The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Hey Sam,
What revision is your MB? The one I have is 1.01G. Just curious!

Regards,
Russ

 

All CPUZ can determine is 1.xx, but it's dated 22nd November 2006.

 

Sam,
Wgere it says P5N E SLI on the MB, just look to the right and below it. That's where the revision number is. Tiny little print!

Russ

 

1.01G

 

this article made me smile

my is a 1.01g too.

 

LOL yeah, ingenious.

 

Add me to the list too, 1.01G
Well crap no one so far has a newer version! That sucks!
Sytyguy sent me a link for Memtest and I ran it 10 passes on each DIMM and the memory gives 0 errors. I also ran 3 passes each on each DIMM socket with 0 errors. What I can't understand is why it won't run at default settings. All I changed is the Boot Order and turned off the logo. It worked like that for 4 hours. I benched it at 1.8 (16,500) and 2.25 (21,700)with no problems. At 1.8 it wouldn't let me link the memory, which is odd as both the fsb and memory speed is the same. If I link them, it won't post. I didn't try with the 2.25 setting. CPU temp never exceeded 39C and the MB temp hit 42C.

I've narrowed the problem down to something between the CPU and the drive controllers. The optical drives are IDE and giving read errors and the seperately controlled sata drive is getting NTSF file structure errors. Both work fine in my D-940! While I could see a bad IDE or sata controller I just can't see both of them failing at the same time. No way! I also put an IDE drive in it and it gave the same error message I got with the sata.

We'll see what Asus has to say today!

Russ

 

Hello. I was wondering what the best way to go about getting the maximum peformance from my system would be. The current parts that I have (and that are not likely to change) are an ECS K7S5A Rev1.0 Mboard & (soon to have) an AMD Athlon 2800+XP-M @266FSB Barton Core that I want to stick in here. What exactly do I need to do. I am restricted as far as space goes. The computer case is an old Gateway Perfomance 500 from the late 1990's. No original hardware ('cept floppy drive) remains. And to make a longer story shorter... what do I need to do to help myself? Most of the rest of the hardware is listed in sig.

Thanks to anyone who can help.

 

Ruinous,

if you're refering to overclocking, probably very little since OC'ing deals a lot with what the mobo is capable of. no disrespect but an ECS mobo alone scares me w/o any OC'ing.

 

I have read of a few... things... I can do to make my mobo to make it more capable, and I know I'm greatly limited by the mobo, but I plan on replacing the system at the end of the year and just want something powerful enough to run TES:IV Oblivion and HL2. I think with the new CPU coming, the RAM I'm getting (Kingston HyperX PC3200 512x2, the stick I have is a friends who doesn't need it), and the FX card (ATI X1650Pro 512MB AGP) it should be enough, though the ECS board scares me too. It'd be nice to squeeze some extra juice out of the old K7S5A though. =)

 

Ruinous,
First thing,
Don't be scared by that board.

I Used and abused it for years and it is still going strong today as my daughters computer.

It's got no o/clocking options with the stock bios so your stuck if you leave it with the default bios.
There is some execellent info here that will get you started:


http://www.geocities.com/honeymoon36/guides.html

Then go here:
http://www.geocities.com/honeymoon36/bios.html
and download this one:

K7S5A (rev.0 ~ rev.3.1 only)

let me know how you go.

 

OK Folks,
I guess the third time is the Charm! I have the P5N-E/E4300 running sweetly at my goal of 3.00GHz. Here are some benches and I'll follow up with some other things after a night of running OCCT!

Math:


Memory Bandwidth:


Multi-Media:


Like I said, it runs so sweet. These are all Sandra 2007! I'm pretty impressed, but I got to get some sleep now!

Happy Computering,
theone

 

Goodnight Russ!!!
Nearly forgot.........nice benches!!!!!!

Still want to get 26000 mips with this x2

 

Crowy,

And a good night to you. Let me know what you think!

Sincerely,
Russ

 

Ruinous,

I was probably a little out of bounds previously. I've never personally used that mobo. I'm just not an ECS fanboy and have heard some bad things about their mobo's. listen to crowy's advice as he's obviously had some experience with it. I stand corrected.

Russ,

good going, nice job. it's about dam time

 

not bad Russ, not bad at all~ 3rd time's a charm i guess... hehe

 

Thanks crowy, I'll let you know how it goes when I get the cpu.

 

Mort81,
Don't apologize!!!!!
ECS always had an inferiority complex!!!!
I think they have come a long way since the k7s5a.........

 

Thanks crowy, but I forgot that I'd put the cheepoman BIOS in this system, so it was all ready for o/c. Also, my Barton isn't the excellent one (1.55v), it's the 1.65v version. (AXMA2800FKT4C AQYHA 0419)

Here's the info from WCPUID.


Anyone recommend a good/inexpensive cpu cooler? Running at 54C right now, and max about about 63C.

 

Well Kiddies, Gina4,s computer is ready to go. It ships tomorrow! These are the final benches.








Here's her Super Pi 32M
Validation result:
Checksum matches!
3266563C
19m 00sec 563ms
Compare it to the $970 EX E6800 and it was a bargain. I want one!!!!!!

I set the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and set the memory speed to 810MHz in the bios to get a true 800MHz memory speed at post which lost a tiny bit of memory bandwidth but improved both the math and multi-media scores. I know there are others that have gone faster but speed with reliability was the main consideration, as she makes her living with the computer. It's handled everything I've thrown at it and I only had 1 BSOD and that was when I first started. Moving the memory to the black slots cured that. The only other glitch was a lockup after a bios change. I re-set and it's been solid ever since!

I ripped a particularly difficult DVD and processed it with RB/CCE. I chose "Matilda" because almost half of it is useless garbage, almost 4 GB of useless crap that does nothing (Thanks Columbia/Sony you ~#*&%##**'s!) The RB/CCE 2/pass took 51 total minutes compared to 83 on my D-940. After the Athlon XP she's using now, maybe I better send her a Seat Belt because this puppy is just flat fast! LOL!!

Asus P5N-E
E4300 @3.0GHz
2x512 cas4 XMS SLI certified memory
Cooler Master 500 watt PS
Seagate 160 sata 3.0
NEC 16x DVDRW
Cooler Master Cavalier case


Happy Computering,
theone