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C2D v X2 = Not as good as you think?

Yes, +0.3v ... 2T? I dont know to be honest, Ill check that out.

The timings is extremely slack, but then this is obviously why Im being allowed such a high FSB perhaps?

Kind of defeats the object of the whole idea of clocking it realyl if this is the kind of performance I am getting?

Corsair @ 400 & 4-4-4-12 = 18 Seconds 1MB SuperPI
Geil @ 430 & 5-7-7-20 = 21 Seconds 1MB SuperPI

Rather be on 400FSB if thats what I can expect.

Will try more out when it nexts restarts
 
No, it should not get it THAT far out should it?

Ok, Just checked and both are set to PROGRAMS

Temps have not gone over 34
 
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OH?

I cant get into the BIOS?

Its thrown the cursor into the middle of the screen ( Slightly up and to the left ) instead of going into the BIOS

It did this before when I had a Maxtor 40GB attached to the PCI Card, but its been fine with just DVDRW Drives?

I took the card out and it still wont go in, so I took all the cards out and cleared the CMOS and its still not going in???

Any clues?
 
You got me there?

Anyway, I have managed to get the BIOS up... Dont know what I did, just swapped the Card round a bit and there it went in????

Anyway, I put the cards back to their original slot and its seemingly ok for now.

Right. Im pleased to say that I am back up to 430FSB and even more happy to say its now at 4-4-4-12.

Im not verifying this one but previously, I was at 400 and tried to take it to 4-4-4-12 and it would fail... This time I ran the CPU stock and knocked the RAM there and then once it was happy with the RAM there, I put the CPU bck to 400 and then to 430 and its gone in... If that was the reason I dont know, and as its seemingly ok here, I dont really care.

Ok, I ran SuperPI and I got 23 and then after killing off a number of apps ( FAH x 2 , StarOffice QuickStarter, Daemon Tools, uTorrent, SpeedFan, WinAmp, and Creative taskbr launcher ) I gained another 2 sconds but its still above 20 on 430FSB?

I think that I am going to have to cut my losses here a bit and chuck the corsair back in... At 400FSB I was getting 18 FFS! so I think the corsair is the superior RAM.

Also its definitely a little more sluggish now with this Geil.

The RAM Volts are still on 2.1 By the way.

Ok, one more question...

SpeedFan.

Im running v4.27 and with my AMDs I have taken the CPU temps to actually be temp 2

I have been told that the DS3 reads the CPU Volts as Temp 1

Now, these are my readings from SpeedFan v4.27 :-

Temp 1 = 35c / Temp 2 = 56c / Temp3 = -1c
HD0 = 24 / HD1 = 25 / HD2 = 24

Also, looking at the Volts is interesting and confusing too???

My volts are reading :-

Vcore1 = 1.26
Vore2 = 2.06v
+3.3 = 3.36v
+5 = 4.87v
+12v = 1.98v
-12v = -16.97
-5 = -8.58
+5 = 5.12
Vbat =3.15

Do these look normal?
Erm, its a HYper 530w PSU

This is on the Gigabyte DS3 with F7 BIOS
 
How can I stop it dropping, or get it back then?

Unless I need to clock way further to actually see any true gain, I might as well just stick at 2.8 mightnt I?

Anyway, a quick question here...

I run one copy of DVDSANTA ( V4.0 ) and it takes up only about 75% of the total CPU - Or, 50% of one core and a further 25% of Core 2?

So, I am actually being told that I still have about 25% of system idle time???

Is that normal?

I ran back and copied that very same file onto the x2 and thats chewing up the full 50%+50% but not on the Intel?

I then ran it on the Opteron and the ClawHammer and they both showed me 100% ( Single core those ) and then I tried it on the P4, both with and withotu HT enabled and they took up the full 100% of the CPU.

I am going to swap the CPUs over in a few minutes and re-try them again as it only seems to be this CPU thats doing it as the other PCs seems to be happy to eat all the CPU time it can.

Oh, at first, I htought it could be FAH as that was still running this 25% on one core, but 0% on the other you see, but that 25% went from FAH to Idle?

Its also 25%ish by the way... Sometimes it goes up to 34-36 and down to 16-20.

I know all too well abotu sensors being out by a bit, but if I was to take one reading, which one would be the most likely?

I tried comparing it to the BIOS, but the BIOS reading is always fairly well in the middle of both readings so its too close to call..
 
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