Guide – Overclocking Prosessor Intel Core i7 Part III (part1)

Myth Voltage Overclocking Intel Core i7
Voltage or voltage is absolutely necessary for overclocking. Tension is not only a role in the achievement of overclocking, but also the effect on the stability of overclocking itself. Myths such as the voltage memory voltage not more than 1.65 volt, because it can damage the processor is indeed true. When viewed from the Core i7 architecture itself, IMC is integrated in the processor, the impact of the excessive voltage memory will be harmful as well as IMC processor itself. This has happened before in AMD. To avoid that the producers restrict the choice of AMD motherboard memory voltage to avoid damage to the IMC processor. Then, how fate memory DDR3 memory that has a voltage above 1.65 volt operation? What can still be used? In the experiment, the author never uses voltage to 1.8 volt in the time period long enough and did not experience degradation in the processor or processors to die. In fact the influence of the voltage memory voltage does not directly affect the other, mainly voltage IOH (or chipset voltage Core Voltage IOH) and QPI / VTT Voltage. IOH Voltage has a default value of 1.2 volt and QPI / VTT Voltage has a default value of 1.1 volt. In the experiment, the effect of increasing the value of this very second voltage stability assist system, especially in the high frequency of memory and a high-voltage memory. The author set on IOH Voltage 1:25 volt and QPI / VTT Voltage at 1.3 volt. At this value is the speed DDR3-2000 with a 1.74 volt voltage running and stable. Screenshots can be seen below.

Design us a star - and win a workstation! (part 2)

HOW TO ENTER
The contest is about unleashing your creativity, and we want to recognise you, the stars of the digital art community, so your graphic should embody that concept.

The finished artwork should feature a 3D render of a five-pointed star prominently… but exactly how you treat that star is up to you.

To get you started, click the link below to download an EPS file showing a simple five-pointed star. Use this as the basis of your design.

Your image should use the Intel blue as a primary colour; and green as a secondary colour. The exact colour values are as follows:

Primary colour
CMYK – 100/40/0/0 or RGB – 8/96/198

Secondary colour
CMYK – 40/0/100/0 or RGB – 174/197/0

We have also included a number of guides within the download to show the various formats in which your design may be used, which include print ads and online banners. For the banners, it will be necessary to crop in on a smaller part of the graphic.

Bear in mind that, for print use, the image must be supplied at 300dpi resolution.

And finally, don’t include any text on the image.

Once you have completed your image, send it to us by clicking the entry link below. Include your full name and daytime phone number in the body of the email.

(Note: our email server only accepts attachments under 9MB in size).

The sender of the image that, in the opinion of the judges, best fulfils the brief and best demonstrates creativity and technical quality will win a Core i7 workstation with the specification shown at the foot of the page.

The closing date for entries is 12 February 2009.

In order to qualify to receive the prize, you will be required to send us the scene file and other assets for the graphic; and, if necessary, a larger print-resolution version of the image.

source by : www.3dworldmag.com

Design us a star - and win a workstation! (part 1)

Create a graphic for our upcoming digital art talent contest and you could win an Intel Core i7-powered workstation worth over $5,000

This April, 3D World, in association with Intel, will be launching an international contest to find the most talented digital artists of 2009 – and we’d like you to design the marketing concept used in the publicity material.

In addition to seeing their work used in high-profile adverts, both in print and online, the creator of the graphic chosen to promote the contest will win an Intel Core i7-based workstation worth over $5,000.

For years, Intel technology has been the driving force behind digital content creation, both on Windows machines and the new Intel Macs. But the company’s new Core i7 processors take demanding multimedia and graphics tasks to a new dimension.

Although the i7s are quad-core processors, Intel’s proprietary Hyper-Threading technology splits each physical core into two virtual ones, so the processor appears to the operating system to have eight cores, speeding up demanding 3D tasks.

In our review of the Armari Magnetar NS+, one of the first Core i7 workstations, James Morris commented: “This system beats the multi-threaded rendering performance of any quad-core workstation we’ve seen.”

source by : www.3dworldmag.com