The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Like I said the video wa stupid. It was fan made.

Great and powerful song though. Especially if you know Urdu well. Do you know what Rozen E Deewar means?

 

sammorris,

And I thought I was the one getting senile! LOL!! I remember the day that Shaffaaf told all of us he was using his real name from now on! You must have missed the post! LOL!!

Russ

 

YES, it seems to be a CPU FSB wall, but several nVidias tend to meet at around the same so no big deal there. But for most Intel P35 and almost all x38/X48 I played w/ it certainly runs out of CPU befopre the mobo. I believe even the E6300 at 535FSB walls out before X38/48. I heard of ES versions hitting 575+ and some calim 600+.

Wow, no big deal, sounds like Vegas in the 60s.

Who remembers this ASUS top dog die hard workhorse?

It was one of the few that gave a OCr CPU a run for its money, and not ill Prescott arrived and very quickly the 479M adapter did it finally meet its match but still pushing 300FSB + with ease. It was said to do close to 400FSB, but like CPUs, it's luck of the draw and mine never did, or my CPU couldn't for sure. I still use this one for testing and reliable back up.

Clock On!

EDIT: So I can sneak in a pic of my good ol '56 Seaburg VL 200-D as long as my P4C800 is in front. Oh ja, this is OC'd to some point too and modded a tad. I just can't leave anything to stock.

 

Ahh, A moderator caught us!

So I saw the preview of Nehalem on Anadtech. I only don't trust them on their cooling reviews. Looks VERY impressive. Not 100% gains(who expected THAT), but a 30-50% increase in performance on new unstable and unfinished hardware is more than good.

CANT WAIT!

 

For those under 30, tgis was a 200 selection 45 RPM record jukebox of the US 1950s displaying 200 selections via a rotating title drum and a computer to caculate EP and LP dual pricing between selcections and give credit for unused nickles. Did I mention it utilizes permanate matrix core memory via teroids (electro magnet core) as used 1st on our US bomber B-52 of 1951? Gran Dad was stil w/ MIT on the developemnt through the 1950's. So I guess I have always had computers in the blood since day one. And to think, we are just still barely thinking of how to utilize teroidal permanite mamory for PC's today.

 

hey guys,
just gonna run some ghetto benchies on a Pentium 4 630 3ghz @ 4.125ghz vs. a Core 2 Duo e6300 1.86ghz @ 3.088ghz.....let me know if you guys are interested in the results...??? and i will be happy to post them.
-im1992

 

Sure put them on!

 

give me 45 mins.....just ran 3dmark 06 on the e6300........now running assassins creed...after that its the p4s' turn...
thanks,
-im1992

 

you know what, i am just gonna run quake 3 and ut2003.....can't find the disc for assassins creed...or ut 3.....and crysis is f...ed up cause i patched it.....
-im1992

 

What the heck am I doing? This review sucks but w/e, its not even a real test. I am gonna post this cause I promised before that I was gonna do this testing but plz don't get mad at me for wasting your time!
Hi,
Here are the results...
Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86ghz @ 3.088ghz):
13,172 3DMarks (version 06)
SM2.0 Score: 5,924
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 6,819
CPU Score: 2,660

UT 2003(ONS-TORLAN): Between 99 FPS and 237 FPS

Quake 3: Between 89 FPS and 91 FPS

Pentium 4 630 (3ghz @ 4.125ghz):
6,848 3DMarks (version 06)
SM2.0 Score: 2,952
HDR/SM3.0 Score: 4,186
CPU Score: 1,182

UT 2003(ONS-TORLAN): Between 43 FPS and 106 FPS

Quake 3: 91 FPS flat (no variation what so ever!)

I don't know what to say, I think my data collection was kinda crude...first attempt at comparing two CPUs on my own but I didn't feel any difference in gameplay what so ever nor did I feel any difference in general computer performance. Had I known this before, I probably wouldn't have gotten a C2D and now it makes me wonder if I even want to get that Q6700....??? Even though my data might be 2-3 frames off, it still paints a good picture of not needing more cores...just overclock one! Maybe I need to test Crysis or COD4 in order to find out whats happening. As of now, other than the 3DMark06 score, theres nothing that the P4 can't do that the C2D can. I mean do you really need 237 frames (UT 2003) to play a game? I would think not...
-im1992

*On both tests, the game were running with the same settings including the map and the number of bots*

Both CPUs ran with the following hardware:
ASUS Striker Extreme 680i
4096mb ram
32 bit Windows XP Professional
500 Gig Maxtor SATA 300 Hard drive
GeForce 8800 GTS 320 megs in SLI (640megs total) at stock settings
Zalman CNPS 9700 LED Heatsink (lol, i know it doesn't increase / decrease performance!)

 

What screen res is this?

 

Hi,

General Computer res: 1440 x 900
3DMark 06: 1280 x 800
UT 2003: 800 x 600
Quake 3: 1152 x 864

Thanks!
im1992

 

On a side note.... I have to feed the P4 1.5volts to get it stable!!! None the less, the CNPS 9700 keeps it at a "chilly" (for a Prescott) 39 degrees Celsius!
-im1992

 

hey ppl,
thanks to russ I have some sis soft sandra benchmarks...
First up Pentium 4 630 (3ghz @ 4.125ghz):
Processor Arithmetic: Dhrystone ALU 9836 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 12272 MFLOPS
Processor Multi-Media: Integer x8 iSSSE3 29465 it/s
Floating-Point x4 iSSE2 38273 it/s
so tired! must sleep! i will post results for the e6300 tomorrow..... sorry!
-im1992

 

guys, i don't think i even need to benchmark the e6300....
I just ran sis soft on my mom's laptop.... It has a Core 2 Duo T5300 (1.73ghz, 2 megs cache, stock speed...)
here are the results...
Processor Arithmetic: Dhrystone ALU 15858 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 11001 MFLOPS
Processor Multi-Media: Integer x8 iSSSE3 94733 it/s
Floating-Point x4 iSSE2 51130 it/s
there you have it, Core 2 Duo wins.....
but Russ, is this really accurate? i mean, this is all synthetic benchmarking....what about real life? do we actually use all this extra power that these chips provide?
-im1992

 

lol, just for the heck of it...
i decided that 1.5v is way too much voltage sooooo
its now at 3750mhz with 1.248v (something i can sleep with peace of mind with)....it used to take less voltage to get to 4ghz but w/e, must be a problem with a bios upgrade....its really chilly at only 28 degress Celsius! (idle)
-im1992

 

That's about right for a good cooler at idle.

 

uh huh
so what do you think about the benchies?
-im1992

 

1m1992,

They are just an arbitrary scale that pretty much reflects the performance. It just gives all of us that have Sandra a better idea of what your computer is doing at the time.

My 530 3.0/800 Prescott could get over 4GHz, but it idled at about 40C and took off for the moon when running Prime95, about in the low 60C range. You are right at the same sweet spot that I found with my 3.0 at 3.71GHz. It would run faster, but it just got too hot. I wasn't real fond of Encoding at 58C and higher!

Question! Why did you flash the bios? If there was no reason, you should have left it at what it was before the flash. I would flash it back to the bios you had before. I made that mistake once and I almost wound up sending my MB and memory back needlessly. If I hadn't finally realized that I had flashed the bios, I would have gone through all of that for nothing! A word of advice from someone who has built well over 200 computers. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. I know there have been people on this thread that advocate flashing the latest bios, but I can tell you from lots of personal experience that it's the wrong thing to do! If you are experiencing problems, fine, by all means try a different bios, but when it runs good and your voltages are good, leave it alone. Saves a lot of hair that way! LOL!!

Best Regards,
Russ