Okay, this isnt a fancy fancy pc, and is only to tide me over til my asus motherboard comes back from rma (hopefully before uni starts -_-).
Specs
Q9550
4gb dominator 1066mhz (another 4gb in the post)
GTX 285
1tb hdd
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As I said not the prettiest, but it should do the trick.
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phase 1. All built. Running absolutely fine at stock. I have this POS cpu cooler that was included (some akasa crap) that runs loud and noisy).
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Phase 2.
Have just gone into the bios and ramped up the vcore to 1.27v and stuck the CPU @ 3Ghz. Speedfan is showing the cores to be idling at 50oc. Ouch
3DMark06 is giving a score of 16,500. Not bad for a first go.
Will try pushing higher at this same vcore.
Specs
Q9550
4gb dominator 1066mhz (another 4gb in the post)
GTX 285
1tb hdd
---------------
As I said not the prettiest, but it should do the trick.
-----------------
phase 1. All built. Running absolutely fine at stock. I have this POS cpu cooler that was included (some akasa crap) that runs loud and noisy).
-----------------
Phase 2.
Have just gone into the bios and ramped up the vcore to 1.27v and stuck the CPU @ 3Ghz. Speedfan is showing the cores to be idling at 50oc. Ouch

3DMark06 is giving a score of 16,500. Not bad for a first go.
Will try pushing higher at this same vcore.


Time to get a new cooler. Can anyone suggest a good one? Thanks