Halo_003

Tribbs

Yea I have seen the micro block and all its amazingness.  I would like to get into benching I am just to afraid to get my main system into it although I have thought about building a cheaper amd system for it.  

but I love reading this it is always fun.

Just bench it on air. I'm stuck on air until the rest of my CPU loop gets here. Just need to decide on a RAD, and then order it and fittings/tubing.

'Course, over summer it'll be different. DICE then, big maybe on LN2, finally gonna own Q's single card score. 980X + 295 on DICE or LN2 is a winning combination.

What would you do then Q? Let's say I benched like this: CPU @ 5400Mhz, RAM @ 2000Mhz, GPU @ 925Mhz/1275Mhz, and put out a MONSTER score on LN2? That'd be fun. In any case, DICE should do for the first few sessions. Then we'll see about LN2. Gotta find some suppliers here, see how much it costs etc. I'm not sure if my mom will let me, she's finally come around to the idea of DICE, all it would take is getting her to let me try it once, then she'd see how it is and stuff. Which means she'd cave.

Then... All that you know is at an end.

Halo the air bencher will be no more.

But right now, this is all talk and no show.

Yes indeed. It sounds cool though.  And I must say, If I ended up being able to use LN2, I'd be HAPPIER THAN A TORNADO IN A TRAILER PARK!! 

I believe a while ago I posted about RAM, Like in the first 100 pages. What would you guys recommend? I'm tempted by just going with 2 of these kits and using 3 of the 4 sticks, which would also leave me with an extra, which is ALWAYS good. Even if I can't run them at 2300Mhz, they'd be good for 2000Mhz+ as well. Nice thing about them is if I ever came across a P55 board I could use them to full extent on it.

http://www.newegg.com/Pro...x?Item=N82E16820231337


My current OCZ Gold would be getting a friend, (another 6Gb kit of Gold), and being put into my dad's machine for his 12GB photoshopping stuff.

Tribbs

Yea I have seen the micro block and all its amazingness.  I would like to get into benching I am just to afraid to get my main system into it although I have thought about building a cheaper amd system for it.  

but I love reading this it is always fun.

     I know your dilemma.  I originally designed my benching system to be a gaming computer.  Then I got into benching.  Now this machine that cost thousands & thousands just sits here to do 1 hit wonder benching.  Now i have a spare computer (790i/Q6600) to do everything & play games with.  9800GT's do just fine on the games that I play - even across 3 screens.  Then I also bench that to the point it caught fire.  Awesomesauce.

That would be cool Halo... I'm always up for a race!  No fun just sitting there.  Oh, BTW, my Mom will let me do anything I want

Q56_Monster

That would be cool Halo... I'm always up for a race!  No fun just sitting there.  Oh, BTW, my Mom will let me do anything I want

You lucky SOB.. 

Any thoughts on that RAM? Same price as a 6GB kit of Dominator GT, but it's higher speed. And I get an extra stick.

Halo_003

Q56_Monster

That would be cool Halo... I'm always up for a race!  No fun just sitting there.  Oh, BTW, my Mom will let me do anything I want

You lucky SOB.. 

Any thoughts on that RAM? Same price as a 6GB kit of Dominator GT, but it's higher speed. And I get an extra stick.

I don't get real thrilled about RAM...when you're benching a 920, you want something that will hold speeds at your max. blck and mem. divider settings.  So, if you are running blk of 220 with a mem divider of 2:8, your RAM speed will be 1760.  Then if you say I can run a 2:10 multiplier to push the RAM speed past 2000, then you have to consider if your uncore can handle it.  The increase in performance would be minimal anyway.  The cost of getting RAM rated above 2000 far outweighs the benefits, IMHO. 

You'd be better off spending the few Benjamin's towards a new CPU.

i concur.

nateman_doo

Tribbs

Yea I have seen the micro block and all its amazingness.  I would like to get into benching I am just to afraid to get my main system into it although I have thought about building a cheaper amd system for it.  

but I love reading this it is always fun.

    I know your dilemma.  I originally designed my benching system to be a gaming computer.  Then I got into benching.  Now this machine that cost thousands & thousands just sits here to do 1 hit wonder benching.  Now i have a spare computer (790i/Q6600) to do everything & play games with.  9800GT's do just fine on the games that I play - even across 3 screens.  Then I also bench that to the point it caught fire.  Awesomesauce.

Isn't it ironic that we can't just "turn on" our systems to do general computing/gaming....they're like Saturn V rockets.  They cost $$$$$$, and you only see them in action when the conditions are just right.

I mean we can't even surf the web cause the dang ethernet is shot from the high pci-e settings, LOL!

Depends entirely what kind of benching you are doing.  for 2d benching the difference in speed and latencies will be drastic but if you are only concerned about 3d benching then just buy yourself some 2000mhz ram so you know you wont be ram limited in your CPU clocks.

say...is there a soft volt mod for the gtx280?