Quote Originally Posted by Brahmzy View Post
Well, I finally figured out this i7 thing, ha. It helped when I finally got the math right on my memory. I was trying to run my memory at ridiculous speeds with ridiculous timings (new to the whole DDR3 thing.)

So, I've settled on 4.0GHz (211x19x) HT ON @ 1.375 VCore - 4+ hours with simultaneous LinX + Prime is good enough for me. My biggest issue getting stable was the memory timings / speed part of it.

I can't believe the difference in my rendering times between my daul core and this 8 "core" i7... WOW. I went from a 4.4GHz E8600 to a 4.0GHz i7 w/HT and my bench render went from 6m 6s to 2m 2s!!

That's HUGE. Money well spent! Very happy. Now I'm back in the "in" crowd, haha.
These things seriously are Monsters! Nothing will compare to them. If you are running 4GHz you have more power than a QX9770 at over 5GHz. With the HT it's even more. Wait until you try some video stuff. These CPU's were definitely not hype. In fact, I don't think many except for us types that have tested with stuff even realize how powerful these things really are.

Even with benchmarking programs I don't think we are testing the full capabilities of them yet. Chess I think does, but I don't think some of these applications are even pushing these CPU's at all. I can game for hours at 4GHz and the thing only goes up 2 or 3 dgrees from ilde on stock cooling. My games aren't even phasing the CPU. Prime95 and stuff like that is an entirely different matter. When i get water on mine I'm gonna see what 4.2GHz is like.

I sure hope the game devs got with the prgram early on, because when they get optimized titles for these CPU's out there is gonna be some amazing stuff happening. After I get my water on, I plan to test MSFS alot more at these higher clocks I'm running now. It uses the CPU alot more so I want to get my water going. I'm ordering the rest of my stuff tomorrow.