CPU Speed thread

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by theburan

I have it at 4ghz now... still on the stock cooling. Still getting good temps, and superpi is only enough to put it around 50c, but I dont want to run a full orthos test with the stock cooling. Seems pretty stable though. Everythings nice and snappy, giving me super 1m runs right at 12 seconds... so I'm happy.

How's the voltage? :)

[theburan]

Not that high yet... 1.35v in the bios, all the mobo voltages still set to auto, ram at 2.1v. Should be a bit more left in this chip, assuming my heatsink is up to the task.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by theburan

Not that high yet... 1.35v in the bios, all the mobo voltages still set to auto, ram at 2.1v. Should be a bit more left in this chip, assuming my heatsink is up to the task.

That's very nice! A little champ you got there.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by polobunny

That's very nice! A little champ you got there.

+1 on that one Polo!!! Damn Buran, thats pretty impressive mate

[theburan]

Yeah... it's not 100% stable yet though. Hard to say if that's because the cooling is insufficient right now or if it's going to need a bit more volts. (I just tried orthos... in 14 seconds it crashed, and also hit 58c... both of which happened too quick, lol.).

I should get some thermal paste and artic clean tomorrow night though... and then I'll be able to see how far this will go for real.

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by theburan

Yeah... it's not 100% stable yet though. Hard to say if that's because the cooling is insufficient right now or if it's going to need a bit more volts. (I just tried orthos... in 14 seconds it crashed, and also hit 58c... both of which happened too quick, lol.).

I should get some thermal paste and artic clean tomorrow night though... and then I'll be able to see how far this will go for real.

Well in reality, you might of hit the top with the last OC on air man! That is a complete possibility.
Now I suppose you better save your paychecks up and jump into some serious watercooling to get to the 4.3Ghz..........

Let me know how that works out for ya

Damn overclocking............................

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by theburan

Yeah... it's not 100% stable yet though. Hard to say if that's because the cooling is insufficient right now or if it's going to need a bit more volts. (I just tried orthos... in 14 seconds it crashed, and also hit 58c... both of which happened too quick, lol.).

I should get some thermal paste and artic clean tomorrow night though... and then I'll be able to see how far this will go for real.

58C's far from crashing a C2D 45nm. It's voltage.

[theburan]

Originally Posted by polobunny

58C's far from crashing a C2D 45nm. It's voltage.

If I remember correctly, the previous owner of the chip hit 4.2 ghz with around 1.36v... but my power supply isn't the best one (it's a model known for high ripple under load), so that doesn't help much. I have another power supply on the way though.... probably going to replace my fsp with that one.

[polobunny]

Originally Posted by theburan

If I remember correctly, the previous owner of the chip hit 4.2 ghz with around 1.36v... but my power supply isn't the best one (it's a model known for high ripple under load), so that doesn't help much. I have another power supply on the way though.... probably going to replace my fsp with that one.

4.2GHz on air with 1.36v is hard to believe I will be honest. Expect 1.4v most of the time for over 4GHz for Wolfies on a P35/P45 unmodded vdroop.

[drew and not u]

Originally Posted by polobunny

4.2GHz on air with 1.36v is hard to believe I will be honest. Expect 1.4v most of the time for over 4GHz for Wolfies on a P35/P45 unmodded vdroop.

Yeah, there's no way it was running that fast on only 1.36. That like this guy on ebay that was selling a Zalman ResXT telling me it could clock my E8400 past 6GHz. People will always bull**** you to sell you stuff.