Long story short, I used to be really into overclocking and ran a business selling overclocked PCs, but 6 years ago I went to work for Dell and sort of fell out of overclocking. Since then I've worked for a company that makes relatively mobile peripherals and I nearly gave up using desktops altogether. Anyways, I finally decided to build up a desktop since I had access to many free parts.
I scraped together the following system (only purchase being the CPU, everything else was free due to co-marketing things I've done with the companies involved over time). Thus, please don't criticize the components, they weren't specifically selected (except CPU):
CPU: Intel C2D E8400 Wolfdale
Cooler: Coolermaster TX2
Mobo: MSI K9 Neo-F (DDR2)
RAM: Buffalo Firestick 1066 (2x1GB) - fsx1066d2c
PSU: Enermax EG565P-VE
Anyways, my current setup/config is as follows:
468x9 = 4211 MHz
FSB = 1871 MHz
DDR2 = 936 MHz
Timings = 4-4-4-12 (in bios)
I've ran higher FSBs but would get the occasional issue or two (mainly had a trouble soft-rebooting).
Here are some pics:
Now the problem is with Sandra. I know it's synthetic and all, but I've never seen numbers this off before. My memory benchmarks SUCK compared to the reference profiles:
At the bottom it says my timings are bad (which I don't think they are considering the FSB) and that the Large Memory Pages can't be used (I went ahead and supposedly fixed that in Vista by adding my account to the group policy, but that hasn't made the error go away).
Should I just ignore these or is their truth in these lousy numbers?
Thanks,
U235
I scraped together the following system (only purchase being the CPU, everything else was free due to co-marketing things I've done with the companies involved over time). Thus, please don't criticize the components, they weren't specifically selected (except CPU):
CPU: Intel C2D E8400 Wolfdale
Cooler: Coolermaster TX2
Mobo: MSI K9 Neo-F (DDR2)
RAM: Buffalo Firestick 1066 (2x1GB) - fsx1066d2c
PSU: Enermax EG565P-VE
Anyways, my current setup/config is as follows:
468x9 = 4211 MHz
FSB = 1871 MHz
DDR2 = 936 MHz
Timings = 4-4-4-12 (in bios)
I've ran higher FSBs but would get the occasional issue or two (mainly had a trouble soft-rebooting).
Here are some pics:
Now the problem is with Sandra. I know it's synthetic and all, but I've never seen numbers this off before. My memory benchmarks SUCK compared to the reference profiles:
At the bottom it says my timings are bad (which I don't think they are considering the FSB) and that the Large Memory Pages can't be used (I went ahead and supposedly fixed that in Vista by adding my account to the group policy, but that hasn't made the error go away).
Should I just ignore these or is their truth in these lousy numbers?
Thanks,
U235