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Apathy said:
you are a god among gods among gods amongst the very gods of the gods. im going to go smile a lot now and install vista. i will be back when my happy time is completed to the internets and beyond.
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It's always nice to feel appreciated. :cool:
 
dude, im in. its awesome. but why the fuck does the samsung 226bw at 1680x1050 only have a 60hz refresh rate?

pics will be coming when my yate loons arrive. along with praise for all of you. extrememly tired, been up for 24 hours now. just installing catalyst drivers and monitor drivers and bla bla bla, guess i gotta flash the bios, play with over clocking. right now cpu-z says the multiplier is at 6 when the bios says 9, and the core speed is 2004mhz. eh?need sleep. thanks for helping me get through this crap silent-circuit,
 
The Samsung has a 60hz refresh rate because it's an LCD. This is normal. Refresh rate and its associated effects on viewing quality doesn't apply to LCDs as it would to an older CRT.
 
Yeah, all LCDs are 60Hz. Response time is important on LCDs like refresh rate was important on CRTs.

As for CPUz telling you the multiplier is at 6, that's SpeedStep clocking the processor down under light load. It'll go back up to 9 when you run something that needs the power. Saves power when it's not doing anything and keeps things running cooler.
 
alright cool, thought i was going to have to go blind.

i got vista installed, new catalyst drivers, monitor drivers, went to cpu-id.com or something rather and dl'd cpu-z along with a few of the other apps on there; pc wizard, and some other hardware monitor. havent flashed the bios yet, didnt even check to see what version it was. from some reading i can see that flashing via windows can be a bad idea since failure rates are supposedly high.

disabled UAC. i tinkered with the overclocking a bit since i remember the number in my head. went 9x333 for the 3.0 ghz clock, it adjusted itself to 334. didnt adjust the voltages at all, ran fine. ive gone through a couple of threads and none really have a comprehensive list of the multipliers to bus speeds. i remember seeing a thread somewhere on [H] but couldnt find it when i searched today. the ram ratio settings it allows are default, 1:1, 1:1.20, 1.30 etc etc. i left it at default at first and then switched it to 1:1, read ram as 801, and my OCZ reaperx is ddr2 800 pc6400. is it alright to have it at that 1:1 with the extra 1 there?

ive seen that a lot of people reach 3.6ghz stable with the Q6600 and that the stability varies per chip, so im going to go for a lower OC, probably try and hit 3.4ghz. i see that i need to get prime 95 to test stability. if i want 3.4 it'd be ~9x378, (and that still means i would leave the ram at 1:1?) and im assuming that i would be forced to manually adjust the voltage settings on Vcore because auto-detect probably wouldnt do it correctly? im not worried about power consumption, just about the chip overheating and being unstable.

are there any other useful apps that i should look into? anything specific i should be disabling in the bios? names are running through my head... ntune which i guess is for nvidia cards so thats a no... rivatuner, dont remember what that is. memtest86. coretemp? any app's ya'll could reccomend for getting this thing warmed up and tested?

p.s. why the hell doesnt sapphire/corsair just bundle the 8pin with the psu/gpu?
at least it came with 3dmark06.

earthsim?

-edit, just found grayskys guide to oc'ing
 
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