Who's waiting to buy a new PC for SoW?

heres a resource for you in case you want to learn about your BIOS
http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=9

also i need to know what is your ram stock speed? it is likely that even your ram is running slower than it should you often have to go into bios in order to get it to run at the advertised speed

for instance you buy ddr1600 and when you install it its running at 1066 speed, most will never even realize it

once you got the ram speed to me i can tell you what to change (advertised ram speed not actual)

Been happy with the new rig for about a month now:

Antec 1200 case
Gigabyte motherboard: GA-X58A-UD3R GA-X58A-UD3R
12 gigs Corsair RAM
Corsair 1200 psu
i7 980x processor
GTX 480 GPU (just one for now)

I'm surprised how quiet it runs with all those fans - even when it's working hard with the 3D graphics program - sounds like a Harley purring on the freeway at 100 mph.

Been saving up for this for a long time and paid a heavy emotional price when the wife found out I transferred a few thousand dollars to our personal account to pay for it. She hasn't divorced me yet but she doesn't bring meals when I'm online any more either

Been happy with the new rig for about a month now:

Antec 1200 case
Gigabyte motherboard: GA-X58A-UD3R GA-X58A-UD3R
12 gigs Corsair RAM
Corsair 1200 psu
i7 980x processor
GTX 480 GPU (just one for now)

that is a beast! lol although i personally would downgrade for free meal delivery

once you got the ram speed to me i can tell you what to change (advertised ram speed not actual)

just looked at my asus bios forgot how great the p6^t is forr noob OC nothing too it

in the program real temp...check your cpu temperatures the numbers on left should be around 35C write it down just for reference

restart comp after the asus express gate screen passes, just tap the delete key until bios pops up

on the top press arrow key right to get to "AI tweaker"

scroll down arrow key to each selection i say and hit enter and select change then hit enter again

CPU ratio 19.00x

SpeedStep: Enabled

BLCK: 180

DRAM: put here the closest number below what your advertised ram speed is aka if its 1600 choose setting at or below that

CPU volts: try 1.25v to start (may have to raise or lower we will know later

QPI/DRAM volts 1.35v

DRAM BUS VOLT: 1.64v

CPU speed spectrum: disable
PCIE speed Spectrum: disable

thats it your done go over to exit at to and exit and save changes select

now you will boot up into computer : fingers crossed* everything should look good.. check your CPU temps in the program real temp...
see what they are and make note at this point im hoping their still low

now open up real temp so you cn see it out of the way monitor your temps.. if temps get to high the comp will auto shut down.. Buttt you should abort mission just in case if they get high like 80.. i doubt it will happen though with light OC

now you have your temp screen open run intel burn for a few minutes to see if were getting any errors, 5x iterations?)

monitor your temps

when finished everything still looking good, run the intel burn again for much longer maybe an hour or for fun you can install prime 95 and run that too for a few hours just to double check everything,

at this point if no errors occured .. you can go back into bios and either play with higher settings on the CPU x or BLCK x.. you can even try OC the ram (select higher than stock timings under DRAM: should work) or you can lower your CPU volts down to 1.2 or 1.225 from 1.25v which should use less power and keep her running cooler

run some benchmarks for fun, and let me know please post some screen shots for me!

(just for fun you can run the intel burn before you OC and measure the improvement you get.. fun fun!!!!

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Originally Posted by Old_Canuck

Been saving up for this for a long time and paid a heavy emotional price when the wife found out I transferred a few thousand dollars to our personal account to pay for it. She hasn't divorced me yet but she doesn't bring meals when I'm online any more either

I know that story all too well and these days I'm better at making sure the exact prices of the upgrades are not known, as I have to agree they tend to get a bit ridiculous sometimes. Especially if you don't appereciate the number of polygons on the screen with smooth FPS like wives rarely do.