]

Thanks for the Aquamark3 results! looks like there's no multi-threaded optmization for that old benchy, but this should show what we'd see in our older games; I'm seeing the same kinda results on my quad core around 142k max at 3.1
I think it only uses one of the die's on that thing due to xp sp2 not using the full CPU. Saw some dual 7900gtx's running sli, oc'd core2 I think 3.9GHZ Getting 240k at Aquamark3!

In the aquamark3 folder, there should be some folders that say "benchmark" "date here" one says "details pass1" Could you open up "details" in wordpad, then copy paste the lines of text starting with "Duration, ending with Avgshadedpixelspersec" this shows the min/max fps. Thanks again, I'll look through my photo's and pick you a good one for your desktop if you want

 

[Binge]

I do not have any such folders My apologies.

 

[coodiggy]

OOPS, if you click on the "submit results online" they get created in either user data or mydocuments, you don't have to submit results though

 

[Binge]

Really I've uninstalled it already. There were a lot of options like HT that I could not access. I was only using the evaluation copy.

 

[coodiggy]

That's OK, I have the evaluation as well, I get the file/folder created in my documents folder when I clicked on the submit online. even though they say to purchase it, the files get created/saved, so you can eventually submit the data to their "thing" Do you remember what the lowest FPS was on the big explosion at the end?

 

[Binge]

No idea. All I remember was that it was VERY fast.

 

[Chicken Patty]

would i be able to hit 4.2 on air with my specs, do u mind send your setting my ways i would like to try

bro, I dont think you can do that on air, I dont know how good the air coolers out there now are for it. I'll PM you a couple of tips your way.

 

[Fitseries3]

4.5ghz has been done on a TRUE

 

[Chicken Patty]

4.5ghz has been done on a TRUE

wow!!!

but how were temps?

 

[Binge]

Not much far off from water, but it would not hold load as well.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Not much far off from water, but it would not hold load as well.

i would figure, but thats pretty impressive for a cooler then