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My new computer, 1st impressions

Post Date: 2009-09-10
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Grimfate View Drop Down
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    Posted: 10 Sep 2009 at 5:50pm
I finally got my new DS yesterday! Sorry no pics yet. Everything showed up in great condition and very well packed. Upon 1st inspection everything looked good other than the memory fan came off during shipping but easy to snap back on. The wiring inside was well managed and professionally done. I hooked it up and hit the power and she booted up with no problems sofar. I loaded up Lotro and turned on dx10 and cranked up all the settings and she looks great and runs smoothly. Haven't had time for much else yet. Sofar I've only had one disapointment with my new system. DS emailed me when it was built and said my oc was 3.75 but looking at my system it is only 3.57 which is disapointing when I went with frostbite cooling. Other than that though I'm very happy with my new system and would recomend them to others.

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Great feedback, but, your misunderstanding the overclock. If the email (Stage 7) indicated 3.75GHz is is most definitely configured to run at that speed.
 
Basically, your system is downclocking to 3.57GHz when its not under load. To see your actual overclock, the unit needs to be put under some sort of stress-test/games/application/etc...
 
You can confirm this by for example running a program known as CPU-Z to show the cpu frequency and open an application/etc and watch it hit 3.75GHz Ermm
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Ok, it is 3.75 when I run an ap. thanks Alex :) I'm still loving my new comp )
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congratz on your new rig,hope you have lots of fun.
INTEL I7 920 OCED 3.5 GHZ
6 GB DDR3 MUSHKIN RAM 1333 MHZ
DUAL GTX 275 SLI
750 WATT PS
500 GB WD HDx2 RAID 0
WINDOW'S VISTA HOME premium
ANTEC 902 TOWER
ACER 23IN 1920/1080 rez
EVGA X58 LE
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Congrats and ya as Alex said, speedstep will lower your clock untill full power is needed

Nvidia Drivers----AMD Drivers
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Actually the reason why it shows lower in windows is due to windows not recognizing the extra 1x multiplier from Turbo.
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