My first rig and i need advice.

[Deimos]

Less then a day to go. Waiting sucks.

 

[Jmatt110]

I know that feeling all to well lol.

 

[Deimos]

RIG IS UP AND Runnin! Smooth even. Only one issue. Can't seem to get my mic to work and my front audio jack keeps registering and unregistering my audio....

 

[Jmatt110]

Awesome man!

Did you get the latest audio drivers and set your motherboard to HD audio not AC'97?

 

[Deimos]

Alright. How can I find out the tempurature of my CPU??? And No i used the HD audio not the AC'97.

 

[farlex85]

realtemp

 

[Deimos]

Correcting this statement. It works. I'm seeing 32 degrees C at idle right now.

 

[Deimos]

Still can't get the front ports to work properly for Audio.. Not really sure what's going on with that. Rear ports work fantastic.. Any idea what might be causing the plugged/unplugged thing?

 

[farlex85]

They are likely not plugged in in the right location, or you have the ground mixed up or something. It can be tricky on the small plugs there, just unplug and try again.

 

[Konceptz]

The I7 is 40% faster then a QX9770 clock for clock, so why are people saying its pointless for gaming? The i7's memory bandwidth is out of this world, but to buy it when its first released is questionable. I would agree with other people's post and get a decent 45nm quad now and clock the piss out of it. With a decent lapped heatsink and chip you can pull down some good numbers provided you choose a decent motherboard. Intel's chipsets are superior to nvidia's however i haven't had any issues with my setup.

 

[Deimos]

The I7 is 40% faster then a QX9770 clock for clock, so why are people saying its pointless for gaming? The i7's memory bandwidth is out of this world, but to buy it when its first released is questionable. I would agree with other people's post and get a decent 45nm quad now and clock the piss out of it. With a decent lapped heatsink and chip you can pull down some good numbers provided you choose a decent motherboard. Intel's chipsets are superior to nvidia's however i haven't had any issues with my setup.

You're about a week late....

 

[Deimos]

They are likely not plugged in in the right location, or you have the ground mixed up or something. It can be tricky on the small plugs there, just unplug and try again.

I was thinking that might be the case. I'll check it today. Would you say the temps are good. I put my 3d mark scores in my specs too. How do they look?

 

[Konceptz]

You're about a week late....

better late then never my friend

 

[Deimos]

better late then never my friend

Indeed. And I got nothing against the I7's. I do want one. I just couldn't wait for a new PC as mine was on it's deathbed.

 

[Konceptz]

Indeed. And I got nothing against the I7's. I do want one. I just couldn't wait for a new PC as mine was on it's deathbed.

Same here, I want one, but I'm gonna wait till probably next summer before I jump to I7. There has been a lot thrown into the air about its overclocking capability, and if they don't due something about the i7's memory controller DDR3 speed limitation, I might just get a 790iFTW and some DDR3 for it and just call it a day.

 

[Jansku07]

The I7 is 40% faster then a QX9770 clock for clock, so why are people saying its pointless for gaming?

Nehalems can give performance advancements in programs that effectively use hyperthreading and memory bandwith, but games just aren't one of them. Every Nehalem preview and user comment I've read has said that Nehalems only give on average about 5-15% more frames in games, and sometimes worsen the situation.

Explain to me why should I spend 600$ (284$ for the CPU, 200$ for mobo, 120$ memory) for such small improvement? Nehalems are good at multicore stuff, but games, well they're different.

 

[Konceptz]

Nehalems can give performance advancements in programs that effectively use hyperthreading and memory bandwith, but games just aren't one of them. Every Nehalem preview and user comment I've read has said that Nehalems only give on average about 5-15% more frames in games, and sometimes worsen the situation.

Explain to me why should I spend 600$ (284$ for the CPU, 200$ for mobo, 120$ memory) for such small improvement? Nehalems are good at multicore stuff, but games, well they're different.

I've played a few games on a ES of Nehalem, trust me, there is nothing to complain about gaming wise on the i7. Now granted, this was just a ES setup just to give OEMs a sample of things to come, I was impressed. and thats where I got my numbers from.

 

[Bluefox1115]

badass system. congrats.

 

[Deimos]

Thank you. I posted the Futurmark Scores for Vantage and 06. Are they about where they should be?? I"m tempted to push the CPU up a bit since That gynormous cpu cooler isn't doing me any good just sitting there. =P.

I love this case too. It is so quiet it's unreal.

 

[farlex85]

Thank you. I posted the Futurmark Scores for Vantage and 06. Are they about where they should be?? I"m tempted to push the CPU up a bit since That gynormous cpu cooler isn't doing me any good just sitting there. =P.

I love this case too. It is so quiet it's unreal.

Those seem a tad low, the 06 score is really low. Do you have the drivers just released the other day? Also download physX if you haven't already. See if that brings up your scores some.

 

[Deimos]

Installed those update drivers. And the score went only up to 14691.

 

[Bluefox1115]

what are your settings, timings, and clock speeds on ram, cpu, gpu, and gpu memory? and voltages? temps?

 

[Deimos]

They're all pretty much stock everything. I haven't began to play with overclocking at all.

 

[Bluefox1115]

im thinking your cpu is throttling with the stupid intel speedstep..? and possibly memory too..? make sure your power profile is set to either home office desk or minimal power management..

 

[farlex85]

The cpu shouldn't be throttling during a benchmark unless it is overheating. It's only at idle that it does, and if on stock clocks there's no reason it shouldn't be used. I'm really not sure what's going on here. Check temps durning benching, via rivatuner for the gpu and realtemp for the cpu. Also go into nvidia user cp and change all the settings to the level that it says will give optimal performance. Then try again maybe.