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Has anyone reported that the links in the daily email do not work and have not for a week? Every link takes you to a "file not found" screen.

I have used Nick's Win7 guide, FSX guide and Haswell guide with excellent results. In the past I used his Win7 guide and FSX guide on a i7 950 system and a i7 980X system, all with excellent results. Nick also told me how to OC my i7 950 and that instruction carried over to my i7 980X. Whether or not you want to take and implement all of his advise or not is up to you, but I am one of many who has used all of his advice and have had three i7 systems running with excellent results. Everything works together for the greater good, if you follow all of his advice for setting up Win7, FSX, your hardware and overclocking your hardware you get the best results. If you just use his advise for setting up / OC the hardware and skip the Win7 and FSX part then you will not get the best results, the choice is yours. As is the choice not to use is advice, if you do not use his advice and you are happy with what you have, then great!

4.7GHz results. Hardware Configuration CPU: 4770K @ 4.7GHz / NB @ 4400MHz HT Off Ram: 2 * 4GB 2400MHz (9-11-11-31-1T) CPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC GTX 780 @ 954MHz OC SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSX SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSXMark11 Results Test Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 16423 300000 33.000 75.000 54.743 3 16195 300000 32.000 74.000 53.983 4 16246 300000 33.000 74.000 54.153 AVG 16288 300000 32.667 74.333 54.293

Here are some runs with my C9-2400MHz ram at 2400MHz, 2000HMz and 1600MHz. Further confirms that speed does matter with a 4770K-Z87 platform. Hardware Configuration CPU: 4770K @ 4.6GHz / NB @ 4400MHz HT Off Ram: 2 * 4GB 2400MHz (9-11-11-31-1T) GPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC GTX 780 @ 954MHz OC SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSX SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSXMark11 Results Test Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 15548 300000 32.000 66.000 51.827 3 15290 300000 32.000 65.000 50.967 4 15320 300000 31.000 66.000 51.067 AVG 15386 300000 31.667 65.667 51.287 Hardware Configuration CPU: 4770K @ 4.6GHz / NB @ 4400MHz HT Off Ram: 2 * 4GB 2000MHz (9-11-11-31-1T) GPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC GTX 780 @ 954MHz OC SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSX SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSXMark11 Results Test Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 15179 300000 32.000 65.000 50.597 3 14930 300000 32.000 65.000 49.767 4 14655 300000 31.000 65.000 48.850 AVG 14921.33 300000 31.667 65.000 49.738 Hardware Configuration CPU: 4770K @ 4.6GHz / NB @ 4400MHz HT Off Ram: 2 * 4GB 1600MHz (9-11-11-31-1T) GPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC GTX 780 @ 954MHz OC SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSX SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSXMark11 Results Test Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 13934 300000 29.000 61.000 46.447 3 13790 300000 29.000 62.000 45.967 4 13943 300000 30.000 61.000 46.477 AVG 13889 300000 29.333 61.333 46.297 ________________________________ For some reason the forum will not let me make two separate posts, it keeps adding the second post to the first one. Pretty strange! Anyway here is a run from my current STZ87-4770K. This is 2 FPS faster than the last STZ87-4770K I had that I used to make the different ram speed runs posted here. Both setups used the same GTX 780, ram and Win7 / FSX install. Since I did not change the motherboard type I did not need to install Win7 from scratch when I changed the MB and CPU. Hardware Configuration CPU: 4770K @ 4.6GHz / NB @ 4400MHz HT Off Ram: 2 * 4GB 2400MHz (9-11-11-31-1T) GPU: Gigabyte GV-N780OC GTX 780 @ 954MHz OC SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSX SSD: 840 Pro 256GB FSXMark11 Results Test Frames Time (ms) Min Max Avg 2 16057 300000 31.000 72.000 53.523 3 15863 300000 33.000 72.000 52.877 4 16059 300000 32.000 73.000 53.530 AVG 15993 300000 32.000 72.333 53.31 If I have not added any addons to FSX by the time I OC to 4.7GHz I will post the results for a 4.7GHz 4770K OC.

It is a couple of months old, but for those how are interested here is a great benchmark comparison of: 3570K vs. 2600K, both at 3.4GHz with HT off, 3770K vs. 2600K, both at 4.5GHz with HT off. All benchmarks were ran on the same system with only the CPU changed. Even though none of these are FSX benchmarks it is interesting and IB won everyone. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?280352-Large-Ivy-Bridge-3570K-vs-Sandy-Bridge-comparison.

PC Watch out of Japan opened one up and replaced the timm with better timm. That lowered the max OC temp by 15C to 20C depending on the timm used. PC Watch article http://pc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/column/sebuncha/20120511_532119.html English summary of the original article http://www.techpowerup.com/165882/TIM-is-Behind-Ivy-Bridge-Temperatures-After-All.html There are three or four English summarys from different sources out in the wild, you can search for them if you want to read the others. Here is a link to someone at xtremesystems.org that did his own timm replacement test, his temps dropped 8C and his ambient temp with the 8C drop was 3C higher than when he tested the stock timm. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?280892-3770k-IHS-Removals-CPU-temp-dropped-from-79C-to-71C