jab383 wrote:
There is an equalizer. I've been able to push a dog of CPU over 90K total score in Win 7, and that's with less than 4.8GHz clock and a highly disadvantaged graphics card.

See the threads on optimization in this Realbench forum. There are suggestions for OS streamlining and setting of priorities that work well.

Jeff

jab383 wrote:
You don't want to go there, GoosNL. That dog of a processor needed 1.48Vcore to be completely stable at 4.6GHz.

The Realbench runs had 2 problems:
1. The OC profile was only stable for the benchmark, not unconditionally and
2. Vcore went to 1.58 to get x47 multiplier and 101% Bclk.
No wonder I'm speaking of it in the past tense.

Note that a Bclk boost speed up everything -- core, cache, RAM, GPU.

Tweaking RAM helped my benchmarking a lot. Haswell IMC can do a lot that older technology had trouble with. See the ROG overclocking guides for methods and settings for tightening RAM timing.

Jeff

jab383 wrote:
You don't want to go there, GoosNL. That dog of a processor needed 1.48Vcore to be completely stable at 4.6GHz.

The Realbench runs had 2 problems:
1. The OC profile was only stable for the benchmark, not unconditionally and
2. Vcore went to 1.58 to get x47 multiplier and 101% Bclk.
No wonder I'm speaking of it in the past tense.

Note that a Bclk boost speed up everything -- core, cache, RAM, GPU.

Tweaking RAM helped my benchmarking a lot. Haswell IMC can do a lot that older technology had trouble with. See the ROG overclocking guides for methods and settings for tightening RAM timing.

Jeff