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phill9800

phill9800

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How long is long enough??

I'm using Orthos at the moment to test out my overclock and I'm managing about an hour and a quarter before it crashes out.

BUT..

My only problem with it is, is that its stable enough in everything else I give it to do?
My temps seem fine, I have no lock ups or anything, but I do wish it would work with Orthos :(

Can anyone help me make it work with Orthos at a given speed or am I barking up the wrong tree trying??

Many thanks :)
 
1.5hrs is no where near stable m8. Either increase vcore or lower the clockspeed to get it stable. What test in orthos are you giving it to do as that will give you an indication of where the problem lies.

Small fft's - CPU
Large ffts - CPU & ram
Blend - Bit of everything, cpu, chipset, ram (best test for SYSTEM stability).

When I was going for 4ghz I tried to get small first then went on to blend once that was sorted - blend for me was the hardest to pass.
 
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I know its not stable according to Orthos, but it seems to be working fine in everywhere else, that for me is the most stressfull part!! :lol:

I'm using the blend test as I've always done.. The main reason for this testing stuff is so I can say its been tested and it works!! :lol: But when it dont, I hate it sat there doing this stress test, when all I wanna do is play games on it!! :lol:

I'm a bogit, what can I say!? :lol:

What do you run for 4Ghz on yours??
 
4ghz with 1.6 on the vcore 12hr stable.

Also have to raise FSB + HT to 1.5

Hope that helps :)
 
I managed 4Ghz, but I think I over did the vcore (it was set to 1.725v, highest it would go!) and same with the MCH voltage as it was at 2v, but the ram seemed fine, that was set to 2.35V....

I think its got more left in it, but I've no experience nor money to put a water cooling setup on it to test it.. Wouldnt have a clue anyways!! :lol:

How much did your setup cost and was it hard to put together? What case and PSU do you have to 'house' it all??
 
phill9800 said:
How much did your setup cost and was it hard to put together? What case and PSU do you have to 'house' it all??
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I have absolutely no idea how much I have spent on my pc as its constantly changing...'electroevolution' as I like to call it :D . Its mostly funded from selling on my old kit, donating any profit from building pc's for friends/family so I guess you could say the cost is minimal. I have it all in a P180 atm but its outgrown that now so I have sold that on to be replaced by a mountain mods case. All of it is run buy a Silverstone 850w Zeus but a cheap PSU will be added to the mountain mods case for the purposes of powering lights/fans/pump.

BTW m8 be very carefull with putting that much vcore through the cpu, even I wouldn't risk that with a decent watercool setup good temps or not.
 
1.725V on air cooling :eek: ...

What is your complete spec?? you need good cooling on northbridge too beause it is hot without even without being clocked I heard.
 
w3bbo said:
BTW m8 be very carefull with putting that much vcore through the cpu, even I wouldn't risk that with a decent watercool setup good temps or not.
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I only used that amount of vcore for 10 minutes and I was constantly checking the CPU's temp which turned out to be fine, so I was happy with that :)

Here's my complete spec along with voltages and temps (I hope that helps)

Intel Conroe Duo 2 E6600
Zalman CNPS9700 LED CPU Cooler
Abit AW9D-Max
Geil Ultra Low Latency PC6400 2Gb
HIS X1900 XT
Samsung 250Gb SATA2 drive (partitioned)
Raptor 74Gb HD (spare)
Pioneer DVD-RW
Floppy Drive
Using onboard sound
Coolermaster Stacker 830 Case
OC Z Power Stream 520W PSU
Windows XP Pro + Service Pack 1A (no other updates)
Samsung SyncMaster 913N 19" TFT

Here's the voltages/temps too:

First Stress test - 9x380 (3.42Ghz)

FSB - 380
Multi - 9
N/B Strap - By CPU (PSB1066)
DRAM Spec - By SPD (4:5)
Est DRAM Clock - 475 (DDR2 950)

CPU - 1.4500 (bios)
DDR2 - 2.1
MCH & PCIe 1.5v - 1.7

Voltages (taken from Bios):

CPU - 1.49v
DDR2 - 2.15v
DDR2 VTT - 1.07v
CPU VTT 1.2V - 1.23v
MCH 1.5V - 1.71v
MCH 2.5V -2.59v
ICH 1.05V - 1.05v
ATX +12V (24 Pin) - 12.31v
ATX +12V (12 Pin) - 12.31v
ATX 5V - 5.23v
ATX 3.3V - 3.35v
ATX 5VSB - 5.29v

Temps (taken from Bios)

CPU - 31
System - 24
PWM1 - 29
PWM2 - 29
PWM3 - 28
PWM4 - 27

Anything else, please ask.
 
Here's an update for you all!!

Well apon 'wasting' so much time with it over the past 2 days, I think I can finally say its stable!! :lol:

Here's a few screen shots, sorry for them being so big, but I cant see enough of the screen to cut them down to size :( I so those 24" monitors.....



I figured 16 hours stress testing was enough, so I went one step higher and managed this for over 7 hours now:



Gonna aim for 3.6Ghz, but we'll see :)
 
I found that mine ran for 9-10 hours without problem at the priority 1 step, but after turning it up to priority 7 it crashes out within 2 hours. I've been adjusting the speed and voltage all day and so far its looking good now :)
 
If I do anymore testing I think I'm gonna go mental :lol:

I've wasted most of my weekend to watching this going on and I could have been playing games like The Simpson's Hit and Run or San Andrea's or even some Unreal Tournament!! :lol:

Sod it after this, if I cant get it to run 3.6Ghz, it'll do me just fine!! :lol:

Nice Skyline there by the way ;)
 
phill9800 said:
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Temps (taken from Bios)

CPU - 31
System - 24
PWM1 - 29
PWM2 - 29
PWM3 - 28
PWM4 - 27

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What's the general consensus on the accuracy of using the BIOS to report temps, rather than Intels TAT? Which do 'we' feel gives the more accurate representation?

My thought is that TAT should be more accurate, since Intel should know where the correct hooks are within the chip, and using the temps in the BIOS is worthless since the cpu isn't under any stress at that point.

Thanks (and sorry to derail your thread) :o
 
TAT and CoreTemp give the most accurate CPU temps (also usually the highest). Don't trust motherboard temp readouts - they are worthless at best.
 
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