The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

This it wwhat I havew been saying. And even the better !975X can go a little bit further to bout 533FSB but only if you can get the CPU and northbridge to strap as 1066. In fact, occording to you past 6 months of post on the E4300, you had gone over 1333 (333FSB) since then, and even over 1600 (400FSB). Now thats even current foe coming 45nm/1600 cores. Although I dont believe the P965 mobos will do well when strapped as 1600 (even if BIOS fixed) as it will on a P35. Now the 45nm issue will more then likely be a limiting factor for the Intel 9 series chipsets.

Also I' still not sure why you are calling them on. It looks like you hit and passed 1333 (333FSB) already. I said 2 months back not to expect too much beond 400FSB with these (65's and this mobo and revision. Other then a P35, the only 9x that's gonna' get you more is the tryied and true, !975x. But whay go backwords, when good top end P35 can keep up and in most cases go further.

 

NuckNFuts,

My reason for calling them is here!
http://www.gigabyte.us/Products/Motherboard/Products_Overview.aspx?ProductID=2465

It's the first item in the overview. You will note that while it says Rev 3.3, what's it doing in the page for the Rev 1.3? That's just not honest! It's not on the pages for Rev 1 or Rev 2, so why is it there? Better yet, why is it still there? At the very least they have strongly implied that the 1333 bus would be supported, which it's not! Even with the Rev 3.3, which claims support!

I just upgraded the bios to F11 and was able to get it to 3.5GHz and run some benches with Sandra 2007 Ultimate. Math is 32,331 MIPS, memory bandwidth is 7381MBs! I'm showing 1.47v for the VCore in Everest, with it set at 1.45v. If I can achieve stability, I'll try for 3.6GHz!

The movie was Fame. It was processed with DVD-Rebuilder ver 0982 and Cinema Craft Encoder ver SP 2.70.02.04, 2 pass. Total time at 3.5GHz is 50 minutes, 22 minutes faster than the E4300 did the same DVD! 62 segments to it so it really has to work hard! Speed now gets into the 9s' and sometimes the low 10s'!

EDIT
Here's the current Super Pi at 1M. It's getting very close to the 14s'!


I might as well add these because I think that's all it's got on this MB




Clockin On,
theone ;>)

 

Lp531,

That was a very "cool" video..LOL!!

Regards,Crowy.

Russ,

No offence taken!!
Best of luck hitting 4ghz with the new build.

If you can hit 4ghz you should be around 13 secs
If you can hit around 4.1 that should get you into the 12 second club.
Up the juice to hell with the temps!!!!(only joking ROFL!!)
Regards,Steve.

 

Crowy,

I decided to trust Intels website showing a max voltage for the CPU of 1.5v! I've got the voltage set to 1.45v and it's showing 1.47v! I get the distinct feeling that I'm sittin right on the edge of some serious performance gains. We'll see with the next MB!

Up the voltage, and pass the pipe! LOL!!

Clockin On,
Russ ;>)

 

Me Pipe is always warm...and near by..

 

Lp531,

Damn! Where's billybob when you need him? LOL!!

Clockin On,
Russ ;>)

 

Russ,

Sounds like a recipe for disaster!!!!!!
Just make sure the smoke in front of you is coming from the pipe and not the pc!!

Lp531,

As we know heat pipes are an integral part of overclocking

On a side note
A mate of mine was given a viagra tablet and decided to try just half the other day.There is nothing wrong with his you know what,but he tried it just to see what it's like.He said he had sex twice that night with his wife...But it was hard all night and his heart was beating that loud he could hear it!!!!Said he didn't sleep at all because he thought he might have a heart attack and not wake up!
I told him he should know better than to try to overclock his D**K!!!
LMFAO!!
This is a true story.

Regards,Crowy.

 

Crowy,

Trust me, most folks here would overclock the stove if they thought they could get their Pizza faster! LOL!! All in the name of Science, of course! LOL!!

Clockin On,
Russ >:[)

 

And Mine is a Water Cooled "Graphix".. Great For O/C...

Never O/Ced the D!@k...well...at Least Not with Viagra...

 

ROFLMAO, you guys are hilarious. I don't need the little blue pill but a buddy of mine has some and I might have to give that OC a try myself......don't know that I would like my heart beating through my chest and in my ears though.......

NuckNFuts,

I guess I need to address this question to you or anybody else with an E6750 in a mobo using the 975X chipset, asus P5W DH Deluxe to be precise. how well does this combo OC? if I flash the bios to the latest vs. I don't need the pin mod correct? will it still OC and perform ok with my DDR2 800 memory. I am contemplating getting an E6750 if it will work and OC ok with my existing mobo and ram. thanks.

 

Mort81,

I'm using one in my GA-965P-DS3 and it's clocked to 3.5GHz. Should do better in your motherboards as their better boards!

I got more out of mine than I expected, but not as much as I wanted! LOL!!

I think I'll spend the extra $20 and get the GA-P35-DS3R and eventually use Raid. According to a lot of overclocking testers and forums, this is the board for overclocking a 6750! I'm not the least bit unhappy with the way my 965P MB works but there's a P35 in my future! Gotta keep up with the times! LOL!!

Clockin On,
theone ;>)

 

Mort81, I have the same parts as you know, but P5W-DH is occuoied at the moment to test w/ E6750. I did test on an Abit !975xMAX mobo but not any better then E6600 OC on same mobo. Best I could say is to expet the same OC but with a little less volts and heat. The ASUS will not allow the mobo strap to 1066 to use and OC as a 1066 in 1:1 DDR. I found the 1333 strapping and RAM ratios to be less stable at anything over 450FSB on the !975x. The !975X ASUS do 475+ a little nice with all the E6x00 cores I used in the past yr. If you do get a E6750, do let me know how it compares to the E6600 OC.

theonejrs, Ya, I was just bout ask bout the voltages and reads v/s as set n BIOS. The DQ6 & DS3R has a bit of vdrop so my 3.6GHz took a BIOS set of 1.47v to equal 1.41 under load or 1.44 idle. I can do 3.50 round the clock @ 1.38v (set as 1.43v), 1.41v idle.

I also read a lot of guys talking bout the 2nd batch and so of these 6750's to not be as low volt OC'n as the early ones and there being a black hole of vcore usages over 1.4?? - 1.5v. I haven't seen this, but notice that as nice as these 2 6750''s do for me, they both have a big vcore difference needed when @ 3.6 up to 4.0 or even @ 3.8/3.9GHz. Just curious if this is happening to others. I actually need the 1.49v o 1 as well as a 1.51v on another to keep 4GHz. i'm gonna retest w/ ThermalRight Ultra 120 on the DS3R to see if I can get it more stable. The 1.5+ pushes the lmit on the CNPS9700's at even 2600rpm to keep it @ 4GHz.

Clockin' On!

 

Awful Pun of the year nominee:

"Overcock!"

Oh dear.

On that note,

 

NuckNFuts,

So far heat has not been an issue. I suspect the closer you get to 4.0GHz, the steeper the hill becomes. I also think the hill starts about 3.5GHz. I'm betting that the real voltage limit is 1.5v as they say on Intel's site! I'm at 1.450v in the settings which gives me about 1.41 or so under load. I know in my heart that there's more in the chip. At 3.50GHz, I'm impressed with my re-builder times compared to the 4300. Everything is faster and it multi-tasks like a dream, and the temps are low as hell! This things been on most of the day and it's still idling at 27-28C. At this voltage setting it hits 52C running Orthos! About the same as the 4300 did at 3.2GHz.

I'm happy with it for now but pretty soon I have a MB and CPU package for someone who wants a cheap guaranteed upgrade to 3.2GHz with a C2D. I should have a P35-DS3R, in a week or two! All they'll have to do is install it and tweak their memory a bit! It's all set up anyway!

Clock On,
theone ;>)

 

I can only guess that the thermal rating is about the same as your 4300 was, since the voltage increase is higher, but the speed increase is lower.

 

Sam,

The thermal rating for the E4300 was 85 for the E6750 it's 75. It runs much cooler at higher speeds than the 4300 does. So far the temps haven't gone up very much. Load temps have gone up about 6C from 44 to 52C. Besides, Intel says on their site that the max voltage for the E6750 is 1.5v, so I'm still not there. I'm sure it's going to hit 3.6 to 3.8GHz on the P35 MB. If you know anybody who wants a MB and CPU combo, that's how I plan to sell the old (???) one! The CPU still has 2.5 years left on it's warranty and it should hit 3.2GHz with no problem!

Clockin On,
theone :>)

 

well with an 866mhz higher start speed, I should hope so!
As cool as that sounds, I still find it quite amusing that with the base model CPU we had effectively got a CPU above the performance level of pretty much any out there!

 

NuckNFuts,

thanks for the info. I'm probably just wishfull thinking at least for now. I'm very happy with my E6600, but would like to see it's temp a little lower. it's idling at 41 C right now with the ambient temp being 77 F. it will get into the upper 40's to low 50's under load and the core temps have bumped 60 a few times. during the winter months when the ambient is around 70 F it idles around 34 C and the load temps are several degrees lower as well. I use speedfan to reduce the speed of my chipset fans a little. if I run them at full, the cpu temp drops a couple degrees but at the cost of more noise.

my money would most likely be better spent on a thermalright ultra 120 extreme. got to put tires on the car 1st though.

 

I don't know what sort of comparison this is, but an E4300 raised from 1.8 to 3.0, and the voltage upped to 1.45V (showing 1.42V) brings me idle temps of about 36-37C, and load of around 44-45. This is with all my case fans at around 500-600rpm, for several hours. That also includes the fan on my CPU as well.
I didn't even buy the Extreme version of the Ultra 120 either, just the standard one. It's streets ahead of my Freezer 7 Pro, I can run the fan at a third of the rpm of what I used to use (so far less noise) and yet my temps are about 7-8C lower across the board.

 

sammorris,

what is your ambient temp? a few degrees difference in ambient temp makes a big difference on my cpu and mobo temps.