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19. September 2007 @ 23:54 |
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NuckNFuts,
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Excuzzi, but what one of you had a goood break down on the temps of these C2D' as far as the CPU temp v/s the core 1 & 2?
I've found the cores to run about 8-12C higher than the CPU temp. If I switch to the F11 bios for my DS3, it narrows it to a 5-6C difference but the CPU temp goes up, making my HSF run faster when it's not really necessary! I'm happier with the F10 bios since the core temps remain the same, either way!
Congrats on your very nice OC! 3.8GHz is very nice indeed! This confirms what I've been saying about the E6750! The E6750 is the best budget chip around right now, with the most bang for the buck! Can't wait until I can get one to put in my DS3!
Clock On,
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20. September 2007 @ 01:52 |
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20. September 2007 @ 02:10 |
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crowy,
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Anyone considering a C2D build in the next week or so might consider waiting to see what AMD are up to?!!I thought Phenom was coming in December??
According to what I read in AMD's press release yesterday, this will be a 2.0Ghz Barcelona! They also found a use for quad-core chips where one core fails! They have a 3 core chip coming out too! LOL!! That should be pretty interesting as being all on die, and with the memory controller on the chip, they should be able to have as much cache memory as the Quad chip considering that AMD's cache is fully integrated and fully accessible from any core!
It's all pretty much server stuff anyway! It won't be able to compete with the C2D until the speed gets over 2.6GHz or higher! That's all they talked about in the interview with the head guy!
Clock On,
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20. September 2007 @ 02:21 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
crowy,
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Anyone considering a C2D build in the next week or so might consider waiting to see what AMD are up to?!!I thought Phenom was coming in December??
According to what I read in AMD's press release yesterday, this will be a 2.0Ghz Barcelona! They also found a use for quad-core chips where one core fails! They have a 3 core chip coming out too! LOL!! That should be pretty interesting as being all on die, and with the memory controller on the chip, they should be able to have as much cache memory as the Quad chip considering that AMD's cache is fully integrated and fully accessible from any core!
It's all pretty much server stuff anyway! It won't be able to compete with the C2D until the speed gets over 2.6GHz or higher! That's all they talked about in the interview with the head guy!
Clock On,
theone :>)
Russ,the Barcelona(server chip)@2GHZ was released on september 10.
I couldn't imagine advertising like this being aimed at the server market?
Not to mention the snake in the advertising(I read somewhere that Phenom is pronounced venom for some reason??)
Let's keep our fingers crossed.
Regards,Crowy
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20. September 2007 @ 02:40 |
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Russ,the Barcelona(server chip)@2GHZ was released on september 10.
Unless the head guy at AMD made a mistake, he said that the Barcelona started shipping on the 10th and would be released on the 25th! Everything AMD is doing right now is aimed at the server market. It's where the real money is! That's why Intel left us in the boonies for so long. The server market became their first priority. They were losing market share. It appears AMD has an answer for that! Because of the way AMD integrates multiple CPUs it's a cheaper and better solution for the server market! Intel will have to make a true quad core and much better memory management before they can match what AMD is capable of providing that market! AMD's been ready for years, it's just been a question of when the true Quad Core would be available. AMD's saving grace may well be their fully integrated, on chip memory controller!
Besides, the C2D was the answer to a question that had never been asked! When you consider that the few people involved could have very well been fired for continuing to develop the P-III Coppermine technology, in spite being told to shut it down. That may go down in the history of CPU development as the best kept secret ever! And it was only a handfull of people involved! Amazing!!
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20. September 2007 @ 03:33 |
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Hi Everyone, Can anyone lend a hand to a newbie, I wish to overclocking my system. I've included my specs at the bottom, I would appreciate any help or suggestions as to how I can improve the speed of my rig. Also explinations as to what all the Bios settings do like, C.I.A.2,
CPU Express Freq, System Memory Multiplyer etc would be great. Many thanks in advance.
Gigabyte 965P-S3 Motherboard
Dual Core E6700
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20. September 2007 @ 03:49 |
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sheeny33,
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Also explinations as to what all the Bios settings do like, C.I.A.2,
First thing to do is to forget about C.I.A.2. All that is, is a bios preset overclock utility! Leave it turned off!
When you have it overclocked to where you want it, turn on C1E in the setup and you should be in good shape. Don't enable Speedstep either!
If you could give us a bit more info on your rig, like memory brand, model and timings and the brand and specs on your power supply, it would be most helpful! Also what are you using to cool the CPU and what kind of case is it all in? Maybe you could give us links to that info!
Best Regards,
theone :>}
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20. September 2007 @ 04:29 |
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Yeah fans are one of the things that get changed most often from brand to brand, the stock Radeon X1900XT fan sounded ridiculous (think the vibration noise my silverstones made at full theone, but double the pitch, and don't decrease the volume), but yet it was fine when i unscrewed it from the cooler, guess it was the vibration mounts. The HIS ICEQ cooler on the other hand is quiet and acceptable.
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20. September 2007 @ 04:40 |
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sammorris,
That's part of the reason I've stuck with XFX all these years! They seem to have done the best job of getting it right! I've had very little problems or complaints over the years, with their products. I've always prefered nVidia to Ati cards to begin with. I still do!
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20. September 2007 @ 04:58 |
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Brand preference is fine when they're all much the same items just built to varying degrees of quality, I've stuck with Sapphire all these years with good results, but preference to one tech brand seems a little odd. I had a Radeon 9200 when you had an FX5200, and it would have kicked your FX in unpleasant places! Now of course, nvidia have the clear lead, but I try not to be closed minded to what's best, rather than what I've 'stuck with'. It so happens my last four cards have all been ATI, but for sound reasons. My friend Nick is the same, he's had several ATis, but we would both happily buy an 8800GTX if we had the money (he also happens to have a Radeon X1900 PCIe, but the XT-X version)
I have had a Geforce card in the past, and had no issues with it, but to be fair I didn't know enough to notice back then, I was very proud of my 'Geforce 4' at the time, before i found out that it was slower than not only any other Geforce 4, but any Geforce 3! Oh well, at least i only paid £80 for it!
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20. September 2007 @ 05:09 |
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I got it a month before the price drops, otherwise I'm not THAT stupid, I would have opted for a E6750 lol. I'll post the temps when I get home.
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20. September 2007 @ 05:27 |
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sammorris,
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I had a Radeon 9200 when you had an FX5200, and it would have kicked your FX in unpleasant places!
You have to remember, I owned an FX5200 long before there was a Radeon 9200! My first one was PCI! My first nVidia card was ISA! LOL!! Before that it was Trident and Genoa that ruled video! That was back in the day when 1 MB of video memory was a lot!
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I got it a month before the price drops, otherwise I'm not THAT stupid, I would have opted for a E6750 lol.
I wasn't implying that you were stupid! I was just curious. Sometimes I tend to forget how quickly prices change. Seems like only yesterday that the 6750 came out! LOL!! It's only been 6 or 7 months since I've had my E4300! Gotta get my Crystal Ball fixed, that's all there is to it! LOL!!
Clock On,
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20. September 2007 @ 05:41 |
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I know you werent implying that, I was just ssaid that... well I dont know why I said it, but it wasn't because I thought you were calling me stupid.
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20. September 2007 @ 11:38 |
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Wow, the memories. I used to run Vodoo 3DFX on 1st gen PCI with double stack. The origional Crossfire method. I also ran the early GeForse Riva TNT2 when new and later the MX4000 (great OC'r in their day). But moved to ATI 9800 8X Pro for integration with the new TV Wonder on my 1st P4C800. I had the nVidai FX5900 Ultra on my AMD and found I realy love them top end nVidai cards for good OC stability and upgradability. I still have it running on the P4C800 today but the TV Wonder is falling more out dated. My older TV Wonder doesn't even offer any XP driver support & can just barelt use the Rage Pro I had then to. The MX4000 is still running in an OC'd P3 and looks good.
But now I'm still on the older nV 7950 SLI set and wanna move to a single 8800 if any money left from this project. but I'd go for the Audigy on PCI-E first as I'm more of an audio guy.
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20. September 2007 @ 11:52 |
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You have to remember, I owned an FX5200 long before there was a Radeon 9200!
Try me, january 2004 is when I got mine, and the PC was built several months before that because it was an ex-display model, they both came out at pretty much the same time. Radeon 9200s were mostly PCI, AGP was a luxury really.
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I built my P4 Northwood 3.2 in June of 2K3 and the Redeon 9800 AGP 8X Pro was already out. In fact it was my 1st and then the FX5900 Ultra by the end of the year, but I got it for my 1st AMD A64 (s754). It is a great card (ATI) and I stil have it on an old Abit IC7-MAX3 & P4 3.4E Prescott. Nicely enough, that mobo was Prescott read in late Jan of '04 when I dropped it in. My P4C800-E w/ same core needed a BIOS flash.
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20. September 2007 @ 19:46 |
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My first video card is a 7600 GT yay! I don't know if my first pc(Pentium mmx 233 mhz) had a video card or not, but I've pretty much been using integrated graphics before now.
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20. September 2007 @ 21:19 |
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To All,
No laughing now!!! My first build in 1989 was an AMD 386/33. Why AMD? Because Intel only had a 25MHz Chip and AMD had a 33 and was about 25% faster and it was cheaper! LOL!! It had a Trident video card with 512 MB of ram! Double LOL!!! I bought this huge card from some company called Ad-Lib for sound! The computer had 1 MB of memory and 256K of on board cache! The Monitor was 600x800 (Windows Standard) and cost about $300! The hard drive was a WD 40 MB! I thought I had died and gone to Heaven! ROFL!!!
EDIT due to faulty memory! LOL!!
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20. September 2007 @ 21:37 |
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My first PC was an IBM back in 1992. It was an Intel 25MHz chip (can't remember if it was 8086) with a trident video card, 85MB HDD (still working to this very day) and 6MB of RAM at $2000!!! I added 4MB of RAM my self at $300! And to think, 1GB isn't even over $100 now.
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Hi theonejrs & Everyone Else,
You'll all have to forgive me for the long delay in replying, I'm on Australian time!. Anyway, heres my rig specs in more detail:
Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Case
Seagate 320gig 7200RPM SATA-II 16M cache Hard Drive
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 MotherBoard
CoolerMaster IGreen Power 600W PSU
Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 - 2.670Ghz (1066FSB/LGA775/4MB Cache)
X2 Kingston DDRII800 1GB RAM (1024 MBytes+0+1024 MBytes+0) (Module: 1+2+3+4)
Bios: Award Software International, Inc. Version:F9
Like I said before I'm somewhat of a newbie when it comes to overclocking so I would appreciate any information at all on how to go about overclocking this rig without blowing it up!, A step by step guide would be good or an explination of what settings do in the bios.
Many Thanks in advance.
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21. September 2007 @ 08:36 |
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sheeny33,
Looks like you made some good choices! Nice case! I'm glad you bought the one with the side vent instead of the clear window case. Makes for better ventilation all around as the clear window has no vent or fan! I also noticed what appears to be two 9 bladed fans on the rear. They look suspiciously like my Silverstones. Maybe they make them for GigaByte!
Anyway! I would put it all together and let it run for several hours at stock speeds (my preference, as I've learned that patience has it's own rewards). Gives it a chance to burn in a bit and make sure everything is working correctly. I would leave the bios alone and not flash it to the latest, for now! Being that your MB is almost the same as mine, I would recommend the F10 bios if you encounter any problems, depending what bios revision comes with it! Once you have established that everything works properly, then you can go into the setup and start making some changes. My first stop would be at 3.0GHz. Raise the base fsb to 300 (300MHz x 10=3.0GHz) and set the memory multiplier so the memory is running as close to 800MHZ as possible.
It's all easier than it sounds! basically you are trying to ultimately find the limits of the CPU and keep the memory close to stock speeds and timings. Keep an eye on your temps, and I would strongly recommend a 40mm fan for the Northbridge heat sink! I use a Silenex 6 cfm, blowing down into the heat sink. I've tried it on my DS3 both ways and blowing down works best!
Once everything runs all right at 3.0GHz, Go into your setup and make sure Speedstep, CIA2, and EIST are disabled! Then you can make small increases in the fsb until you either get too high a CPU temp or the system becomes unstable. You may have to raise the CPU voltage a bit, but I don't recommend going over 1.40v. I'm sure you will have more questions, but I'm just trying to cover the basics. It's all a question of balance between the fsb, memory speed and timings, voltage and temperatures. You should have no difficulty getting to 3.40GHz and perhaps higher. I've tried to keep this as simple as possible, so it shouldn't be difficult This should at least get you started! Good Luck!
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Great Post Theone!, Big thankyou.
Im going to try it out in the morning!, in the meantime....
Can anyone find out what my Kingston DDRII800 1GB RAM rating & Timing is. the product code is (KVR800D2N5/1G). I've looked everywhere and cant find any mention of timings or rating.
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21. September 2007 @ 09:29 |
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Sheeny
CPUZ can show the timing tables in the DIMM, and you can get
some info from there. Try the SPD tab and see if there is more
than one set of numbers.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
If you set the overall memory timings to manual, but leave the
individual settings at Auto, then the BIOS may do the math for
itself. Then check CPUZ later, to see what the memory is being
run with (memory tab). Basically, you'd be selecting DDR2-800
with the memory on Manual, but leaving tCL,tRCD,tRP,tRAS at Auto,
so the BIOS can work it out.
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21. September 2007 @ 09:30 |
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sheeny33,
I highly recommend a good aftermarket performance cpu hsf (zalman cnps 9700, zalman cnps 9500, arctic freezer 7 pro) especially if OC'ing but even if you don't. the oem cpu hsf's aren't too woopy and will hold you back temp wise on your OC. as you increase the vcore (which will be required as you raise the cpu freq) the cpu temp will also increase. make sure your dram voltage is set correct and lock the PCIe freq to 100 if using a vid. card.
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21. September 2007 @ 09:39 |
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sheeny33,
If I were you, I would see if I could exchange that Kingston memory for something like this! Tell them you misread something, anything to get them to exchange it! It will be worth the few days wait! These are 2x1 GB cas4 with timings of 4-4-4-12 and are about 25% faster stock than the Kingston memory you have!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231087
The price is right and I know it works well and seems to be prefered by a lot of buyers of these motherboards! If you are going to overclock, cas4 is the way to go!
I even went to the Kingston site and all they say is cas5. They don't even list the timings. I'm not a big Kingston fan to begin with. Too many bad experiences back in the old days! This is my first experience with G.Skil memory and it won't be my last! I'm very pleased with it's performance!
Clock On,
theone :>)
GigaByte 990FXA-UD5 - AMD FX-8320 @4.0GHz @1.312v - Corsair H-60 liquid CPU Cooler - 4x4 GB GSkill RipJaws DDR3/1866 Cas8, 8-9-9-24 - Corsair 400-R Case - OCZ FATAL1TY 550 watt Modular PSU - Intel 330 120GB SATA III SSD - WD Black 500GB SATA III - WD black 1 TB Sata III - WD Black 500GB SATA II - 2 Asus DRW-24B1ST DVD-Burner - Sony 420W 5.1 PL-II Suround Sound - GigaByte GTX550/1GB 970 Mhz Video - Asus VE247H 23.6" HDMI 1080p Monitor
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