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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
What are boot times like for people running XP Pro SP2 with a Q6600, and how many times does the blue progress bar thingie go round on the Windows boot screen ?
I can't do any timings at the moment because I'm waiting for my new monitor to come, but when I did initial testing at 3.24GHz, the blue bar thingie went round about 4 or 5 times. Is this normal or is something slowing my machine down during boot ?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
My q6600 G0 is loading that blue bar Xp sp2 about 4-6 times and Vista Ultimate the same,
So Ithing it is normal :)
What temps do you have on your Q6600 @ 3.24Ghz ? What stepping is it ? thanks
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
I'm getting about 62C after a few hours of Prime95 on all 4 cores with a G0 stepping. I have some testing and tweaking to do regarding thermal paste application, and possibly lapping my HSF. From my initial testing at higher speeds, the CPU does seem to be stable once given enough vCore but the temps do start to rise. With an improvement to my cooling (through tweaking), I hope to get 3.4GHz with load temps less than 60C.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Defenestration
What are boot times like for people running XP Pro SP2 with a Q6600, and how many times does the blue progress bar thingie go round on the Windows boot screen ?
I can't do any timings at the moment because I'm waiting for my new monitor to come, but when I did initial testing at 3.24GHz, the blue bar thingie went round about 4 or 5 times. Is this normal or is something slowing my machine down during boot ?
Zak did a boot time thread a while back check it out some hints and tips in there...
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Clunk
Speedfan.
Clunk, u know what the AUX temp is on Speedfan? Mine has a fire symbol and is 127C:crazy:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
In speedfan 127 is the default no reading available isn't it?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Its just a speedfan quirk, ignore it.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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[GSV]Trig
Zak did a boot time thread a while back check it out some hints and tips in there...
Thanks! Very interesting the IDE drive slowed down the boot time so much, and amazing that the blue bar only went round 1/2 time with only a single drive.
I have a couple of WD HD's and an old IDE DVD writer, so I've got some more testing to do when my monitor arrives :)
To save others from searching: http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=108431
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Clunk - How come I can't Thank you in the Core 2 Duo OC thread (ie. there is no "thank user button") ?
Is it because it's a sticky, or too old ?
To make up for it, I've thanked you in this thread instead :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
No idea about that sorry. Have you already left thanks or something? that would explain it?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Not in that thread. I just thought to do it now, but no button was present
PS. Thanks for getting my thanks total off the ground.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
One stupid question.
How do crossfire works ?
Can I put to different type cards together ?
Like HD2600pro with X1650 Pro
thanks and sorry to ask the questions like this
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
well since ur talking about everything why not talk about ram? thats important too right? :D
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
I just asked the question if you don't know the answer don't answer...
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
sorry :S as far as i know they have to be the same, i think ati dropped master and slave tho right?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
that one 1650 is slave and 2600 can be master and slave, so if 1650 can be just slave, so how can I put the same cards together if they are both slaves ?
Hmm. please help me where can I get some information about it or something.
Thanks, and sorry for that post above :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
http://ati.amd.com/technology/crossf...rt_Aug07-1.jpg from that i think only cards in the same range are compatible like an 2600xt and a 2600 pro
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
So interesting thing, If I have slave now, how do I get the same card but master ?
Or I can put 2 slaves together ? Does not make sense :/
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
You are going way off topic here, its probably best if you start a thread about crossfire, saves clogging this one up :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Anyway, does the ram matter when overclocking? and what do u recomend im getting, im buying a q6600 g0 and im going with a p5k deluxe which seems to be a good motherboard but im stuck with ram, i was thinking of OCZ
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Spector
Anyway, does the ram matter when overclocking? and what do u recomend im getting, im buying a q6600 g0 and im going with a p5k deluxe which seems to be a good motherboard but im stuck with ram, i was thinking of OCZ
you are looking for two things, low latency and RAM that will do at least PC6400. my RAM has reasonable latency at 4-4-4-12, but you can do better.
Hope that helps. If you've spotted something that takes your fancy, then post a link and we can comment.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
None of those, go for Crucial Ballistix, the RMA service is excellent. I returned a set last tuesday and on thursday a brand new set arrived back to me.
All of the above will need shipping out of the UK for RMA if you go direct to the manufacturer for warranty, which you should because Aria are horrendous.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Well, anything much beyond PC6400 is probably overkill unless you are seriously planning on seriously increasing your FSB speed. My machine is running at 3.42GHz and I'm still running within my RAM's PC6400 specs.
The 2GB DIMMs tend to have lower latencies, so do you really need 4GB of RAM?
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
are they that bad?:/ i wanted to go with scan but they are out of stock for most of what i want, i dont really need 4gb im just trying to plan ahead since i wont be buying anything for 9 months lol, i guess ill go with corsair, it was just another option since ocz seems to have 5-5-5-15 on most of their memory on aria
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Well the sweety spot for mine is 3.4ghz 1.375v in bios primed it for 6hrs with round error checking enabled....did try it first @ 3.5ghz 1.45ghz in bios.....failed after 2 and a half hours guess it needs a bit more vcore....but @ 3.4ghz with the board vdroop it is within intel's max and i am happy with my o/c atm.... low vore, great temps and air cooled what more can you ask for and all on my old Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 (rev. 1.0)...so no need to buy a new board which i thought i would have been buying.:mrgreen:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Hi, I'm a complete overclocking n00b, especially with respect to the Core 2 CPUs and mobos. So, a few questions you might be able to help with :)
Firstly, my system is:
Mobo: IP35 Pro
CPU: Q6600 G0
CPU cooler: Thermaltake Big Typhoon 120VX
RAM: OCZ PC8500 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 (@2.3 Volts)
GFX: Inno3d 8800 GTS 640MB (factory OC'd)
First off, I'm not looking for an extreme overclock... just around the 3GHz mark, so my CPU cooler isn't too noisy as I'm gonna be running grid jobs 24/7 on all 4 cores. I've currently got all this running at 2.7 GHz by just bumping the FSB up from 266 to 300 (x9 multiplier), and the RAM is on the 1:1.66 ratio, so the ram is running at about ~1000 MHz.
Now when I bump up the FSB to 320MHz so the CPU will be at 2.88 GHz and the RAM at it's rated frequency of ~1066MHz, the computer won't boot. However, if I put the RAM back to it's 1:1 ratio, it'll boot fine. Why is this?
By the way, temps are all ok so far... Max core temp (using latest CoreTemp with correct Tjunction) with all cores fully loaded is about 50C, with the fan only at 1000 RPM.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
I've never tried to run at non 1:1 speeds since the days of Durons ;)
You might want to try moving your MCH voltage up a few notches but thats a pure guess, although it wouldn't hurt anything to try :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Yes... I remember getting screwed over by my last AMD chip not liking non 1:1 ratios. Took me a long time to work out why it was unstable...doh!
Surely that's not the case with Core2s right?!
Will give the MCH voltage a try and let you know :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Fraz
Hi, I'm a complete overclocking n00b, especially with respect to the Core 2 CPUs and mobos. So, a few questions you might be able to help with :)
Firstly, my system is:
Mobo: IP35 Pro
CPU: Q6600 G0
CPU cooler: Thermaltake Big Typhoon 120VX
RAM: OCZ PC8500 1066MHz 5-5-5-15 (@2.3 Volts)
GFX: Inno3d 8800 GTS 640MB (factory OC'd)
First off, I'm not looking for an extreme overclock... just around the 3GHz mark, so my CPU cooler isn't too noisy as I'm gonna be running grid jobs 24/7 on all 4 cores. I've currently got all this running at 2.7 GHz by just bumping the FSB up from 266 to 300 (x9 multiplier), and the RAM is on the 1:1.66 ratio, so the ram is running at about ~1000 MHz.
Now when I bump up the FSB to 320MHz so the CPU will be at 2.88 GHz and the RAM at it's rated frequency of ~1066MHz, the computer won't boot. However, if I put the RAM back to it's 1:1 ratio, it'll boot fine. Why is this?
By the way, temps are all ok so far... Max core temp (using latest CoreTemp with correct Tjunction) with all cores fully loaded is about 50C, with the fan only at 1000 RPM.
At a guess, I would say that its just an unstable divider. That is assuming that your RAM is properly set to the correct voltage and timings.
Will it run at 1066Mhz with the CPU at 266?
Read the RAM part of the overclocking guide, theres info about this :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Clunk
At a guess, I would say that its just an unstable divider. That is assuming that your RAM is properly set to the correct voltage and timings.
Will it run at 1066Mhz with the CPU at 266?
Read the RAM part of the overclocking guide, theres info about this :)
Yup - works fine with the CPU at 266*9 and the RAM at 1066MHz. That's basically my "Not Overclocked" setup, and it works fine.
Will try turning up the MCH voltage when I get home, and see if that works.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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F3rAL
Good luck, don't go to far :)
Cheers. Not had much time in the last couple of days, so half the parts are still on the living room floor. Hopefully will get it sorted now the weekend's here.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Clunk
At a guess, I would say that its just an unstable divider. That is assuming that your RAM is properly set to the correct voltage and timings.
Whilst we're on the topic of dividers, for info...
Gigabyte P35-DS4 with Crucial Ballistic DDR2-800, memtest86 bandwidth figures:
400fsb, 2:1 (800fsb), 4-4-4-12: 4539MB/s
400fsb, 2.5:1 or 5:4 divider (1000fsb), 5-5-5-15: 5028MB/s
Gigabyte calls the divider 2.5:1, which is the same as 5:4, and it's 100% stable on this board for me. Running in sync is obviously also stable too, just slightly less bandwidth.
This Gigabyte P35-DS4 is looking really good at £30 less than the Asus P5K Deluxe.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
shaithis
You might want to try moving your MCH voltage up a few notches but thats a pure guess, although it wouldn't hurt anything to try :)
Yup - that worked like a charm. Thanks for the help :thumbsup:
I would thank you properly if only I could find the button...:confused:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Fraz
I would thank you properly if only I could find the button...:confused:
OT: You're not old enough. Maybe 25 posts is the critical number iirc - it's not very high in any case.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
daza
After a couple of hours on orthos it was 60c on every core and the pwm's were between 80c~85c,
Overclocked the memory aswell to 1134mhz.
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Sorry to bring this up from so long ago, but how did you measure the temps on the pwm's?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
I think on the Quad GT, there is a sensor.
If you have a fan controller with a temp sensor on it, you could just stick the probe on the side of the ram.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Clunk
I think on the Quad GT, there is a sensor.
If you have a fan controller with a temp sensor on it, you could just stick the probe on the side of the ram.
Well its the Pwm's I really want to check. Oww so its Mb dependant, right got it now. I do have 2 sensors that came with this Antec P160 case I am using, but as for its accuracy it cud me miles off who knows..
I just wanted to gauge how much headroom I wud have to overclock a Q6600 on this same setup, as the E6850 seems to run fine at 3.6Ghz. But its not a quad and afaik the pwms get really hot when Oc a quad and I wouldnt be using Wc just good old air
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Or I could just touch the Pwm heatsink, and if I hear a sizzling noise then I cud conclude that its too hot:O_o1:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
I'm not sure why yours would get hotter than everyone elses...but they do get hot.
If you are worried, dig out the P5K thread and have a look at the thermalright coolers that I fitted to mine.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Clunk
I'm not sure why yours would get hotter than everyone elses...but they do get hot.
If you are worried, dig out the P5K thread and have a look at the thermalright coolers that I fitted to mine.
O right, I thought that if you were gonna Oc a quad to lets say 3.0Ghz or a bit more, then you would have to have Wc on the Pwm's and perhaps the Nb.. Yeah the HR-09's are good but iirc they didnt fit properly without you using a clamp type thing.
If the standard cooling on the Mosfets can withstand a Oc'ed quad then its fine Tbh. Is that also true for the Nb?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
SadikP or Phil_P, I see you both use and recommend a Thermalright 120-Extreme which I intend to use to OC a Q6600 GO. Do u guys use just air cooling throughout? And do you have the normal heatsinks on the Mosfets and NB or do you have aftermarket coolers on there?
And what stable OC have you guys reached? Sorry bout all the questions but you 2 seem to have been succesful with a similar setup
Thanks
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Harkin
O right, I thought that if you were gonna Oc a quad to lets say 3.0Ghz or a bit more, then you would have to have Wc on the Pwm's and perhaps the Nb.. Yeah the HR-09's are good but iirc they didnt fit properly without you using a clamp type thing.
If the standard cooling on the Mosfets can withstand a Oc'ed quad then its fine Tbh. Is that also true for the Nb?
I havent used the stock coolers for the mosfets or the NB, but many other people have done.
Looking at them, I would say that they should do the job ok, but I wouldnt want to use them for anything that required major voltages.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
My CPU is overclocked and watercooled, but everything else is cooled with good old fashioned air. My Vcore is a bit over 1.4 (registers as 1.38V in speedfan, which is possibly questionable).
Anyway, my mosfets and north/southbridge are quite happy. The MOSFETs do get hot (you don't want to put a finger on them), but everything is stable.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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fat jez
My CPU is overclocked and watercooled, but everything else is cooled with good old fashioned air. My Vcore is a bit over 1.4 (registers as 1.38V in speedfan, which is possibly questionable).
Anyway, my mosfets and north/southbridge are quite happy. The MOSFETs do get hot (you don't want to put a finger on them), but everything is stable.
Cheers,
Stephen
Righto, looks like I'll be paying Scan a visit next week then:mrgreen:. Im gettin a Antec P182 with 2x120mm fans front and 2x120mm fans at the back so should be more than enough fresh air flowing over the board for a quad
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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D-BEAR
Well the sweety spot for mine is 3.4ghz 1.375v in bios primed it for 6hrs with round error checking enabled....did try it first @ 3.5ghz 1.45ghz in bios.....failed after 2 and a half hours guess it needs a bit more vcore....but @ 3.4ghz with the board vdroop it is within intel's max and i am happy with my o/c atm.... low vore, great temps and air cooled what more can you ask for and all on my old Gigabyte GA-965P-DS4 (rev. 1.0)...so no need to buy a new board which i thought i would have been buying.:mrgreen:
Oh well...could'nt leave it alone...so better make that 3.5ghz 1.45v.:mrgreen:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Apart from gaining higher benchmark scores does anyone actually benefit from overclocking even a Q6600? I got mine this week and it EATS everything - Mediacoder transcodes a full video in under 15 minutes flat and the average encode rate is 130fps when encoding to XViD @ 800kbps. Games are similar - I'm pushing 200fps average in Source alone on an 8800GTS.
Bioshock runs 50-70fps in DX10 mode (I don't play in dx9 mode :p)
I'm just wondering, it runs cool anyway at around 43 degrees on the stock cooler with the fan set to 50% power and rises to 45-50~ per core under full load. I also get 10,300 in 3dmark06 with a small OC on the gfx card.
I just find it a bit bizarre that people want to overclock these things like crazy when these chips rip apart everything to begin with! my philosophy on the matter is to have the quietest system possible but powerful and the stock cooler seems to do the trick and if in a years time Quad Core can do with a bit of an OC as the next gen gfx cards really push for it then this possibility is there! but only if it's needed of course.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Each to their own :) If it can go faster, without too much fuss, then why not? 10 mins (ish) is better than 15 mins right?
I will try mediacoder tomorrow while overclocked and see how it goes.
Bioshock runs well on this, I was expecting it to be a bit ropey, but so far, no problems at all.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Clunk
Each to their own :) If it can go faster, without too much fuss, then why not? 10 mins (ish) is better than 15 mins right?
I will try mediacoder tomorrow while overclocked and see how it goes.
Bioshock runs well on this, I was expecting it to be a bit ropey, but so far, no problems at all.
Be sure to get the optimisation pack for Intel (enables SSE3 etc) too for mediacoder :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mrk
Apart from gaining higher benchmark scores does anyone actually benefit from overclocking even a Q6600? I got mine this week and it EATS everything - Mediacoder transcodes a full video in under 15 minutes flat and the average encode rate is 130fps when encoding to XViD @ 800kbps.
Try encoding to h.264, say x264 via Megui. If you want a laugh use a profile such as HQSlower (which is far from being OTT as far as settings go)) & encode some 1080p material. Then come back & tell us your framerate :)
On my current old Athlon XP 3200+, HQSlow with SD material gets me about 6fps 2nd pass. I doubt a stock Q6600 will do more than about five or six times this rate, which allowing for the remaining encoding tasks is still only round about realtime. Higher quality with hi def material will be painfully slow but at least usable.
Now try using the machine to do a few other things at the same time. Still not see a reason to overclock?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mroz
Try encoding to h.264, say x264 via Megui. If you want a laugh use a profile such as HQSlower (which is far from being OTT as far as settings go)) & encode some 1080p material. Then come back & tell us your framerate :)
On my current old Athlon XP 3200+, HQSlow with SD material gets me about 6fps 2nd pass. I doubt a stock Q6600 will do more than about five or six times this rate, which allowing for the remaining encoding tasks is still only round about realtime. Higher quality with hi def material will be painfully slow but at least usable.
Now try using the machine to do a few other things at the same time. Still not see a reason to overclock?
And in which everyday scenario are you going to be encoding video at such high resolutions? gaming and benchmarking is one thing but using 1080p as an excuse for overclocking ? no chance of convincing there lol.
I'm not against it but using such a thing as an excuse like that is totally off because it's not an everyday scenario that 90% of the people here are going to be doing (if at all).
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mrk
And in which everyday scenario are you going to be encoding video at such high resolutions? gaming and benchmarking is one thing but using 1080p as an excuse for overclocking ? no chance of convincing there lol.
I'm not against it but using such a thing as an excuse like that is totally off because it's not an everyday scenario that 90% of the people here are going to be doing (if at all).
Lots of people (well, some :) ) archive tv programs & hd will play a bigger part in this as time moves on - there are already quite a few legit sources.
Video editing, processing & encoding is the main reason I've just bought a Q6600. You mention xvid; aside from transcoding for portable devices with low grunt or standalones, why still use xvid?
I doubt 90% of PC users do a lot of taxing video processing, but I imagine the proportion of users with high end machines who do is significant. I'm less sure about typical OC'ers, as I get the impression they're mostly gamers.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
XVID was used as an example as it's the most single common and high quality compressed format for video people download and playback on pcs or upscaling divx dvd players etc.- since nobody in the UK can record or archive any HD source (currently SKY etc) without it being an illegal activity I don't see how this plays part here :p - if someone has a HD camcorder then they encode to a compressed hd format on the device itself ready for playback or transcode to DVD etc.
I just did a DIVX transcode of a LOST ep using the HD1080 profile and managed 24fps using virtualdub via divx6/AC3. I think this is perfectly fine especially for the output you're getting.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mrk
And in which everyday scenario are you going to be encoding video at such high resolutions? gaming and benchmarking is one thing but using 1080p as an excuse for overclocking ? no chance of convincing there lol.
Hold your horses :)
You use your PC for gaming and benchmarking, don't mean everyone else does ;)
I do loads of 3D rendering, where the *only* thing that matters for output is CPU speed (providing the disks can keep up).
Last week I did a little benchmarking of my own. By overclocking, I shaved off around 1.5 seconds on a render. These renders were taking about 5 seconds each.
Now, these were due to be output at 60 frames per second (physics simulation), so that's 90 seconds saving, for each second of realtime footage. Take into consideration that the simulation was about 4 minutes long....
90s saving = 1 second realtime footage
5400s saving = 1 minute realtime footage
21600s saving = 4 minutes realtime footage, or 6 hours of rendering time to be saved.
That brings it down to 14 hours total rendering time, from 20 hours. For me, thats a big difference :)
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I'm not against it but using such a thing as an excuse like that is totally off because it's not an everyday scenario that 90% of the people here are going to be doing (if at all).
"90%" of people on here? This is an enthusiast forum though, it stands a good chance that people want the extra power for a reason?
Thats a very bold statement ;)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mrk
.....since nobody in the UK can record or archive any HD source (currently SKY etc) without it being an illegal activity I don't see how this plays part here :p .....
Ermmm.... what about people who render content from programs such as Maya, 3D Max, Blender ect.....
They can be higher than standard HD resolutions (720/1080) and are certainly not illegal.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mrk
XVID was used as an example as it's the most single common and high quality compressed format for video people download and playback on pcs or upscaling divx dvd players etc.
If you're encoding for pc playback & that hardware isn't ancient it'd be silly to encode with xvid, fine mpeg4 sp encoder that it is; h.264 is much nicer.
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- since nobody in the UK can record or archive any HD source (currently SKY etc) without it being an illegal activity I don't see how this plays part here :p
I wouldn't know tbh as I don't have access to a source but I thought there was a bbc test transmission? Is the legality of recording hd different to any other broadcast?
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- if someone has a HD camcorder then they encode to a compressed hd format on the device itself ready for playback or transcode to DVD etc.
I just did a DIVX transcode of a LOST ep using the HD1080 profile and managed 24fps using virtualdub via divx6/AC3. I think this is perfectly fine especially for the output you're getting.
It's probably a corollary of Parkinson's law or something similar - I tend to allow my activities to expand in complexity to make full use of the computing power available to me. I doubt I'll ever run out of ideas to explore which require more power than I have.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mrk
I just find it a bit bizarre that people want to overclock these things like crazy when these chips rip apart everything to begin with! my philosophy on the matter is to have the quietest system possible but powerful and the stock cooler seems to do the trick and if in a years time Quad Core can do with a bit of an OC as the next gen gfx cards really push for it then this possibility is there! but only if it's needed of course.
I do a lot of grid computing, and overclocking my Q6600 CPU by 25% means 25% more work units processed in a day. And for the price of a huge CPU cooler (£35), my system is running quieter and cooler than it would with the stock intel one. Frankly, for a investment of £35, it seems stupid NOT to overclock your CPU. I've effectively turned my Q6600 valued at £170 into a Q6850 valued at £680, all for the cost of a £35 uber CPU cooler. That's the best £35 I've ever spent frankly.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mrk
Apart from gaining higher benchmark scores does anyone actually benefit from overclocking even a Q6600? I got mine this week and it EATS everything - Mediacoder transcodes a full video in under 15 minutes flat and the average encode rate is 130fps when encoding to XViD @ 800kbps. Games are similar - I'm pushing 200fps average in Source alone on an 8800GTS.
Bioshock runs 50-70fps in DX10 mode (I don't play in dx9 mode :p)
I'm just wondering, it runs cool anyway at around 43 degrees on the stock cooler with the fan set to 50% power and rises to 45-50~ per core under full load. I also get 10,300 in 3dmark06 with a small OC on the gfx card.
I just find it a bit bizarre that people want to overclock these things like crazy when these chips rip apart everything to begin with! my philosophy on the matter is to have the quietest system possible but powerful and the stock cooler seems to do the trick and if in a years time Quad Core can do with a bit of an OC as the next gen gfx cards really push for it then this possibility is there! but only if it's needed of course.
A P.C. is not just for gaming and encoding.....As i put my idle pc to good use running WCG to benefit the world...with an extra 900mhz with a little increase in vcore, and a better cooler....it not only runs as cool as yours....but i get a lot more work done with my big free speed increase!....a bit silly not to really.:)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Okay, Deep Twit is finally up & running - stable at stock for about 24 hours, so now I'm venturing into overclocking. Vid's 1.2875. At stock, core temps were around 24 idle, 42 under load, with a 5 degree variation between cores.
Testing 8x400.
Tried Vcore of 1.2875 in bios, giving 1.248 idle dropping to 1.232 under load. Failed P95 within 10 minutes.
Upped it two notches to 1.3 (1.264 idle, 1.248 under load) & so far stable after three hours. Will leave it until the morning & if it passes, drop Vcore one notch & re test, before trying something higher, though tbh I can see me ending up running it at 8x400.
Core temps presently 47,44,44,47 all oscillating by about 1 degree up/down, so between 43 & 48 atm.
Ambient's been 23 to 24 all night.
A few questions:
My hsf is lapped. How many people would ever consider lapping their cpu ihs? My 4 to 5 degree variation between cores is bugging me.
What proportion of people found they could reduce this by twiddling the hsf mounting screws? I had to run it with the fan removed to do this - interesting to see the temps then gradually rise over half an hour to roughly stabilise around 60 under load. Anyhow, I couldn't close the gap. Tried both before & after adding foam under the hsf mounting bracket (which did stop the hsf twisting, thankfully).
Does anyone know how the four cores are physically laid out? Specifically, which core is where?
Coretemp: Is it known for reporting the wrong cpu speed? It's insisting mine's running at 450x8, when it's actually 400x8. This is with XP Pro SP2, 32 bit.
8x400 or 9x356? Any reason to go one way or the other, other than a fsb of 400 suiting PC6400?
Any info appreciated :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Cpu-z version 1.40.5 would be better to use for checking Cpu speed etc. Coretemp is good for temps
About adjusting the mounting screws, I've read Clunks prvious posts and he has had success doing it. It's better if you have P95 running while you are adjusting it, but it can be hard depending on what cooler you use.
(http://www.arcticsilver.com/pdf/appi..._quad_wcap.pdf) is where you can see where the cores are, taken from the 1st pag on Clunks quad thread:)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Harkin
Cpu-z version 1.40.5 would be better to use for checking Cpu speed etc. Coretemp is good for temps
Cpu-z is one of the other reasons I thought Coretemp was wrong, rather than the more usual suspect, me.
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About adjusting the mounting screws, I've read Clunks prvious posts and he has had success doing it. It's better if you have P95 running while you are adjusting it, but it can be hard depending on what cooler you use.
That is what I did, but like I said, I had to run it with the fan off to get at two of the screws. Interesting, but I couldn't reduce the temp gap. I imagine it only helps if the hsf is able to rock slightly. My hsf is flat so I'm guessing the ihs on the cpu is slightly concave, which would stop this technique working.
Thanks, but I've got that. I want to know where the cores are located inside those chips & which core is which. Just curious :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Does sound like your ihs is mucking things up a bit. Lapping works but usually doesn't improve things that much( few degrees at most), and plus it voids your Warranty so its up to you. It would flatten the ihs and make contact better though, personally I wouldn't do it, but thats just cos Im a scaredy cat:embarrassed:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Me too, but on the plus side I'm stupid ;)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Harkin
Lapping works but usually doesn't improve things that much( few degrees at most),
Lapping my IHS got me about an 8°C improvement. :) The exact figures are earlier in the thread. I also have a discrepancy between core temps and no amount of twiddling the nuts on my heatsink mounting has evened them out.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
fat jez
Lapping my IHS got me about an 8°C improvement. :) The exact figures are earlier in the thread. I also have a discrepancy between core temps and no amount of twiddling the nuts on my heatsink mounting has evened them out.
Cheers for the feedback. Did the IHS lapping kill the core temp differences?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Sorry for being lazy - found your post.
So, you saved up to 12C but temps were /very/ high before lapping, compared to other reports. Also, still a 4C variation after lapping between cores. Maybe in my case it's not worth it then. Thanks again.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Anyone care to comment on the 8x400 vs 9x356, if only to say it was a stupid question?
Deep Twit seems to be stable at 8x400 with Vcore of 1.3; now testing 1.29375
Another question. Does XP or Nvidia apply some sort of gfx card underclocking when the display blanks? I notice, from the graphs in Speedfan, when I come back to check on the machine & unblank the display, temps had been cycling in a stable pattern but then immediately begin to rise a degree or two before assuming the same pattern at this slightly elevated level.
I figure it must be gfx related so either the gpu has a nap or it's just down to the work the gpu is doing, however surely just displaying a mostly static XP desktop doesn't stress the card enough to put up the case temp 1 to 2 degrees?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mroz
Anyone care to comment on the 8x400 vs 9x356, if only to say it was a stupid question?
Deep Twit seems to be stable at 8x400 with Vcore of 1.3; now testing 1.29375
Another question. Does XP or Nvidia apply some sort of gfx card underclocking when the display blanks? I notice, from the graphs in Speedfan, when I come back to check on the machine & unblank the display, temps had been cycling in a stable pattern but then immediately begin to rise a degree or two before assuming the same pattern at this slightly elevated level.
I figure it must be gfx related so either the gpu has a nap or it's just down to the work the gpu is doing, however surely just displaying a mostly static XP desktop doesn't stress the card enough to put up the case temp 1 to 2 degrees?
Theres not much in it. You can get higher memory bandwidth doing it like that, but you will also put more strain in the NB, and will generally need to add more voltage. The choice is yours.
Your Nvidia card has 2d and 3d settings, I'm not sure about any power saving settings, maybe someone else can comment on that.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Clunk
Theres not much in it. You can get higher memory bandwidth doing it like that, but you will also put more strain in the NB, and will generally need to add more voltage. The choice is yours.
I was wondering about my 400 fsb & the NB, though so far the only voltage I've needed to tweak has been Vcore. Cheers.
Think I might have a silly shot at 9x400 next before seeing what I can get in between.
Oh, one other thing. In old guides I see references to settings controlling the pci clock rate & in even older guides warnings that upping the fsb will mess with pci clock rates.
My P35-DS4 bios (F6) has PCIE set to auto. Is this enough to keep it around the 100 mark or should I manually set it to 100? Do you know if this will also control the PCI clock? Unlike in your Asus bios screenshots, I don't see a separate config for PCI in addition to PCIE.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mroz
I was wondering about my 400 fsb & the NB, though so far the only voltage I've needed to tweak has been Vcore. Cheers.
Think I might have a silly shot at 9x400 next before seeing what I can get in between.
Oh, one other thing. In old guides I see references to settings controlling the pci clock rate & in even older guides warnings that upping the fsb will mess with pci clock rates.
My P35-DS4 bios (F6) has PCIE set to auto. Is this enough to keep it around the 100 mark or should I manually set it to 100? Do you know if this will also control the PCI clock? Unlike in your Asus bios screenshots, I don't see a separate config for PCI in addition to PCIE.
If you have your NB voltage on AUTO, it will be overvolting itself.
The CPI-E frequency can be handy for certain larger overclocks, but for the majority of the time, I set it to 100. Cant comment on your particular board though :)
Again, cant speak for your board, but on the Asus P35 boards, there isnt a PCI lock anymore, it must be an automated thing now.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Clunk
Again, cant speak for your board, but on the Asus P35 boards, there isnt a PCI lock anymore, it must be an automated thing now.
My guess is it runs on a divider with the PCI-E bus.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
Clunk
If you have your NB voltage on AUTO, it will be overvolting itself.
The CPI-E frequency can be handy for certain larger overclocks, but for the majority of the time, I set it to 100. Cant comment on your particular board though :)
Again, cant speak for your board, but on the Asus P35 boards, there isnt a PCI lock anymore, it must be an automated thing now.
Re NB voltage (G)MCH:
There's a global system voltage which can be auto or manual; it's set to manual, as no other values can be manually altered otherwise.
Of the remaining voltage settings, only Vcore can be set to an absolute value (or normal, which is equivalent to setting it to the chip's vid). DDR2, PCIE, FSB & (G)MCH can only be set to normal or an offset; in the case of DDR2 I know normal means a constant 1.8.
Do you reckon (G)MCH set to normal doesn't mean a constant default value, but rather will be varied by the mobo as fsb is changed? The offsets range from 0.025 to 0.375.
I'm inclined to think if system voltage is on manual all other voltage settings will be constants, whether set to normal or a numeric value/offset.
What do you think?
Is there a way to read the NB voltage?
Any idea where I can find more info on this board/bios in relation to OC behaviours?
Thanks for the other info.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Originally Posted by
mroz
Anyone care to comment on the 8x400 vs 9x356, if only to say it was a stupid question?
Deep Twit seems to be stable at 8x400 with Vcore of 1.3; now testing 1.29375
8x400 at 1.29375 failed after 9hrs 52mins. So much for those advising 8hrs as adequate. I think before I settle on a config I'll do a final 24-48hr test.
I decided after that to see how far I could get with the highest Vcore I'd consider acceptable, so I did some tests at 1.36875 (giving 1.328 idle, 1.312/1.296 under load):
9x400 booted into Windows but blue screened before I could do anything much.
9x378 failed P95 after 6 minutes. Any suggestions as to what I could try to get this one stable?
Currently I'm testing at 9x370, stable after nearly 4hrs. If this one lasts I'll see how low I can get Vcore with it. At 1.36875, temps are too high for my liking in respect of 24/7 usage - around 50+/-4.
Oh, Speedfan is reporting some temp in the region of +5C above the core temps; what's this likely to be the temp of? PWMs?
BTW If it turns out to be a choice between 8x400 and 9x370, which would you go for? The latter has the cpu 4% higher, but ram down 8%. I imagine it's the better option.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
50+/-4 isnt bad IMO, Im running a E6850 at 3.6 with a AC7P and at load its 60+/-2. Honestly for a quad at that speed it ain't bad
I would also say Coretemp is your most reliable source for temps
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Harkin
50+/-4 isnt bad IMO, Im running a E6850 at 3.6 with a AC7P and at load its 60+/-2. Honestly for a quad at that speed it ain't bad
Maybe I'll grow to be more comfortable with it. In any case, once I settle on a config I'll probably up my case cooling - atm all four case fans are on low speed.
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I would also say Coretemp is your most reliable source for temps
/rereads own post
Ah, sorry, think I wasn't very clear.
I'm using Speedfan with a +15C offset on core temperatures, as well as Coretemp, to measure temps. For the cpu cores they agree almost exactly. Speedfan however gives me some other temp readings I don't see in Coretemp. One looks like a case temp, as it's around 30. Another must be null, as it reads -2. The last is reading about 5C above the cpu core temperatures. I was just wondering what this sensor is likely connected to. PWMs I'm guessing.
Thanks for the comments.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
System for me is the MB temp, which for me is about 41-4(only 1 intake and 1 exit fan). The one that is about 5C above coretemps(CPU in my case) Im not really sure about, Im guesisng its just the actual CPU temp as my ASUS Probe shows the same temp for the CPU. The one that says -2C(AUX) says 127C on mine, and I've been told its just a quirk of speedfan and a bogus temp
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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Harkin
The one that says -2C(AUX) says 127C on mine, and I've been told its just a quirk of speedfan and a bogus temp
Cheers. If those were real temps I wonder which of us would have the first fire? Maybe it's just measuring the temp of the user's personality? ;)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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mroz
Cheers. If those were real temps I wonder which of us would have the first fire? Maybe it's just measuring the temp of the user's personality? ;)
In that case it was totally off with mine:laugh:
Ps mines been on fire for days, at first I panicked when I saw it but found out it's bogus. I also thought I must have a damn good overclocking board to take such temps
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Meh Im 99.9 sure its either my board or psu that is holding me back, as the chip will boot into windows at 3.9ghz and boots to the bios at 4.0ghz but anymore voltage and she simply does not want to budge.
Roll on the IX38 Quad GT and a larger psu me thinks.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
So near, and yet so far :D
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
At the mo' running my Q6600 G0 @ 3.4GHz Orthos 12hrs stable @ 1.3625V Bios, 1.344 @ Load in CPU-Z. Is that a good voltage for that speed? At load the temps are around 63-65. Saw 68 yesterday, but it was scorching hot weather here :).
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Looks decent enough to me :D
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
High what are some of your temps under load clocked on somthing over 3.0ghz using the thermalright cooler? also are you using a fan or two on the cooler?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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j.o.s.h.1408
High what are some of your temps under load clocked on somthing over 3.0ghz using the thermalright cooler? also are you using a fan or two on the cooler?
Have a look here.
http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?t=116451&page=8
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
wow so im guessing that the thermalright cooler attached to the quad can run at an average of 3.2ghz at less than 60c on load?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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j.o.s.h.1408
wow so im guessing that the thermalright cooler attached to the quad can run at an average of 3.2ghz at less than 60c on load?
I would say no sweat....and considering normal use won't stress all of the quad....like running WCG @ 100% or prime.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Here are my current results which should add weight to your answers:
In each case the quoted Vcore is minimised (except stock) & system is P95 stable for 12+ hrs unless otherwise stated; temps are core temps under load over the test period.
2400 = Stock 9x266, Vcore = Vid = 1.2875, ambient 24, temps 37-44
3200 = 8x400, Vcore = 1.3, amb 23, temps 38-48
3330 = 9x370, Vcore = 1.35625, amb 22, temps 38-50
3400 = 9x378, Vcore = 1.38125 (currently at 11hrs stable), amb 22, 45-55
All with a single fan on the cooler (see My System spec on left)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Its impossible to say what temps to expect.
Some of the variables to consider are;
Room temp.
Air Flow.
Type of case.
Thermal Paste.
Thermal Paste application.
Fans used.
Amount of fans used.
Fan speed.
Fan direction.
Heatsink type.
Heatsink orientation.
Vcore used.
Flatness of IHS.
Flatness of Heatsink.
Internal contact with IHS and CPU die.
Software used to read.
The sensor on the CPU.
And so on.
:)
Pointless speculating really, as if you do a search, you will see people with similar setups reporting wildly different temps.
You will find that many CPU's of the same variety, come with a higher or lower stock VID as well, so its really just a case of fitting it and making the best of it :)
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
umm i see. i just wanted to get a wrough idea on how well that cpu cooler can cool a quad core cpu. seems like it can go over 3ghz which is nice for a air cool. With the new intel chips coming out, are they quad core? of so will they run cooler than a quad core? in comparison to a quad core and a C2D E series range the c2d runs much cooler than a quad core has far as i can tell.
also how much of a difference does it make when you lap the cooler?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Hi.
I have just installed an Arctic Freezer Pro 7, then OC my cpu to 3gh and the temps when running Orthos are 60c, 59c, 46c and 42c. So i double checked the fan I installed and it took me a while to remove it, it was almost glued to the cpu, does this mean I applied too much Arctic Silver 5?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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vbnm247
Hi.
I have just installed an Arctic Freezer Pro 7, then OC my cpu to 3gh and the temps when running Orthos are 60c, 59c, 46c and 42c. So i double checked the fan I installed and it took me a while to remove it, it was almost glued to the cpu, does this mean I applied too much Arctic Silver 5?
A tight fit like that would indicate that both surfaces are pretty flat and no air bubbles...plus the sticky from the set goop.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Hmm, so I applied it correctly then. Well the Arctic Freezer seemed seated correctly, my case is an Antec 900 so it has good airflow, all fans on medium. I was hoping for lower temps :(
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Given you are air cooling, I'd say your temps aren't that bad. The Q6600 does run very hot and you aren't going to get lower temps unless you adopt extreme cooling measures (i.e. watercooling, lapping your CPU, etc).
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
Thanks for the replies. So should I accept temps of 60c? I thought that was too high? My pc is not running all the time, maybe a few hours a day at most.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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vbnm247
Thanks for the replies. So should I accept temps of 60c? I thought that was too high? My pc is not running all the time, maybe a few hours a day at most.
Temps of 60c is absolutely fine for G0..and there are better air coolers than the AC7....like Thermalright ultra + Tuniq Tower.
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
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D-BEAR
Temps of 60c is absolutely fine for G0..and there are better air coolers than the AC7....like Thermalright ultra + Tuniq Tower.
The AC7 got a very good write up in Custom PC and is only a couple of degrees worse than the ones you mention, but at around £12-14 online is very good value.
Cheers,
Stephen
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
If you think it's good value and only a couple of degrees worse than the others i'd like to see how cool it is with a Quad @ 3.6ghz.:mrgreen:
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
:help:
Could someone tell me if this is OK?
My setup -
Asus P5K-E
Q6600 G0
2GB Corsair RAM 800Mhz
Antec 900, 2 front fans on low, back fan low, 200mm fan medium
Arctic Freezer 7 on full speed.
So i've overclocked to 3.05Ghz.
I've left the RAM timings on auto, DRAM frequency on 2.0 but the RAM sticks say 2.1. CPU frequency at 1.275 but Probe2 gives Vcore 1.25.
I cant remember exactly when i started Prime95 25.4 but it says i started at 11:50AM now its almost 6PM no errors so far.
I've left the NB, SB and most of the other settings in the bios on AUTO, Is this OK?
My Temps right now, while still running prime95 are
57C
57C
51C
54C
Are these OK?
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Re: Quad Core Thread: Overclocking, Cooling, Motherboards, Troubleshooting & General
OK so something weird just happened, while writing the above post.
I got a warning from Asus Probe, MB Warning, the motherboard temperature was showing 192C and on Speedfan was -65C. So i stopped Prime95 25.4 (it ran for 6H 2M no errors) and 10-15 seconds later the temp was still showing 192C as the motherboad temp. So hit the restart button before my pc blew up, went into the bios checked the temp of the motherboard it was showing 38C so either Asus Probe was wrong or my the motherboard temp drop 130C in the space of 30 seconds, even though i had stopped Prime95 for 10-15 seconds later it was still at 192C.
Then as i was in the bios i changed the speed of the AF7 fan to performance mode. I saved and booted windows and it had gone back to 2.4ghz from 3ghz. Any reason why this could be? So basically the bios overclocking settings were all reset.