Pilotasso Posted June 16, 2007 Posted June 16, 2007 A message of advice resuming all of the below: if your interested to buy one of those extreme processors for LOMAC...dont bother. I ran a series of tests today with my rig to see what kind of perfomance I would get from buying one of those top of the line processors running at stock speed rather than my "inexpensive" (comparatively) Q6600. I uped the FSB to 333Mhz (1333Mhz rated) and had the CPU cranked up to 3 GHz by keeping its stock multiplier of 9 (you can lower it but not up it) setup voltage at 1.35V just like the Qx6700 (QX6800 uses same because its better silicon). It will run at 3Ghz for 1.3V but its only stable at single threaded apps, it will hang on multi threaded, so I mimic the Qx6700 voltage specs and it runs just fine. The pics below show some differences between Q6600 stock and my "simulated" Qx6850 (wich intel will never release): 1 .
Pilotasso Posted June 16, 2007 Author Posted June 16, 2007 Despite sugestive changes in perfomance in these 2 tests (2.4Ghz on the left 3Ghz on the right) The difference in Lomac is a mere 4-5FPS. In the F-15 quick start mission where it will run at 70 FPS in 2,4 GHZ and 73FPS at 3Ghz, detail all in high (including water). Im glad I saved myself 400 Euro from going with Qx6700. ANd I have the option to up it into the Qx6800 realm without overclocking nothing but the CPU. And it will do it quite easely on the P5K deluxe, believe me. EDIT: Temps are 52C VS 56C max load 4 threads, in LOmac it wont even go past 43C. .
TucksonSonny Posted June 16, 2007 Posted June 16, 2007 Despite sugestive changes in perfomance in these 2 tests (2.4Ghz on the left 3Ghz on the right) The difference in Lomac is a mere 4-5FPS. In the F-15 quick start mission where it will run at 70 FPS in 2,4 GHZ and 73FPS at 3Ghz, detail all in high (including water). Im glad I saved myself 400 Euro from going with Qx6700. ANd I have the option to up it into the Qx6800 realm without overclocking nothing but the CPU. And it will do it quite easely on the P5K deluxe, believe me. EDIT: Temps are 52C VS 56C max load 4 threads, in LOmac it wont even go past 43C. The stock qx6700 @2.66Ghz has 3DMark06 cpu score of 4099. @3.5 Ghz I think it is rather 6000+. But anyway you are right it is not worth the extra money. You made a good deal :thumbup: 4700 is a very impressive cpu score! DELL Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 940 2,93 GHz @3 GHz, 8 MB cache | 8.192 MB 1.067 MHz Tri Channel DDR3 | 512 MB ATI® Radeon™ 4850 | 500 GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA | Samsung SM 2693 HM 25.5 " | HOTAS Cougar Thrustmaster |
aceflier Posted June 17, 2007 Posted June 17, 2007 Pilatso my QX6700 hits 3.7ghz with 13x multiplier :) I run it at 3.44 24/7 till I get another res for my vid card. Was it worth $1000? For me it was all that matters :) [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
Pilotasso Posted June 17, 2007 Author Posted June 17, 2007 All the comparisons I made are using a single quad mimic From my Q6600 stock into QX6800 specs (actualy a QX6850 with a 1333Mhz FSB intell will never release). FSb makes no difference at all, so I guess 3Ghz rates Qx6800 anyway. FOr X6800 I would have to disable 2 CPU's wich in the context of my analysis wouldnt make much sense, besides this dual is more expensive than the Qx6700 quad. Ace I would never overclock that high, but thats me, I have always been very conservative in overclocks, specialy when the wattage jumps sky high. IF you had the econmic avaiability then the merrier I guess :D .
TucksonSonny Posted June 18, 2007 Posted June 18, 2007 Love that wallpaper Iguana :) Na, too conservative! BTW, is that girl over 18? :D DELL Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 940 2,93 GHz @3 GHz, 8 MB cache | 8.192 MB 1.067 MHz Tri Channel DDR3 | 512 MB ATI® Radeon™ 4850 | 500 GB 7200 rpm Serial ATA | Samsung SM 2693 HM 25.5 " | HOTAS Cougar Thrustmaster |
*Rage* Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 Despite sugestive changes in perfomance in these 2 tests (2.4Ghz on the left 3Ghz on the right) The difference in Lomac is a mere 4-5FPS. In the F-15 quick start mission where it will run at 70 FPS in 2,4 GHZ and 73FPS at 3Ghz, detail all in high (including water). Im glad I saved myself 400 Euro from going with Qx6700. ANd I have the option to up it into the Qx6800 realm without overclocking nothing but the CPU. And it will do it quite easely on the P5K deluxe, believe me. EDIT: Temps are 52C VS 56C max load 4 threads, in LOmac it wont even go past 43C. So from going from 2.4 ghz (70FPS) to 3 ghz (73 FPS) you only got 3 FPS difference despite a 25% increase in clock speed???? That doesnt make sense....i thought Lomac was still cripplingly CPU intensive. This is of interest to me since im either going to get a Q6600 or a E6850 after the July 22 price drops. I was almost dead cert on the E6850 since lomac is what ill be playing (single threaded CPU bully) Did you try and see the difference when flying over a city or something else really CPU intensive to see if the higher clock speed gives any significant advantage. Im sure this must be the case. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] 64th "Scorpions" Aggressor Squadron Discord: 64th Aggressor Squadron TS: 195.201.110.22
Ven Posted June 21, 2007 Posted June 21, 2007 So from going from 2.4 ghz (70FPS) to 3 ghz (73 FPS) you only got 3 FPS difference despite a 25% increase in clock speed???? That doesnt make sense....i thought Lomac was still cripplingly CPU intensive. This is of interest to me since im either going to get a Q6600 or a E6850 after the July 22 price drops. I was almost dead cert on the E6850 since lomac is what ill be playing (single threaded CPU bully) Did you try and see the difference when flying over a city or something else really CPU intensive to see if the higher clock speed gives any significant advantage. Im sure this must be the case. He said he used the quick launch F15 mission which I don't believe is very CPU intensive. Not sure what resolution he was running at but my guess is that his graphic card is becoming the bottleneck. Or the refresh rate of the monitor if he has vsync on.
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