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E8600 E0 Overclocks

I failed Orthos inside 47 mins xx seconds this morning, but prime95 is currently on 1 hour 15 minutes on the same settings...
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Well that's good news isn't it? Out of interest did you tick round off error checking option before you started the test? I have always left it off and I have encountered round off errors while priming. If you hover the mouse over that option it says "enable extra error checking" in the bottom left hand corner. So it does error check by default but this option adds EXTRA into the equation. LOL.
 
Currently just short of 2hrs prime95 (small ffts) stable :D This chip's a LOT better than my week 20. This is the first try btw, as in "whack it up to 10x420 and see what happens". I'm wondering if I can pull 10x450 out of this on air...
 
kitfit1 said:
As long as the mobo selects the correct "fine delay" settings on boot up, the answer is yes. But more times than not it will select the wrong ones, in which case you will fail Prime fairly fast. My mobo has "fine delay" settings shown, so i know which are the correct ones, most mobo's don't have them shown in the bios at all. I've often thought that is the real reason peeps say that there cpu has "degraded". In fact it has'nt, the mobo has selected the wrong settings.
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What does that mean for the Intel chips that don't have virtualization activated though?
 
The vid's 1.225. Here's where I'm at so far:

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Touch wood, I'm getting the hang of this board now :D My first proper prime stable (small FFTs) run, 10x440 at 1.360v under load, 66 degrees :D I'm gonna push updwards now and see if I can't get a few more MHz. I can't up the CPU volts any more, temps went into the 70s at the next 'notch' up. Even if this ends up my 24/7 oc I'll be happy, but since this is only the first 'round' I'll be lowering volts if nothing else.

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LOL I know the feeling. This time last month I was on an AMD Athlon 64 X2 socket 939, at 2.2Ghz and no chance of an oc (it was a Compaq mobo with no options in the bios). Now I'm addicted :D

10x450 just gave me a BSOD after a few minutes in Windows (IRQ NOT LESS OR EQUAL). I'm not gonna put more volts into it so I'm trying 10x445 now :) If only the Biostar had finer grained vcore voltage steps, I might have got that extra 100Mhz :p
 
Ok I know its not run for 8+ hrs on this screeny but I have run it for 10.5hrs stable under orthos.

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Problem is by all accounts I have a cracking chip to run, however I would really like it running at 500FSBx8.5/9.0 and my O/C skills with this Asus MB leave a lot to be desired can anyone give me a helping hand?
 
Daveangle said:
Ok I know its not run for 8+ hrs on this screeny but I have run it for 10.5hrs stable under orthos.

Problem is by all accounts I have a cracking chip to run, however I would really like it running at 500FSBx8.5/9.0 and my O/C skills with this Asus MB leave a lot to be desired can anyone give me a helping hand?
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looks good m8. What batch is it? u want me to add that to the database? or u gunna push it abit more?

and Rainmaker, what board u got now? i'll update yours too.
 
Rainmaker said:
I'm addicted :D
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Hey Rainmaker nice results! :)

I was well tempted by the batch of E8600's that Devious was selling and had to exercise significant restraint to avoid buying one! :D

I'm very interested to know how those chips undervolt? like what is the lowest vCore you can get the chip to run stock 3300MHz at?

Hopefully one of you E8600 owners will get round to these undervolting tests in due course! ;)
 
Thanks guys :) Wayne I'll get around to that once I've finished playing with my OC and let you know. BornEvil, sorry for not adding the info :o I still have the Biostar TPower I45 as per sig, I just took ages to get used to it (my first self build and first overclock) lol

EDIT (URL broken up so you can see it fully and add it to the database):

Q822A435 | 4410 MHz | 1.360 | 1.2250 | 66 degrees | OCZ Vendetta 2 120mm air | Biostar TPower I45 | Rainmaker | rainmakersrealm .com/images/rig/10x440-prime-stable.jpg

Second edit (sorry) - just seen you have me down as custom water... plain ole air here ;) You also got my volts back to front - it's 1.360 not 1.306 :D
 
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Been having some real fun with 8600, currently 533 FSB x8.0 (4.264Ghz stable), thing is I can easy get 450 x10.0 with much lower volts stable (currently at 1.32 in bios) (CPUz showing 1.296) load temps are 48.

Being a bit of a n00b can anyone tell me whats best to have a higher FSB or Higher Clock, if it helps I will only be playing games and some photoshop on the PC most likely.

Oh its a week 22 version.
 
A higher clock is usually best, for 4.5Ghz - 500x9 could well be better than 450x10, depends on whether you have to relax your chipset/mem timings to achive the higher bus speed. Bench both and keep the fastest, though I bet you would only notice the difference in benchmarks rather than real world.
 
Devious said:
A higher clock is usually best, for 4.5Ghz - 500x9 could well be better than 450x10, depends on whether you have to relax your chipset/mem timings to achive the higher bus speed. Bench both and keep the fastest, though I bet you would only notice the difference in benchmarks rather than real world.
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Thanks for the info, at the moment I don't have to relax my chipset/memory, I think I will bench it at 4.5 450x10 and then probably settle with around 4.2Ghz as it allows for a cooler chip and I really doubt the 300Mhz will count for anything.
 
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