TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

[crazy pyro]

@Binge it honestly wasn't worth it for me, I'm not an extreme OCer (as in I've not overclocked my q6600 at all.)

 

[farlex85]

That's odd... PhysX is worth 20k points to your CPU score?

PhysX dominates Cpu test 2 in a way no cpu can even come close to. A 5ghz 965 got like an average of 40 or so in that test. 20K is really about where it usually lands, but the better the gpu the better physX works and the higher cpu score will go.

@Binge it honestly wasn't worth it for me, I'm not an extreme OCer (as in I've not overclocked my q6600 at all.)

Oc'ing doesn't have a lot to do w/ those boards as we have nothing to compare it to (p35/p45s oc just as well as x38/x48s). Their real value is sli/cf capabilities, as they are the only boards that accomplish this. They are also the only boards that will use an i7 chip, so you could put that in the value as well.

 

[Silverel]

PhysX dominates Cpu test 2 in a way no cpu can even come close to. A 5ghz 965 got like an average of 40 or so in that test. 20K is really about where it usually lands, but the better the gpu the better physX works and the higher cpu score will go.

Yeah... but that's just not really a test of the CPU at that point is it? Might as well make it a PhysX test.

 

[farlex85]

Yeah... but that's just not really a test of the CPU at that point is it? Might as well make it a PhysX test.

No its not, and yeah at that point vantage really isn't bound by the cpu at all, which is kind of accurate as most games work that way, then again very few games use physX, so really vantage becomes an entity in of itself, likely a good example of a synthetic bench that holds little validity.

 

[Fitseries3]

i forget that 06 likes high cpu oc's

 

[farlex85]

That's kinda low, that bench doesn't the new cards as much I guess. The drivers probably are more focused on the current hot stuff.

 

[Jupiter]

@Fit... to the moon

As was the case with Ephram Cochran, when man reaches
such an advanced stage of technological evolution we can
expect a visit.

 

[kid41212003]

Should you re-run the 3dmark 2006 with HT off?

 

[Fitseries3]

i'll try after a while. i gotta do a few things here for a bit.

 

[Fitseries3]

this pretty much sums up my day.

 

[Fitseries3]

need better cooling. gpus and cpu.

i'll fab something up today.

 

[Castiel]

How are those GTX295's running? Good?

 

[Fitseries3]

lol!

i think the screenshots speak for themselves.

 

[Castiel]

lol!

i think the screenshots speak for themselves.

hahaha, yeah. Have you tested them in Crysis yet?

 

[Fitseries3]

not yet

 

[kid41212003]

Awww, no 3dmark 2006 with HT off for me?

 

[coodiggy]

this pretty much sums up my day.

GAH; OH I got one of those for ya

 

[Chicken Patty]

 

[Chicken Patty]

a tad higher

 

[Chicken Patty]

FIT, what voltages do you suggest to mess with while o/c'ing the i7? NB, dram, cpu etc? Do you leave any on auto?

 

[Fitseries3]

19x216
pcie - 113mhz
dram - 12XX-13XX

vcore - 1.36 - 1.47 (depends on gpu's)
pll - 1.8 (set manually)
qpi/dram(vtt on some bios's) - 1.4 - 1.45 (depending on your cpu)
dram - 1.7v
IOH - 1.4v
IOH_PCIE - 1.56v
ICH - auto
ICH_PCIE - 1.6v (or auto...depends on GPUs)

 

[Chicken Patty]

not a bad CPU score, about 200 points higher than my vista run, card was clocked lower here so overall score is less, but CPU performed better

 

[Fitseries3]

a good read... http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3502

 

[Chicken Patty]

a good read... http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/intel/showdoc.aspx?i=3502

that is indeed a good article. Lots of valuable info. Looks like its the IMC to blame heh

 

[tzitzibp]

true... very interesting read! Thanks fits!