Recent content by ZorchThatCPU

Yep, I guess it is starting to drag a little. We're not benching, so spending another 20 hours tweaking to squeeze out another 1% performance isn't all that appealing to me either. When the weather turns, it'll be like getting a whole new pair of CPUs for me, so I'm still not tempted to spend...

GonzoP, nice work. 223 x 22 for 4.9GHz is very respectable. So is DDR3-1800. Are you boosting the VDIMM at all, or working with stock volts and just loosening timings as you raise speeds? What is stock voltage for your RAM? Are you just loosening the main timings, or are you easing up all of...

I couldn't agree more. That child made claims that he was proven right and other people were being proven wrong. When invited to provide any examples of that, he executed another perfect faceplant and utterly failed to do so. As far as I'm concerned, that ends the conversation. He has shown...

Yeah, that sounds very nice indeed. Intel's workstation chips are luscious. :D I always searched for a W3520 first, before ever bothering to look for a 920, except for my very first foray into 1366, when I got my very-decent first 920 new from MicroCenter and my first X58 board (a Foxconn...

I agree with basically everything you're saying here. But I think you're leaving out half the story. Good silicon gets dropped to lower bins than its talents would warrant sometimes, depending on demand. But the opposite also definitely happens, which does call into question Intel's...

Pfft! :D Too funny. Since no empirical data supports your position, you make up an imaginary term, "core quality," that ostensibly favors you in your mind and can't be measured or accurately compared. This is your silliness in a nutshell, for everyone to see. And as the better-informed folks...

LOL, yeah I bet you're a real 1366 expert, considering you bought the. 990 Noob Edition. No one who knows what they're doing would buy that chip. It's a complete waste of money, literally one of the worst purchases you could make. Noob.

GonzoP, you're crushing it! These chips are too fun. Your results have me drooling waiting for autumn to get here. What kind of load temps are you getting? I see you're leaving HT on, so I can only assume you're comfortable with temps so far. Have you messed around with disabling any cores as...

I guess I would say 1.38-1.4 would be the absolute max if I had unusually remarkable settings I could run daily. Like if I could run 5.0GHz daily, even with HT off, I would definitely risk frying that CPU to run 1.4v QPI/"VTT". Almost anything short of that, I'm at my max right now, with 1.36v...

:D Ah, I missed this earlier reading on my phone. That explains why he's so bitter about this stuff, and why he's desperately trying to convince himself that he was justified to drop a grand or whatever on his CPU while the rest of us got the exact same performance for around $70. His must be...

GonzoP, yep, it sounds like we're getting very similar results. For 4.4 flat, I use 1.375 in BIOS, which comes out to 1.36 by CPU-Z. For 4.6 on 2 cores/4 threads or less, dropping down to 4.4 when all cores are loaded, I use 1.415 in BIOS (1.392 in OS) and turn off LLC so that when it drops down...

I'm just going to say don't listen to this yayhoo Zoson, since he doesn't know me and clearly doesn't know what he's talking about. I wasn't aware that explaining to people like you how to do this required any evidence. However, I was going to include some screenies, but I do not have the...

Yeah, after you mentioned on the phone that people in this thread were throwing away money on the most expensive Westmere-EP chips when their results for half the CPU cost or less would most likely be the same, I figured I owed it to the community to stop by and offer a personal testimonial...

Depends on how you use it. ;) In my case, it runs at 4.6 (x23) and stays at 4.6 unless it needs more than two cores (four threads if HT is on). If it needs more cores/threads than that, it will drop down to 4.4 (x22). So it's nothing like Turbo in the sense it was meant to be used. It never...

What for? You must have amazing watercooling, or live in Antarctica. An X5650 (of which I have two) should be able to max out any reasonable cooling well before reaching the limits of the CPU or mobo, even with HyperThreading off. Anything higher than an X5650 is purely wasting money unless...