Dissapointing Chip :(

H3x0rc!st said:
I have been trying everything i can think of to squeeze more speed out of this processor but i think its simply a bad clocker, i can only get it to 225FSB, @ 230FSB Prime95 just craps out:



This is the info on top of the chip:
ADA3700AA5BN
KABYE 0540MPMW

Are these known as bad clockers? because it wont budge past 225FSB, nearly maxed out vcore in BIOS for my MSI K8N SLI Platinum motherboard. Temperatures arent an issue so it cant be that, rest of my system is as follows:

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Ive got the same KABYE 0540MPMW chip and its needs loads of volts, i stick 1.55 through to get 2650 out of mine (max my A8N SLI will allow, on Water as well idles at 36C)
 
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H3x0rc!st said:
Decided to go back into watercooling so i could chuck a load of volts at it, running prime stable @ 250FSB - 2.75GHz

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Mine wont get prime stable above 2.65 and its not the mobo or the mem as ive droped the divider and the multi to test.
 
You say you've went back to watercooling so you can put the extra volts through it but according to cpuz in that last screen shot your only running at 1.488v. You could have easily run that on air, my 3700 needs 1.56v to get it stable at 2.85gig and thats being cooled on air by my G-power pro. If anything it will be your vcore holding you back now, get it increased and push that chip some more ;)

Ohh and to get a clock of 2.8gig on 1.488v is far from a dissapointing chip ;)
 
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dale1uk said:
You say you've went back to watercooling so you can put the extra volts through it but according to cpuz in that last screen shot your only running at 1.488v. You could have easily run that on air, my 3700 needs 1.56v to get it stable at 2.85gb and thats being cooled on air by my G-power pro. If anything it will be your vcore holding you back now, get it increased and push that chip some more ;)

Ohh and to get a clock of 2.8gb on 1.488v is far from a dissapointing chip ;)
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Do you mean ghz? :p

Yep he could easily run 1.6v through it on air safely
 
dale1uk said:
You could have easily run that on air, my 3700 needs 1.56v to get it stable at 2.85gb and thats being cooled on air by my G-power pro.
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ARe you running your G Power Pro at max speed, i ran mine at 70% max using speed fan and even then it was noisy, well compared to my virtually silent WCing kit :p
 
Xez said:
Do you mean ghz? :p

Yep he could easily run 1.6v through it on air safely
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D'oh it was midnight and just finished a 12 hour shift ;)

pegasus1 said:
ARe you running your G Power Pro at max speed, i ran mine at 70% max using speed fan and even then it was noisy, well compared to my virtually silent WCing kit
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No, run mine at the slowest speed 1700rpm using the supplied fan controller, with is quiet enough to blend in with case fans and x1800xt so is easily quiet enough for me. Turning the speed up only drops temps by 1-2'c max and the pay off for the extra noise is not worth it at all. Idle temp at 1700rpm is 30'c and max load is 42'c
 
CPU-Z is reporting incorrectly tbh as i have it @ 1.45v + 6.6% which is about 1.56v or there abouts, tried it at 260FSB but it crapped out ... will try 1.45v + 10% shortly but i really dont wanna run my chip at this voltage even on watercooling, i just dont like putting that much volts through it
 
H3x0rc!st said:
but i really dont wanna run my chip at this voltage even on watercooling, i just dont like putting that much volts through it
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Its your choice but ive been running 1.56 through mine for 8 months with no probs
 
ichabod crane said:
hey i manged to just get 2.7 stable on my 3700 other day trying very hard 2.8 wont pass prime no matter what i change. but i got this to be prime stable for 10hrs
245 x 11, HT x 4, Ram DDR 400 (1-1) 245mhz 3 3 2 8 best i can get on my chip quite happy :)
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I get excactly the same, [email protected] is prime stable, 2.8Ghz isn't prime stable @1.625V with watercooling :(
 
Im stable at what ever my sig says. havnt checked it in a while. Im on a 11x multiplyer, with ram at 150. my ram is only value select stuff, but it is coping fine. its at 500mhz, and prime works fien for me.
 
well im happy with it running @ 2.8Ghz, thats a 600mhz overclock ... im starting to overclock my 7800gt atm to see how far it will go, currently on 8000 in 3dmark 05, ill try pushing CPU a bit more later with 1.45v +10% but like i said im pleased with the 600mhz gain and it is very noticeable!
 
I would hardly call a 500-600 mhz overclock bad. For the price of a San Diego 3700+ of about £100 you practically have a FX-57 which costs a few hundred pounds. My 3700+ will do [email protected] Prime stable for 10+ hours on air. I'm running it at [email protected] as 100mhz for all that increase in heat and voltage is not worth it. I would have still been happy with 2.6 to 2.7ghz considering I've never had a good cpu clock well.

Moral of the story is be happy,lolol.

Michael
 
In the cell menu, have you disabled the "aggressive timings" option? With this enabled i could only get my MSI NF4 board to 240HTT, even if i manually set the memory timings in the memory section of the BIOS. With this disabled, saw no difference in memory performance and could up the HTT to 295 stable, on air at 1.5v.

You've probably already done this, but thought i would ask.
 
yeh mate i made sure things like that were disabled, 100% stable @ 2.8GHz ... well prime has had no errors for hours and i played games like FEAR for hours on end with no hiccups so its all good, 42c full load which i think is good for watercooling ... wish my bloody fish tank (resevoir) didnt break though, was really gutted reinstalling my watercooling setup to find out my fish tank had a hole and was slowly leaking, oh well good job i noticed .. using a bucket atm until i buy another fish tank from tip
 
The highest I've had me 3700 is 2.65ghz (260 x 10) at stock volts, will not boot ar 2.7, Been running 2.5ghz 24/7 for months now, all at stock volts.
 
pieman109 said:
The highest I've had me 3700 is 2.65ghz (260 x 10) at stock volts, will not boot ar 2.7, Been running 2.5ghz 24/7 for months now, all at stock volts.
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Why not just bump the volts up and push it more? and why the 10x multi and not the standard 11x??

BTW 260x10 is 2.60ghz not 2.65 ;)
 
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