Recent content by Beomagi

Pretty accurate. Sweet Guyana! Trini here!

Best oc result with my newcastle 3400+. Best stable is at 2.64 though. (volts here are off :P) and yup, it's a VNF3.

for games i'd agree, but for video encoding it's a godsend. as far as HTT clock making a difference - try it yourself. I can drop it to x3 from x4 and my scores and times to encode are within the usual variance. virtually nil.

you dont need a program (thought there's clockgen), you can simply use the motherboard bios here's a program you can google for : prime 95 - use it to stress your cpu to test stability. in your bios, you should see something like FSB (though ath64 and other hammers don't use an fsb) or HTT...

skip a beat in this game and it haunts you! damn you're right - that is pretty sweet. looks pretty good vs the 7600gt too. but not too bad a beating. Still For $90, the 7600gt hold better value NOW. heavier pixelshader games may shift it.

WAY too big a difference there, your prior test seemed more accurate.

i'd say if you're looking that high, the x1950xt. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814102067 It's 256MB, but memory speed is above that of the x1900xtx which competes directly against the 7900gtx. The core speed is 25MHz less than the x1900xtx, but easily hits higher...

there's no way it would work better/smoother, as the cpu isnt getting any less wok to do. The ratio of work changes making it more dependent on the gpu than before, as the gpu takes longer per frame, but the fps can only drop is you're increasing load via aa or resolution.

The x1650 is 12 shaders, on 4 pipes, and falters on heavy texture areas. It's quite a powerful card as long as the texture units are not maxed out. here's and example on the x1600xt http://www.sudhian.com/index.php?/articles/show/732/3 note that there's areas where when the 4 tmu's are taxed...

Settings really make or break a pc game as far as what's overkill for particular cpus. The 3200+ from the op isnt a bad chip if oc'd. rts games with numerous units, heavy geometry, and shadow all bring a cpu to it's knees. kill shadows (very heavy), kill geometry, distance ai, physics (usually...

I don't think the tool is registering the clocks I think the ccc is running (check background processes) and it's locked on 2d clocks - I get about 5k when my 2d clocks lock, and dont change when i do 3d that was happening to me if i openned ccc and i don't remember the details, but i do know...

looks like via or ecs is holding you back. My 945 went up to 4.51 dual core orthos prime stable in windows. Then i had to back down to 4.35GHz when i started overclocking the videocard. At 4.51 performance would drop if the videocard started serious power draw. best bios shot : also have...

63C on the core isnt bad - my x1900xt did way higher at stock. something looks really wrong with those clocks and score the cpu on mine is pentium D @ 4.35 - it contributes to a higher cpu score, but that shouldn't cause over 2k difference. something may be drawing too much power - i used to...

your milage may vary! you have what i thikn is the top ocing mobo, and a great chip. Anandtech took their e6600 to 4GHz, some people arn't as lucky and get to 3.3GHz. You should be telling US what you get.

Does it occur if you run with lower texture quality?