Ideal PC for 50-65k ??

[shanX]

But then it will be like a PC House monopoly here....

But somehow its no use, coz I went to Asus's own sales centre, Asus Centre. They're selling Nvidia 6600's for 16k, 7600GS for 22k, 7600GT for 29k. So already there is a thing as Asus monopoly!

I tried Mostwanted with 600mhz, 550mhz on my gpu, was fast, but once in a while there were lags. Then came down to 500mhz, its stable. Then I tried the memory, just curious, I have been already running it stably @ 800mhz, Then I increased it to 820mhz and applied, Then the monitor started to see some birds fly around it, blinking, redlines and all. No more than 800-810mhz. Now the card is smooth and stable.

Is there a way to see the framerate on Mostwanted?

 

[Anusha]

Download FRAPS. It's free, with limitation. But to measure the framerates, those capabilities are enough. Just google it.

If you had problems at 820MHz RAM, I wouldn't run it at anything higher than 800MHz. Don't use 810MHz. 800MHz or even 780-790 is good enough. You won't see a difference with such a minor drop in clock speed.

 

[Anusha]

Oops. Missed one thing. If the game was laggy when playing it at higher core clock speeds, maybe the CPU is limiting you at those settings. Even though it is a dual core CPU, still in games, it's just like a 2.8GHz P4, which is not the best out there for gaming. If I were you, I would have already overclocked the bastard as much as I can without overvolting it. But remember, higher clock speed ==> higher power consumption.

 

[shanX]

Yes I Googled and just downloaded Fraps. I'm now running exactly @ 800mhz, its stable. Core @ 480mhz.

D820 cpu could be clocked to 4000Ghz max, But tell me a good tool to do it? Had a oc tool on Gigabyte MBoard cd, it doesnt allow to overclock. You know what, your making me a overclock everything.

And please explain this to me....

Its CPU-Z. Is Ram frequency and FSB ok? And It shows D920????

 

[Anusha]

Use EASY Tune5 first. That comes with the motherboard CD right?
Once you find the maximum stable clock speed or the one you are gonna use, set them in BIOS. Why you have to use Easy Tune is because otherwise you will have to reset the BIOS several times in the process.

You will have to play with the memory multipler too - and even increase the RAM voltages. Up to 2.3V or so, it's safe. Default is 1.8V for DDR2. Memory will the most likely thing that would stop you from passing 3.4GHz or so.

I doubt you'll go for 4GHz with stock cooling. It's endangering the CPU.

 

[Anusha]

Yeah those frequencies and timing are correct.

 

[Anusha]

Hey I didn't know you bought a 920. I thought it was a 820. You are in luck, because they consume far less power than 8xx CPUs, so you might easily be able to go past 3.4GHz. But try not to overvolt.

 

[Anusha]

What's the FPS in NFSMW?

 

[shanX]

EASY Tune doesnt allow anything at all, the oc option is greyed out, board doesnt support and bios option for cpu clock is not available. There is a memory multiplier option.

 

[shanX]

I'll post the FPS hold on...........

No, what I bought was D820, something wrong on CPU-Z

 

[Anusha]

I'll post the FPS hold on...........

No, what I bought was D820, something wrong on CPU-Z

Hehe. Pray that it's a 920

 

[Anusha]

EASY Tune doesnt allow anything at all, the oc option is greyed out, board doesnt support and bios option for cpu clock is not available. There is a memory multiplier option.

Shit! This could mean that you can't overclock at all. In BIOS, did u press ctrl+f1 to unlock the hidden options?

 

[shanX]

N, I there's such a thing? Then I'll try.

 

[shanX]

My friend's 6600GT, I told about.. Clocks @ an awesome 500/2000. Whatever Gigabyte rocks!!

 

[Anusha]

is should be 500/1000

 

[shanX]

Yes but this card had 2000mhz effective mem clock!! (shown on control panel oc utility)

Hah ha, check this - Nvidia is the best!
Nvidia power -

NFSMW FPS:

@ 480/800
27-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
29-32 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 490/800
27-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
31-33 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 500/800
27-30 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
33-37 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 510/800
25-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
27-37 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 520/800
24-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
29-42 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

Is this OK? Tell me yours...
So 500/800 is stable! I'll keep it at that or around 495mhz.

 

[Anusha]

DDR3 can't go to 2GHz. Control Panel has gone crazy or something.
6600GT's default clock speeds are 500/1000

 

[Anusha]

Yes but this card had 2000mhz effective mem clock!! (shown on control panel oc utility)

Hah ha, check this - Nvidia is the best!
Nvidia power -

NFSMW FPS:

@ 480/800
27-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
29-32 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 490/800
27-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
31-33 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 500/800
27-30 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
33-37 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 510/800
25-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
27-37 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

@ 520/800
24-29 FPS with every option on/maxed out.
29-42 FPS with 1x minus of shadow detail & road reflection settings + Vsync off

Is this OK? Tell me yours...
So 500/800 is stable! I'll keep it at that or around 495mhz.

At 16 pixel pipelines and 510/1060, and 1280x960 everything at max including AA and AF, 26-33fps.

 

[shanX]

At 16 pixel pipelines and 510/1060, and 1280x960 everything at max including AA and AF, 26-33fps.

That's 16 pipelines and memory @ action. You deserve it, but did you give some buck to a sales person... I've doubts

And wish me for the D920!

Like the D 820 before it, the D 920 features a pair of cores, but thats really where the similarities end. First, the D 820 Smithfield core was built using a pair of Prescott cores while the D 920 Presler core is built using the brand new, and much improved, Cedar Mill core (which we'll be reviewing later this week).

The Prescott cores developed a bad reputation because of their horrendous power consumption and heat dissipation....compounding that was the Prescott cores were actually joined on the Pentium D 820s, meaning that a bad core made the entire processor worthless, where the Presler uses a pair of seperate cores, meaning that if one is defective it can be replaced. Also, the seperate cores mean that INTEL can use market demand to package these cores as single core Cedar Mill processors or Dual Core Presler CPUs.

The next major difference between the Pentium D 820 and 920 processors is L2 cache. The 820 featured an impressive 2x1MB of L2 cache while the Pentium D 920 doubles that two 2x2MB of L2 cache. While some will debate the actual performance benefit of this added cache, bigger can only mean better. A processor's L2 cache allows for much faster access of any buffered data.

One feature not supported by the Pentium D 920 is EIST (Enhanced Intel Speed-Step Technology), this is because its already at the lowest possible multiplier for this core (x14). EIST basically downclocks a processors multiplier (to x14 on the 930, 940, 950, and 955 processors) based on system load, saving power and lowering temperatures.
-Extract off Hardware logic

I had doubts of it @ first, bcoz of the 2mb L2 it had. But the bad news is , it might have been a little cheaper than D820.

 

[Anusha]

You know, that guy who sold me the card was a bit upset when he found out about it. He said, if the management knew, he's getting a big salary cut down for that month. Should have blackmailed him , but I'm an innocent guy.

Cheers for the 920