CPU Upgrade = unintentional benefits!

[Mykhal]

Hi

After upgrading my CPU (thanks Anthro!) I ran sime benchmarks. OK I know Performance Test is not widely-used here, but I wanted to compare my old system to the new one - Nearly 50% increase!! I then ran the disk benchmark on my new harddrive, and found that it was also about 50% faster. This I could have expected, as the new one is SATA and the old one IDE.

After trying to copy my Windows installation over to the SATA drive (unsuccesfully - did a re-install) I ran the benchmarks again. This time it was run on Windows 7 x64 and a SATA HD. My scores were still higher! How can that be? Could it be that Windows x64 is faster than x86? (Not likely from what I've heard) Could the move of my windows installation also have speeded up the non-disk parts of the benchmark? (Probably, but I do not think that much) Could the re-installation of Windows have forced it to install more optimized libraries for my new CPU? This is probably the most likely)

In any case I am very satisfied with my new(ish) CPU. I want to look into overclocking, but first need to sort out my cooling. At the moment it is running at 60 C.

[Anthro]

Sup !
Ja, I ran the chip on x64 - and it was better scores too.. cooling needed ? Weird, it was running at 2.6 Ghz (1Ghz OC) @ 50*c

[Mykhal]

I did not add new thermal paste, as I did not have any!

Will get some tomorrow.

BTW The overclocking - did you change the FSB or what? (It seems to me that it is impossible to change the multiplier, which is And my FSB is 200. so 200 x 8 = 1.6 GHz (what it is showing now!) To get to 2.6, my FSB should be 325 - which seems very high!

I am new to overclocking, so pardon my stupid questions!

[Stuart]

Yeah, get yourself some thermal paste first.

[Frozenfireside]

Didn´t you have a celeron before with a 7300GS before?

I´m surprised you didn´t have a billion % increase
Did you do a format and reinstall?

[Anthro]

Myk, you might want to check your BIOS for a feature called C1E also thermal protect, disable those before you can OC - obviously after sorting the paste out first
Gla you enjoying the chip though

[StarBound]

I'd say forget the overclock for now and get yourself a better gfx card. I'd say proper but I dont think its something you can afford if your taking freebies from forum mods