Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

[Pentium4]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Yeah Furmark pushes them pretty hard. Were the fans actually at 100% or were they lower? I've seen some stupid video cards that even when getting up to 90C+ only went to 80-90% fan speed

[370forlife]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Furmark pushes a GPU to it's absolute limits. What cooler is on the card? I use to have an 8600GT with the dinky stock cooler. Heated up like crazy. Put on a big ol' cooler and it never got over 40C after that.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

decided to furmark it... and when the GPU's got to 100C, I killed furmark.

Uh oh...

When I redid the heatsinks, I used this for the GPU die:

http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...oductId=154389

I take it that's not good enough... What is suggested to fix this?

[Topcat]

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I was just using it as a comparison point. My whole "wish it was the previous system" comment was about having a better comparison point...

I hate miscommunictions

I didn't catch the last line actually.....its all good man.

[shovenose]

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Granted I'm watching Netflix in HD at the same time and also have about a billion programs open but...

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

^
kk, lotsa luck, wiseass.

I was just using it as a comparison point. My whole "wish it was the previous system" comment was about having a better comparison point...

I hate miscommunictions

[Topcat]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

^
kk, lotsa luck, wiseass.

[ratdude747]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Those novabench results were not on the opteron system, they are the results of my current office machine, which is a dual quadcore xeon. I never did novabench the opti box before I dismantled it....I guess I should have.

Umm...

Topcat did a Novabench run on his current setup awhile back:



Too bad it wasn't the previous system, as it used the same board and all.

I know dude, I know.

[Topcat]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Topcat did a Novabench run on his current setup awile back:



Too bad it wasn't the previous system, as it used the same board and all.

Here's what I got:

Those novabench results were not on the opteron system, they are the results of my current office machine, which is a dual quadcore xeon. I never did novabench the opti box before I dismantled it....I guess I should have.

[Pentium4]

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That's a good point. Who knows?!?!

[c_hegge]

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^
9.9? Why can't Microsoft just give a score out of 10 like everyone else?

[Pentium4]

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How do you get such high scores? I thought 7.9 was the highest possible score.

He uses Windows 8 and that goes up to 9.9

[ratdude747]

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Topcat did a Novabench run on his current setup awile back:

Well,not sure how believeable this program is....its saying I have P3's, even after some patch they said it needed.....but here's the result after installing and running without a reboot. I had 2 browser windows up and outlook.

Specs....note what it says the processors are


...and the results...


From what I'm reading about this, the video card is the biggest killer of my overall score....

Too bad it wasn't the previous system, as it used the same board and all.

Here's what I got:

[ratdude747]

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Here's a WEI printout:

[lti]

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How do you get such high scores? I thought 7.9 was the highest possible score.

[shovenose]

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I've never seen Windows performance index get above 5.9 with a single mechanical drive, my SSD scores 7.3 (lowest score on my system, when I can afford a second one I'll see if it's any better!)...

Never looked at what a RAID array scores, only RAID set-ups I have are in my server boxes.

I have two Intel 520 Series 120GB SSDs in RAID0 on my computer which basically gives me a gig of throughput Gets an 8.2 in WEI. Everything else (CPU, Graphics, RAM, etc) get 8.1 which is funny.

[ratdude747]

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Good to see you have it up and running I think you might want to put the DIMM's in the black slots only to start with, then add them to the blues if you add more memory in the future. I didn't see anything specific about DIMM population though in the manual, so maybe you have it right.. I'd verify it's running in dual channel mode using cpu-z or another app like that..

Correct. Moved them, we're dual channel now.

[theokretes]

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I've never seen Windows performance index get above 5.9 with a single mechanical drive, my SSD scores 7.3 (lowest score on my system, when I can afford a second one I'll see if it's any better!)...

Never looked at what a RAID array scores, only RAID set-ups I have are in my server boxes.

I happen to own both a 15K SAS drive (rebranded IBM eServer) and a corsair neutron.
The 15K SAS ousts the SSD in multiple random read/writes. The problem with SSDs is that they are only good at either writing or reading ONE thing at a time.

My stupid daughtercard LSI logic controller went haywire (no more 15K SAS), so I went SSD for the time being. I think I'll just get a proper adaptec PCIe controller.

--> keep in mind though, the 15K SAS drive sounds like a cement grinder on steroids (it's a fresh fairly new drive too, they're just inherently noisy). So if you don't like that type of sound, SSD is definitely the way to go for quiet computing.
(if anyone wants a sound sample I can gladly provide that).

[Elysarian]

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I've never seen Windows performance index get above 5.9 with a single mechanical drive, my SSD scores 7.3 (lowest score on my system, when I can afford a second one I'll see if it's any better!)...

Never looked at what a RAID array scores, only RAID set-ups I have are in my server boxes.

[Pentium4]

Re: Ratdude's Main rig V3.5

Looks like it's impossible to get more than 5.9 on a single HDD. Must be in RAID.
(Probably RAID0 required.)

10k plus drives might get higher, not sure though.

RD - Looks good man, nice and neat. Good job!