The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

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OVERCLOCKING

Anybody on here getting worthwile overclocks with the new 45nm duals at 1333FSB over the newer/last revision E6600's? Asside from nicer high FSB reach, what kind of core cloak performance can we expect out of say a E6850. What about the qhau Q6850 over the duals for overclocking?

 

NuckNFuts,

Neoseeker has a review and test comparing the 6750 against other C2Ds and some Quads!
http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/core_2_duo_e6750_review/

Check it out!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

Cool cool, will be looking into it as we type.

I'm getting together parts for my X38 ASUS build so I will want a good workhorse OC'r for the next few months to come and nerrowed it down to either The Q6600 v/s the E6750 in real world performance for an A/V media encoding rig and CAD system. Using on ASUS P5B Deluxe Wi-Fi till my X38 is ready.

Any feedbacks on these two models?

Thanks in advance

 

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If you can find a quad core program Nucknfuts, the q6600 will be a better choice, despite its lower overclocking potential.

 

3GB?..Because of the 3GB memory barrier?..

 

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@NuckNFuts,
I bought a E6850 a few weeks ago and have finally gotten around to overclocking it and getting a 3Dmark06 benchmark as well as finding a reasonable speed for it for the long run.

I have it installed on a EVGA 680i board, 2Gb Corsair PC2 8500 C5D RAM, ASUS 640Mb 8800GTS SLI GPUs.

For benchmarking I set it at 1900 FSB X 8 for 3.8 Ghz at 1.53125 volts. Memory is set in bios to 1200 with the default loose timing and 8800 GTS cards are set to 660/962. I got a 16327 score.

I'ts Orthos stable @ 52°C -54°C CPU temp.
Core temps are always lower than CPU temp by ~15°C and even when it was new and at stock settings Everest reported low core temps, below ambient, so I go by CPU temperature.

For day to day use, it's very happy at 3.66 Ghz with ~1.39 volts.

For some reason it does not like the default 9X multiplier. I've just stayed with the 8X for overclocking.

@sammorris,

I'm still waiting for my award to show up. lol.

 

What do you guys think of this memory?..
CRUCIAL TECHNOLOGY BL2KIT12864AA1065 2GB PC2-8500 (DDR2-1066) DDR2 $129
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=10006488

For my...
GA-965P-S3
E6300 Core 2 Duo

Will replace my PC-5400 Corsair...

 

Not too bad for an nVidia based rig. I have run several test on my nVidia chipsets and come to find for my type of OC and apps used that none of my nVidia solutions can outdo any of my Intel !975 or even P965 ASUS mobos with same CPU's. The same E6300 hitting FSB 532 stable on 2 Intels could not do it same on any nVidia I run.

Now I do seam to recall of a E6x50 on an Intel hitting over 600FSB but forget what ASUS mobo and chipset, I'll look through my notes to confirm it.

So right now, is anybody here overclockinf the E6550 or 6750 to over 500 FSB on Intel based solution?

 

Lp531,

Seems like a decent deal! Cas5 but 1066MHz! Should work well!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

I couldn't find any reviews on those exact model # ...everyone reviewed the Balistic's with the led's...
I am assuming they are the same...if so...they should have the micron 9 chips...and perform equally...

 

I will say that is very good memory. I have a couple of Crucial ballistix tracers and they work very well. They are 800 mhz chips and I have them running at 1050 mhz without any problems.

 

Abuzar: I know you are, but who knows about any new members that come along and see it.
As for the RAM, no high grade Corsair stuff is bad, you should be ok with that stuff.

 

The ones with the LEDs are the ones that I have. The have an extra word in their naming(Tracer) so I don't if they are exactly the same but they should be similar. You can get about 1 GB of the ones with LEDS for 50 bucks. and they SHOULD be PC-8000(they messed up mine, gave me PC-6400 instead, still need to get that resolved.)

 

abuzar1,

I am really suprised that memory will OC that much especially without loosening up the timings and raising the voltage quite a bit. you must have got some good ones.

 

Yeah, that's a pretty impressive overclock...

 

Yeah I know, and the timings I have it on are 4-4-4-12, while the stock timings for the PC-8000 version are 5-5-5-15.

 

Yup, the standard access times really.
the stock timings for ram haven't changed for a while
PC3200 400mhz CAS2
PC4200 533mhz CAS2.5
PC5300 667mhz CAS3
PC6400 800mhz CAS4
PC8000 1066mhz CAS5

Noticing a pattern?