MK1

Kill ??? Why would I want to do any such thing ... Ambient in Europe ATM is much better than ambient in Australia .. Its hot here ATM so competing is going to be hard , I dont expect to be able to do better till the weather cools off , and my CPU must be 1 year old by now , I think latter production chips should scale better ..

How good is that ASUS MB ?

yeah , got a new Air cooler , + was a cool day , + all my benchmarks had been beaten ... + Stupid Gigabyte changed the Multipliers in the BIOS , so no half multipliers , I need 17.5 to beat my superPi score . I think I need a new MB ... Im just very unhappy its so cold in the Europe right now [ -30 ] I could use some of that here ... I just had to take something back ... [ for a little while ]

Was distracted by a kitten , and posted under PC rather than 3D ... Please , delete function

Delete function ? Wasnt there one before ?

Where is the delete function ???

How do I delete this ???

Any 890GPA-UD3H owners out there ? Notice a MHZ limit on the ram ? I cant get my ram much over 900/1800mhz , as soon as it goes over 1800mhz speed I get the blue screen of death .. Now I can run 7-8-7-18-25 all the way up to 900/1800 , and even with relaxed timings the result is the same once I go over 900/1800 .. Now Ive used 2 different brands of ram , and the same result , just wont go over 1800mhz . I contacted Gigabyte , and they told me its my RAM ?? [ Pish - posh ] I think its the BIOS , the web site sais the board does not support ram over 1800mhz , but to affect overclocks ?

I had to compensate for the ultra slow ram I have , + the temps were under control , but yes , risky . But I really wanted to break 15sec Pi 1M on air or kill the cpu in the effort . I really need fast ram .

Im a poor Air-cooler .

Damn - wish my ram was that bad

You need to separate equipment ... Even in a non official way .. How can a desktop machine compete with some one running on a dedicated test bench with lots of fans blowing on every hot spot .. Maybe Air / Water / extreme Air cooling is just as legit as LN or DICE , but not every one wants to go extreme , or to that extreme , or kill there hardware in search of records , + its always good to have a starting point . I guess if your F1 class you have little interest in Go Karts , but people need to start some where .. If your only interested in one extreme , thats fine , but why would you want to discourage any one new from competing against others within a certain cooling class .. Water cant compete with LN - LH - or DICE , so why would you not be in a water cooled class . ?? I have done DICE [ XP Days ] and whilst its interesting , its not for everyone .. Do you want to make overclocking a sport ? or just keep it a elitist activity . I used to run water cooling , but I just dont want to mess around with it any longer , as there is little to be gained . But every now and again , its just fun to push the machine to see how hard it goes , if I wanted to be serious , id go Intel , buy a pot , and do some LN runs . But I dont , I run a lowly AMD on Air . I will just say , it would be nice if the classes were by cooling method and separate AMD from Intel , as its really no contest . My motivation is simply to give people more realistic goals to archive , Air VS Air / Water VS Water / Extreme VS Extreme .. And if Im stepping on some extremists toes for suggesting this : then good !

Leagues ? Classes ? Separate Intel from AMD , its obvious that in a lot of the benchmarks Intel is the only way to go . Classes by cooling .. LN / LH / DICE , obviously those on air coolers cant compete with more aggressive cooling methods . All my results etc are from a desktop machine , heavily loaded with software etc Separate Intel from AMD , and maybe 3 classes ... Desktop Amateur Pro

Seems I have a revision 2 board , and for some reason it has a Rev 1 BIOS . Anyone know whats going on ? I cant flash a rev 2 BIOS , it refuses to do so .

FC BIOS seems to correct FA/FB problems ....With 890GPA-UD3H