It's supposed to make the board more stable when overclocking. I can't say I have noticed any extra features...
Had a play round with my over lock yesterday and managed to get to 4.35ghz with ram at 2060ish but score was pretty much the same as before Any higher on the CPU and it bsod's or freezes on windows load up. Was pumping 1.5vcore and temps were 70-79c. Think I've reached my max score with my setup. Was hoping for 12000 but oh well
My new set up using the parts from The GreatSatans giveaway scores 6449. Not OC'd at all yet but it's lovely that the CPU unlocks to a quad I ran it before that as the standard dual-core and it was around 4400.
I see I see. I just played about with my memory timings and can only get my oc stable for the every day 3.9ghz rather than 4ghz run Still it's nice to have a tiny bandwidth bump on the memory for normal situations that I'll never perceive. Still, wish I could have squeezed over the 8000 mark.
See that upload button? Could you click it, please, It makes it a lot easier to see how your machine's performance is balanced.
http://browse.geekbench.ca/geekbench2/533840 Gave it another shot after a little skyrim binge. I'm pretty sure that's all my Phenom is capable of without some water cooling, a better mobo and some faster ram. 3978mhz it was a running at. @.//Tundra I tell you what, the memory performance makes me sad It's so low compared to those triple channels out there let alone quad. Admittedly my memory is low end corsair stuff, running at 1358mhz 8-9-8-25 in this instance.
I know how you feel. I can just scrape 4000 points in memory if I overclock my Northbridge to 2.5ghz, but then i'm really pushing my luck.
The old i7's rock!!! I think your score should be better than that at that speed, what memory are you useing please ?
Yeah. It's taken a hammering today. I've been testing the overclock in a good 3 hours worth of Skyrim too. So could run 24/7 at the end result. Would love to have seen what your unlocked 555 would have scored. Throbbi seems to have one. I wanted to make sure I had my best result just in I get trounced by what was a £50 chip to my £90 quid chip when I bought it. Also had the dilemma with the northbridge. Didn't feel comfortable pumping more volts through it and from what I have seen around the www, going above 2600mhz can result in poorer performance with the denebs. Beats me how that works. ALso, I just got a letter saying my credit limit on my credit card has been upped by £1000... I might have to scrape the numbers off it so I can't use it online buying an i7
I wouldn't've scored as high as you, the L1 cache on Core3 had died by the time I was finished, so it was more or less just a tri-core.
