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      3rd Jun 2007
Just upgraded to an Athlon X2 4400+

With an Asus A8N motherboard and 2GB Corsair RAM I'm getting an Aquamark CPU score of 9,308 which seems a bit low to me.

Anyone else?
 
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i have a X2 4400 @ 2.5Ghz, 2GBof corsair and the A8N-SLI premium

i get a score of 10337 so theres not much in it considering the extra 300Mhz clock speed

 
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Did you do anything else when you clocked it? Extra cooling, voltages etc?

I haven't done any gaming yet, but the CPU is running at 32-34 degrees with QFan enabled.
 
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      4th Jun 2007
Turn that q fan rubbish off for a start.

* V_R just goes off to install Aquamark.

Whats wrong with 3Dmark? AM is old now...

 


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Nothing wrong with 3DMark - but AM is small, takes about 2 secs to download and install, and is free.
 
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Fair enough. But the 3DM series is free too.

First run of AM, turned it up to 1280x1024 and max everything...

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Did you do anything else when you clocked it? Extra cooling, voltages etc?

I haven't done any gaming yet, but the CPU is running at 32-34 degrees with QFan enabled.
nope, stock cooler and voltage although its getting up to 50C under load with the hot weather so i'm thinking of a better cooler or putting one of my tornado's in the case if i can live with it

 
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thats a bit crispy there ME_2001
get a cooler that has silent operation speeds

 
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right now she's sitting at 48 which i'm not happy about, its still higher than i'd like but 50 is when i start to worry

i need a new HD so might spring for a new cooler at the same time

 
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