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[GV2NIX]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

And there's still room to push both the CPU and the memory. But I'm tired and have my son's football game to go to

Haha, yes it is a tiring process. Seems like it's getting better and better for you! Keep rockin' that Conroe!

[gvblake22]

NICE QUAKINDUDE!

[drew and not u]

Glad it worked out! These Chips are friggin awesome!

[Panda Man]

I hate you....

</jealous>

Nah, but really, nice OC as usual with these cores. I might have to ride over and take a test drive.

[Quakindude]

Well, my son's football team won again. We're undefeated this year...so far. One game left, wish us luck this Thursday!

Anyhow, after coming home and getting my son calmed down from the game, I decided to try and hit 3.4Ghz. It ain't gonna happen. The system will not even boot beyond a FSB setting of 1465. Which 1465/4=366.25x the cpu multiplier of 9 = 3296.25Ghz. Not too shabby. I relaxed the memory timings, then I downclocked the memory to 800 and tightened up the timings, loosened up the timings again, went up to 1.3v on the core and still, no boot after 1465.

The chipset isn't overheating and the CPU isn't either. I think this may be where I have to lower the LDT to 4 and see if that works. But that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm beat.

[Panda Man]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Well, my son's football team won again. We're undefeated this year...so far. One game left, wish us luck this Thursday!

Anyhow, after coming home and getting my son calmed down from the game, I decided to try and hit 3.4Ghz. It ain't gonna happen. The system will not even boot beyond a FSB setting of 1465. Which 1465/4=366.25x the cpu multiplier of 9 = 3296.25Ghz. Not too shabby. I relaxed the memory timings, then I downclocked the memory to 800 and tightened up the timings, loosened up the timings again, went up to 1.3v on the core and still, no boot after 1465.

The chipset isn't overheating and the CPU isn't either. I think this may be where I have to lower the LDT to 4 and see if that works. But that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm beat.

Which school? Can't be EHS, they are 7-3. And good luck!

Also, 3.3GHz is pretty good, I wouldn't push it much further.

[GV2NIX]

Originally Posted by Quakindude

Well, my son's football team won again. We're undefeated this year...so far. One game left, wish us luck this Thursday!

Anyhow, after coming home and getting my son calmed down from the game, I decided to try and hit 3.4Ghz. It ain't gonna happen. The system will not even boot beyond a FSB setting of 1465. Which 1465/4=366.25x the cpu multiplier of 9 = 3296.25Ghz. Not too shabby. I relaxed the memory timings, then I downclocked the memory to 800 and tightened up the timings, loosened up the timings again, went up to 1.3v on the core and still, no boot after 1465.

The chipset isn't overheating and the CPU isn't either. I think this may be where I have to lower the LDT to 4 and see if that works. But that will have to wait until tomorrow. I'm beat.

Given that you're running into an FSB bottleneck, do you think it would be worth it to get an E6700? Or just wait till a better chipset comes out?

[halutzparilla]

i finally got the D975XBX working with my E6600... 3024.15 MHz @ 47C on full load...
http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=136409 i can't say its stable yet, until i do some benchmarking, but i still envy you quakindude, thats some pretty decent overclock...

it just so happened my MoBo, wants my memory sticks to be set at a lower timmings (4-4-4-13 1:1) so that it can push CPU up a notch...

i'm still working on it... on how can i find a way to increase the overclock including the memory....


i did 3dmark06

[Quakindude]

Originally Posted by GV2NIX

Given that you're running into an FSB bottleneck, do you think it would be worth it to get an E6700? Or just wait till a better chipset comes out?

It isn't a bottleneck yet. I've yet to fully explore the Bios capabilities of this board. So I may not be stopped yet.

My initial impressions of this board were, "Wow! Big learning curve from AMD!" But in just a couple of days, I know the Bios almost inside out.

Now my impressions are, with the right hardware..Ram...choices, this board is an excellent overcloker and very stable. It also has a feature that allows you to recover from a failed O/C without resetting the CMOS. This mobo does it automatically. Of course, if you over-volt it, your screwed there. I'm just 100Mhz away from saying I had this overclocked, on air, by 1Ghz. I want to try and meet that. But the closer I drew my timings down to a 1:1 ratio, the worse my performance in Super Pi 32m was and the worse Sandra was reporting. I HIGHLY recommend figuring out how to over clock your CPU independatly of the Ram. I am at a stable, Ran Prime for 6 hours straight so far, overclock of 3.25Ghz. That's beyond X6800 right there bro.

Before I made that decision, I'd see what the X6800 owners are saying they're getting for overclocks out of theirs. And the 6700 owners for that matter.

[GV2NIX]

Ah ok, I think I misinterpreted your results. It's too bad you can't drop the CPU multi to 1x and see how far the FSB goes. It's things like that that make me want to stick with an AMD chip, but I don't think that's good enough a reason not to get a C2D, haha!

Originally Posted by Quakindude

I'm just 100Mhz away from saying I had this overclocked, on air, by 1Ghz.

That's insane!

Originally Posted by Quakindude

...the closer I drew my timings down to a 1:1 ratio, the worse my performance in Super Pi 32m was and the worse Sandra was reporting.

Really! That's odd... I was under the impression that 1:1 was still the way to go. But...I guess if you're running the RAM so much higher like you are it's bound to overcome whatever inefficiencies pop up with an asynchronous overclock. Also, would you say that the increased RAM bandwidth is making the looser timings inconsequential?

Originally Posted by Quakindude

I am at a stable, Ran Prime for 6 hours straight so far, overclock of 3.25Ghz. That's beyond X6800 right there bro.

WELL beyond!

I'm getting all pumped over this. I want to get my hands on one ASAP, but I still have some more reading to do.