Originally Posted by Druchii

Ok, it arrived yesterday, been stability testing overnight... the vDroop on this board is unreal, BIOS set to 1.45v vCore, yet at full load only hits 1.394v... That's why i found the pencil mod ;) - MOD HERE (anyone know where i can get conductive ink form?)

Now sitting comfortably at 3.66ghz with an Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro 7. No throttling (and it's turned off in the BIOS anyway) the value RAM is holding it's own at 544ish mhz (rated at only 533) and so far no problems. The x1600xt is an amazing card too. 58k points in Aquamark3 so far.

More benchies to follow, etc.

Originally Posted by Druchii

It could have something to do with my Valueram though, running it with a divider doesn't help... Looking for some good DDR2-800 that won't break the bank in a week or so.

This board has sopme major voltage issues though, blimey! Dual Priming now (affinity set to one core per instance of prime) at 3.7Ghz. Temps are at 48'C for the CPU. Not too bad.

Broke 60k in Aquamark earlier, but only just, this is a fresh install as well :/ What are you running?

Originally Posted by Druchii

That's why my score seems comparatively low... Aquamark3 isn't multi-threaded so dual core brings no benefits really to it, and that 4000+ cpu you have is alot more powerful than an 805 under air. Just ouch for comparing the x1600 to the x1900 as well. lol.

Still dual priming at 3.7... Lovely and stable.

Originally Posted by Flobajob

60K sounds about right (missed it in your previous post), not a bad score, what's your 3dM scores?

Originally Posted by Druchii

3dm?

Ok, explain it, link me to the download, and give me an hour or so cos i'm still dual-priming. lol.

Originally Posted by keithwalton

lol yeah comparing a 12 pipe (4 real) x1600xt to a 48pipe (16 real) x1900 lol!
you've got 3x the gpu power in pipes alone let alone the 1900 runs at 625-650mhz (xt-xtx) compared to 590mhz of the x1600.

If you're only at 48c loaded you can push it some more by extra vcore. i wouldnt worry about vdroop all that much. Just set a higher initial value so that under load its what you need. When idle your cpu will throttle and be able to handle the higher voltage.

Still i'd of gone with the c2d! at 3GHz the c2d is easily a match for a dual 4ghz 900 series chip, never mind the old 800 series. Pretty much all c2d's hit mid 3G's as well.

I'd tell you what my aq3 score is if it didn't crash at the end :( it will be very high.

I hit 54k in 3dm'01, 13k in '05 and 6.5k in '06 all with gpu @ stock

he means 3dmark by futurmark

Originally Posted by keithwalton

lol yeah comparing a 12 pipe (4 real) x1600xt to a 48pipe (16 real) x1900 lol!
you've got 3x the gpu power in pipes alone let alone the 1900 runs at 625-650mhz (xt-xtx) compared to 590mhz of the x1600.

If you're only at 48c loaded you can push it some more by extra vcore. i wouldnt worry about vdroop all that much. Just set a higher initial value so that under load its what you need. When idle your cpu will throttle and be able to handle the higher voltage.

Still i'd of gone with the c2d! at 3GHz the c2d is easily a match for a dual 4ghz 900 series chip, never mind the old 800 series. Pretty much all c2d's hit mid 3G's as well.

I'd tell you what my aq3 score is if it didn't crash at the end :( it will be very high.

I hit 54k in 3dm'01, 13k in '05 and 6.5k in '06 all with gpu @ stock

he means 3dmark by futurmark

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9028318
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2142627
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=416219

note most of those are slightly old as my cpu was at 3.5GHz at the time its now at 3.85GHz

Originally Posted by keithwalton

lol yeah comparing a 12 pipe (4 real) x1600xt to a 48pipe (16 real) x1900 lol!
you've got 3x the gpu power in pipes alone let alone the 1900 runs at 625-650mhz (xt-xtx) compared to 590mhz of the x1600.

If you're only at 48c loaded you can push it some more by extra vcore. i wouldnt worry about vdroop all that much. Just set a higher initial value so that under load its what you need. When idle your cpu will throttle and be able to handle the higher voltage.

Still i'd of gone with the c2d! at 3GHz the c2d is easily a match for a dual 4ghz 900 series chip, never mind the old 800 series. Pretty much all c2d's hit mid 3G's as well.

I'd tell you what my aq3 score is if it didn't crash at the end :( it will be very high.

I hit 54k in 3dm'01, 13k in '05 and 6.5k in '06 all with gpu @ stock

he means 3dmark by futurmark

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9028318
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2142627
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=416219

note most of those are slightly old as my cpu was at 3.5GHz at the time its now at 3.85GHz

Originally Posted by keithwalton

lol yeah comparing a 12 pipe (4 real) x1600xt to a 48pipe (16 real) x1900 lol!
you've got 3x the gpu power in pipes alone let alone the 1900 runs at 625-650mhz (xt-xtx) compared to 590mhz of the x1600.

If you're only at 48c loaded you can push it some more by extra vcore. i wouldnt worry about vdroop all that much. Just set a higher initial value so that under load its what you need. When idle your cpu will throttle and be able to handle the higher voltage.

Still i'd of gone with the c2d! at 3GHz the c2d is easily a match for a dual 4ghz 900 series chip, never mind the old 800 series. Pretty much all c2d's hit mid 3G's as well.

I'd tell you what my aq3 score is if it didn't crash at the end :( it will be very high.

I hit 54k in 3dm'01, 13k in '05 and 6.5k in '06 all with gpu @ stock

he means 3dmark by futurmark

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9028318
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm05=2142627
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=416219

note most of those are slightly old as my cpu was at 3.5GHz at the time its now at 3.85GHz

Originally Posted by TheBlueRaja

Yeah, but i have a bigger cock (im fattening him up for christmas - turkey sucks)!

(too riskey? :shrug: :D)

Originally Posted by keithwalton

aha thanks for the patch. Attached is my score :)
gpu @ stock.

and yes the c2d makes a big difference. My Pentium D 930 @ 4GHz is utterly blown out of the water, especially 3dmark 01 where the score is some 10k higher. But in 05 and 06 the cpu score is also alot higher. In '05 a 4.5GHz 900 series can just hit 11k cpu score. Something beaten by the c2d at 3.2GHz

Originally Posted by Flobajob

What C2D are you running, is it on air/water/phase?