9850 BE soo shiny, must love it
Well after 2 faithful years my air cooled 3.6ghz OCed 4400x2 toledo core has been set aside. After 3 motherboard blow ups (two cfx3200 DFI LP dr/g and an ASUS A8N ultra deluxe) the last of which fried my 2900xt and the blessed 4400x2 delivered to me mistakenly by newegg appears to have been roasted as well. I can't be sure it's dead quite yet, but the last board still ran a 144 opty, though would not post with the 4400...though it may be fried (i really really hope not though) the screenies and benchmarks of the overclocking bliss it provided live on.
On the brighter side, i've gotten new toys to play with. DFI 790FX LP UT M2R 2x2gigs of DDR2 1066 gskill ram, a phenom 9850 BE quad and i am still waiting on the 4870 to arrive. Newegg was good enough to get the ram to me in only 14 hours after putting the order in....but the video card of course not. stoopid 4th of july had to ruin my purchasing joy.
So hopefully it will get here monday. For the time being i'm still reading up on how to actually overclock everything, while the overdrive app is nice, it just takes the fun out of it. I have high hopes though as it hit 3.1ghz prime stable at stock volts with the suprisingly effective box cooler that came with the phenom. Though the NB was getting a little toasty hovering around 60c idle, as i haven't put the spiffy lil' transpiper extension on and the test case doesn't possess my usual barrage of 6 120mm 110cfm silverstone fans.
But i just realized i need to update the bios to 5/05 as i'm still running 3/07, after which ill crank the clock up and see the difference in my cinebench scores at stock clock which are...
32bit 7641 in xcpu rendering
64bit 9196 in xcpu rendering
always agravates me no one posts 64bit benchmarks for comparison, so don't want to be a hypocrit. quite a leap from the 4400x2 benchs at stock speed of 2.2 which were around 3000 in 32bit and 3540 or soemthing in 64bit.
Just wanted to post about my happy news as it's been a long while since i upgraded. Oh, and to say how happy nvidia's 30.7% single day stock drop made me. =D