Cpu -z innacurately reprts voltage on the sapphire board.........
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Cpu -z innacurately reprts voltage on the sapphire board.........
yeah like i said volts are stock.
ok, my bad. thought the stock statement was for 2.5ghz..
3ghz on stock volts is pretty nice though.
yeah, wonder what i can do with more...
I'm 200 miles away from my pc right now, but i am loving the opteron, i wish i had never gotten an X2.
well you need 3.3 to match a dual core 3.0 gig. I think you just need to find a golden dual core rev :)
Well yes, i ran daily at 2500mhz on my X2, and this cpu can easily do daily work at 3ghz, so things are much faster, and it was about 1/2 the price i paid for my X2.
My point being, for the poor overclocker, X2 isn't the way to go yet IMHO.
Certainly if you have an x2 that will do 3.0 on air, steer me towards it and i may be going dual core once again hehe. To me it sounds like we will need some new steppings for that though.
I got it here right now :) will let yah know in a while. Installing windows atm.
Absolutely amazing OC on stock woltage to 3GHz, whoa whoa :eek:
And yep, it is about dualcore. I got my suspicion that the dual core stuff might be great for heawy parallel tasks, but mostly it get useless for normal work - and that is why the opteron rocks now :D
I feel I want one as well! :D :D :D
Thats a really nice Opteron you got there. 3ghz on stock volts and air cooling. Very nice:)
It always depend on the situation. I always have emule downloading a lot of stuff, and that had a good impact in gaming performance. Seeing my 165 runs almost the same as my Venice, but with 2 cores the DC is worth for me.
And with the new nV drivers and some games, they benefit big time with DCs.
BTW, good joob with the grouper. I love the colour of that board. Still not a reason to buy LOL.
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Originally Posted by mursaat
I think the performance is more then enough to buy.
I am very satisfied with everything this board has to offer.
mursaat - well, I use downloading server for eMule, so my performance aren't hurt at all. Besides, even with Double Core the performance of any game WILL BE hurt, and therefore - off eMule to server go :p:
Second thing is, that I mostly game online and therefore no-emule can run, because even on low settings it does affect ping time even on fast cable connection speeds.
You should know that we have yet to see a game that benefit from double core yet ;) In drivers this is pure BS - drivers are straightforward - you can't rewrite them completely to gain advantages of double core, besides most HW stull are precise in timings. Eg. you first have to push this register and THEN this one. Paraellizing such tasks end up in horrible BSOD ;)Quote:
And with the new nV drivers and some games, they benefit big time with DCs.
So, even there is possible to write a filter or design a game (I dubt it anyway) that would benefit from double core, it is mostly useless and it probably hardly can become any more that very small fraction of games and stuff.
Therefore the single core Opterons will be much faster, because they run overclocked pretty well ;)
And of course, color is not a reason to buy. Performance and stability is. And design of the mobo that well fit into my fanless enviroment. We have to see, how it hold on anyway :D
Having actually used dual core a bit beyond overclocking, I have to say that I Can't Go Back now lol. It's the creamy smoothness, doesn't matter if the game's optimised or not. When I use the s754 Venice rig, even at 2800 the wait time is forever compared to dual core. Of course, that's partly because of single-channel memory, but even against a 146 clocking 2800 it's lots smoother. :D
Sorry, this is way off topic. Back to Revv23. :)
Well, OT, but still - what is was forever on single core, compared to dual one?Quote:
When I use the s754 Venice rig, even at 2800 the wait time is forever compared to dual core
I can't imagine anything that taking forever on sigle compared to dual one, giving the simple math that it at max add another 50% or so of the power, due to two CPU's has to saturate one bus for one ram/gfx/pci devices :confused:
Please explain :D
well basically i noticed boot time is a tad slower with dual core. When in windows trying to do multiple demanding tasks sux though. With dual core I can run multiple tasks with no noticable loss in speed or performance.
Well, that IS logical and possible to understand. Also that cleverly balanced usage of both cores during demanding video encoding could yield pretty nice results. However they aren't be that much different from single core and I dubt I ever see any performance increase in games like BF2 or FarCry/upcomming Crisis :p:
I might be wrong, tough :D
No maybe not but if your playing in a window while burning a cd and in an IM you won't lose anything in performance :DQuote:
Originally Posted by trodas
How come you don't put paste spread over the TT BT but just in the middle?
Nice pics and work space.
because to much paste is bad for good contact...?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam666
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Originally Posted by Sam666
thanks :toast:
but why do you think i didnt? i covered the entire core.
Whoa, just saw this, looking good mate! 3GHZ nice!
http://www.elitebastards.com/page.ph...d=1&comments=1Quote:
Originally Posted by trodas
Close to a 7.5% in a Quake4 with nVidia drivers, and 8.88% with in-game DC optimizations, 1280x1024 AA+AF enabled. CoD2 is another story, as the patch is intended for Intel chips. And this is in 'older' games. I want to assume one would buy a chip for now and future purposes, and I think with the time more and more games will benefit of dual core. Sorry for the late response and OT, but I unsubscribed by error :p:
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Originally Posted by trodas
That is true, BUT, if the physics-engine ran on one core and sound and gfx on the other, that'd help things out, don't you think?
Okay, okay, stop the dual core nonsense OT now :p:
I won't pay the premium price for hardly overclockable CPU to get 7% boost. I'm insane, but not that much :D :nono:
And no, chew*, no no, no window play :D When I play, I kill every process - with fire :D In fact, I killing even services mercilessly and so on, so in my case, it hardly can be 7%, as I optimized a lot and therefore the OS-hog is next to none for me.
BTW, I still plan run a W2k SP2 on Opty :p: :D ;)