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Martin Gore
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Posted - 2005.12.06 18:14:00 -
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Ok I bought a 3800 x2 64. It clocks from 2.0ghz to 2.4ghz easy and even hits 2.65ghz on my watercooling. I've burnt the chip in... i.e I've ran all the usual burn in tests and it hasn't failed on any of them.
It absolutly rocks. Even on my studio apps, Nuendo 3.1 it runs without a crash.
Now when I try to launch eve I get a blank screen, the only way I can get it to run is if I bring the clock rate back to 2.0ghz. Bare in mind that my ram is never overclocked, it allways stays at 400mhz using ratio's. Agp allways stays at 66 mhz.
So why is eve the only program to not like my chip running 400mhz faster. It doesn' even like it running at 200mhz faster.
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Martin Gore
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Posted - 2005.12.06 18:34:00 -
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Strange though, as I run my pc with 2 x uad-1 1ghz dsp pci cards, firewire sound card and I've pushed both cpu's to over 90% and not a crash or anything.
I just thought it was odd that eve would crash the system. I tried lowering the ram speed and upping th cas lvl, maybe pumping more voltage to the cpu might help.
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Martin Gore
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Posted - 2005.12.06 19:43:00 -
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Edited by: Martin Gore on 06/12/2005 19:43:44
Running at stock speeds isn't a problem as I stated earlier  It just seemed odd that it was the only program to crash when overclocked.
I did see something about 1200mhz bus speed, could this be the HTT if so I'll have to lower that as that could be the problem. I run 2 x 1 gb 400mhz cl3 ram.
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Martin Gore
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Posted - 2005.12.06 20:51:00 -
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Edited by: Martin Gore on 06/12/2005 20:51:26
I produce records for a living, and run my main studio computer on this set up. Running audio at 88.2khz 24 bit, with lots of vsti analog emulations requires a LOT of power.
I don't want to have to keep exporting or bouncing tracks. I could actually use 4 times this power easily.
Convolution reverb would bring your average desktop pc to its knees just with that effect on its own. I have to use 2 dsp cards uad-1's to take the load of the cpu. These run at 1ghz each as well. So yes... I need the power of x2 3800 ... overclocking 400mhz is the difference between running that extra few synths or ...not
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Martin Gore
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Posted - 2005.12.07 08:02:00 -
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I only need the x2 for audio, if it was just for games I would have bought a single cpu. Nuendo 3 is duel core optimized, and I actually get more than 100% improvement...not sure why.
Anyhow, if you do audio or 3d rendering, duel core is the only way to go. I know someone who has a 4 x duel opteron... so 8 x 2ghz chips he he. And yes he does use all that power writing tunes.
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