Sigh.
I just got done quoting you about "good luck hitting 2Ghz FSB". That's the entire point I was trying to make -- hitting high FSB's
is not difficult. I'm not suggesting he's going to hit half a terahertz, but I am suggesting that massive amounts of FSB isn't that difficult. I was still ultimately agreeing that Nehalem was the better way to go, and I've never stated that massive FSB is going to net any significant performance increases except for memory throughput (which is mostly synthetic benchmarks that care anyway.)
You're missing my point. My point was that your direct statements (lower multi, raise fsb) results in very little gain in overall performance outside of a few synthetic benchies.
As in Pontiac?
Seriously, I've heard of people doing this so I'm curious.
Via Aqua pump (ancient!), Apogee GT block, Sun ACE 120mm fans at 5v for daily (they'd be at 12v for a run like that though)
Nice setup. I'm just on air (Xigmatek 1283 with dual 120mm in push/pull - 80cfm/100cfm). Temps in low 60's according to coretemp, running FAH SMP, Orthos, SPi, Prime95, or anything else one would care to run. Low 50's for real-world apps (multi-threaded transcoding, gaming).
along with about 1.55vcore for that kind of speed.
Not half-bad. I've got to pump mine up to 1.5V+ for those kind of speeds, although for everyday @ 4GHz it's between 1.45-1.47 under load.
It's stable enough to do 3DMark06 and SuperPI 1M runs.
LOL, same here. I've gotten a few 2M and even an 8M SPi run in @ max. clocks though.
I doubt it would make it very long under something like Prime95; I wouldn't suggest running it at that kind of speed for very long anyway
Yeah, I'm starting to think the few weeks of constant FAH SMP were not such a good idea, as I was previously stable @ 4.1-4.2GHz for 24x7 use, now I can't seem to push it signifcantly past 4GHz without getting the occasional random app crash.
Memory is Micron D9 (Ballistix DDR2-800), they need 2.05v (bios) to do 1100Mhz. They'll go as far as 1200mhz on 2.25v but the heat and excess voltage just isn't worth it to run 'em that fast except for just quick benches and not much else.
Seems to be the RAM du jour for DDR2 platforms. I've had a few bad experiences with Ballistix back in the DDR days though, so I don't use them anymore. 5 RMAs is a bit excessive
I'm on a 4GB G.Skill DDR2-1000 kit now though, and loving it! I have an OCZ RAM cooler on there and only need 2.0V for daily usage, 2.1V for max. clocks.
+1 to this
hehe, j/k