Originally posted by bigwill68:

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turned the clock down alittle along with a voltage drop also with 5 pass of LinX no errors, I guess AMD Gigabyte boards don't give that much in VDroops in volts like Intel Gigabyte boards do huh?

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Will,
I found a huge mistake in the instructions in the setup for the NB frequency, and the HT link Frequency. It tells you to set the HT link frequency in between the CPU and NB speeds. That is incorrect! The HT link frequency has to be lower than the NB frequency, otherwise it will cause a bottleneck in the data flow, and perhaps even crash the computer. Here's what to do!

Set the NB Frequency multiplier to 12, but set the HT link frequency multiplier to 11. Raise the NB voltage to 1.40v. Raise the CPU NB VID voltage to about 1.350v. Given your overclock, I would probably just set it to the max, 1.40v. Should work like a charm. Your benchmarks won't change at all! Thru-put might be slowed a tiny bit, but Data still flows between the CPU and the NB at the same speed as before. After all you are only losing 207MHz off the HT link speed. Doesn't affect the temps either!

The NB frequency will be 2484MHz, and the HT link frequency will be 2277MHz and the Hyper Transport speed will be 4761MHz, more than fast enough.

Best Regards,
Russ

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Memory Speed (Mhz): DDR3 - 1066
DDR3 - 1333
DDR3 - 1800(OC)

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Well you won't be able to play any recent games on that system as the graphics card is too weak, the CPU is not an X4, but an X3, a Tri-core CPU, so not that powerful, and the memory is quite slow, which may not affect performance that much but if the latency is also high, then it will be a performance reduction. I hope you're not paying much for that system.

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Originally posted by Ripper:

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I did wonder but nonetheless I have gone with the i5 - as that's an Intel I best not discuss it too much or risk being shot!

Oh and I chose the HD5670 in the end, I have always preferred ATI anyway on completely unsubstantiated grounds! :)

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Originally posted by bigwill68:

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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Will,
I found a huge mistake in the instructions in the setup for the NB frequency, and the HT link Frequency. It tells you to set the HT link frequency in between the CPU and NB speeds. That is incorrect! The HT link frequency has to be lower than the NB frequency, otherwise it will cause a bottleneck in the data flow, and perhaps even crash the computer. Here's what to do!

Set the NB Frequency multiplier to 12, but set the HT link frequency multiplier to 11. Raise the NB voltage to 1.40v. Raise the CPU NB VID voltage to about 1.350v. Given your overclock, I would probably just set it to the max, 1.40v. Should work like a charm. Your benchmarks won't change at all! Thru-put might be slowed a tiny bit, but Data still flows between the CPU and the NB at the same speed as before. After all you are only losing 207MHz off the HT link speed. Doesn't affect the temps either!

The NB frequency will be 2484MHz, and the HT link frequency will be 2277MHz and the Hyper Transport speed will be 4761MHz, more than fast enough.

Best Regards,
Russ

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Aight Russ made the change everything is running smooth as pie take in account temps kinda high reason cause, I don't have the artic 64 pro yet, I have the factory cooler on the board for now. I dropped the HT link frequency multiplier to 11x and left the NB Frequency multiplier on 12x. I Raised the CPU NB VID voltage to 1.400v cause,I'm running at 3933ghz and that's not My maxs on this board 1.400v is'nt and.I also Raised the NB voltage to 1.40v it was at 1.35v...Thanks

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I thought everyone handled the whole discussion very professionally and without bias. That you've decided to go with an Intel instead of an AMD, to suit your needs is immaterial. Good luck with your Intel build.

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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I thought everyone handled the whole discussion very professionally and without bias. That you've decided to go with an Intel instead of an AMD, to suit your needs is immaterial. Good luck with your Intel build.

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I think if everyone can offer an unbiased view, then Intel vs AMD discussion is just fine. But we have to keep a mature perspective on it. They're just expensive electronic toys really :P

Sure some bias is going to leak through no matter who it is or what the discussion is. But never forget that everyone picked their favorite brand for a reason, even if you don't understand that reason :)

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