Help needed OC'ing Badaxe please

Jay_t

Jay_t

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Hi,

I have the retail badaxe 304 & need some help with this. I have the E6600 & so I needed to perform the mod to unlock the options in the bios. I have also turned the memory speed right down to eliminate that as a problem & I have the latest bios.

I have Chipset voltage on full, ram on 2.1v & the CPU on 1.5v.

If I set the fsb speed to 1333MHz I get a no post :(

If I overclock using the percentage scale I can get upto about 3.1 GHz & at that point the board will not raise the bus speed any further. (even if I have the percentage scale turned up to 50%!) It accepts the changes in the bios & refuses to implement them. At 50% the clock speed should be around 3.6GHz.

Any ideas folks? Gibbo didn't seem to have any problems with his. :o
 
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Thank you for your quick reply,

My G.skill ram isn't the problem as its on the lowest divider for now, until I get this sorted out. I have been overclocking with the "percentage burn in" option in the bios & have left the 1066 (266) strap on for now. The percentage burn in option will take me upto 3.1 GHz & then if I keep turning up the percentage in bios I still ends up at 3.1GHz in windows.

It seems that rather than just die when the OC is too high, the board just ignores the setting in the bios. :(
 
I'm pretty sure the ram is ok as I have run it well above DDR 800 speeds on this board with no problem & at the moment its well below stock speeds.

I have the 1334 bios at the moment is this the best one to use?
 
Thanks, I'll give that bios a try and see if I get anywhere. Do you know where I can get it from? as on the Intel site I can only find the 1334 one that I'm using now.
 
Many thanks, :)

I will try that tonight & hopefully get a better result. Surely my board can do more than a lousy 340MHz FSB & this E6600 ought to be able to do more than 3.1 GHz. Hopefully this bios will do the trick. :cool:

Are there any bios setting that make much of a difference? What does "enhance power curve" do?
 
Only the ES & EE Conroes unlock the bios options though. I had to paint across the "OC Debug" bridge to even get the vcore option to appear. I'm just using a lousy old hard drive with windows installed for now. My raptors can wait until I've got this thing at 9 x 400 stable.

If you have any bios optimisation tips, I'd be glad to hear them. :)
 
Ok, I've tried this other bios & it doesn't seem to make any difference. :( The board does not seem to go past about 340 MHz FSB. This makes this the worst conroe compatible board I've ever seen. It doesn't even have a clear cmos jumper for heavens sake. :mad: A failed OC is a nightmare to recover from.

Does anyone else have an idea what might be going wrong here before I send this back? :(
 
No it doesn't have a CMOS clear, it has a maintainance mode, this is not the same thing. The cmos clear would have been on the missing three pins labeled OC debug.

Remove the battery? tell me about it, thats been out about 50 times in 3 nights trying to get this intel/foxconn thing to work.

Its certainly flashed properly, yet the IDCC will not go above 1387 fsb (347) no matter what. I might have to get an Asus one I think.
 
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