Recent content by kscelt

No volks, I'm running Windows 7, and not had that experience. Never gone that high on voltage. The key may be cooling, they say the Phenom II's as a whole like cooler temp ranges to get at better overclocks, where are you averaging?

Btw, with no more bumps to voltage I'm now running at 3.8 GHz on the CPU, without any instability. That's a great overclock at a conservative voltage, IMOP.

No look at my system specs, I am using the Scythe Mugen 2, it's a big tower heatsink but excellent, keeps your CPU cool while being for practical purposes, silent.

I posted to a different section some of this info but it might be helpful for you here. I'm not running the same MB, but the basics should be very similar for this CPU. I would strongly recommend not just overclocking the CPU, but also boosting the northbridge frequency to get the best result...

Thought I should post what I finally wound up doing and the results. I put together a system comprised of: MB GIGABYTE | GA-MA770T-UD3P AMD770 Bios : FC2 CPU AMD|PH II X3 720 BK AM3 2.8G CPU COOL SCYTHE|SCMG-2000 (Mugen 2) MEM 2Gx2|OCZ OCZ3P16004GK VGA BFG|BFGEGTX260MC896OCDE GTX260 HD 1T|WD 7K...

The splash screen re-direct opening ad is annoying. Worse than that so many ad's have to load on article pages, it took me about two minutes with several attempts to get to the article i wanted - it kept hanging waiting for an ad server. I like this site a lot for it's content but it's getting...

Excellent information, Allen, thanks much for your help, I've been waiting for the afeter holiday sales so it is indeed in time :)

Perhaps a 9800 class gpu no longer is the bottleneck, but game bandwith, memory, or cpu? I read about people getting 1920x1200 at 70fps.

Yes that motherboard has pcie, I'm a bit skeptical of ati drivers for use in second life, seems like people often have problems with them. At what point in the graphics card food chain does anyone think you would be beyond any additional performance gains and just be going into "overkill"...

Well as long as I'll be going for a new pc (from an old athlon xp with radeon 9800), I want to be able to max out quality settings and still get strong fps. Resolution probably fairly high. I'm thinking of going with a 3 ghz Wolfdale core duo, a GIGABYTE GA-EP45-UD3R motherboard (unlikely to...

I'm considering upgrading to a new pc, and need input on the best choice for a graphics card, particularly focusing on Second Life usage, which uses OpenGL.