MY intended spec - Insights appreciated :)

looks really good mate. Very neat and tidy work there, when I finish building it's always a sea of cables, should really try n tidy mine up, but then again it works and hides under a desk :p Once I get back the motherboard for the new build I'll attempt to keep it tidy, not making any promises to myself though.
 
OK, that was the easiest overclock ever... Set it to 08.0 ratio and 400 FSB and... 3.2GHz, done, no messing about. All tested fine, no faults so far. I'll run a full burn-in tonight, but preliminary tests look all perfect! :)
 
newbe5 said:
OK, that was the easiest overclock ever... Set it to 08.0 ratio and 400 FSB and... 3.2GHz, done, no messing about. All tested fine, no faults so far. I'll run a full burn-in tonight, but preliminary tests look all perfect! :)
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I thought you bought a Q6600? It's multiplier is 9 isn't it? 9x400=3.6ghz

Don't tell me you can change the multipliers on the MB/CPUs as well these days?
 
newbe5 said:
Yup! I dropped the multiplier to 8 and stuck it at 400 :D Should be a nice stable overclock I hope!
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Wow! So intel no longer multiplier lock?

Have you tried the full 9x400 out of interest? Can you go 8.5x400 out of interest?
 
NeilFawcett said:
Wow! So intel no longer multiplier lock?

Have you tried the full 9x400 out of interest? Can you go 8.5x400 out of interest?
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Can't do .5x on these. It should do 9x400 with a vcore increase but it may be too much extra voltage for the gain to be worthwhile. More volts mean more heat for these power hungry quads. I had one whose sweet spot was 8x450. It loved the extra bandwidth. It went on to do 3.8Ghz but it was a waste of time for me. My main rig is just for gaming and it left three cores churning out heat and sucking up voltage but doing nothing. It's different for him as he has that x2 which needs a quad to be set free.
 
OK, I'm home now, got it rigged up for Team Fortress 2 and Warhammer Online, I know neither of those will give it a true test of greatness, but they'll definately give me a feel of how it's playing and hilight any possible errors!

I'll install COD4 later and I'm having friends over tomorrow for a LAN Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance fest, so that'll give it a good break-in with plenty of units on the map :)

The overclock is running smooth as hell right now, and if it stays that way I MIGHT go for 3.6, but I'm not overly bothered about pushing my luck, the 3.2 is great for me.

Roll on Fallout 3 and Deadspace!
 
OK, I just finished a 4 hour Team Fortress 2 session, with everything on max! 1920x1200 8xAA, 16xAF, HDR, Bloom, Max textures and everything else. The game ran 100% the entire time, never dropping below 65-75 FPS when there was heavy HEAVY fighting going on, when just building stuff as an engineer etc, I was sitting at about 170fps. The CPU never went above 70 degrees.

This computer simply rocks. There's no two ways about it, I don't regret any single part of the setup, and I LOVE all you guys for helping me put it all together.

I just want to make a note that this was an early christmas present from my lovely wife, although I sense she might have done it to keep me out of the way :P

Thanks for everything guys! I'm going to hang around these forums to help people out, and generally, loiter, but I can say without a shadow of a doubt, I highly reccomend the P5Q+Q6600 combo for overclocking. The clock to 3.2 was so simple it was almost embarassing. The 4870x2 is such a great card, and possibly more importantly, the drivers and support for it are superb. A lot of my friends playing Warhammer Online have problems with high end nVidia GFX cards and texturing with the game. I know this needs to be fixed in the game, but everything works 100% on this Radeon, and it's just... Awesome. Good luck to all those who are still building their rigs!

newbe5
 
pastymuncher said:
Can't do .5x on these. It should do 9x400 with a vcore increase but it may be too much extra voltage for the gain to be worthwhile. More volts mean more heat for these power hungry quads. I had one whose sweet spot was 8x450. It loved the extra bandwidth. It went on to do 3.8Ghz but it was a waste of time for me. My main rig is just for gaming and it left three cores churning out heat and sucking up voltage but doing nothing. It's different for him as he has that x2 which needs a quad to be set free.
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What's the fastest the FSB can be set to on a P5Q then? 450? In such a case what is the memory running at?
 
newbe5 said:
I just want to make a note that this was an early christmas present from my lovely wife, although I sense she might have done it to keep me out of the way
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:eek: I need to show the girlfriend this thread. "Look what he got, now if you really loved me" :p

Congrats on the overclock mate, looks like a damn good setup.
 
NeilFawcett said:
What's the fastest the FSB can be set to on a P5Q then? 450? In such a case what is the memory running at?
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Easily in excess of 500mhz, probably 520-550mhz at least but you won't get near the max with a quad as they have lower fsb limits. My P5E does at least 520mhz but with a Q6600 the max was 467mhz. The ram speed depends on what you have the divider set at. At the moment i am running 9x400 but have the ram running faster than the fsb at 1066mhz.
 
OK, so I've run a full 8 hour burn-in now, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this overclock is 100%. I don't know if I got lucky with the chip or what, but I never exceeded 80 degrees on full load.

Played Crysis on maximum everything earlier on 1920x1200 and I didn't drop below 50fps.

This is the rig I always dreamed of, can't wait for Fallout 3 and Deadspace. Finally I have a rig worth writing home about :)
 
newbe5 said:
OK, so I've run a full 8 hour burn-in now, and I can say without a shadow of a doubt that this overclock is 100%. I don't know if I got lucky with the chip or what, but I never exceeded 80 degrees on full load.

Played Crysis on maximum everything earlier on 1920x1200 and I didn't drop below 50fps.

This is the rig I always dreamed of, can't wait for Fallout 3 and Deadspace. Finally I have a rig worth writing home about :)
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I would'nt be happy with 80 degrees personally. Far too high for my liking. I hope that's not just while gaming? Is this just at 3.2Ghz?
 
Suddenly... NECROPOST!

This is just a courtesy to all those people that helped me so much all this time ago, but this is a 6-month-on update.

Basically... Perfection. The entire rig is still set up exactly as shown in the post above. I have made prescisely 0 changes, and everything is working 150% fantastic. I would highly reccomend this setup (especially since most of the components will now be cheaper!) to anyone looking to build a new PC.

All the cores are running at 3.3GHz (and have been since just after I built it) and the machine runs like an absolute dream. Now, only one thing I will mention, the noise. The Freezer 7 is almost silent, but the GFX card... Well, that is most definately NOT silent, lol. I couldn't care less about the noise (it's isnt any more noisy than an Xbox) but I know some people get annoyed with it, so I thought it was worth a mention!

Just looking for some new gaming headphones now! I'd love wireless ones, but I will go wired if it means better quality and more features. Thanks again all!

newbe5 (a very happy gamer 6 months later)
 
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