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Wow...do people still use 3Dmark03...!!

I almost choked on my coffee when I saw a 70K score... then realised it was 3dM03 not 3DMark06... Oh how I grinned...:D once I wiped to coffee of my...

Well no offence but this is a public forum and if your remarks are directed at people in particular then you may well want to address those remarks accordingly by drawing attention to the origin of...

Well credit where it's due... I was a bit harsh with some of my comments.

However I believe that the argument you were trying to make was with particular regard to the lack of any upgrade path...

Source..????

AM3 = 938 pins

I think what this guy is trying to say (but rather poorly, God knows what passes for education where he came from) is that people who bought a Phenom II 940/920 CPU won't be able to use that CPU in...

Also to see the Port options in the BIOS you need to hit the F4 key..!!!!

You can the go into Ports 2 and 11 (I think it is) and set the Link Width to X16 for each of them...!!!

That should get...

Hmm... possibly..!!!

I can't remember when I last disabled C'n'Q... For a while now, I been leaving it enabled in BIOS and setting power settings in Windows CP to performance..!!

So that...

Hi Titan...

Can you confirm that when you set the HT Speed in the BIOS that it applies it when you boot into Windows...!!

I havn't tried it since I updated to the 0703 BIOS but every BIOS...

Not sure what happened but maybe that explains why your 3Ghz score was higher, not sure how or why or what its done, but maybe it was retrieving an old CPU test score from the cache..???...

Hi Raiderman..

What drivers are you using...!!

I'm using Cat 9.1 in Win7 64-bit..!!

I had a heck of a time getting them to install though..!!

Only way I could do it was from a clean...

Out of curiosity what method did you use for flashing the BIOS..??

I'm using the 0703 BIOS with no problems as well..!!

So far....never had a problem with a BIOS Flash..!!

That doesn't help...

Phenom II 940BE @ 3.8Ghz / DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15 2T / Win7 Beta 64-bit

http://i91.photobucket.com/albums/k281/Kazphill/GenericCPUBench-2009-02-15-55742-Be.png
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I'll take you up on the offer of settings if thats OK..???

I've tried a few things, I'm fairly certain my RAM won't go to 1200Mhz, I've tried upping the vDimm from 2.1 to 2.3v and still no go..!!...

Last one for tonight..!!

Phenom 940BE @ 3.83Ghz NB@ 2691Mhz HT@ 2484Mhz
2 x 4850 CF @ 700/1150
Win7 Beta 64-bit

3DMark Score: P13618
CPU Score: 13060
Graphics Score: 13814

Probably as high as I'm going to get with the 4850's...

Phenom II 940 3.83Ghz- 2484HT-2691NB ( CACVC AC 0850BPMW )
2 x 4850 CF 700/1150
ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2-1066
H2O
Cat...

Little better..!! Still got some work to do though..!!

Phenom II 940 3.8Ghz- 2400HT-2600NB ( CACVC AC 0850BPMW )
2 x 4850 CF 700/1150
ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe
G.Skill 2x2GB DDR2-1066
H2O
Cat v9.1...

Updated score with 940BE...!!!

Phenom 940BE @ 3.8Ghz NB@ 2.6Ghz HT@ 2.4Ghz
2 x 4850 CF @ 700/1150
Win7 Beta 64-bit

3DMark Score: P13562
CPU Score: 12890
Graphics Score: 13802

Thanks guys...!!!

I hope it will get up to where your at Charged havn't had a chance to try much yet, I only got it late yesterday, and hadn't slept the night before (pain problems - long...

Just got a new 940BE to replace my old 9950BE..!!

Only had it here for few hours, this is what I got so far...!!

And yes I have got the same stepping...LOL... even though I Copied and pasted...

Hiya....yes that the way I did it the first time round, I just installed it in Vista on a different PC, then transferred the entire folder over my LAN from the Vista machine to the Win7 machine.

I...

Hi Gener_AL..

Thanks I saw your earlier post about the version so I downloaded it again, to make sure.... but get the same problem with it.... I should say that this is in Win7 BTW...!!!

At...

Taken from this article - http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/article.html?art=MTQyMSwzLCxoZW50aHVzaWFzdA==

Not a lot of info but it gives you a bit of an idea of what it does...!!

It helps with...

Hiya, yu can get teh voltage to show correctly in AOD by changing the setting in the prefrences.xml file in the AOD install folder...!!

Need to change it to "...

Yes but isn't a 790FX mobo really overkill for a HTPC...??? I'd have thought a m-ATX mobo would be better for a HTPC..!!

Especially one using a AM3 CPU and DDR3 RAM, seems to be an expensive...

Hmm not really impressed with the slot arrangement on the Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P....!!!

Only 2 x PCI-E x16 slots, 3 x PCI-E x1 slots, and 2 PCI slots....... really who wants that many PCI-E x1...