JeffreyHam

Today: 12/5/2010...added new highest settings accomplishment to the list.

 

You made me feel like a hummer dude!
 
HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM, Maybe you are to man, don't sell yourself so short! I mean who would have guessed someone would have posted this right at a time when I really need it the most and it could not have come to this board from a better guy.
 
This is awesome Jeffrey, now if we can get my new memory and everything else running that way won't that be a hoot and half. Maybe even a holler too (watching too much Big Bang Theory) LMAO. CONGRATZ GUY, YOUR SYSTEM O'CLOCK LOOKS SO DAMN SWEET! Trade ya a QX9650 for your processor LOL. Oh wait maybe I should see what it will do before I promise that.
 
I think I am going to see if I can figure the memory thing out based on some of your settings above.
 
Just as an aside, today I OC'ed my video card (still have just one in the system) and I am running ultra high settings on MSFX without even a blink now. What is amazing is that when I OC'ed the GPUs the temperatures dropped and never went above 60C during full play with a lot of water and background effects to boot. I noticed that instead of the GPUs hitting close to 90% usage at times now they are running no higher than about 50%. This seems so strange to me that a little increase in voltage on the GPU processor core and memory had this effect. The card is running so much better I went back to automatic fan speed control at factory specs, LOL it is getting colder outside. One other thing, when I downloaded Futuremark Vantage and installed it I got a reinstall of DX10 and C++ runtimes which could have had affected the GPU processing. Maybe something was mismatched with in one of those two runtime packages.
 
I do have to give Micah_675 credit for the GPU running so well but I have a feeling that you and Viper with your suggestions on the memory and CPU will completely blow me away when this is all said and done. Flying has never been so great as now, in the house that is, no way can I say it beats the real thing with all that staring at the sky looking for traffic even the blood shot eyes are enjoyable.
 
Keep these great post coming!

"WOW"...That's awesome tech. breakdown for each platform !!! Great work , and thankyou for helping us with your hard work Jeff !!

Impressive, im running 4.275 on my qx9650 24/7, barely hits 60c with IBT, However i am running water cooling, i can bench at 4.4 but it begins to get out of comfort level to run 24/7 on a 780i wish i had a 790 now so i could run 1600 ram. Good to see the ol' 775 running strong!
 
*Just checked my volts. And Yea with the qx i have to push near 1.5v to get stable, i could probably get abit lower with some time. The plain q9650 is doing well. Wish i had one of them now, tho i did get a good price on the qx.

Excellent.
 

Alright Jeffery.  My turn to ask a few questions here.  Out of my own ignorance.
 
1.  You kept your memory linked and synched to your FSB the entire time.  Your memory has a base rating of 1600Mhz, and your stock FSB is 1333Mhz. (yes you know this, I'm typing it so I teach it to myself)  So as you OC your cpu by increasing the FSB (not multiplier?) after you bypass FSB 1600 Mhz, you're also OCing your memory.  That's not a question, but I get that now.  That makes sense.
 
2.  You had increased your FSB by approx 37% (1333 to 1828) before you touched your MCP (Southbridge voltage value).  Is it normal to get that high of a FSB jump before tweaking the MCP or SPP?  I've got a Q9300 (also a 1333 Mhz FSB) I'm just trying to figure out how far I can push it before I tweak voltages on MCP & SPP.
 
3.  Why tweak your GTLVREF?  I thought it just controlled the voltage that your CPU considered on/off?
 
There will be more I'm sure.  I'm working hard to understand things well before I really get into my bios and mess with things.  I'm reading and comparing everything I can find, just sometimes I need a little help. =)