Hello all.
My previous system was a crappy AMD based one. I always loved it because AMD was the only kind of system I've ever owned, and they've never failed me. Here's the specs I had:
AMD Phenom 9650 (yes, first gen, it didn't OC hardly at all. About 300ish mhz.)
Asus M3N78-VM and 8 gigs of generic ddr2 ram. Eventually I got a GTS-450. At this point my bottleneck was my cpu for sure.
Thankfully, and surprisingly, where I work, they were getting rid of old hardware they arent using anymore. Mostly server based stuff. Out of it all I grabbed a couple server cases, some intel boards and processors. Here's what I am now running on my system, AMD one is in the corner hiding.
Intel QX9650 @ 3.99ghz (333 FSB x12) [interesting that I moved from an AMD 9650 to an Intel 9650
]
Intel DX48BT2 with 4 gigs of Corsair DDR3 at 1333.
I'm running a decent aftermarket heatsink my friend gave me, idles around 40C in an air conditioned room. Prime 95 brings it up to around 85-90C, no other application or game can bring it above 80.
Here are my questions to you all:
I was able to boot at 400FSB x10 successfully a few times, but other times it just doesn't want to boot at all, and sometimes hangs at post. Just a sign my OC failed? Watchdog OFF it will sometimes boot, other times it will give no video. Right now I'm sitting stable at 333fsb x12. Voltage sitting at lowest possible setting, 1.28.
I read somewhere that I should keep on High Precision Event Timer when in Windows 7, but other people say to turn it off. What do?
Anything else I should know about this board and CPU?
Edit: I also want to mention, HWmonitor and Speedfan don't give accurate readings for really anything. HWmonitor gives accurate readings for CPU, but thats the only sensor it gives me. No fans, no chipset temps, nothing else. Speedfan reads my CPU at -50C, and thats also the only sensor it gives me. Aida64 (the new Everest) reads all of my sensors, seemingly, but I'm not sure as the other temps it shows are accurate/the right ones. Any advice?
My previous system was a crappy AMD based one. I always loved it because AMD was the only kind of system I've ever owned, and they've never failed me. Here's the specs I had:
AMD Phenom 9650 (yes, first gen, it didn't OC hardly at all. About 300ish mhz.)
Asus M3N78-VM and 8 gigs of generic ddr2 ram. Eventually I got a GTS-450. At this point my bottleneck was my cpu for sure.
Thankfully, and surprisingly, where I work, they were getting rid of old hardware they arent using anymore. Mostly server based stuff. Out of it all I grabbed a couple server cases, some intel boards and processors. Here's what I am now running on my system, AMD one is in the corner hiding.
Intel QX9650 @ 3.99ghz (333 FSB x12) [interesting that I moved from an AMD 9650 to an Intel 9650
Intel DX48BT2 with 4 gigs of Corsair DDR3 at 1333.
I'm running a decent aftermarket heatsink my friend gave me, idles around 40C in an air conditioned room. Prime 95 brings it up to around 85-90C, no other application or game can bring it above 80.
Here are my questions to you all:
I was able to boot at 400FSB x10 successfully a few times, but other times it just doesn't want to boot at all, and sometimes hangs at post. Just a sign my OC failed? Watchdog OFF it will sometimes boot, other times it will give no video. Right now I'm sitting stable at 333fsb x12. Voltage sitting at lowest possible setting, 1.28.
I read somewhere that I should keep on High Precision Event Timer when in Windows 7, but other people say to turn it off. What do?
Anything else I should know about this board and CPU?
Edit: I also want to mention, HWmonitor and Speedfan don't give accurate readings for really anything. HWmonitor gives accurate readings for CPU, but thats the only sensor it gives me. No fans, no chipset temps, nothing else. Speedfan reads my CPU at -50C, and thats also the only sensor it gives me. Aida64 (the new Everest) reads all of my sensors, seemingly, but I'm not sure as the other temps it shows are accurate/the right ones. Any advice?
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