My "MegaRig" Build/Mod Log

[Tyreal]

HAHAHA. I just noticed that. Dude. Cut back, thats alot!

[Gig-O-Ram]

Originally Posted by Tyreal

HAHAHA. I just noticed that. Dude. Cut back, thats alot!

I've cut back quite a bit. The old guy who used to come by and collect our cans (usually in exchange for more pepsi) doesn't come by any more because we dont get enough to make it worth it for him.

Anyway...on to more updates.

These are some bench results in HotCPUTester, one 3DMark score and another slightly higher score with the cpu score in there as well.


I don't know if this is good or not for this CPU: (8,744)


3DMark Scores:


CPU score: 5,215...in case you can't read it (the image is a bit small)

[Gig-O-Ram]

These are some of the first overclocking results I got:

I read in one of the stickies at OCF someone's "quick dirty guide to OC" and what I got from it was - lower multiplier, lower memory divider, raise FSB, raise voltage if necessary (which I did, a little bit, but have since found it not really necessary). At first I set up the overclock completely wrong in the BIOS, (like a 200Mhz FSB x4) and got a 800Mhz CPU speed. So going back into BIOS to correct it, I did all those things again, and started with a x6 multiplier, and 133Mhz divider, and a 205 FSB for 1.23Ghz. Now that is almost 1 full Ghz lower than my stock speed (which means I was still doing it wrong), so I eventually went to a x9 multi and arrived at a 265 HTT for a 2.34Ghz OC, and later to 2.385Ghz.

It wasn't much of an OC, but it was a start anyway.

Proof in the pics...OC mistake first, then small OC:


First small OC -2.34Ghz:

2.385Ghz OC with memory on 170.4Mhz:


Same OC/Mem with some temps:

[Gig-O-Ram]

Then I moved up a bit to 2.43Ghz. I was getting the hang of it by this point and finally figured out how to do the math in BIOS.



Then on to 2.52Ghz with memory @ 180Mhz and an increase in voltage to 1.488v:


Below is my second highest overclock so far. This time, I wanted to try for 2.6Ghz (2.7 was next on the list, but I went with 2.65 instead). So far, all the OC levels I've tried haven't had any problems, so with my cooling the way it is (as good as it gets without WC or Liquid Nitrogen, LOL! And I'll get to that later) the 3700+ seems to be ok to OC to almost any point. Before, for all tests I had the memory divider on 133, but I changed it to 150 this time (just to see how the memory would behave), with a 10x HTT set to 260. It worked out to a nice even 2.6Ghz (2.599), with the memory @185.71 on 1.376V. The 2.6 CPU clock appears to behave very nicely during startup, and everything else seems smooth as well.

Then I tried upping the memory to 166 with the 260HTT, but that doesn't work so well, so I had to knock it back to 150. I wonder if I'd have to up the volts a bit to get those settings to work? These are the results:


I apologize, but I don't have a pic to show my 2.65 OC at the moment. I guess I'll have to get one.

[Gig-O-Ram]

Some nVidia system benchmarks:

System performance (227, 232, 130 baseline):


Memory performance: (L-R numbers are 350, 378, 374 BL Read / 294, 294 247BL Write / 143, 144, 166 BL Latency)


Disk performance: (L-R numbers are 149, 146, 100 BL Read / 72, 86, 100 BL Write)


Graphics performance: (L-R numbers are 359, 357, 76 BL)


Next update...My crash course in case modding :smt032