nateman_doo

reggiesanchez

ya just the vid cards but there are plenty of cpu benches if you got the time.

yea, but without LN2, I don't foresee any records or titles.

now whats your draining water problems?

No prob I think my vregs arent hitting my water block due to lack of or bad contact and I really think I can get this card top 5 no prob, was going to drain the water out of my rig, but Ill just wait for my mag 5 then ill redo the whole loop AGAIN.

nateman_doo

Do you think anyone would notice if I yanked out the processor in my work computer for a weekend of E8400 benching? 

I don't see my work CPU being a cherry.

My school has a lab full of W3520s.. you think they would notice 16 missing $300 CPUs?

on the note of the older benchies.. wolfdale is the king of 01 and will be for quite some time.  go for the highest FSB you can with some tight memory timings and it will help you considerably

nateman_doo

Do you think anyone would notice if I yanked out the processor in my work computer for a weekend of E8400 benching? 

I don't see my work CPU being a cherry.

it only has to run...you will get far better numbers than your i7 for those older test...and can probably get an easy 5.5 ghz over clock from knowing nothing...speculation of course

well my socket 775 tests failed badly... my old asus p5n-e sli just hasnt got enought optionsm to stabalise anything over a 45-50% OC. i got the E2140 to 2.7 then it refused to boot properlly and nothing i could do helped it :s and my E4400 i could only get to 3.2 and couldnt stableise /cry. i think i might whack the GTS 250s in my main rig and see what i can push out of them with a i7 at 4ghz behind them :) think i can get 20k in vantage with 2 250s?

hellshealer

think i can get 20k in vantage with 2 250s?

No. Check out where the top 2x gts250 is: http://www.hwbot.org/rankings/benchmark/3dmark_vantage_-_performance/rankings?hardware=geforce_gts_250
 
16818 for Vantage, with an i7 @ 4.5ghz.
 
You should probably shoot for 15k, considering the clocks you will need (based on HWBot entries around 15k).

John, on the topic of socket 775, what do you think (or know) is the best board for clocking 45nm Yorkfield quads on? I know Gigabyte's are good quad clockers, but do you know of any specific board that really makes quads scream?

I have a DFI UT P35 that is my "official" benching board. Now i also have my 750i FTW though, seeing as my i7 replaced the guts of my main system. With the 750i FTW and my q9300, i was able to hit 3460mhz, which is around 460fsb without much tweaking...I'll probably try to max the 750i FTW while the q9300 is still in it, then see what the DFI can do.

Oh, and also get around to figuring out how to clock i7's.

hey rabid 790i ftw is a really good board or any that use the 790 chipset with ddr3 are going to give you a big advantage.

i need to try and get my hands on either a 790 board or a 780 board sometime.... my 650 is not so great :S

avoid the 780i, go for a 790i if you need SLI.. otherwise intel chipsets are far superior

i need something with a few PCI-e slots, most of the intel chipsets are either 1 PCI-e or they only support xfire :(