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The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!
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7. September 2008 @ 20:35 |
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Are you considering something like a 9650 soph? I would be interested to see what sort of speeds one of those could make 'genuinely stable' on water...
Yes, I'm just having a hard time trying to justify an extra $200 orver the Q9550 for a .5 gain in clock multiplier (117 MHz). It's tempting the daylights out of me because I feel confident that 3.7 to 3.8 GHz stable is a real possibility, and maybe even more with the new stepping. The Q9650 is exactly the same as the QX9650 but without the unlocked multiplier. I've been hoping that Nehalem will result in reduced prices but I suspect that won't happen any time soon.
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7. September 2008 @ 20:38 |
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Very understandable, after all I chose the cheapest quad of all because I couldn't justify the extra cost...
I'm really glad I got those expensive bits when I did, the dollar is rising fast, which will hurt PC parts.
At one stage, $200 would set you back about £97. It's been hovering around £102-£103 until the last month or so, it's now a whopping £114...
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7. September 2008 @ 22:26 |
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the most CPU intensive thing i do is play games, so if it can play cod4/do 3dmark vantage/06 (just for fragsoc :D) them ill be happy with its stability.
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9. September 2008 @ 13:16 |
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speaking of stabilty. check this out.
with a little help from my friends...lol
the only thing i dont see in my bios is a place to adjust volts to fsb/nb
my idle temps before this OC(which was at 3.6ghz) was in the range of 39-42c now its 41-44c. which is great i think with the increase in volts.
in cpu-z it shows my volts as 1.392v. in everest and OCCT it is 1.36v. so anywhere in there im happy with and as high as im takeing it.
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9. September 2008 @ 13:26 |
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Good job! :)
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9. September 2008 @ 13:33 |
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9. September 2008 @ 14:43 |
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I ran that Linkpak 10 times and it failed on the 9th one :(
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9. September 2008 @ 16:49 |
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abuzar1,
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I ran that Linkpak 10 times and it failed on the 9th one :(
Considering the way it hammers the CPU, I doubt that anybodies would make 9 straight passes without failure. I don't like it as it beats the hell out of the CPU! Solid state devices don't take kindly to that kind of treatment! That's why OCCT brings the power up gently! It's not good for the CPU, or any solid state device to pound it like that!
Just my opinion!
Russ
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9. September 2008 @ 17:07 |
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Rob
I see that your memory is set to 797 MB. If you have 2 MB installed try it with the default setting for memory.
Russ
It's not all that bad I ran it successfully 10 times with 2 GB of memory. The big question for me is once I get a quad core how well will it run.
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9. September 2008 @ 17:15 |
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Yeah that was a Q6600 at 3.6Ghz and 4GB of ram...
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9. September 2008 @ 18:02 |
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Sophocles,
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It's not all that bad I ran it successfully 10 times with 2 GB of memory. The big question for me is once I get a quad core how well will it run.
To me it's just funny that a lot of the Hi Tech stuff I work on go to great lengths to keep from pounding the electronics that way. Memories of the old Hybrid Tube/Transistor car radios comes to mind, as they used to pound the power transistors pretty bad which almost always meant sooner or later that smoke signals would be coming out of the dash! All of the microprocessor circuitry in MRI, Cat Scan and X-ray imaging have pre-heat circuitry to prevent blowing out the electronics, as you can imagine the load! LOL!!
Judging by the performance of all the Quad cores here to date, I would think that any Quad you do will run very well! Time and patience has it's rewards, and you are a patient person!
I'm going to wait and see what happens to the price of the present Quads. Given the prices Intel released a couple of weeks ago for Core i7, I suspect I will be able to get a Q9450 or a Q9550 for under $200 that drops right into my DS3R!
Russ
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9. September 2008 @ 18:15 |
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Memories of the old Hybrid Tube/Transistor car radios comes to mind, as they used to pound the power transistors pretty bad which almost always meant sooner or later that smoke signals would be coming out of the dash!
I would've thought that memories of your relatively more recent 3 phase gigabyte along with your D940 would've sufficed. LMAO
You did indeed go after 4 GHz! Here that Rob? And with older technology.
Right now some of my stuff is disassembled and waiting for a home. I might have a sale for my E6600 system which should fund me a Quad core and perhaps a a couple of more miscellaneous pieces.
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9. September 2008 @ 18:56 |
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Let me know when you do, I might be interested.
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9. September 2008 @ 19:14 |
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Originally posted by Sophocles:
You did indeed go after 4 GHz! Here that Rob? And with older technology.
what do ya mean Soph? yes i got it to 4.0ghz it is running nicely right now.
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9. September 2008 @ 19:21 |
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I don't really have a problem with IBT like I do Orthos or OCCT as it doesn't stress your system that hard for long enough to be worth worrying about. It's a very good means of testing if your system is stable in a short period of time.
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9. September 2008 @ 19:29 |
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Sophocles,
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I would've thought that memories of your relatively more recent 3 phase gigabyte along with your D940 would've sufficed. LMAO
I've never had a 3 phase GigaByte MB! Both the GA-965P-DS3 R. 1.33 and my current GA-P35-DS3R R. 2.0 have 6 phase power regulation! The P5P800SE had 3 phase!
Russ
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9. September 2008 @ 19:29 |
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Really? I thought the 965P-DS3 was 3 phase...
edit: Looking around it looks like the earlier versions were, but later revisions were 6 phase...
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9. September 2008 @ 19:41 |
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sammorris,
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Really? I thought the 965P-DS3 was 3 phase...
Only the 965p-ds3 revision 1.0 had 3 phase power regulation. All the revisions (2) after that had 6 phase!
Happy Computering,
Russ
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9. September 2008 @ 19:56 |
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Only the 965p-ds3 revision 1.0 had 3 phase power regulation. All the revisions (2) after that had 6 phase!
Russ, now you know that you started with an earlier version and that you didn't get to a newer version until after two or three RMA's later (have the posts to back that statement up). Remember that both Donald and I had the same board, and I still have mine (until I sell it with an E6600).
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9. September 2008 @ 20:17 |
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Sophocles,
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Russ, now you know that you started with an earlier version and that you didn't get to a newer version until after two or three RMA's later (have the posts to back that statement up). Remember that both Donald and I had the same board, and I still have mine (until I sell it with an E6600).
I never had a GA-965P-DS3 revision 1.0, only the revision 1.33 which had 6 phase power regulation and support for the 1333 fsb! I only RMA'd the GA-P35-DS3R Revision 1 because when it got cold here it would cycle through the post and reset endlessly unless I warmed it up with a hair dryer. The Revision 2.0 I got was messed up by the person they delivered it to, and it took re-flashing the bios to straighten it out. Still runs fine. You have to go to the International site for the 965P-DS3 R. 1.33, as that model was not readily available in the US. The Revision here was 3.33!
Respectfully,
Russ
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10. September 2008 @ 17:25 |
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what do ya mean Soph? yes i got it to 4.0ghz it is running nicely right now.
I was just kidding and nothing was meant by it. I was just reflecting back a couple of years ago on an old post.
I'm just sitting by contemplating purchasing yet another processor. What's interesting is that I always find a reason for it, and it always seems legitimate at the time. LOL
I would've purchased the the Q9550 by now but I can't get my mind off of the Q9650's which I hear are all using the new EO Revision (sometimes referred to as stepping).
Abuzar1
I realize that not everyone desires super stability, but when encoding a movie that takes 7 to 12 hours you will learn that in time that genuine stability is better than the frustration of starting over.
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Let me know when you do, I might be interested
I already have a decent offer for it and I'm just waiting for confirmation (money in hand). If I have anything that I have an urge to sell online you guys will be tops on my list.
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10. September 2008 @ 17:37 |
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I'd probably go with that being a personal scenario. A lot of people would make light of it at first, but when something like that does happen to them and wastes their time, or ruins a particularly good round in an online game etc. they'll never want to have an unstable system again. I like knowing my PC passes a burntest at the settings it runs at, a nice sort of 'peace of mind'...
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10. September 2008 @ 17:41 |
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ive never needed to encode, and wont be, so for ME, so logn as it played games stable, then for me its stable.
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10. September 2008 @ 17:43 |
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Yes, but what if it's stable 99.95% of the time, but once you randomly get a crash after a long gaming session when things are going well? Enough PC-related things go wrong, it's not worth making any more...
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10. September 2008 @ 17:44 |
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if it goes wrong, then its my bad for not spend more time testing while gaming
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