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Drammy · #1 13.02.2007, 11:42 AM

I OCed my E6600 to 3 GHz and it is perfectly stable, but I have heard of people getting it up to 4.8GHz!!!

Thats per core as well - so can deliver nearly 9.6Ghz in total (or thereabouts).

Wowsers

Doc Jones · #2 13.02.2007, 02:04 PM

4.8?? insane!!!

A stable 3ghz for an e6600 is a very nice overclock Drammy. Good job.

Doc Jones · #3 13.02.2007, 10:25 PM

ok, to wrap this thread up, here is what I ended up with - -

this is with keeping core cpu temps under 70C degrees while running Intels Thermal Analysis Tool for over an hour and around 65C while running stress tests like Sandra and Orthos.

I have a rock solid stable overclock of 3.2ghz per core on my E6700.
Ram has been overclocked and latencies lowered.

I could have gone higher - probably to 3.4ghz, but would have had to lower my mem speed and up my vcore voltage = higher core temps under stress.

100% stability was an absolute requirement (don't want weird bit level issues while make new songs

Pretty happy with it. Will start loading the os tonight.

Doc Jones · #4 16.02.2007, 11:50 PM

man, I just spent the whole day reloaded all my audio apps and vsts.
Patches, updates, pointers . . . bah!!

and I thought the computer build was time consuming!!

This computer better last me 5 years!!!

Doc Jones · #5 24.02.2007, 04:50 PM

Just a quick update.
I have been playing with my new setup for about a week and all I can say is wow. I no longer have to worry about system resources. My heaviest project (which took up most of my cpu and ram on my older machine) barely even scratches the surface on my new computer. I think the highest my cpu cores hit was 18% (as opposed to 90%+ on my other machine).

Don't think I will be needing to freeze tracks any time soon!

F5D · #6 25.02.2007, 11:12 AM

Yeah, that sounds good! That's the way it has to be if you want to just relax and make music.

But you still have to choose carefully the plugins you use because there always are some way too cpu hungry plugins like NI Massive which will ruin your dreams.

Doc Jones · #7 26.02.2007, 02:24 AM

i suppose with a name like massive, you have to know what you are getting yourself into. Perhaps I'll wait for the Octocores before I pick up Massive!

One very resource hungry vst that I am now starting to use quite a bit is Synthogy's Ivory. Amazing!! But it does eat up both cpu (when I bump # of voices to 160) and memory (I have 2gb and one of the grands uses 1.2 gbs itself)

I may be upping my ram to 3gbs soon.

Juho L · #8 26.02.2007, 04:17 AM

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Originally Posted by F5D

But you still have to choose carefully the plugins you use because there always are some way too cpu hungry plugins like NI Massive which will ruin your dreams.

The awful truth is that CPU power is like money: No matter do you earn 1500€ or 3000€ a month you still somehow manage to spend them all with no savings.

I updated my 1400+ PC to 3500+ A64 about 1,5 years back and oh the joy when my old CPU kill projects took only 10-20% of CPU power. "Now I can do anything I want!"... Could someone please spare me some money for extreme dual core PC, please?

It's just insane. I don't even realise where my CPU power goes nowadays. I'll probably have to blame GuitarRig.

Edit: Only if I could learn a way to tweak the sounds after I've composed.