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E8600 E0 Overclocks

So Rainmaker if I can digress a little and ask for a quick appraisal of your Biostar mobo as Im looking for a new one and can't help but be attracted by the price/performance it appears to offer.

How would you rate it in terms of ease of use, BIOS navigation, overclocking, stability etc?

Edit: Just found plenty of info on it, so no worries.
 
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I saw your edit, but just to add if you look in the mobo section (do a search for "Biostar I45 or" and you'll find the thread) you'll see a couple of pics and a bit of info from me :)

It's a great board, and rock solid. BIOS is easy once you get the hang of it (just that it's +0.x on the voltages instead of actual numbers), and it clocks like a demon :D It also scored 91% to win this month's Custom PC mobo review. They gave the Asus P5Q Pro 89% btw.
 
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Rainmaker said:
I saw your edit, but just to add if you look in the mobo section (do a search for "Biostart I45 or" and you'll find the thread) you'll see a couple of pics and a bit of info from me :)

It's a great board, and rock solid. BIOS is easy once you get the hang of it (just that it's +0.x on the voltages instead of actual numbers), and it clocks like a demon :D It also scored 91% to win this month's Custom PC mobo review. They gave the Asus P5Q Pro 89% btw.
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Thanks,

Ive just posted you some questions in that other thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17908734&highlight=biostar
 
Replied, but that's not the thread I was talking about :p:D You can find the "Biostar T-Power I45 or" thread HERE. I'll continue to discuss it with you in the thread you've already posted in, but I just thought you'd like the extra info in this other thread too. It includes a build pic from me on page 2, showing the board with a Vendetta 2 and Reaper ram installed :D

EDITED to fix faulty URL tag. I can't type for toffee today.
 
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Rainmaker: You sound 100% enamored with the hardware right now! :D

Did you forget the reason you spent all that money and time getting the parts sorted . . . . Lets be having some uBer benchmark screenshots dude! :cool:
 
Hi Wayne :D Yeah as above my RAM only arrives tomorrow. I'll put the guts of the PC together again tonight (new week 22 E8600, V2 cooler, into the case etc). Once the RAM's here you can rest assured I'll be BORING you with pic after pic of benches ;)
 
Using stock cooler.

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hi all i am new to overclocking and i have just built my new pc. the main parts are an e8600 an asus rampage motherboard and 4 gig of geil 8500 evo 1. the cpu batch is q820a627.the vid is 1.2500and the core volt is1.244.its running at stock and the temps at idol ar 27c.the fsb dram is 5.6..can anyone give me a hand to reach 4 ghz.i think ive got the general idea but if i just go ahead of my own back iwill have naggin doubts for days.thanks in advance for all help.
 
set multi to 10 and fsb to 400. make sure you give your ram the required voltage that should be wrote on the memory sticker. fsb:dram will be fine at 1.1. then test for stability for 8 hours and watch temps. if your board tries to increase the voltage to your cpu set it manual to say 1.3 max for now.
 
Out of interest, how big of a difference between core temps is acceptable? On my previous (week 20) E8600 the cores were perfectly equal, at idle and under load. This one (week 22) has approx 5 to 6 degrees C difference, with core1 (the second core) being the higher :(

I'll reseat the CPU HSF eventually but since the temps are still low (26 and 32 idle - can't test load properly til my "real" ram arrives) I don't think it's a HSF issue. Just an uneven IHS, perhaps? I did notice that the second temp sensor is a little "sticky" at times, but it passes the sensor test on RealTemp.

EDIT: Nothing worth worrying about, I don't think. I just ran Intel BurnTest and Orthos (Small FFTs) at the same time, and once the sensors pass about 40 degrees they even out from there-on-in :) Can't wait to get some proper RAM in here and get clocking - in true 'me' style I missed the delivery of the Reapers so I have to collect them tomorrow lol

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thanks for that bradley 8988.i am on 4 ghz now and all seems ok.one thing though.how do i change the fsb dram from 5.6 to 1.1 also can i tighten the ram timings on the evo 1 ram i have.i got this motherboard after reading in reviews how easy it was to overclock with.i think i read it as the wrong kind of easy.as in great its easy to overclock not its great at overclocking.the thing that stummped me is the bios.ive built the last two of my pc,s and thought i knew my way around thire bioses enough to get by but this one i have never heard of most of the options.i will get there in the end i hope and with you guys help i wont blow my pc up on the way.cheers..
 
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anyone else find that if you turn off Virtulization in the bios you can lower the cpu voltage slightly?

Before I had to use 1.38v for 4.3Ghz. Now I only need 1.34v
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That has always been the case. It does have it's downside though. The first being that 3dmarks drop a little. The most important downside though is "clock setting fine delay". With Virtulization turned off, the auto values for fine delay are very hit and miss. The result of this is that sometimes Prime/Orthos will run and pass ok, and other times it will fail. For me, i leave it on for that reason alone.
 
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ah ok, but apart from 3dmark and orthos does it affect the stability of the PC in day to day use? be in gaming, encoding etc?
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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.
 
Just to keep this thread going...

I'm struggling so far even with the nice shiny week 22 from Devious. For the record though, that's down to (1) me being an oc n00b and (2) having a Biostar TPower I45 which, despite being an awesome board, nobody else seems to own = nobody to get real help from lol

I've managed 4.4Ghz (10x440) at 1.36 volts and 65 degrees easily, but it fails Orthos small FFTs after 47 minutes :( There are so many settings in the BIOS compared to an Asus, it's just a case of sussing them out I suppose.

BTW I noticed in the database all but one entrant used Prime95 not Orthos. Prime doesn't error check for rounding by default, so doesn't that mean Orthos is a harder test and I should be using Prime to put me on an even footing? :p
 
BTW I noticed in the database all but one entrant used Prime95 not Orthos. Prime doesn't error check for rounding by default, so doesn't that mean Orthos is a harder test and I should be using Prime to put me on an even footing?
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Prime does error check for rounding by default. If I jack my OC up above 4.5MHz and test, it will find a rounding off error for sure.

BTW BornEvil when you get the chance can you change my screenshot to this one?



VCore 1.352 looks better than 1.38. ;)
 
So what's with the "Advanced > Round off checking" option? :confused: 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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