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24th August 2003, 16:00 | #21 |
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| true, synthetic benchmarks dedect default speed, but programs like 3dmark do increase in speed. "some versions of windows"...? i'll install SP1, see if that solves it.
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24th August 2003, 16:15 | #22 |
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| I don't think that will help
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24th August 2003, 16:30 | #23 |
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| It would be pretty odd, if a program released on 18th august 2003 doesn't work well in Win XP... It doesn't hurt to update, i'll report back in half an hour.
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24th August 2003, 16:42 | #24 |
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| SP1 didn't do it. Installing other updates too. I'm sure now the incorrect mhz recognition is the cause of appearantly low performance! When I boot at 2600mhz, and change the speed to 3500mhz, i'm 100% sure my machine is actually running at 3500mhz, but windows doesn't adapt to the changed speed. When i launch a game of vice city, it's like the game is on crack: everything goes a bit too fast. Your car feels like it does 300kph, but your speedometer still says 200kph. An excellent example is an old DOS game without a frame limitter on a new machine: they don't adapt to the high speed. I hope there's a fix for this error.
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24th August 2003, 16:51 | #25 |
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| my guess is, you put that CPU in another motherboard and it will not perform like this. like said on shrimp, I can clock much higher with clockgen then when I use the Bios. I don't believe it. |
24th August 2003, 16:53 | #26 |
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| You don't believe the cpu is running at 3550mhz stable, or you don't believe my system would not crash with a cold boot at 3550 mhz? What happens if you compare your 4ghz bios oc with a 4.3ghz clockgen oc? -edit- If i set clock speed to 3500mhz, and i reset, the post screen says "3.55Ghz". Is that cheating too? -edit2- Latest version of cpu-z shows correct speed. I'm going to compare these two situations: a) Boot at 2600mhz, oc in windows to 3300 & bench. b) reboot at 3300mhz & bench
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24th August 2003, 18:59 | #27 |
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| very very interesting what we see here! I wanna know how this turns out
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24th August 2003, 19:07 | #28 |
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| CPU scaling seems to be ok, and there is no difference between a) & b) in performance. (In situation a, not all apps dedect the correct speed, in contrary to situation b).
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24th August 2003, 19:14 | #29 |
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| difference 2.8 <> 3.0 is almost nihil, but 3.0 <> 3.2 is alot how come?
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24th August 2003, 19:21 | #30 |
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| You tell me? I'm just showing the test results. All options were left the same.
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