It feels good to be benching again...

Thanks to TiTON for helping with the pot and Charles for help and stuff

Also thanks to MSI for some great products that I have had the pleasure to use and they are growing on me a lot


Hours on hours of DICE benching and learning my board... my uncore seems to top out at 4900... I got like 50lbs of Dry Ice for $10 USD and spent 6 hours then slept and did 4.5 hours so great use of $10 eh? I mainly learned the board by trial and error - the chip is good for 4.6-4.7 on decent water...

First - Big thing - I had to use 1.51 CPU-Z instead of 1.52 as the newer version drops multis as I increase bclk - anything over 5 bclk... so to show actual speed I needed either cpu-tweaker or 1.51 CPU-Z


Setup -
W3540 3851A257
MSI X58 Platinum SLI
MSI N260GTX-OCv3
7900GS SLI (OEM)
Silverstone Zeus 1200W PSU
WD 80GB IDE HDDs
XP PRO SP2
K|ngp|n F1EE
Muskin Elpida Hyper ... $70 pair - stripped to OEM style
Lots of Scythe High CFM Fans


First the pics of the setup -







Results - have a lot of tweaking to learn and study LOL

the AM3 is with a bone stock card as the OCv3 has no software voltage adjusting, need some mods asap







I know not overly impressive but its a start