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I decide to fire up XtremeSystems for the first time in 6 months to get some up to date news but all I get is April fools jokes. A serious first world problem.

Its like the dual core Samsung Galaxy S phone that runs at 2Ghz! Its actually 2 1GHz cores.

Based on your Gflops, I would have to say you do not have the latest linpack libraries or are not running Win 7 SP1.

I'm no expert but SB-E?

I do that. 4.5 GHz with -0.025 bias and LLC set to Ultra High. That results in ~0.95 idle voltage and 1.312 LinX w/AVX voltage.

Interesting info dnottis.

Being a frugal person who pays his own power bill, having the C states was one of the biggest benefits in upgrading from Athlon X2 to Sanydbridge, thus I left them all...

dnottis, to me it looks like you need more volts. please read below.

with LLC at Extreme you are most likely getting a voltage bump at load which is why your Prime and Linx testing shows the...

I was 10 hour prime stable at 4.7Ghz v1.392-1.412 (depending on load conditions), but Linx w/AVX failed after 20 minutes. At that point I gave up on 4.7Ghz and went back to 4.5Ghz where LinX is...

I didnt specify enough info. I am running a 2500k with air cooling (archon)

4.5 is stable at 1.312 linx and prime, but 4.7ghz takes 1.392 for prime and LLC brings Linx with AVX up to 1.408v.

It's normal. No matter what overclock I set my system to, it will show the default speed in the BIOS.

I suppose this is useful in that it makes sure your system will POST even if you set your...

I too was a little surprised to not see a 80+ platinum PSU here. That said, a Seasonic branded or manufactured PSU is the only thing I will consider for my builds.

For comparisons sake, is 4.5Ghz @ 1.312 volts on air fairly decent? I'll post some screenshots later tonight.

I upgraded my computer for the first time in 5 years last night and about pooped myself in shock of how fast it is.

I upgraded from an Athlon 64 4200+ @ 2.5Ghz & 2Gb of Ram along with a 160GB...

CQ61 has motherboard issues. We get failures on those boards constantly. IIRC its the southbridge that goes out.

the Windows 7 performance scale ends at 7.9 and is designed to take SSD performance into account. any hard drive is so far below SSD performance that its not much surprise that a current generation...

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SATA 6 has nothing to do with your hard drive performance unless you have an SSD. 5.9 is a normal score for an HDD, even a good one like the WD Blacks. The only SATA HDD that would give you better...

a thought on megapixels: they don't matter unless your photos are going in a magazine or a gallery. No one will ever see your full res shots other than you. Song long as you have 10+ megapixels you...

From todays photoshoot.
D300, 50 1.4G, SB800 remote flash through umbrella.

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And this is why I only buy the WD Black drives. No one has a bad word to say about these wonderful drives, and I doubt they ever will.

when speccing my SB rig I originally went for the 2133Mhz kit, but after some extensive research, realized the gains are nill and I saved the money to place it towards a good heatsink (Thermalright...

Maybe not. You would be sucking up warm air from the power supply if you have it as intake.

So the Silver Arrow performs better than the H60 unless you make the H60 sound like a vacuum cleaner. Interesting I guess. But going with a noisy fan kind of defeats the purpose of going with water...

I'd go with the Archon. Its what I purchased. It does come with a fan, but it has the best performance to noise ration I have seen and it doesnt have the compatibility issues of the ND-14 and Silver...

I scrolled to the bottom of the forum and saw that it is FUGGER's bday today.

Have a good birthday and long weekend man!