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TPU's Core i7 Overclocking and Feedback

Fitseries3 said:
dont need more mem. i keep mine at 1182
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What's more important : gpu clock or mem ? Because when I raise the mem my bandwidth will go higher... how important is bandwidth anyway? Or is texture fillrate more important?
 
Paulieg said:
If not DFI then Foxconn Blood Rage or maybe the Gigabyte x58 Extreme. Though I gotta say, even though I just sold my DFI in favor of the Blood Rage, it was a solid board.
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Binge said:
DFI (T3eH8 if you like more options, T3eH6 if you want an easier OC but not max OC), Gigabyte X58-UD4P, EVGA SLI, Biostar(meh), and MSI(any of their boards are good).
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I'm just not as pleased with my last DFI X38-T2R. DFI screwed up the 3870X2 crossfire and then took too long to fix it. I left that one behind and got the Asus from Fit and have been happy since. Just saw a review on [H] for the Asus P6t and they liked it (I need to finish reading the whole thing though). Fit says the Foxconn's also, but I was hoping for the chance to test tri-sli or crossfileX and a third card for physx, and the spacing on the Foxconn's won't do 3 dual-slot cards.
 
Hey guys. Sometime w/in the next 2 weeks, I will be getting a brand new Foxconn Blood Rage back from RMA. If someone wants to purchase the board now, and can be patient for a few days, I can save you some significant cash on a great board. PM if interested.
 
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I gotcha Paulie - PM sent ;)
 
here's a good comparison between the DFI and asus...

check the voltages...



ASUS...

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DFI...


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i also want to point out that im perfectly capable of running 38k all day in vantage ON AIR!
 
why do DFI's make the CPU stable at lower voltage? Better PWM or something?
 
then im not sure that makes a real good test, from all the chips and boards i have owned, the board makes less a difference then the chip. Now if you has the same chip it would be a solid bench against. But i have seen wide variations between chips from the same batch and from other batches, that is why there is no one real golden batch. But again that is my opinion.

Still both good runs and nice work.
 
yes. i still get over 30k with physx off.

HOLY SHIT!!!

windows 7 7068 x64 is SMOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKIN FAST!!!!!!
 
What i am thinking about is trying to find a way to turn off physX off so that we can compare ATI to NV on an apples to apples situation
 
Chicken Patty said:
why do DFI's make the CPU stable at lower voltage? Better PWM or something?
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No hes right, here look at the size of the PWM heatsink and also the digital power makes a giant difference on the DFI board. My EVGA board , as much as I like it, has power fluctuations near 1.4v, part of the trouble with this board is the analog phase power and it's Pwm at 1.4v with air cooling hit's 115c and the DFI hit 90c maybe. The higher heat make the power jump around and the analog power by nature throws more heat as well. The DFi UT is more stable due to it's power being more efficient and throwing less heat. DFI isn't the only good digital board, the Bloodrage has very good digital power( actually better than the DFI 8+2, it's 14+2 digital power) as does the Classified. However, DFI has a better bios than the Bloodrage and the Classifieds bios is brand new and cost 150.00 more than the DFI. My DFI UT is on it's way should be here Wednesday. If I was using water it wouldn't matter as much, but I'm not, so it does.
 
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trt740 said:
No hes right, here look at the size of the PWM heatsink and also the digital power makes a giant difference on the DFI board. My EVGA board , as much as I like it, has power fluctuations near 1.4v, part of the trouble with this board is the analog phase power and it's Pwm at 1.4v with air cooling hit's 115c and the DFI hit 90c maybe. The higher heat make the power jump around and the analog power by nature throws more heat as well. The DFi UT is more stable due to it's power being more efficient and throwing less heat. DFI isn't the only good digital board, the Bloodrage has very good digital power as does the Classified. However, DFI has a better bios than the Bloodrage and the Classifieds bios is brand new and cost 150.00 more than the DFI. My DFI UT is on it's way should be here Wednesday. If I was using water it wouldn't matter as much, but I'm not, so it does.
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wow....

we finally agree.
 
sorry man. things have been rough for me lately.
 
trt740 said:
No hes right, here look at the size of the PWM heatsink and also the digital power makes a giant difference on the DFI board. My EVGA board , as much as I like it, has power fluctuations near 1.4v, part of the trouble with this board is the analog phase power and it's Pwm at 1.4v with air cooling hit's 115c and the DFI hit 90c maybe. The higher heat make the power jump around and the analog power by nature throws more heat as well. The DFi UT is more stable due to it's power being more efficient and throwing less heat. DFI isn't the only good digital board, the Bloodrage has very good digital power( actually better than the DFI 8+2, it's 14+2 digital power) as does the Classified. However, DFI has a better bios than the Bloodrage and the Classifieds bios is brand new and cost 150.00 more than the DFI. My DFI UT is on it's way should be here Wednesday. If I was using water it wouldn't matter as much, but I'm not, so it does.
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at 4.4 GHz ht on my vregs dont go over 80ºc???? Something is wrong there.
 
check this out how the voltage jumps under prime95 stess

Chicken Patty said:
at 4.4 GHz ht on my vregs dont go over 80ºc???? Something is wrong there.
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with anti voltage droop on, it's kinda cool how this board adds votage to keep the cpu stable but kinda goofy aswell. Evga really does work to solve any problem.

here it is with the bios set to 1.30v not under load, at idle

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here it is when I stress it with 1.30v set in the bios Anti droop on and under load. Take look at the voltage. Apparently Evga has programed the board to up the voltage as the chip heats up to prevent droop and keep the system stable
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This clock is totally stable and the temps never leave the 70's. I suppose this somehow could be my PSU , but I doubt it since the voltage actually goes up not down. My new board a DFI X58 Ut comes Thursday so we are gonna find out. Still this is not a bad overclock, but I don't like how this board reacts voltage wise.
 
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That does seem close to the correct temperature numbers for an i7 on air. Nice OC. :toast:
 
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