Hiring an experienced overclocker

russ0r · 6 Feb 2008 at 18:45

Dingleberry88 said:
It seems to be a pretty temperamental board, but after quite a bit of messing around I've been running 3.4GHz absolutely rock solid stable for months.

Sorry for thread hijack... but do you mind sharing your BIOS settings? Wonder if there's some little option somewhere thats screwing things up for my board...

Cheers.

gurusan · 6 Feb 2008 at 18:47

Why not spend the 100 quid on a better motherboard.

Odhran · 7 Feb 2008 at 16:20

gurusan said:
Why not spend the 100 quid on a better motherboard.

Which one? The P5k?

Edit: Also, I'm looking to learn a thing or two by this - learning by instruction is very valuable imo.

gurusan · 7 Feb 2008 at 16:24

The P5K is an excellent motherboard and should have no problems getting your quad over 3ghz...or if you want to spend a little more on something with PCI-E 2.0 then the P5E is a great board as well.

sablabra · 7 Feb 2008 at 17:01

If you're using SLi, the P5K isn't an option. If you pay the flight ticket both ways, I'll see what I can do with it

Dingleberry88 · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:18

russ0r said:
Sorry for thread hijack... but do you mind sharing your BIOS settings? Wonder if there's some little option somewhere thats screwing things up for my board...

Cheers.

If you stick the following file on a USB stick, you should be able to load it under the OC Profile section of the BIOS.

http://www.uploading.com/files/920VNQK3/SETTINGS.CMO.html

That should contain all my BIOS settings.

Salsa · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:29

I have the P5N32-E Plus Sli board and its very picky for OC'ing. Has quite a few FSB holes but the latest BIOS revision seemes to have made it less tempremental. Mine needs pleanty of volts in the NB to be anywhere near stable and then it runs quite hot. 1.55v if i remember correctly but it has been rock solid stable @3.4Ghz for 11 months now.

Dingleberry88 · 7 Feb 2008 at 19:48

I've found the last couple of BIOS revisions quite unstable.

1201 is what seems to be the best for me.

Meridian · 7 Feb 2008 at 21:08

Interesting. I'm on 1302 IIRC, so I might try rolling back.

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Banny · 8 Feb 2008 at 10:02

I would spend the money on another board myself and sell the one you got.

Odhran · 8 Feb 2008 at 10:28

Dingleberry88 said:
I've found the last couple of BIOS revisions quite unstable.

1201 is what seems to be the best for me.

I can't find a 1201 BIOS ... 1205 is the closest on the ASUS site. Is this the one?

Dingleberry88 · 8 Feb 2008 at 16:14

1202 P5N32-E SLi BIOS

russ0r · 9 Feb 2008 at 00:37

Dingleberry88 said:
If you stick the following file on a USB stick, you should be able to load it under the OC Profile section of the BIOS.

http://www.uploading.com/files/920VNQK3/SETTINGS.CMO.html

That should contain all my BIOS settings.

Oh wow

Nice, thanks. Which BIOS version are you using btw?

Edit: Ignore that, just read your other post.

russ0r · 9 Feb 2008 at 13:56

Well, I give up. I've spent a good 4 hours this morning arsing about with settings, and although the old BIOS and dingleberry's CMOS settings have helped a little, I still can't get a stable, decent overclock.
Motherboard won't even post at 3.2Ghz (8x1600 or 9x1423), it posted at 3.37Ghz (9x1500) but wouldn't boot as far as windows, even with vcore at 1.475 and NB at 1.5

I've just reset it to my old overclock of 2.8Ghz and gonna get myself a better motherboard tbh.
Let me know if you have any more luck Odhran.

Dingleberry88 · 9 Feb 2008 at 17:22

Have you got any additional NB/SB cooling?

I find the heatsinks get incredibly hot, so I have 2x120mm fans blowing onto them. Tied onto the side of my case, ghetto style.

Munkeh · 9 Feb 2008 at 17:28

russ0r said:
Well, I give up. I've spent a good 4 hours this morning arsing about with settings, and although the old BIOS and dingleberry's CMOS settings have helped a little, I still can't get a stable, decent overclock.
Motherboard won't even post at 3.2Ghz (8x1600 or 9x1423), it posted at 3.37Ghz (9x1500) but wouldn't boot as far as windows, even with vcore at 1.475 and NB at 1.5
I've just reset it to my old overclock of 2.8Ghz and gonna get myself a better motherboard tbh.
Let me know if you have any more luck Odhran.

Sure you don't just have a carp chip? Surely some chips just won't clock as well as others. Might be worth thinking about before spending another £80 on a motherboard!

w3bbo · 9 Feb 2008 at 19:34

p5n32 SLI = poor quad clocker. Save the £100, sell the p5n32 and get a p35.

Van Diemen · 9 Feb 2008 at 19:53

He's running GTX's in SLI, so a P35 is not really an option

Bomag · 9 Feb 2008 at 23:30

Sell the P5N32-E and get a P5N-T.

I just swapped my P5N32-E for the P5N-T and my QX6700 which would not go above 293mhz is OK at 350mhz (stock volts on the MB) - it may go higher but I haven't tried it.

russ0r · 10 Feb 2008 at 00:38

Dingleberry88 said:
Have you got any additional NB/SB cooling?

I find the heatsinks get incredibly hot, so I have 2x120mm fans blowing onto them. Tied onto the side of my case, ghetto style.

Yeah that did occur to me, and no I haven't (nowhere to fix it in my case really), but the system was running fine at stock with 1.5v on the NB... so I suspect overheating on the NB isn't an issue.

Munkeh said:
Sure you don't just have a carp chip? Surely some chips just won't clock as well as others. Might be worth thinking about before spending another £80 on a motherboard!

Its possible. But the fact that it posts at 3.37Ghz and not 3.2Ghz kinda leads me to believe this has nothing to do with the CPU.

Bomag said:
Sell the P5N32-E and get a P5N-T.

Cheers, will look into it.