Hiring an experienced overclocker

Odhran

Odhran

Odhran

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Hi Guys,

I know that everyone here is more than willing to help noobs like me with their setup and overclocking problems and I think that's absolutely wonderful, but I'm having real trouble and I need some personal help.

Basically I've bought a decent rig (P5N32-E SLI, Q6600 G0, 2GB Corsair Dominator PC2-8500C5 DDR2, Tuniq Tower) and it runs very well in stock mode with low temps on the CPU (18C) and MB (23C).

I've followed the overclocking guides, downloaded all the software and tried my hand at pushing the limits of the rig. I can't seem to get any stability for overclocks above 2.5GHz and it's starting to annoy me slightly. Last night, I needed to reset the CMOS via jumper because the machine wouldn't even get past the BIOS boot after one of my attempts.

So, I need someones help. Someone who knows what to change without royally screwing up everything. Someone who considers themselves a guru when it comes to overclocking. Someone who lives near Crouch End in London, or can make it there without trouble.

For the help of this individual, I'm willing to pay £100 regardless of success or failure. Personally, from my point of view, this could be a very well spent £100. I could manage to get 3.2GHz from my setup and be very happy, heck - even 2.8GHz would be fantastic! The maximum I've been able to manage on my own is a measly 2.5GHz, so I've got plenty to hope for.

Then again, I could just have some duff equipment and it may be the case that 2.5GHz is the highest I can go to ... who knows. The point is that I've got £100 that says you can't do better - prove me wrong.

Thanks. :)
 
Odhran,

i would take you up that. Email is in trust, configure your trust and you can get in touch with me.

Have near enough the same setup as you, and pretty confident, you could be running at least the 3ghz mark 2997mhz at least. Unless something is seriously wrong with your rig.
 
Datamonkey said:
Odhran,

i would take you up that. Email is in trust, configure your trust and you can get in touch with me.

Have near enough the same setup as you, and pretty confident, you could be running at least the 3ghz mark 2997mhz at least. Unless something is seriously wrong with your rig.
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Great! I'll get in contact with you and we can arrange to meet.
 
My brother a few months back went with a near identical set up to yourself with a Q6600 and a P5N32-E SLI plus! I have no doubt in my mind that that mobo is pants for overclocking as that same Q6600 can do 3.4ghz easy in my motherboard :)

I also did some googling and it seems lots of people are having problems with that mobo with all bios revisions :(
 
deadkomodo said:
My brother a few months back went with a near identical set up to yourself with a Q6600 and a P5N32-E SLI plus! I have no doubt in my mind that that mobo is pants for overclocking as that same Q6600 can do 3.4ghz easy in my motherboard :)

I also did some googling and it seems lots of people are having problems with that mobo with all bios revisions :(
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Hmmm ... not good. :(

Thanks for the head's up though.
 
Certain P5N32-E SLIs seem to have a big problem with high (or even moderately high) bus speeds. My first one could do about 460 or so, but it died. The RMA replacement struggles over 260. Most people will point you at the northbridge controller, which may well be the cause. I've got a fan mounted on the heatsink, but it still can't stay stable at 270MHz. It's the NB not either RAM or CPU too: cranking either of them down a notch or two makes no difference.


I agree - bad board for overclocking. Sorry.


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Datamonkey said:
Sounds like it could be a good challange then lol

To be honest i always personally go for intel chipset based mobo's.

Replied to your mail matey, also what psu and graphics card setup are you running.
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My PSU is the Enermax 1000W and the graphics cards are 2 8800GTX in SLI mode.

It strikes me as odd that the motherboard would not be able to overclock seeing as it's marketed as an enthusiast board with 'Extreme Tweaker' and various other overclocking software packaged with it. What's the recommended board then? The P5K?
 
Well a lot of the nVidia 680i chipset motherboard dont overclock very well. My old striker would only allow me up to 333 MGhz FSB on my q6600 (3Ghz). Im not sure what the new 750/780 chipset boards are like for overclocking. If you are running SLI you will need to have an nVidia chipset board, so an intel one is out of the picture :(
 
Well i can see what we can do matey,

From reading around it should do 333mhz giving you 3ghz. But as the others have said. Its not the best board for clocking. Shame your running sli. Prefer crossfire lol with an intel chipset.

Glad to see you have a decent psu. So voltages from that shouldnt be the problem.
 
Wizardskills said:
Well a lot of the nVidia 680i chipset motherboard dont overclock very well. My old striker would only allow me up to 333 MGhz FSB on my q6600 (3Ghz). Im not sure what the new 750/780 chipset boards are like for overclocking. If you are running SLI you will need to have an nVidia chipset board, so an intel one is out of the picture :(
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had exactly same result with my striker untill i updated bios to v1301,with the help of andy ive managed 3.42ghz so far on air so they aint that bad:)
 
3GHz should be feasible - even on that board. The NVidia boards clock better with dual-cores than quads and you definitely need to turn off the speedstep/C1E stuff to get anywhere. And despite all the hype about G0's running cool, you may need lots of volts to get it over 3.2Ghz which can cause the chipset to heat up etc. etc.

Stick with it though - I'm suprised DataMonkey took you up on the offer - I wouldn't have thought those high-powered server boys could stand the pay-cut:D
 
I have the same board and CPU. Had a quick google around and I don't think anyone has managed to get it past 3Ghz with a quad.
I for one can't clock mine past 2.8Ghz (1250 FSB unlinked, haven't tried playing with the RAM yet). It just won't post.
As has been said, the board is really bad for overclocking. I think you'll be lucky to get 3.2Ghz out of it. 2.8Ghz should be doable though.
Good luck.
 
I was just about to post that my QX6700 on a P5N32-E is only just stable at 1175mhz when it locked solid :eek:

It won't run my 2GB Reaper 9100 at 1066mhz or 4GB of gskill 8000 (2x2) at anything above 800mhz, even with everything at stock. A 780i board is looking very inviting.
 
Your probably in an FSB hole.
Take the FSB to 1333, don't mess around with anything lower.
That will give you 3ghz.
Core voltage can remain on default.
Give it a little bump if prime tests error out.

Also be careful with the memory settings.
What you think is 1:1 isn't.
Make sure you set linked and synced.
If it doubt unlink and run the memory clock at 800

Give it a try.
 
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PCZ said:
Your probably in an FSB hole.
Take the FSB to 1333, don't mess around with anything lower.
That will give you 3ghz.
Core voltage can remain on default.
Give it a little bump if prime tests error out.

Also be careful with the memory settings.
What you think is 1:1 isn't.
Make sure you set linked and synced.
If it doubt unlink and run the memory clock at 800

Give it a try.
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I did also go straight to 1333 on the FSB too. Complete lock and I needed to reset the jumper on the motherboard.

I also did linked at that value, and unlinked with mem set to 800. No joy.

I can't wait until monday :)
 
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