TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

mudkip · Jul 13, 2009

time for a GTX275? :eek:

Thrackan · Jul 13, 2009

mudkip said:
time for a GTX275?

Looking at a 4890, they're getting dirt cheap this month.

Binge · Jul 13, 2009

Darn these international price differences.

Thrackan · Jul 13, 2009

Binge said:
Darn these international price differences.

Well rumor has it the new ATi series are going to be launched later this month, so everything is starting to drop.

Binge · Jul 13, 2009

Thrackan said:
Well rumor has it the new ATi series are going to be launched later this month, so everything is starting to drop.

That's quite a rumor. I think that'd be grand.

Baer · Jul 13, 2009

Binge, N-Ster, good comments and something to keep in mind as we read other posts.
I also love my 920 chip, I am going to get a DO and try it and then give whichever one I think performs less to my nephew for his first DIY.
As for games, I have been playing Oblivion on my test 920 rig with all settings maxed and with a handful of mods added. I have no stuttering even in very busy areas and situations. The performance of this rig, even with my less than extreme OC is very impressive.

Thrackan · Jul 13, 2009

Baer said:
Binge, N-Ster, good comments and something to keep in mind as we read other posts.
I also love my 920 chip, I am going to get a DO and try it and then give whichever one I think performs less to my nephew for his first DIY.
As for games, I have been playing Oblivion on my test 920 rig with all settings maxed and with a handful of mods added. I have no stuttering even in very busy areas and situations. The performance of this rig, even with my less than extreme OC is very impressive.

Please notice I have a single 4850

And the game was Unreal3 based (The Last Remnant).
Obviously I'm going for a better card to support the beastly i7 920

Binge · Jul 13, 2009

Thrackan said:
Please notice I have a single 4850 And the game was Unreal3 based (The Last Remnant).
Obviously I'm going for a better card to support the beastly i7 920

TLR is absolutely awesome

I have played through it about 4-5 times now.

Thrackan · Jul 13, 2009

Binge said:
TLR is absolutely awesome I have played through it about 4-5 times now.

Yeah, best thing I played since Final Fantasy 8 (got the PC version)

Chicken Patty · Jul 13, 2009

mudkip said:
I'm running windows 7 RC x64 with msn , wmp , firefox on and I've 70% of my memory left.

I know i can play crysis without stuttering

i know my issue was lack of RAM, dont know why. i added the six gb kit and walla, ran beautifully.

n-ster · Jul 14, 2009

Except for Crysis then... I won't spend extra for one single game!

Chicken Patty · Jul 14, 2009

n-ster said:
Except for Crysis then... I won't spend extra for one single game!

Crysis Warhead was the only one that gave me issues.

n-ster · Jul 14, 2009

Great

Out of curiosity, does Empire Total give a hard time to an i7? It is single-threaded if I'm not mistaken?

EDIT: nvm there was a patch that made it multi-threaded Still 18 min 21.5 average fps with a gtx 280... is that pretty playable? I'll be having a 9800gx2

kid41212003 · Jul 14, 2009

The OS allocates memory for programs depend on your total memory.
So, If you have 2GB, when your system boots up it will take x% of the total memory. And if you have 4GB the OS would take more memory for itself.

Available memory doesn't mean you have enough, let's the OS 'waste" as much as memory it could by adding more memory.

I only have MSN and IE on for about 30mins, and it's using 2.1GB of memory. (KIS, Steam, uTorrent)

Jakethesnake011 · Jul 14, 2009

I find that utorrent and Vuze are the RAM hoarders in my OS, I can start out with using less than a gig on Windows 7, and then within 3 hours or so Vuze will be using about 45% of my 6 gigs, for that program alone. So without it I find my RAM jumps up to 1.50gigs but it stays close to that it does not float unless I am using Vuze, or utorrent.

kid41212003 · Jul 14, 2009

You can't compare Vuze to uTorrent lol.
Of course Vuze uses alot of memory but not uTorrent, because Vuze is Java-based, while uTorrent is C++

Chicken Patty · Jul 14, 2009

yes, vuze does use RAM!

Wile E · Jul 14, 2009

Jakethesnake011 said:
I find that utorrent and Vuze are the RAM hoarders in my OS, I can start out with using less than a gig on Windows 7, and then within 3 hours or so Vuze will be using about 45% of my 6 gigs, for that program alone. So without it I find my RAM jumps up to 1.50gigs but it stays close to that it does not float unless I am using Vuze, or utorrent.

kid41212003 said:
You can't compare Vuze to uTorrent lol.
Of course Vuze uses alot of memory but not uTorrent, because Vuze is Java-based, while uTorrent is C++

Doesn't really have anyhing to do with what it's based on, so much that Vuze has a lot of features bloating it up a little, but you'll be hard pressed to find a more powerful torrent client.

As for the mem issue, Vuze used to have a memory leak, but I though that was addressed in an update.

The only other thing that drives up mem usage while using torrent clients is anti virus progs.

kid41212003 · Jul 14, 2009

Wile E said:
Doesn't really have anyhing to do with what it's based on, so much that Vuze has a lot of features bloating it up a little, but you'll be hard pressed to find a more powerful torrent client.

As for the mem issue, Vuze used to have a memory leak, but I though that was addressed in an update.

The only other thing that drives up mem usage while using torrent clients is anti virus progs.

Just saying from what I saw, for some reason java based programs always run slower than C++, and use more memory. :laugh:

mudkip · Jul 14, 2009

Yep , they use java runtime

Wile E · Jul 14, 2009

kid41212003 said:
Just saying from what I saw, for some reason java based programs always run slower than C++, and use more memory.

Yeah, a little at times, but not extreme differences.

Jakethesnake011 · Jul 14, 2009

This is my low voltage 4.0 overclock it is stable with about 20 passes of Linx running 4+ gigs. I think I will keep this as my daily overclock rather than 4.2 at 1.344V, the temps are also about 10 degrees cooler.

And my newest run of 3dmark vantage, I have been able to find a voltage tuner for the 4870x2. I have been able to pump about 1.125V into it and get away with 870/950 clocks, which is pretty good on freakin air. VRM's get up to 100's but cores are about 60's with that Arctic cooler on it.

18th 4870x2 on Hwbot.org

mudkip · Jul 14, 2009

Nice overclock!

you also could try to raise uncore for a bit higher score

mudkip · Jul 14, 2009

I'm going to buy a Prolimatech Megahalem tomorrow :rockout:

n-ster · Jul 14, 2009

Not THAT much better than a Mugen 2 really...

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TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

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