Posts by Mule

update: Last night I disabled 2 cores and tried a 4ghz cpu (1.4v) 3ghz cpunb (1.3v) htt back down to 2ghz. initially stable (10 mins p95 small ftt kinda thing) then 4.2 ghz which was not stable enough to p95 for more than a couple of...

Quote:Originally Posted by Meisgoot312 Overclocking to 4.0 ghz fixed basically all my gaming issues. It was amazing. BF3 @ 3.4 ghz: 40 - 120 fps, but STUTTERING. STUTTERING. STUTTERING. BF3 @ 4.0 ghz: 60-120 fps NO STUTTER. I...

I think it was this thread I mentioned it in. Bolts I used on the heatsinks... 3x12mm or 3/16"x12" I cannot report on a temperature difference as I unscientifically changed my fan config and reapplied thermal paste. The HS dont wobble...

Quote:Originally Posted by Catscratch You can test the ram performance with MaxxMem2 application. I will do this, ta for suggestion. If there is noticeable improvement to be had in BC2, or at least making sure I am not losing out...

Quote:Originally Posted by Catscratch http://www.anandtech.com/show/3877/asrock-890fx-deluxe-full-review-and-an-investigation-of-thuban-performance-scaling/7 "What we did not expect was that a similar pattern would emerge from our...

Quote:Originally Posted by jason387 Your chip can do 3000mhz as the cpu nb frequency. It increases performance substantially. Did you have a link I can read up on this please? Also for all uses?? Are you assuming RAM at 1600+ as I...

Is there a sweetspot for CPU speed or is it just about the nice round number? I have done it 'just because' but questions for me is whether it is worth the higher temperatures or not. I'm at 3.6 with low volts as that seems sufficient...

With Vsync off, yes. Bad enough that I prefered to lower my res then have tearing. Was ok with vsync on though.

I also reduced the sahrpness frmo 40 to 10 (oringinally 0 when I started htis thread), makes the remaining jitter no so noticeable as the screen is all fuzzy. LIke AA without the performance hit

Quote:Originally Posted by EastCoast Is that setting in the OSD or is that from the Service Menu? lolwhat? I'm not good with monitors, I just pressed menu and had a play. I'll get a screencap of exactly where it is and what it is...