First oc on QX6700

Linz · 11 Jan 2007 at 19:52

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

Linz · 11 Jan 2007 at 20:50

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?

Linz · 12 Jan 2007 at 00:17

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

Gonna install Oblivion and FSX next

Linz · 12 Jan 2007 at 22:45

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