Originally Posted by rhacy

Cheers Vin! I've been a big fan of your pure non-cfc builds and really appreciate your company policy.



The Torus score in the OpenGL Test only appears to show the amount of single light shadowing that the gpu can render, and this score is just a portion of overall graphics performance. In turn, I would not place a whole lot emphasis on the one score. A more complete system test like SKTools Benchmark should provide a more accurate view of overall system performance. That said, the builds with considerably higher OpenGL results, would most likely only show an improvement to some degree when playing full resolution fast action videos and games. Nonetheless, I haven't noticed any video issues with your system builds that score somewhere in the 7000 range in the past. Plus, if needed, the recently released overclock apps can be used to help boost graphics and overall performance. On that note, the OverClockTool by iwfratz has been working well here in dynamic mode (set to more than one step). To clarify, using the stepping feature allows the cpu to run underclocked when not under load. Moreover, from my observations so far, the underclock appears to have increased battery life somewhat, as well as decreased the average cpu temperature when compared to running a static overclock speed, or even the normal clockspeed at idle.

Thanks again Vin.
Best to all,
R