First oc on QX6700

Linz

Linz

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My 1st oc'ing foray. This is soooooo damned fast compared to my P4 6600GT, but I imagine proper overclocking will get more. I'm only slowly raising the overclock (tbh I find it complex, though fascinating) so far just simply raised FSB to 1200MHz (10 x 300), all other bios settings, voltages etc are at default.

Obviously I would like to go better, bit by bit and any advice much appreciated on best way forward. I am a noob at this...

3DM2001 50345

3DM2005 16152

3DM2006 11739 SM2 4735 HDR/SM3 4809 CPU 4306

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QX6700
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi bios 0804
Crucial 2GB PC8500 Dominator
MIS 8800GTX (MSI driver)
Xp Home
 
Dont forget the multy is unlocked on this 12x 270 3.2ghz should work ok,keep a eye on the heat as the qx6700 runs quite hot. :)
 
Thx, got your reply after I fiddled a bit more. Upped the fsb to 350 and the cpu volts to 1.424V, the only other change.

Got 3DM2006 up to 12095 and tbh I am already well chuffed -that oc was, well, far too easy. 3500MHz and the temps never got above 51 before falling back to idle at 34C after the benchmark.

Is it always that easy?
 
Be sure to run orthos for stability for 9 hours or so, or you might experiance problems later...
 
OMG!, Dr DiVx DVD encoding is unbelievable! 12 minutes versus 43 on the P4 system on the same VOB file... jeez, that is so gonna free up more time for me (I re-encode lots of DVD's) (temp stayed under 42C)

Just...amazin :p

Gonna install Oblivion and FSX next
 
Run Orthos and watch your cores hit 70 plus, unless you are on water.

I must be doing something seriously naff as I am still idling in the high 30's to low 40's. And it isn't my setup. Possibly ambient temps in my room. But's it's 12.30 at night and my cores are at 36 to 39 degrees with my Tuniq at 1200rpm. Then again it could be the naff monitoring software although I was getting the same temps using CoreTemp on my Bad Axe 2 and the 680i. :(
 
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OK, until I figure voltages and memory tweaks (next step) I put the cpu back down a tad to 3.3Ghz until I know what I'm actually doing, as that baby costalot ;)

But just for out-of-the-box interest to those into terrain rendering, on the demanding Vue 5 Infinite 'CERRO VERDE' scene (see above) at this modest setting the QX6700 took 3 Mins 22 Secs, comfortably beating the Dual Xeon 5160 @ 3000 MHz that took 3 mn 31

Renders with this kind of detail previously took me around 22 minutes, so the feeling of release you get with these Conroes is quite exhilarating. It makes full-detail fly-through animations practical to those who don't work in pro render farms.

I imagine a proper max Oc, with tightened up memory etc by someone more experienced would see this render benchmark time tumble yet further.

Gonna try Bryce next, and my old fave, VistaPro 4

[Edit] sorry, I meant this link for the benchies:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17675987
 
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Linz said:
My 1st oc'ing foray. This is soooooo damned fast compared to my P4 6600GT, but I imagine proper overclocking will get more. I'm only slowly raising the overclock (tbh I find it complex, though fascinating) so far just simply raised FSB to 1200MHz (10 x 300), all other bios settings, voltages etc are at default.

Obviously I would like to go better, bit by bit and any advice much appreciated on best way forward. I am a noob at this...

3DM2001 50345

3DM2005 16152

3DM2006 11739 SM2 4735 HDR/SM3 4809 CPU 4306

----------------------------------------
QX6700
Asus P5B Deluxe WiFi bios 0804
Crucial 2GB PC8500 Dominator
MIS 8800GTX (MSI driver)
Xp Home
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Decent '06 score... but I sould swear the 01 and 05 scores are a bit low,

with similar clocked X6800 I was getting ~ 60k in 01 and 18-19k in 05
 
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