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[Haven]

Didn't know if anyone had picked one up yet. I sure as hell didn't but my customer wants me to run benchmarks and what not so I figured I should share them........once I'm done. The sh*t just go delivered via very dwarfish ugly female UPS driver.

Any ways heres the specs I'll update with pixorz once I'm done rolling in the packing peanuts.

Intel I7 920
Sapphire 4850 1GBver [Couldn't convince him to get a 4870x2 scroll :( ]
3x2GB DDR3 1333 G.Skill RAM
2xWD 500GB Cavs
Gigabyte Something or other [the one that ISN'T water cooling]
OCZ GameXSteam 600W PSU
Some Case he picked out......
Some lame shiny blue fans he picked out.....[SHADOWS FAVORITE!]
Windows XP 64bit AKA Chris Knows he Wants to Install It


I'll applaud Gigabyte for including TWO, thats right, TWO free zip ties!






~Suspense drama suspense~

[Ezekiel]

I'm not going to lie, when I saw this topic, I thought it said "ZOMG 17!", and thought to myself, "What the hell? No way is Haven only 17."

Then I saw it was in the hardware section.

[Scroll_Lock88]

Congratulations on GPU limiting your build, kthx bai. Fail computer builds are fail

[Haven]

Couldn't convince him to get a 4870x2

....or anything else for that matter. Better than the 8800gt that was his first choice. He's one of those guys who build one computer so then assumes he knows everything....for example, he wanted "a lot of UPS ports"
Alas I could not change his mind :'(


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He doesn't even game much...and I think he only plays WoW. I can only suggest for him but in the end it's him who orders the sh*t. SO EAT ME SCROLL. jkilu

Edited by Haven, 08 December 2008 - 11:22 PM.

[Sniprwulf]

yesss those 'ups' ports really deliver.

you better overclock that b*tch to atleast 3.3

[vet.mad hatter]

Frack 3 we want 4.0 or better!!!Anyway in February sometime ill be building one..8 threads decoding one movie wtf hax!!!!

[Novahawk]

Frack 3 we want 4.0 or better!!!Anyway in February sometime ill be building one..8 threads decoding one movie wtf hax!!!!

How about the octacores? 16 threads ftw lol

[Haven]

This just in:

Gigabyte badge case stickers originally designed in middle school photo shop class.

[Ezekiel]

This just in:

Gigabyte badge case stickers originally designed in middle school photo shop class.

No photo, no point in your post... Give up proof so we may join in on the laughs and mockery of such things.

[Haven]

Just because you gave me that face Zeke, you will never get to see it.

Anyways the guy emailed me letting me know he did not want any CPU 'tweaking' done, probably because he wants to himself. I took it up to a pathetic 2.8 using the gigabyte software just to see how it worked and ran 3Dmark b4 boxing it up. As I figured tho the software just gimps the timings to make the RAM work rather than upping any kind of voltage. I tested @ 3.4 and it had taken the timings to a ridiculous 10-10-10-28 and dropping the speed to 400mhz or something retarded like that, meh clearly it's still a really nice proc...only 84f degrees with the stock fan isn't too bad. Gigabyte supplies you with nearly a dozen different easy ways to OC anything...but as expected the manual way works a lot better. Other than booting up @ 3.2 using the BIOS [rather than the software] and only bumping the mem voltage once with the smallest increment while sitting in windows for maybe 10 minutes I really dunno what else this Proc can do.
This dude didn't want me to have fun :(

Sorry only one SS, it's 1:30 and I'm tired of sitting in this chair.
And yes Scroll, it is clear that he made a mistake not getting a higher end card...pretty obvious that's whats holding him back in that score :/



Perhaps I'll convince him to let me play around some more so Madhatter has something else to compare/brag his overclock to.

Edited by Haven, 10 December 2008 - 02:34 AM.