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[Big Tom]

Picked up a x4 955 last weekend and haven't pushed it yet, but it has been running at this all week rock solid,

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good stuff, i was really thinkin about the 1100T BE. ended up going with the 980

 

[Britton30]

Also with a ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional
PhenomII X6 1055T, 2.8GHz, 1866MHz Ram. Not trying to oc the CPU yet, getting new RAM up to speed.

 

[stormy13]

Gary with that multi locked 1055T, if you're planning on overclocking the CPU I would start there and use the increased HT/FSB to bring the ram up to speed.

 

[Britton30]

I need to get the new board stable and booting properly before I can play too much Richard. I did have the 1055 up to 4.2GHz but not stable. 3.9 was the highest stable. This new board has more settings I can make and I need to acclimate to it.

 

[stormy13]

Tell me about it. These new UEFI bios' have more options than you can shake a stick at. The fun part is figuring out what most of them do, especially all the voltage settings that were put in primarily for Bulldozer. If nothing else they are a heck of a lot easier to navigate around in.

 

[jeepmann4x4]

Thanks Guys/Gals!! It's fun to jump up there every now and again but I mostly stick to my 24/7 speed of 4.5ghz, it's really all I ever need.

@tw33k: Yes it got a bit warm, and thats on a H70 cooler. If I ran better fans than the stock ones and ran them full out it might of stayed a bit lower.

 

[Solarstarshines]

I got my 965 BE to run at 4.1 Ghz stable but settled for 4.0 Ghz all 4 cores

 

[Wisheezy]

I got my 965 BE to run at 4.1 Ghz stable but settled for 4.0 Ghz all 4 cores

Beastly

 

[essenbe]

I got my 965 BE to run at 4.1 Ghz stable but settled for 4.0 Ghz all 4 cores

Great job. Very nice overclock.

 

[Britton30]

Tell me about it. These new UEFI bios' have more options than you can shake a stick at. The fun part is figuring out what most of them do, especially all the voltage settings that were put in primarily for Bulldozer. If nothing else they are a heck of a lot easier to navigate around in.

Yes, it's nearly like a new language for me. I think I will like it a lot once used to it and new terms and finding all the tweaks available.

Alas, the new board took a dump just 2-3 days after installing it and I am returning it for replacement. Good news is I bought it through one of Newegg's sales and it has a 60 day return on it.

Question to all
With all the good numbers and benchmarks floating around, does anyone see an actual big jump in performance in day-to-day use? I never have other than apps maybe opening a little faster.

 

[stormy13]

I would have to run it at stock to really tell you that. Only had it at stock long enough to let Windows do its thing with the new CPU, and after that immediately went to 3.6 GHz, rans a few tests and tried a couple of games and then took it to 4.0.

I can tell you that there is a very noticeable difference between the 955 and the x4 630 (that was running at 3.4 GHz) that was in before, in games and such for the short time I had it at 3.6. And can see and feel the difference at 4.0 over 3.6.

 

[Solarstarshines]

Games runs faster smoother and shorter boot times

 

[sygnus21]

Question to all
With all the good numbers and benchmarks floating around, does anyone see an actual big jump in performance in day-to-day use? I never have other than apps maybe opening a little faster.

The only performance jump I noticed is in benchmarks and some games. That's mainly it for me. I guess it all comes down to what you do with your system, especially once you overclock it.

That said I'm still on the old i7-900 series CPU's running on a 1366 chipset - overclocked my i7-950 from 3.08 to 3.86gig. I wanted to keep it where my memory is running at it's max speed of 1600MHz and 3.8 does that while being rock solid 24/7 stable. It's been running that way for about a year now.

Anyway these newer systems my give more of a performance jump in terms of overall system speed seeing that a lot of these chips can be pushed to at 4.5gig.

That's my take.

 

[smarteyeball]

Question to all
With all the good numbers and benchmarks floating around, does anyone see an actual big jump in performance in day-to-day use? I never have other than apps maybe opening a little faster.

Aside from the 'slightly' snappier feel, it's mainly games and encoding that the difference is apparent.

 

[Wishmaster]

For just email, browsing web etc ... I never really noticed any change between stock clocks and OCed settings.


But I do alot of Video Encoding and Gaming, and there I see a rather substantial difference.

 

[Britton30]

Thanks for the input everyone. I am hoping to see better performance with Photoshop and Corel when I get them reinstalled.

 

[sygnus21]

Thanks for the input everyone. I am hoping to see better performance with Photoshop and Corel when I get them reinstalled.

Though a stronger CPU helps, RAM is more important when it comes to Photoshop. I use CS5 and hadn't noticed much of a difference in performance when I OC'd my CPU, but then again my OC was less than a gig.

I will add that CS5 is pretty snappy on my sytem which includes 6gig of RAM. You can see my system specs below.

 

[Britton30]

Though a stronger CPU helps, RAM is more important when it comes to Photoshop. I use CS5 and hadn't noticed much of a difference in performance when I OC'd my CPU, but then again my OC was less than a gig.

I will add that CS5 is pretty snappy on my sytem which includes 6gig of RAM. You can see my system specs below.

Thanks, when I get my system back together I will have 8GB @ 1866 9-11-9.

 

[sygnus21]

Photoshop should love that, especially if you have the 64-bit version.

 

[Britton30]

I have 64 bit, you mean no more watching the progress bar snake across the window while an image renders?