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spamual
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1. September 2008 @ 11:13 |
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why does it have +1 on your volts, and not the actual value?
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1. September 2008 @ 11:14 |
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Because that's the way Gigabyte boards work for voltage.
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1. September 2008 @ 11:18 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
No problem.
Got 3.33Ghz at the moment, however, this speed rebooted on burntest at 1.475V. Now using 1.481V, which is as high as I really want to go. Will run the test again shortly.
Sammy add a little bit more (.05 or so) to the FSB and MCH and see what you get, and you might run your PCI-e at 102 or so just for giggles. As for your vdroop I'm not sure what to do there. ;) I've had pretty good luck with my P35-DS3P but remember I NEVER went above 1.4v with my OC. lol. Just a chicken I guess.... :P
good luck...
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1. September 2008 @ 11:24 |
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0.03V for Vdroop doesn't seem that bad to me, especially compared to what a lot of people get, but I was rather hoping I wouldn't have to raise the Vcore quite as high as 1.48V (though Everest sees 1.47, and that's what I was going by before). I've been a bit naughty and raised the CPU speed to 3.42Ghz without having tested it on the burntest, and not really caring. In my testing, 3DMark will crash during the CPU test long before windows is in danger of becoming unstable, and since 3dmark has passed the test about 8 times, I'm not so fussed. I'm very doubtful these settings would pass Linpack as I've upped the speed 90mhz and the Vcore only by 5mV from a value that didn't pass, but the way I see it, I'll just keep testing things and look for crashes. Rather strangely, my chipset is running several degrees cooler than it was before on the auto-overclock, so I wouldn't be too surprised if it is in fact receiving a lower voltage than before. Sadly, I don't know a way of testing what these values really are as I don't have an up-to-date version of Everest at my disposal in any version other than a free trial...
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spamual
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1. September 2008 @ 11:47 |
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have you updated the bios?
thats a shame abotu the OCing, you cant put in real values, i hope that differnt with the X58 GB mobos, becuase i want to try someone other than ASUS. its always good to have other experiances!
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1. September 2008 @ 11:51 |
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It's not ideal, but it's no big problem unless you're comparing the settings you used to overclock a similar CPU using a different brand's board, and it should be pretty obvious that no two CPUs and no two motherboards will overclock the same anwyay. I doubt it will change in the future as I'm pretty sure Gigabyte boards overclocked like this even going back to the 965P days.
I am running the latest bios, the Beta of F4a. Ironically, the earlier BIOS could well have been working in manual mode - the Vdroop at idle just happened to mean that the voltage I manually selected - 1.45V showed up in Everest as 1.408V, the exact same value it was on Auto, so I didn't think Manual settings were working... whoops! lol
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1. September 2008 @ 12:27 |
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Originally posted by spamual:
thats a shame abotu the OCing, you cant put in real values, i hope that differnt with the X58 GB mobos, becuase i want to try someone other than ASUS. its always good to have other experiances!
How bout DFI?? Hellooooooooo!!!! lol. ;)
Sammy have you tried those "values" I suggested or are you using Auto still?? I would think you'd be using "manual" with Shaaf giving you crap about it... hehehee. :P
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1. September 2008 @ 12:29 |
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I haven't tried them yet Gm, but my NB runs significantly cooler now than it does on Auto, so I have my suspicions I'm not even running the chipset as high as it was back then, so I'll add a 0.05 to that.
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1. September 2008 @ 13:17 |
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sam,
try upping the MCHv and FSBv a bit more. what increments do you have? I can increase mine in increments of .02v. my FSBv is at 1.33v and my NBv is at 1.38v. where is your memory running at in regards to frequency?
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1. September 2008 @ 13:53 |
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0.025 for MCH and 0.05 for FSB voltage.
Currently on:
1.5125Vcore
+0.25 MCH
+0.25 FSB
+0.30 (2.2V) RAM (I thought +0.3 would be 2.1, but it isn't)
CPU at 395x9 - this is the highest I can even get windows to boot at, and 3dmark won't pass, Linpack testing certainly won't. Windows doesn't even boot at 3.6, and I'm not going any higher with the Vcore.
4x1GB is definitely a problem at this OC though, as merely setting 4-4-4-12 timings below the memory's rated speed of 800, the system doesn't even POST.
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1. September 2008 @ 14:05 |
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yep I agree. looks like ur 4 x 1gb sticks of ram are holding you back. you can always take a couple sticks out and try it.
1.5v NB and 1.45V FSB is getting a little high for my liking. probably going to raise the temps more than you would like to see, especially if the NB HS hasn't been modded with AS5 or equivelent.
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1. September 2008 @ 14:05 |
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sammorris,
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I doubt it will change in the future as I'm pretty sure Gigabyte boards overclocked like this even going back to the 965P days.
Yes it was. My attitude toward that is "so what"! The GA-965P-DS3 V. 1.33 was the very best of all the 965P motherboards. In a heads up test of 7 P35 motherboards, the only one that beat it was It's big younger brother, the GA-P35-DQ6! It was the easiest overclock of my life! Great Motherboard, and a true legend! Saved GigaByte's ass, and kept them in business!
Russ
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1. September 2008 @ 14:26 |
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You had a DQ6? I don't even remember that, I only recall the DS3R. What was it like?
Mort: Thanks for providing the 'real world' voltages for NB/FSB. I know it's all relative, but that does take a weight off my mind. Rather a good idea about using two sticks actually, I may have to try that.
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1. September 2008 @ 15:40 |
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sammorris,
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You had a DQ6? I don't even remember that, I only recall the DS3R. What was it like?
LOL!! I wish! it was one of the 8 P35 motherboards Tom's used it the tests. The P35-DQ6 finished just ahead of the 965P-DS3. It was the only P35 to beat the GA-965P-DS3. I've linked the tests a couple of times before, but can no longer find it. In all fairness, these tests were run very early in the P35's run and I'm sure that the current crop of P35 motherboards have improved enough to beat any 965P. Still, at the time it was interesting to see the older tech beating the new!
Best Regards,
Russ
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1. September 2008 @ 15:41 |
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Interesting, yes. That's almost accepted as fact these days...
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2. September 2008 @ 07:40 |
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4. September 2008 @ 09:31 |
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4. September 2008 @ 09:41 |
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Apart from the much nicer voltage section, that BIOS looks similar to my board, but clearer laid out. They're all bunched together in one page on my board... :P
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4. September 2008 @ 09:49 |
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yea its layed out pretty well i think just about each thing you can open up and something is there.
there is way more here than with the GA-P35-DS3R or GA-EP35C-DS3R.
id say in the DRAM timing selectable is where i can tighten up my mem. but when i go in and change it to 4-4-4-12 it wont post. it will only start fans and suchj then shut down then do it again and again.
think im gonna try a little more OC. 3.8 and see what i get
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4. September 2008 @ 09:51 |
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I get exactly the same with my board. I assume it was because I couldn't use 4 sticks of RAM and overclock at once, but perhaps not...
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4. September 2008 @ 10:04 |
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that makes since for your situation. ive heard it is harder t oOC with 4 sticks of ram compared to 2 sticks.
well i took it up to 3.8ghz.
it fired right up no problem the only thing i changed was i added +.10v to mch took it from 1.10v to 1.20v.
in the bios i could have taken it up to 1.16v so there is some smaller amounts i can adjust.
i left the vcore in auto. im going to run intelburntest now.
EDIT:
well after failing intel. i tried OCCT. after a few mins. i get code 4 error. which is a ram error. i did bump up the vcore from 1.225 to 1.275
EDIT #2
well i put all settings back to auto. bumped the OC to 3.7ghz. passed intelburntest easy.
running OCCT now.
3.7ghz
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4. September 2008 @ 11:53 |
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I know a lot of people think it's bull but I think there is definitely something to be said for a burn in period. My E6320 would refuse to boot above 3ghz when I first tried overclocking, so I ran it at 2.83, then about 3 weeks later got it to 2.99 then about a month later and 3.01, and with less voltage.
Just about to get my first Gigabyte board, EP35-DS3L for the front room. Want to o/c a E4300 to 3ghz, but with the energy saving feature too. Think it's a big ask but I'm gonna give it a go!
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4. September 2008 @ 11:55 |
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It can also work in reverse though.
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4. September 2008 @ 11:58 |
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Yeah sure, if you are over-volting the back out of it then it will degrade over time, but if you are working within the spec then I certainly found that you could nudge it up and keep it stable over time at speeds you just couldn't get at the start, no matter what settings you used.
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