4.2ghz i7 versus 4ghz i7

vcore generally keep around 1.4-1.45 max, qpi, 1.35 (and if under water a smidge higher), ioh and ich don't really need to be upped (i stuck mine on 1.16 each and it's been fine, haven't bothered to tweak lower), ram no more than 1.65, pll no more than 1.9 (or less than 1.6 iirc).

obviously, with these temps will pretty much govern your max voltages ;)
 
twist3d0n3 said:
don't think 4xAA somehow ;)
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twist3d0n3 said:
vcore generally keep around 1.4-1.45 max, qpi, 1.35 (and if under water a smidge higher), ioh and ich don't really need to be upped (i stuck mine on 1.16 each and it's been fine, haven't bothered to tweak lower), ram no more than 1.65, pll no more than 1.9 (or less than 1.6 iirc).

obviously, with these temps will pretty much govern your max voltages ;)
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Half the voltages you quoted are intell spec and the others what you have read on the net make you mind ;):p

Assumeing on air with temps in range for 24/7:

"normally accepted voltage from experince of my 3 i7 rigs and other forums like xs etc.."


Vcore up to 1.4
Qpi up to 1.45
pll voltage which can increase stabilty being lower not higher 1.2-1.9
you can run more then 1.65 on your ram IF the stick were made for higher voltages and you do not run your QPI voltage more than 0.5 volts difference from your RAM voltage

Dont get me wrong voltage will be diff from person to to person but these are pretty normal and not too extreme
 
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Actually Black Ops really loves CPU power, it scales with cores and frequency (upto 4 cores, and beyond 4GHz). The thing is, when you are over 150fps, another 5 fps is not going to make any difference at all.
 
Essexraptor said:
Which basically means

a) you don't remember the map
or
b) don't play anything more taxing than Mario bros on your Tri Fire Eyefinity at x2 AA

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a) no, i don't remember it (didn't like the game tbh)

b) yeah, good one

serious note, what fps are you getting? with 2xAA i was around 60fps, and it felt sluggish.

when i say taxing, i mean the likes of f1 2010, crysis (rapes at EF res, i can't use AA with maxed settings), metro etc.
 
Black ops is very cpu demanding so if you were playing black ops and running at 4.2/4.4 you would see a bit of fps increase and u have a gtx 580 which will smash that game :)
 
twist3d0n3 said:
a) no, i don't remember it (didn't like the game tbh)

b) yeah, good one

serious note, what fps are you getting? with 2xAA i was around 60fps, and it felt sluggish.

when i say taxing, i mean the likes of f1 2010, crysis (rapes at EF res, i can't use AA with maxed settings), metro etc.
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Not that hot... don't run FAPS and such like very often, concentrate too much on not getting my a** shot off!, but last time I checked on x4 maxed out at 65fps (eyefinity) 4 lower at x8. It was playable to me but I'm older and have slow flash to bang time anyway...lol

Black Ops, 3 screens, is topping at 65fps on max settings but I think that's more down to me not figuring out the console "tweak" for upping the max limit yet. Have found that I actually go into information overload after 25 minutes in eyefinity in this game anyway

Sticking with the main topic... even turning the screws up to a 4Ghz OC only improved the fps by 4 - 12. Hence why I don't bother much and even turn it down to 3.6Ghz in the Summer!
:)

No dig intended :cool:
 
not sure what's wrong with my setup then if you can get 8xAA with only a 4fps drop... if i got from 4 to 8 it goes from mildly playable to slide show, and i'm running 3 gpus :confused:

haven't played black ops, so couldn't possibly comment, but as the other MW games have ran smoothly at full gfx settings, i doubt this one will be anymore taxing.

only game i've really played recently since going from 4GHz to 4.2GHz is l4d2, and it's made it feel a lot smoother. i recently upped my gfx clocks to 980/1200 and that added a small frame boost too, which i think is helped quite a bit going to 4.2GHz.
 
Not sure what to say :( Sure someone will quote lots of graphs and technical data to show something or other but that works for me.

Dropped Xfired 5870's to go to this 5970. Again loads of graphs and data to show increased frame rates blah blah blah. But in reality found that the secondary adapter was actually being worked very little. Hands up. I'm a advocate of a single, good GPU and can't fathom why people keep harping on about SLI and XFire gobbledy boll**** :)
 
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