New kit floweth over..

not every chip will do 3.0 or above - but mostly it down to the mobo.
The e6400 did 3.6 in a DS4 but only acheives 3.0 in my AW9D-max (not that great with the lower multiplier cores) Next strangle hold is the ram (and the mobo's dividers)

Whats your spec and we'll see if we can help. (the oc part of the forum is really the place to ask - they do some
But 55 with a ACF7 at (stock volts?)/2.4 is a little high
 
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SiriusB said:
He isn't on stock volts.

And you didn't tell me it was 55C. I thought you said 41?
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Hmmm.. get those volts down, something else is the problem (what mobo - I know mine needed a bit extra on the northbridge due to vdroop)

Edit: sorry biffa - thats a nice little machine you've got their (and there's nothing wrong with the atcs cases with c2d's in them)
 
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He is only on 1.3 volts as far as I know.

He has put his NB be up by +0.1v

His mobo is a DS3. You might be better at guiding him on a DS3 as it is somewhat different to a P5B.
 
System is as follows:

E6300
ACF7 Cooler
Gigabyte 965P DS3
2GB Corsair Value 667 RAM

and the rest:

430w Tagan PSU, one SATA hard drive, x1950 Pro graphics card, Coolermaster Centurion5 case.

@Sirius - the temps were 40-45 degrees when I first installed the fan. Since then I've overclocked it another 400mhz, upped the voltage a couple of notches and put the case side panel back on (which surprisingly made a big difference). It may have been a little warmer in the house too because the weather hasnt been bad over the weekend.

As I say its a side-project. Ill stick my nose in the Oc forum when I get chance.
 
A ds3 should fly - shouldn't need volts to either the chipset or chip at that clock.... bad mobo or board or bios I think, but I've no way of checking which from here :(

Full spec inc revisons and bios please

Edit: thanks for the above - but not detailed enough - happy to help, just ask whenever.

as a side if temps rise by more that 2 degress load you need some help form the case central part of the forum too. (I did and their top people - had a ACF7 and by removeing one fan and droping the volts on another. Plus adding a small piece of card - I knock 4 degrees of my temps!)
 
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Off the top of my head its F7 BIOS. I'll take a more detailed look at what I've got and let you know. It will probably be tomorrow now though.

Cheers for the help though. :)
 
that not a great one - F12 or F10 at worst (but don't kill it like a certain giant atomic lizard i could mention) I think even F6 was better, but would need to check. (not checking now btw ;) )
 
I'll update the BIOS tomorrow/when I find my USB stick and see if that makes a difference.

May I ask what happened to Godzilla's board? :confused:
 
Cob said:
He chose the wrong kind of weather for BIOS flashing.
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He's not wrong! :(

I decided to flash the BIOS on my DS3, without paying any attention to the rolls of thunder in the distance :rolleyes:

Half way through the update, there was a closer flash of lightning, the house lights flickered, and the PC tried to reboot :o

As shadowscotland can now confirm, the board is now as dead as a dead thing!

A decent UPS/filter might have helped, but I updated to a P35C-DS3R, so it wasn't a complete disaster.

Ah well, I learn faster from expensive mistakes :D

Alan Woodford
 
Gojira said:
As shadowscotland can now confirm, the board is now as dead as a dead thing!
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I still can't beleave it killed both bios images, the backup bios should be 'safe' but it was fried too :(
But glade your happy with the extra feactures of the P35 board
 
Well that was fun, couldn't work out why my shiny new CPU was processing FAH slower than my slowest machine.. seems I'd forgotten to use the -forceasm although I thought the SMP client didn't need it. Ah well it looks like its going to do one WU a day :)

Things to do:
* How far will she go, actually to get to 3Ghz I had to start overclocking the memory, be interesting to see where I can take it from here, probably not much further I think :(
* Memory timings, I automatically left them at Auto in the bios time to do some tweaking.
 
Biffa said:
* Memory timings, I automatically left them at Auto in the bios time to do some tweaking.
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Your'll need to slacken them a bit if your more that 5% over their rated speed.

My Ballistix were rated 667 3,3,3,3,8 but run at 710 4,4,4,4,12,36 (ceiling)
and my geil are rated 667 3,4,4,8 but run at 750 4,4,4,4,20,40 :D
(like to keep my timings in multiples if possable, for stability reasons)
 
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Mines currently running (as per the screen shot) at 5-6-6-20

Default of the OcUK kit at 400Mhz is 5-5-5-12

As I said I left the memory timings in the bios at auto and its set them to that. I guess I'm overclocking the memory by 8% or so currently. If I push it any further however... :)

So first I think I'll leave it at auto and see how far I can push the FSB before things start going to pot. Then go back and tighten timings and see whats what.

Depends whats going to benefit crunching the most I guess. :)
 
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Mines currently running (as per the screen shot) at 5-6-6-20
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That's reasonable for budget ram running a 1:1 ratio :)
Drop the timeing to 6,6,6,30 and set mem volts to 2.2 before pushing the chip further (you could even use a lower memory divider).

In essance you test the chip first with really slack memory.
then push the memory with a under/low clocked chip (using higher diveriders [1:2] and slacking the timing every time you hit a wall).
now you have the ceiling of each - try and get the best with both.

I guess to get the ram to go further your need to drop to CL6 or use a 5:4 or 3:2 divider not both.

3.6 is the theoretical max that board and chip type can acheive (so you your already doing well)
cpu speed is better that faster ram in F@H (tested this personally as well as read/discussed this with other)
fast and lose if better that slower but tight (say 400CL5 better than 333CL3 or 360CL4)

Current
FSB=430
DDR2=860@5-6-6-20
CPU(7x)=3010

Option 1 slack times (as budget ram)
FSB=480
DDR2=860@6-12-12-48
CPU(7x)=3360

Option 2 (divider 3:2) - (about the same ppd as option1)
FSB=498
DDR2=666@4-4-4-8 (if your lucky)
CPU(7x)=3486

Option 3 (divider 5:4)
FSB=520 (max of mobo ~ish)
DDR2=832@5-5-5-10 (easy)
CPU(7x)=3640

Option 3 (better ram)
FSB=534 (max)
DDR2=1068@5-5-5-15 (ppd boost but not worth the upgrade cost)
CPU(7x)=3738
 
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-- AMD64 4800+ (stock) --
Avg. Time / Frame : 31mn 17s - 701.05 ppd

-- Opteron 165 (stock) --
Avg. Time / Frame : 1h 08mn 47s - 318.84 ppd

-- C2D E6320@3Ghz --
Avg. Time / Frame : 16mn 51s - 1301.55 ppd

Mind you finished its first WU but can't send/recieve now.. wierd. So I get a chance to OC it a bit more! :D
 
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SiriusB said:
Oooh nice upgrade.

What socket is the FX? Also, what make/model is the rest of the stuff?

I have a friend who may be interested in upgrading which = possible cheap parts for me :D
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Its just gone into the MM, I'll email you
 
shadowscotland said:
Current
FSB=430
DDR2=860@5-6-6-20
CPU(7x)=3010

Option 1 slack times (as budget ram)
FSB=480
DDR2=860@6-12-12-48
CPU(7x)=3360

Option 2 (divider 3:2) - (about the same ppd as option1)
FSB=498
DDR2=666@4-4-4-8 (if your lucky)
CPU(7x)=3486

Option 3 (divider 5:4)
FSB=520 (max of mobo ~ish)
DDR2=832@5-5-5-10 (easy)
CPU(7x)=3640

Option 3 (better ram)
FSB=534 (max)
DDR2=1068@5-5-5-15 (ppd boost but not worth the upgrade cost)
CPU(7x)=3738
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Hmm I don't have any lower divider on the DS3 unless there is a secret Fkey to get them. The lowest divider I have sets the DDR at 2x the FSB

I'm at 3.2Ghz now on stock volts with the RAM at 914
 
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