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A-Dub

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I ordered my parts on Monday, and UPS delivered them today (Wed.) thanks to Newegg's speedy shipping :D Assembly was painless, however upon powering up my new system it would only stay on for a few seconds before powering down. I determined my new PSU was to blame, Corsair let me down :( I swapped PSU's and boot/install of Windows 7 was quick and painless.

Here's my pile-o-parts:
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The monster Sunbeam CCTF cooler installed easily:
Cooler.jpg

As you can see, one ram slot is blocked due to the cooler size and the height of the OCZ reaper memory.
RAM.jpg

Everything in the case before I realized the Corsair PSU was bad. Thankfully I didn't get too crazy with wire management since I had to swap PSU's:
New-System.jpg

The first thing I did was get my Windows experience score before attempting to OC:
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I decided to try the AMD overdrive utility, it seems to work pretty good. Getting to 3.2 ghz was pretty easy. Upon bumping the multi to 16.5 things got a bit unstable. A slight voltage increase fixed that and I was able to increase the multi to 17. I'm currently sitting at 3.4 ghz with everything running cool and stable. I think I have a lot more headroom with this CPU. I think I can hit at least 3.6, maybe 3.8 with this cooler. Needless to say I am quite pleased :beer:
After.jpg
 
BTW there are better ways to test a score :p
What GPU do you have? I have a GTX295 and only get 6.5...

Yeah, I still need to run some other benchmarks. I'm running a 9800gt with factory overclock. I'm liking my RAM score :D
 
Here's my 3DMark results, for some reason it wasn't showing my overclock.
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What are the maxes for experience scores now!?!?! I have 5.9's across the board with my 3.75ghz oc'! According to your screenie I should be topping 7.0 with my cpu... :bang head
 

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I didnt think the windows experience index could go any higher than 5.9???

Windows 7 allows higher scores (up to 7.9). Vista is capped at 5.9. You can actually change them to whatever you want, but what's the point in that :)
 
BTW there are better ways to test a score :p
What GPU do you have? I have a GTX295 and only get 6.5...

I have the EVGA 285 GTX 1GB and only get 5.9... :confused:

Here's where I'm at on my machine with the stock AMD cooler.

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This has proven to be wonderfully stable. I plan on ordering a Sunbeam and seeing how much higher I can go.
 
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I have the EVGA 285 GTX 1GB and only get 5.9... :confused:

Here's where I'm at on my machine with the stock AMD cooler.

cpuz.jpg


This has proven to be wonderfully stable. I plan on ordering a Sunbeam and seeing how much higher I can go.

You are using Vista then. As nzaneb said, only windows 7 goes up to 7.9. That is why mx and I are capped at 5.9 :bang head.
 
I wasn't mad. Haha, I love when people appoligize to me for nothing. My guess is you looked at my stars and thought I was some kind of forum god. Bahaha. I hardly contribute, I just sit on here a lot. :p

I apologized for missing the above fact that was stated regarding Vista having a cap. It was the courteous thing to do, and had nothing to do with your stars, post count, or join date.
 
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