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If you have a weight problem ..probably not a good idea to keep hanging out in the candy bar aisle at the grocery store ...
If you have the upgrade itch .. probably not a good idea to keep hanging out in the benchmark aisle of the internet ..
not very [H] advice ... go buy your girfriend/wife/mom (or all 3) something nice instead ..
I had a 920 and those numbers are way off. There is no way it was pulling 500watts.
Whoever put that system together had all the power features turned off or clearly didn't know how to overclock a 920 or using a very old c0 stepping!
I'm still super happy with my i7 930 at 4.5GHz on air. See no reason to upgrade anytime soon yet.
Will an X58 setup with a 4.2Ghz OC work with the power saving features? If I want to use power saving features what do I enable? I turned all the power saving features off when I overclocked my W3520 (i7 920).
What voltage are you running for that OC? And what CPU cooler are you using?
My i7 930 works with both power saving features. I have speedstep and C1E enabled. Speedstep means my CPU downclocks when idle or partially idle to several different CPU speeds.
C1E means my voltage also lowers when my CPU downclocks. So unless I'm doing strenuous work, my CPU downclocks to ~2.6GHz and downvolts to ~1.08v
I am using 1.375v to reach 4.5GHz which my CPU scales up to when there is a decent load on it.
I am using a Prolimatech Megahalems Rev.B with IC Diamond 24 paste and a pair of yate loon D12SH-12 fans in push-pull config.
What Motherboard do you have?
I have a Gigabyte X58A UD7 and enabled C1E and Speedstep, but the voltage doesn't change in Windows. It still stays at the same voltage I have for my 4.0Ghz overclock, the CPU down clocks to 2400Mhz on idle though. Is there anything else I am supposed to change? Why would the voltage not be lowering along with the CPU frequency?
If the voltage stays the same, but the CPU frequency lowers am I actually saving any power?
EVGA X58 3-Way SLi
You are saving some power if the clockspeed is lowering. But not as much as if the voltage goes down as well.
I am seeing my voltage drop reported in CPUZ and AIDA64.
I'm sure C1E is the setting that controls whether or not the the voltages allowed to drop with the downclocking.
My pc idles at 180W from the wall according to a kill-a-watt with that overclocked 930 and a GTX 480. I think that's very good power draw for those components.
No. They still use that 4 years old CPU in reviews of new hardware like GTX 680. What the heck for? Honestly I didnt even notice from a e8400 @ 4ghz to [email protected] and think I wasted my money then I could have afforded a GTX 680 easier. U seriously just throwing it away IMO.
I wish I saved my old setup to test that but I sold it. I don't game that mild. Everything maxed at 19x12 and play the latest games. I know some ppl have insane resolutions and whatnot so I can't comment there. I'm just saying I noticed no difference on CPU upgrade but noticed a huge difference when I upgraded my GPU from a gtx280 to a highly overclocked 448. I don't do stuff like trans coding dvds or anything all I really need high end cpu for is games. My laptop with a c2d and onboard video does everything else I do great.