Abit FP-IN9 overclocking dissapointment...

Wolv34ine · 10 Jun 2007 at 10:29

Hi

I had this bard for a few months now, well a couple, and havent overlclocked it with the default Pentium fan. So I got an Artic Freezer Pro7 at a friends recommendation and went for some overclocking ( seing as everyone and his brother seems to be able to o clock Core Duo's, mines a 6400).
Well initailly i had some sucess with unlinked ram and cpu at 2.8 ghz, posted ok, ran Orthos and it was fine, played BF2 for about 30 mins , crash. Increased the voltage a coule of increments and tried again, crash, then a lengthly boot (takes an age to present me with desktop, my wallpaper is there, but no icons. I could go on with what I have tried, but what I wanted to ask was are there any owners of the FP-IN9 SLI 650i board with a core dou that have had some sucess with overclocking?

The PSU is a Hyperpower 530 ( or so) and seems to be fine in terms of delivering juice.. so any tips please guys?

MeatLoaf · 10 Jun 2007 at 10:56

I had one mate and i had a 6300 that was known to do 3ghz on stock volts.

I couldnt get it past 2.4 on that board

Wolv34ine · 10 Jun 2007 at 11:58

So the boards a lemon? Excellent

no one got decent clocks out of it?

MeatLoaf · 10 Jun 2007 at 12:48

Apparently its agreat board for overclocking - i mustve missed something obvious

Wolv34ine · 10 Jun 2007 at 12:50

Where have you heard that mate? I ahve searched this forum and its aussie equivalent and found nothing, or at least nothing encouraging...

BUFF · 10 Jun 2007 at 14:54

Wolv34ine said:
no one got decent clocks out of it?

I've seen 1 user post a screenie of ~520fsb iirc & a few in the 430-480 area.
They are still working on improving the BIOS for it though.

WJA96 · 10 Jun 2007 at 15:04

It doesn't really have the NB voltage options required to really push the 7x and 8x multiplier chips up above 1600QFSB unfortunately.

It's hardly a lemon though.

bluntslide · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:29

i went to 3.0 and stayed there, havent been bothered to push further

BUFF · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:35

WJA96 said:
It doesn't really have the NB voltage options required to really push the 7x and 8x multiplier chips up above 1600QFSB unfortunately.

my thoughts too - the others pretty much all seem to need over 1.6V to really push & afaik that's the highest on the FP-IN9.

truebluecfc · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:39

I was dissapointed at first but i keept my paitence and i've got the results i wanted beforehand.

One thing i noticed about it is, if say you increased it by 50Mhz and ran orthos for 7 hours with no errors it will crash in games, I had to let it kinda settle down so to speak. For instance i went to 2.8GHz from the stock 2.4GHz in the same day ran orthos everything stable for 4 hours then i played a game 30 mins later crash.

I then increased the FSB by 20MHz every day untill i got to 3.2GHz then it was orthos stable for 24 hours and no games ever crash now.

Also another thing is for some reason i had to increase my voltage a lot something from 1.32 to 1.5 just to get to 3GHz but then after a while i was able to lower the voltages to 1.425 and its all stable and everything at 3.2GHz.

Stay paitent and take your time and it does work.

bluntslide · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:44

same here with the volts thing, people told me it was too high but when i dropped it, no boot!
left it a while then tried again a few weeks later and wahay! it worked, temps were a bit better too.
i dont regret it now, its not a hardcore clocker but it was not too expensive so im happy.

bluntslide · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:46

adding to that, im sure this board only likes you to change one thing at a time in the bios, thats where most of my problems came. so it was like, change the fsb then reboot.change the volts reboot and so on...

truebluecfc · 10 Jun 2007 at 16:50

Yeh same for me ... just gotta take your time and have paitence.