For heavens sake, quit over hyping the dang XIGMATEK rifle cooler!!!

Page 2 - Seeking answers? Join the Tom's Hardware community: where nearly two million members share solutions and discuss the latest tech.
WOW, witt78, now thats a vcore...on a side your desktop looks like its all crazy, in a good way.

jerb, you can not compare your temps on a dual core vs temps on a quad core to determine how much the cooler drops temps. quads just run hotter, double the cores. and dont forget about my 85F ambient room temps.

PS - i dont know why it shows my ram as DDR3 on that, its not. its DDR2. look, its also 800MHz not 400MHz(must be a *2 thing).

ddrthing.jpg



PSS - i did have mine stable on a 8x multiplier. the temps ran a little cooler then with a 9x multiplier. it seems to run smoother with the 9x, little hotter, but then again, that could be cause i got 3.24Ghz with the 9x and only had 3.20GHz with 8x. i can not find the screen shot with the long run on prime95 with the 8x. but here is a short run (30min) with 8x.
idle.jpg



 
what i would like to see is the benchies with a 3.2GHz on both a 9x and 8x multiplier aswell as see the temp differences, mmmmm, i may have to check it out...........
 



No, I think it's turned off... Running my PC is prolly like running 437, 100-Watt light bulbs. :lol:

- Witt
 


Your Front Side Bus is 360.1Mhz X 9 and your ram is on a 1:1 ratio with your FSB.

Therefore your ram is running at 360.1MHz... (Dual Channel so that's actually 720MHz)

- Witt
 


Don't they make charcoal grills 'n' stuff? :lol:

- Witt
 
roflmao witt...
FSB x2 = RAM SPEED this is known as DUAL-PUMPED (having the RAM in a dual channel cofig doesnt actually change the speed of the modules...)

FSB x4= CPU SPEED this is known as QUAD PUMPED

just cos the RAM is at 1:1 with the FSB doesnt mean the RAM has the same MHz rating as the FSB (this is because DDR, DDR2 and DDR3 RAM are Double Data Rate, thats where the DDR comes from. older SD RAM i believe was single pumped...

so when the RAM is at 1:1 with the FSB, that is the Single Data Rate. when DDR ram is put in, it is EFFECTIVELY 2:1 but runs the BUS at the same speed as the FSB...
 
lol, i think we all know how the ram works here, even if we dont type exactly what we mean. what got me on mine was on cpu-z one tab shows DDR3 ram another shows DDR2. no big i know what it is, just wierd it shows up as DDR3.


wit, yes i set the fsb at 720 in the bios.