SOLVED BCLK All over the place!!

[ATMINSIDE]

Honestly though, you won't notice the difference for the risk of stability by going from 3.3GHz to 3.4GHz

 

[Bobnova]

I have not seen any reports of it killing a mechanical hard drive.
Corrupting data, absolutely. Killing? No.

I have seen (quite a few) reports of it killing the already fragile Sandforce based OCZ drives. Also plenty of reports of it corrupting data on SSDs.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Honestly though, you won't notice the difference for the risk of stability by going from 3.5GHz to 3.5+GHz

FTFY

I plan on testing the tri-core idea again. Which would give a multi of x34
Already running Prime Blend at 104 Mhz BCLK. So far so good...

I have not seen any reports of it killing a mechanical hard drive.
Corrupting data, absolutely. Killing? No.

I have seen (quite a few) reports of it killing the already fragile Sandforce based OCZ drives. Also plenty of reports of it corrupting data on SSDs.

Okay that's not so bad I guess

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Run Cinebench on all four cores, then try it again when you (naively) cut one off.

You're loading all cores, you'll be surprised how much you lose for want of 1x multi.

You also won't notice the difference of 3.3GHz to 3.5GHz.
Not worth stability issues for a daily usage machine.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Run Cinebench on all four cores, then try it again when you (naively) cut one off.

You're loading all cores, you'll be surprised how much you lose for want of 1x multi.

You also won't notice the difference of 3.3GHz to 3.5GHz.
Not worth stability issues for a daily usage machine.

Woah! 103Mb download
No cinebench until my ISP stops killing my internet

Well my thoughts were this: I AFAIK never use a multi-core program.
Most intense game is Skyrim, but I never even played it yet

Other than FAH (which only uses 2 cores) I was under the impression that the 4th core is pretty much useless.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Then get HWBot Prime.

Seriously though, first world problems.

Last I checked FAH and Mining on your CPU would be multicore.
Games are ramping up core usage by the week.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Then get HWBot Prime.

Seriously though, first world problems.

Last I checked FAH and Mining on your CPU would be multicore.
Games are ramping up core usage by the week.

Yeah they are, but FAH was using 3 cores. Now it down to an even 2 cores (I was told this provides better compatibility for some WU's)

Okay so 4016.90 Primes with HWBOT Prime. Let's see what 3 cores does.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

I'll give you a hint, 75% of that.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

I'll give you a hint, 75% of that.

~90% of it
3562.63

I noticed a performance hit mining on only 1 card though. Odd too is that it is the card with the dummy plug

I fixed that by starting it above normal priority.


So as it stands now, barley any hit in the performance area.
Now I need to see what FAH says for it's PPD estimate.

Something tells me it will be lower.
Which leads me to believe it is better to have a bunch of slower cores than a few faster ones. Right?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

What speeds were they run at? 75% is for the same speeds...

Not surprised your mining saw a hit, since Prime saw one.

I expect FAH will show the same.

 

[EarthDog]

Which leads me to believe it is better to have a bunch of slower cores than a few faster ones. Right?

When do you get your bandwidth back again?

Being serious, it depends (and has been discussed ad nauseum on forums, including this one) on your uses. FOr folding, surely more cores for the little difference you get. For other things, you need to test.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

What speeds were they run at? 75% is for the same speeds...

Not surprised your mining saw a hit, since Prime saw one.

I expect FAH will show the same.

Speeds? During HWBOT Prime?



^ Which is not true, I was under the impression it would read the actually clock speed of 3537Mhz

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Yes, as in, what were your clock speeds set at...

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

When do you get your bandwidth back again?

Being serious, it depends (and has been discussed ad nauseum on forums, including this one) on your uses. FOr folding, surely more cores for the little difference you get. For other things, you need to test.

Bandwidth (BETTER ) come back this Saturday.

Yes, as in, what were your clock speeds set at...

 

[wagex]

here is what i would do... blk = 100 turbo's set to 31x call it good. or if u wanna go badass then disreguard turbo and turn the multi up to 31x.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

here is what i would do... blk = 100 turbo's set to 31x call it good. or if u wanna go badass then disreguard turbo and turn the multi up to 31x.

?
That's going backwards!
I can set turbo to x33 for all cores @ 100 Mhz BCLK

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Was it the same speed for the first run?

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Was it the same speed for the first run?

Yes it was.

Something's not right?

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Yes it was.

Something's not right?

You JUST said that you can only set 33X for all four cores, that's what's not right.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

You JUST said that you can only set 33X for all four cores, that's what's not right.

I have Turbo Boost enabled in the BIOS, and with 4 cores enabled I can have a max turbo of 33

If I have 3 core enabled I can have a max turbo of 34

See here:

No. I have always had all my cores enabled.

Okay, one more time

Here's my cpu multiplier settings:

1 core enabled ---> 35x multiplier
2 cores enabled --> 34x multiplier
3 cores enabled --> 34x multiplier
2 cores enabled --> 33x multiplier


Today, I decided to DISABLE 1 core to get a multiplier of 34x.

But since the multiplier is higher, I get a higher turbo-frequency 3.5 Ghz.