FairDoos
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here is my budget build:
Budget build with an i7? Give me your money =]
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Budget build with an i7? Give me your money =]
CdnAudiophile
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Vanatage and 06 are very different. You can just go on google and type 3dmark06. It's available for free from many different sites. (the basic edition)
mikesrex
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lol
well I sold my E8400 build for 500 to a friend, then paid the following to build my new rig:
109 for PC&P 750 W PSU
180 for dual HD3870's
230 for i7-920
99 for G.Skill 3 GB RAM
199 for Gigabyte EX58-UD3R
80ish for the TRUE CPU cooler
already had a case, DVD burner, hard drive.
total is about 900
then since I got 500 from my E8400 build (which was actually a steal considering the specific components it had), my total buy-in for the i7 is about 400 bucks. I consider this a budget build due to the fact I got the cheap motherboard, RAM and a cheap video card solution.
I knew that you couldn't have scored so low on 3dmark06 when i scored 11.3k with my rig. That score looks more reasonable for a 3dmark06 score.
It was like 10600 for vantage and like 17600 for 3dmax06. It ran it flawlessly, but i still feel like its not high enough. Guess i have to do some overclocking.
Kornowski
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It cant be right...considering what i have and what you have. Are you overclocking or something.
Im all stock here.
Overclocking your CPU to ~4GHz and a good overclock on the 4850X2 should get you into the 20K range.
I dont have water cooling or anything. I could get to 4 ghz on air?
Not if you're using stock cooling. At least I highly doubt it.
I was going to get that arctic cooler 7 thing but i think thats only for socket umm 775 or somethin
You think koronowski got that score from overclocking? his score is right on my a**. How can that be?
CdnAudiophile
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+1 at stock speed the 920 is still a bottle neck for your video card. You will have no problems with stock cooling to hit 3.2 to 3.4 and at that speed you prob will see a 20k result.
CdnAudiophile
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His cpu is overclocked to 3.4 and 3dmark runs better on Nvidia cards. The coding is better for them. This is only a benchmark remember and in game performance is very different. I am going to do a run at stock speed and we will see how close we compare.
I cant even overclock cause i dont have access to that turboV utility because my disk that came with my mobo doesnt support Windows 7.
just a noob
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you overclock through the bios, unless your talking graphics cards, in which case rivatuner would be your best bet
Well TurboV is like a noob overclocking utility i think. All you do is slide the bar up n stuff. I dont know how to do it through the bios. And i have something called catalyst control center that would let me overclock the gpu.
CdnAudiophile
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I scored 17,208 at stock lol so you scored better than me. That was 20 x 133 but I do not have turbo on and you might. My ram was at 1066 with 9 9 9 24 timings but I could set them to 7-7-7-22 at that speed.
Try this man when you boot the computer up at the start press delete until the bios screen comes up. Go to the A.I. tweaker menu. The very first setting change it to manual. Then go down to Qpi and change it to 160. You do this by simply typing 160 in and pressing enter after. Leave everything else default. Go all the way to the right in the bios and hit enter on Save changes. The computer will reboot and if you get into windows use this program (Realtemps): http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1080/Real_Temp_2.60.html to check the temperature anything around 30ish at idle is good. Then make sure it is OC'd by downloading this (CPUZ):http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php This is a very mild OC and you should hit 3.2ghz with this. When turbo kicks in you will hit 3.36ghz but it is only useful in single threaded applications.
Try this man when you boot the computer up at the start press delete until the bios screen comes up. Go to the A.I. tweaker menu. The very first setting change it to manual. Then go down to Qpi and change it to 160. You do this by simply typing 160 in and pressing enter after. Leave everything else default. Go all the way to the right in the bios and hit enter on Save changes. The computer will reboot and if you get into windows use this program (Realtemps): http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1080/Real_Temp_2.60.html to check the temperature anything around 30ish at idle is good. Then make sure it is OC'd by downloading this (CPUZ):http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php This is a very mild OC and you should hit 3.2ghz with this. When turbo kicks in you will hit 3.36ghz but it is only useful in single threaded applications.
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Ok, but before i do this what can go wrong? Like i wont fry something will I.
In cpuz my core speed is jumping all over the place. from, 1.6 to 1.9 to 2.0 to 2.8, etc. why is it jumping all over the place? and i didnt change anything yet in the bios. And should i get real temp 2.6 or 2.7?
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CdnAudiophile
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Realtemp 2.7 and my bad it is not QPI but rather BCLK that you want to change. What I am telling you will not do any damage as you are not changing any voltages at this time. This is very mild so just watch your temps and from this I will be able to tell you how good your CPU will be to OC. The jumping numbers is from the CPU throttling itself. It has built the ability to save power by underclocking itself. It also has a feature that in single threaded applications it overclocks itself.
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