Soldato
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I was reading :
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40178
and it seems accodring to those results raw cpu power is better than optimising your ram and dropping a few mhz as a result. So i increased my divider to 166.
(setup in sig)
I am a noob overclocker, but i think i have finally got my head around the basics. My main sources of info are:
Overclockers UK
Definitive OC Guide
Somewhat complete a64 oc guide
I have followed these guides to the letter, then played around but i seem to have problems getting past the 6k hurdle on 3d mark 06 using 1t timings(which i achieved on 2t timings at 2.3 Ghz).
Some stats ^^:
Max CPU FSB: 290Mhz, i didnt want to take my vcore above 1.475 so stopped here
Max RAM: 250 Mhz
Stock timings on ram: 2.5-3-3-6
Stock FSB: 200Mhz
Stock Multi: x9
Setup 1 - 5/06 divider (200Mhz)
FSB: 290
LDT/FSB: x3
LDT Bus: 16 16
CPU/FSB: x9
PCI Xpress Freq: 101Mhz
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
CPU VID StartUp: StartUp
CPU VID: 1.35 (effective 1.485 when vid special kicks in)
CPU VID Special: 110%
LDT Voltage: 1.20
Chip Set Voltage: 1.50
DRAM Voltage Control: 2.80
Memory Settings
DRAM Freq: 166 (5/06)
CPC: Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl): 3.0
RAS to CAS delay (Trcd): 3
Min RAS active time (Tras): 7
Row Precharge (Trp): 03
Row cycle time (Trc): 07
Row Refresh cyc time (Trfc): 11
Row to Row Delay (trrd): 1
Write Recovery time (Twr): 2
Wrote to Read Delay (Twtr): 1
Read to Write delay (trwt): 3
Refresh Period (tref): 2560 (166Mhz 3.9us)
Write CAS Latency (twcl): 1
DRAM Bank Interleave: Enabled
DQS Skew Control: Auto
DQS Skew: 0
DRAM Drive Strength: 7
DRAM Data Drive Strength: 2
Max Async Latency: Auto
DRAM Responce Time: Fast
Read Preamble Time: 6
Idle Cycle limit: 32
Dynamic Counter: Enable
R/W Queue bypass: 16
Bypass max: 4
32 Byte Granularity: Disabled
3d mark 06 score: 5328
SM 2.0: 2581
SM 3.0: 2388
CPU score: 1181
Setup 1 - 1/01 divider (200Mhz)
Using a 1/01 divider i found that the max FSB on my ram i could achieve was 250 Mhz without losing stability, even at 251 i started getting memory errors on test 8 on memtest,
at 253 i was failing both tests 5 and 8
FSB: 250
LDT/FSB: x3
LDT Bus: 16 16
CPU/FSB: x9
PCI Xpress Freq: 101Mhz
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
CPU VID StartUp: StartUp
CPU VID: 1.400
CPU VID Special: Auto
LDT Voltage: 1.20
Chip Set Voltage: 1.50
DRAM Voltage Control: 2.80
Memory Settings
DRAM Freq: 200 (1/01)
CPC: Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl): 3.0
RAS to CAS delay (Trcd): 4
Min RAS active time (Tras): 8
Row Precharge (Trp): 04
Row cycle time (Trc): 07
Row Refresh cyc time (Trfc): 11
Row to Row Delay (trrd): 2
Write Recovery time (Twr): 2
Wrote to Read Delay (Twtr): 1
Read to Write delay (trwt): 3
Refresh Period (tref): 3120 (200Mhz 3.9us)
Write CAS Latency (twcl): 1
DRAM Bank Interleave: Enabled
DQS Skew Control: Increase Skew
DQS Skew: 255
DRAM Drive Strength: 7
DRAM Data Drive Strength: 2
Max Async Latency: 7.0
DRAM Responce Time: Fast
Read Preamble Time: 5
Idle Cycle limit: 32
Dynamic Counter: Enable
R/W Queue bypass: 16
Bypass max: 7
32 Byte Granularity: Disabled
3d mark 06 score: 5876
SM 2.0: 2574
SM 3.0: 2472
CPU score: 1695
So increasing the clock speed but chaning the setup to asynchrous actually made the performance worse. And taking the setup onto 1t timings (2.3Ghz, ram settings on auto i got 6005 on the 3dmark) also reduced my score further.
I was under the impression that putting the settings onto 1t would give the system speeds a boost, not reduce them :s
Is there any way i can boost the system performance on 1t timings, or would it be better to go back to 2.3 Ghz on 2t timings as i didnt even really scratch the service in terms of oc'ing.
But surely with higher clock speeds i should be getting higher 3d mark scores?
http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=40178
and it seems accodring to those results raw cpu power is better than optimising your ram and dropping a few mhz as a result. So i increased my divider to 166.
(setup in sig)
I am a noob overclocker, but i think i have finally got my head around the basics. My main sources of info are:
Overclockers UK
Definitive OC Guide
Somewhat complete a64 oc guide
I have followed these guides to the letter, then played around but i seem to have problems getting past the 6k hurdle on 3d mark 06 using 1t timings(which i achieved on 2t timings at 2.3 Ghz).
Some stats ^^:
Max CPU FSB: 290Mhz, i didnt want to take my vcore above 1.475 so stopped here
Max RAM: 250 Mhz
Stock timings on ram: 2.5-3-3-6
Stock FSB: 200Mhz
Stock Multi: x9
Setup 1 - 5/06 divider (200Mhz)
FSB: 290
LDT/FSB: x3
LDT Bus: 16 16
CPU/FSB: x9
PCI Xpress Freq: 101Mhz
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
CPU VID StartUp: StartUp
CPU VID: 1.35 (effective 1.485 when vid special kicks in)
CPU VID Special: 110%
LDT Voltage: 1.20
Chip Set Voltage: 1.50
DRAM Voltage Control: 2.80
Memory Settings
DRAM Freq: 166 (5/06)
CPC: Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl): 3.0
RAS to CAS delay (Trcd): 3
Min RAS active time (Tras): 7
Row Precharge (Trp): 03
Row cycle time (Trc): 07
Row Refresh cyc time (Trfc): 11
Row to Row Delay (trrd): 1
Write Recovery time (Twr): 2
Wrote to Read Delay (Twtr): 1
Read to Write delay (trwt): 3
Refresh Period (tref): 2560 (166Mhz 3.9us)
Write CAS Latency (twcl): 1
DRAM Bank Interleave: Enabled
DQS Skew Control: Auto
DQS Skew: 0
DRAM Drive Strength: 7
DRAM Data Drive Strength: 2
Max Async Latency: Auto
DRAM Responce Time: Fast
Read Preamble Time: 6
Idle Cycle limit: 32
Dynamic Counter: Enable
R/W Queue bypass: 16
Bypass max: 4
32 Byte Granularity: Disabled
3d mark 06 score: 5328
SM 2.0: 2581
SM 3.0: 2388
CPU score: 1181
Setup 1 - 1/01 divider (200Mhz)
Using a 1/01 divider i found that the max FSB on my ram i could achieve was 250 Mhz without losing stability, even at 251 i started getting memory errors on test 8 on memtest,
at 253 i was failing both tests 5 and 8
FSB: 250
LDT/FSB: x3
LDT Bus: 16 16
CPU/FSB: x9
PCI Xpress Freq: 101Mhz
Cool n Quiet: Disabled
CPU VID StartUp: StartUp
CPU VID: 1.400
CPU VID Special: Auto
LDT Voltage: 1.20
Chip Set Voltage: 1.50
DRAM Voltage Control: 2.80
Memory Settings
DRAM Freq: 200 (1/01)
CPC: Enable
CAS Latency Control (Tcl): 3.0
RAS to CAS delay (Trcd): 4
Min RAS active time (Tras): 8
Row Precharge (Trp): 04
Row cycle time (Trc): 07
Row Refresh cyc time (Trfc): 11
Row to Row Delay (trrd): 2
Write Recovery time (Twr): 2
Wrote to Read Delay (Twtr): 1
Read to Write delay (trwt): 3
Refresh Period (tref): 3120 (200Mhz 3.9us)
Write CAS Latency (twcl): 1
DRAM Bank Interleave: Enabled
DQS Skew Control: Increase Skew
DQS Skew: 255
DRAM Drive Strength: 7
DRAM Data Drive Strength: 2
Max Async Latency: 7.0
DRAM Responce Time: Fast
Read Preamble Time: 5
Idle Cycle limit: 32
Dynamic Counter: Enable
R/W Queue bypass: 16
Bypass max: 7
32 Byte Granularity: Disabled
3d mark 06 score: 5876
SM 2.0: 2574
SM 3.0: 2472
CPU score: 1695
So increasing the clock speed but chaning the setup to asynchrous actually made the performance worse. And taking the setup onto 1t timings (2.3Ghz, ram settings on auto i got 6005 on the 3dmark) also reduced my score further.
I was under the impression that putting the settings onto 1t would give the system speeds a boost, not reduce them :s
Is there any way i can boost the system performance on 1t timings, or would it be better to go back to 2.3 Ghz on 2t timings as i didnt even really scratch the service in terms of oc'ing.
But surely with higher clock speeds i should be getting higher 3d mark scores?
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nvidia thing maybe?? dunno, decent overall score anyway, nice one 