I was able to do 3.6 on stock cooling and stock voltages on my i7 920 C0 and MSI X58 Platinum.

Try using a smaller CPU multiplier with a higher BLCK so that it'll produce less heat. I've seen a lot of people OC the i7 on the Extreme Overclocking Forums and a lot of them show that higher BLCK with lower CPU multiplier can get you higher stable speeds and less temps.

Memory seems overpriced. I bought a 6gb DDR3 1600 for $59 with rebate($100 without)during my rebuild phase.

Mr_BillGates

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Play DDO, easily the best F2P mmo available now.TheCrazed420

Hello fellow GameSpot users

Recently I've been playing a closed beta of a FPS game. Who is it being made by? Some of you PC enthusiasts should know who they are.

FutureMark, the same people who do 3DMark 03-06 and Vantage as well as PCMark. As well as the Peacekeeper web browser benchmark.

What is this game you may ask? Well it's an FPS like I said before, but it has a little something more that other FPS games don't.

ZERO-G SPACE COMBAT


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If anyone is interested hit me up on PM and I give give you my referral information which almost, not always, gets you a spot into the beta testing.

More info about the game can be found here.
http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/

Fyi, just a few requirements.

Must have Steam
Must be Eu, US or Canada based
Must be 18+ years old
Must have Vista or Windows 7
Must have a DX10 video card.

To take part in the Shattered Horizon beta test you will need a PC with:

• Windows Vista or Windows 7 (32 or 64bit)
• Dual-core processor, E6700 or higher recommended
• 2GB or more of RAM
• DirectX 10 graphics card; 9800 GTX or higher recommended
• Broadband network access
• Steam installed and a Steam account set up

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it will be 1156 1136 was simply to get i7 out there 56 will be its consolidating point kind of like socket 748 was to 775.

Swiftstrike5

LGA 1366 is not going away any time soon.

Bloody hell that thing is long! Its going to need extra support, I dont think the PCI connectors will hold up for long.

clyde46

Ok, and you're just quoting a bunch of numbers that I could care less about. Fact is, none of you all have 5870s yet. Never a good idea to be the first to have something. I just feel that ATI should be up to 512 bit interfaces by now. I'd like to see it anyway.

grenadexjumpr

Why do you think Nvidia is having so many problems with their GT300 chips? They went with a 512 Bit interface! Of the 400 plus chips they had made ONLY SEVEN CAME BACK WORKING

It's a foot long... 0.5 inches longer then current high end video cards.

Looks decent. Although I'm somewhat partial to AMD for first builds. Honestly, I'd nab a 4870 or 2 of them for now until the 5870 actually proves itself. The whole 256bit interface kinda throws me off.

grenadexjumpr

The memory bandwidth of the HD 5870 is 153.6 GB/s. Memory bandwidth of the 5850 is 128 GB/s. The memory bandwidth of the HD 4870 X2 115.2 GB/s.