Got it tp 3.6ghz

andybenn

andybenn

andybenn

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I managed it today. all stable by looks of it:D

What do you think of the V core ?????:confused:

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sorry pic a bit hard to see! cant see to get it bigger?
 
Pic is not showing anything of use mate.

I'm guessing EIST is turned on as the CPU-Z shot is showing a x6 multi.

You'll need to stress the chip using Prime95 or Orthos before you can say its truly stable. General thought around here is 8hrs stress time.

Watch the temps when under stress but that Vcore looks ok to me. Nice OC if you can prove its stable fella.
 
Just use OCCT to do a 1hr stress test. Doesn't take 8+hrs and anything i've ever overclocked has been 100% stable at heavy CPU work if it's passed OCCT. Prime95 8hr is just E-conformation.

No-doubt someone will now tell me they had an overclock that passed OCCT but failed prime :rolleyes:
 
I'd already done the stressing, sorry I should have mentioned that.
1hr occt passed, 10 runs on intel burn test passed.
Prime for a couple of hours only! but didnt fail.

I'm going to blast on intel burn test for a good few more runs to be sure,try for 30 plus

Glad you thought voltage is ok, had to set it to just under 1.5 in the bios
 
it does have a bit of brewers droop,
On load the voltage drops to 1.38 v if mem serves me correctly?

whats this pencil mod then? i'm intrigued
 
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See the two red dots on the 100k resistor, shade with a 2B penicl from one dot to the other 4 or 5 times, if not more, prefereably do it whilst the pc is on andf cpu-z is running so you can see the volts increase.
 
Worked fine on my BFG 680i. I say do it when it is pon as then you will see the violtage increasing real time untill it becomes near equal to what you have set in the bios.

Only a bit of pencil lead and can easily be rubbed of if needed. So doesnt affect the warrenty as they wont know its been applied ;)
 
Thanks I may try that!?

I lied about the 3.6 being stable!
My system is dual boot and in XP it was stable, but vista crashes (locks up) as soon as I throw burn test at it?

I upped the v core to 1.48 and it lasted longer but still locks very quickly.

I'm thinking its something to do with the ram, as I have 4 gig but XP only uses 3/4 of that give or take.

So its back to 3.4 and stable in both OS's :mad:
 
andybenn said:
Thanks I may try that!?

I lied about the 3.6 being stable!
My system is dual boot and in XP it was stable, but vista crashes (locks up) as soon as I throw burn test at it?

I upped the v core to 1.48 and it lasted longer but still locks very quickly.

I'm thinking its something to do with the ram, as I have 4 gig but XP only uses 3/4 of that give or take.

So its back to 3.4 and stable in both OS's :mad:
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I am guessing you are using a 32bit version of your OS. This can only use 4Gb, but you have to minus from that the amount of memory you have in your graphics card, sound card etc. etc. It can only map 4Gb TOTAL.

In regards to the CPU, try upping in 5MHz increments, and add a bit extra to your Northbridge settings.

I wasn't able to get my system Prime95 blend stable past 3.16GHz, so I just left it at that. I only wanted 3.2GHz and I felt I was fighting too much for a little bit of extra MHz. Don't know if it was me being bad at overclocking, or me just getting some bad components.
 
Or may just be the fsb hole that you have hit at 1800mhz?

680i boards are notoriously hard if not impossible to stably clock a quad on, though it can be done so just be patient. It so worth it when you get your target!!!

EDIT: i have a bfg and my q6600 hundred is currently at 437*8 and im still fiddling away. I must say the most stable 6 series board i owned (and ive owned 6) i had 3.6 on it and could take it to 3.8 and that was the P5N32-E. But i dont like the look of it lol i like the black pcb and layout of the reference boards
 
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