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****San Diego 3700+ Steppings and Clocks- Retail and OEM****

Soul Rider

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Okay - I have my San Diego 3700+ CCBWE 0542VPMW OEM from OcUK, which I cannot yet run due to having an outdated bios on my motherboard.

I thought I'd do a search on google to see what these chips can do and came up with 1 match on this stepping, which was on the DFi site in a thread with 80+ pages. I didn't bother to read it....

What are the results of people on here with this chip from OcUK. Anything decent, interesting or frustrating with this chip?

I want all the info so i'm well prepared of my very own OC Day.

Also if any of you have the recent retail box versions, please post your information here, steppings and clocks as I want to see how the 2 compare....
 
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Fantastic results Dutch Guy.

I'm looking to get to 2.7 on mine, but looking at your voltages I may struggle as the Voltage on my m/b Asrock Dual sata only hits about 1.45-1.49. May have to do the volt mod to get 1.55 out of it.

Thanks for that.

Anyone else clocking these babies?
 
How noisy is that Mach II Cliffy? I have considered phase cooling myself, but the expense is such that i need to be sure i have a good clocking chip before i attempt it.

Big Wayne - What is the point of being Dual Prime stable? Surely if a machine can run prime stable, it is going to be stable enough for any normal usage workload you throw at it. Dual prime stable for 20 hours is extremely stable to my mind, i don't think i would ever be using as much as half that amount of load on my processor under the heaviest usage, so why go dual?
 
How do i upload my images?

I have a screen print of my overclock to go up in here.

CPU - 11*230 - 2.53Ghz
Vcore - 1.344
Memory:180.8Mhz
FSB:DRAM CPU/14

SuperPi - 34m 51s
Sisoft:
Drystone - ALU 11344 MIPS
Whetstone - iSSE3 5123MFLOPS

No Prime as yet as only just built the thing..
 
Top of page 2 was posted as retail for KAB3E retail chips, although he didn't confirm if that was from OcUK.

I've got mine to 2.64 11x240 at the moment.

It is SuperPi 32M stable, will try prime in the next couple of days when i get time to run it..
 
Having problems with OC at the moment.

Have gone from SuperPi stable at 2.65Ghz to being unable to boot into windows above 2.43Ghz.

Doing a burn in on SiSoft, trying to get the CPU warmed up before going for further overclocks, but the good news is it is now stable @2.43Ghz. will leave it a couple of weeks before i crank up the overclock again.

Interestingly, when i manually set the Vcore i have stability issues, but when i leave it on auto it is fine.
 
OK, I've now gotmy overclock turned up a little more.

Back to running:
11*230: 2.53Ghz

Primed for 1 Hour, all ok, will prime for another 9 or 10 hours today while at work and see if we can't keep this thing stable...
 
Ok, Were moving on slowly.

I'm taking this one step at a time, trying to get the machine stable before taking up a level.

Currently @ 11*238 2618Mhz.

Ran prime stable for 10hrs, but crashed after 1/2 when playing quake 3 :confused:

I thought prime was the ultimate stability test? How the hell can a machine be prime stable for 10hrs, then get beaten up by a silly little game like Quake3?

Before Big.wayne jumps in about no screenies... 2.6Ghz is not a particuarly pleasing clock. If I hit 2.7Ghz or above, then i'll post screens, when it's worth showing off..
 
ted34 said:
When i first got my 3700 it ran 12hrs prime95 at 3.1ghz at 1.55v. Then after reinstalling it wasnt stable and had to back it down to 3ghz at 1.54v. This was all on air. Still the best single core clocker i've ever had
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What stepping was that ted? or is that too long ago to remember?
 
I'm having random issues with my PC, even after throttling off the overclock and running at stock, so I have ordered a new graphics card - Powercolor x800gt (the offer finished on OcUK for the GTO16 which i was going to buy this morning). I will be getting 2GB of the Veil value RAM next week, so i'll try and clock it back up again after that is installed, and hope there are no major issues with my machine..
 
Disco_stoo said:
I clocked mine to 2640 (fSB 240 x 11) and tried it out in 3d mark 05, and got a lower CPU score than it running at standards speeds. No issues or anything and it's a stable 40 degrees, any ideas why would it be slower?
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3Dmark05 is mainly a VPU tester, but it could be a memory issue.

Are you running a divider? A bit more information on the system and set-up would be helpful.
 
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