...are that I am not impressed.
Ok, I'll put that statement into context.
Have seen no improvement in multitasking, which I would have thought would be the biggest gain. Used to have an San Diego clocked at 2.8, that ran sweet as a nut. I cannot notice any improvement over my old chip when running more than one task. For example, I do not multitask to much anyway but, I tried running F@H when burning a disk and playing COD2 before I put in the chip, OK, the game ran a little jittery but, I've replaced the chip and the game does not run that much differently.
I tried running benchies and again I am not impressed. The usual benchies i.e super PI are noticably slower by a long way, I take it the programme is not optimised to run off both cores, is that right?
The usual progs like Sisoft Sandra, 3D mark etc show an improvemnet in CPU scores but I cannot see it in my day to day experience. In other words, game playing is slower, day to day windows is slower, certain multitasks seem slower, which obviousy cannot be right. So what is wrong?
I have tried the AMD optimizer, and have added the MS hotfix, both of which do not seem to have changed my system one iota. I'm going to try overclocking but I am not feeling confident.
First attempt was to take my ram out of the equation by seriously underclocking it through the divider. Tried to up the FSB but the chip would not post. Chip is seated properly with AS5 and temps under load (both corers running F@H) are 47 degrees. This seems hot to me, as my san diego never got over 43 degrees in the heatwave.
It seems there is no headroom on this chip at all, cannot believe it is seated incorrectly as I have installed many many chips before so what could be the problem?
Your thoughts ladies and gentleman would be appreciated as always.
P.S. Only reason I haven't put my old SD back in is because I do not want to have SiriusB overtake me in F@H, taking a performance hit for the good of mankind is still a little hard to take, maybe I'm not as charitable as i thought.
P.P.S I seem to be accessing my disk a lot more than I used to, I know this cannot be relevant but it is the case. I am now running my comp at stock everything as opposed to my sig which I was running before and it is noticeably slower in all things, including openeing windows apps. Thoughts?
Ok, I'll put that statement into context.
Have seen no improvement in multitasking, which I would have thought would be the biggest gain. Used to have an San Diego clocked at 2.8, that ran sweet as a nut. I cannot notice any improvement over my old chip when running more than one task. For example, I do not multitask to much anyway but, I tried running F@H when burning a disk and playing COD2 before I put in the chip, OK, the game ran a little jittery but, I've replaced the chip and the game does not run that much differently.
I tried running benchies and again I am not impressed. The usual benchies i.e super PI are noticably slower by a long way, I take it the programme is not optimised to run off both cores, is that right?
The usual progs like Sisoft Sandra, 3D mark etc show an improvemnet in CPU scores but I cannot see it in my day to day experience. In other words, game playing is slower, day to day windows is slower, certain multitasks seem slower, which obviousy cannot be right. So what is wrong?
I have tried the AMD optimizer, and have added the MS hotfix, both of which do not seem to have changed my system one iota. I'm going to try overclocking but I am not feeling confident.
First attempt was to take my ram out of the equation by seriously underclocking it through the divider. Tried to up the FSB but the chip would not post. Chip is seated properly with AS5 and temps under load (both corers running F@H) are 47 degrees. This seems hot to me, as my san diego never got over 43 degrees in the heatwave.
It seems there is no headroom on this chip at all, cannot believe it is seated incorrectly as I have installed many many chips before so what could be the problem?
Your thoughts ladies and gentleman would be appreciated as always.
P.S. Only reason I haven't put my old SD back in is because I do not want to have SiriusB overtake me in F@H, taking a performance hit for the good of mankind is still a little hard to take, maybe I'm not as charitable as i thought.
P.P.S I seem to be accessing my disk a lot more than I used to, I know this cannot be relevant but it is the case. I am now running my comp at stock everything as opposed to my sig which I was running before and it is noticeably slower in all things, including openeing windows apps. Thoughts?
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