The Official Conroe Overclocking Thread

Skilty · 19 Jul 2006 at 09:42

Stelly said:
Girlfriend off out with her friends, thing is built but waiting for an OS... so I'm going to be home about 6.15 and putting the rest of it together!

Stelly

Hehehehehe excellent!!! Need to do a bit more Dremel work on mine so hoping I can get a revision 304 sent out on Monday with my 6600. Only thing is I am off to Frankfurt for the whole week :mad:

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 11:21

Skilty said:
Hehehehehe excellent!!! Need to do a bit more Dremel work on mine so hoping I can get a revision 304 sent out on Monday with my 6600. Only thing is I am off to Frankfurt for the whole week

Dont the work with a jigsaw and a steady hand

worked ok... will post pics when I get home... cant wait to get gaming with the thing, its going to be so much fun

bought like £60 worth of games off the net

Stelly

Durzel · 19 Jul 2006 at 11:58

Devious said:
Ive no camera so cant take any pics.

But the only settings Ive changed from default are:

Vcore 1.45v
Vmch 1.65v
Vmem 2.1v
Pci bus 33Mhz
Pci-e 110Mhz

Thanks for that

Gonna use those settings straight ouf of the box I think.

How much did that Team RAM set you back by the way? And how in the hell are you running PC2-5300 (667?) RAM at 420+ 1:1?? Beginning to think I made the wrong choice buying the G.Skill 2GB HZ!

Gibbo · 19 Jul 2006 at 12:11

Skilty said:
Yeah I know but I guess with that many boards coming and going out its hard to check every single one. Anyway it will be going back today or tomorrow! Just my luck!!!

Hi there

Yes we got ten 302's sent to us by mistake, we caught 9 of them but one went out and I guess your that person. Call us up and tell them its revision 302 and if they don't understand what your going on about tell them to speak to Gibbo and I will explain to them.

Devious · 19 Jul 2006 at 12:16

Durzel said:
Thanks for that Gonna use those settings straight ouf of the box I think.

How much did that Team RAM set you back by the way? And how in the hell are you running PC2-5300 (667?) RAM at 420+ 1:1?? Beginning to think I made the wrong choice buying the G.Skill 2GB HZ!

My Team Ram was £135

Its about £143 now.

I posted a few links in the memory forum showing how good it was and Gibbo said he was going to get some in.

I saw people posting shots of the HZ doing 500 Mhz and I went and bought some too thinking they would be better than my TeamGroup, tuns out they were no better for me at 423FSB and the people who were hitting the 500+ mark on the bad axe had the bootstrap at 1333 which i believe loosens the chipset timings.

Skilty · 19 Jul 2006 at 12:53

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Yes we got ten 302's sent to us by mistake, we caught 9 of them but one went out and I guess your that person. Call us up and tell them its revision 302 and if they don't understand what your going on about tell them to speak to Gibbo and I will explain to them.

Thanks Gibbo, seems to be my luck lately or lack of it. Spoke to the technical support guys and got an RMA so will be posting it back tomorrow. Any idea on when you will be getting more 304s in stock as they seem to be on 1-3 days at the moment.

You would have got it tomorrow but I managed to forget the ATX backplate, unless of course you can take the one out of the 304 you are going to send in which case I will post it today

Don't suppose there is any chance of getting my E6600 early as a consolation...

Skilty · 19 Jul 2006 at 12:57

Stelly said:
Dont the work with a jigsaw and a steady hand worked ok... will post pics when I get home... cant wait to get gaming with the thing, its going to be so much fun bought like £60 worth of games off the net

Stelly

Hehehehehe well am notoriously bad with tools, take last night, put my clawhammer down as I was taking the heads off the aluminium rivets and then managed to tread on it, nice big gash on the bottom of my foot now. Least I can say I put my blood, sweat and tears into my PC

Hopefully have my replacement Bad Axe by Monday

Durzel · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:08

Devious said:
My Team Ram was £135

Its about £143 now.

I posted a few links in the memory forum showing how good it was and Gibbo said he was going to get some in.

I saw people posting shots of the HZ doing 500 Mhz and I went and bought some too thinking they would be better than my TeamGroup, tuns out they were no better for me at 423FSB and the people who were hitting the 500+ mark on the bad axe had the bootstrap at 1333 which i believe loosens the chipset timings.

Well I've just got my G.Skill HZ 2GB and the serial number starts 6270 - so I've got no clue what I've got. :mad:

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:17

Gibbo said:
Hi there

Yes we got ten 302's sent to us by mistake, we caught 9 of them but one went out and I guess your that person. Call us up and tell them its revision 302 and if they don't understand what your going on about tell them to speak to Gibbo and I will explain to them.

Any news about stocking Team's RAM Gibbo???

Stelly

killer_uk · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:19

Stelly said:
Any news about stocking Team's RAM Gibbo???

Stelly

Forget the RAM, we want the E6600s!

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 13:23

killer_uk said:
Forget the RAM, we want the E6600s!

6600s??? AAAAAH thats the chip below the Extreme version that I got

JOKING!

Stelly

uvarvu · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:36

At least you got yours.

Mine still hasn't turned up. If the order is not here by 5pm I'm going to call citylink and ask them to send the order back.

I am beyond angry.

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 14:45

Nahema said:
At least you got yours.

Mine still hasn't turned up. If the order is not here by 5pm I'm going to call citylink and ask them to send the order back.

I am beyond angry.

**hugs**

Stelly

ferrettoes · 19 Jul 2006 at 15:46

Stelly said:
6600s??? AAAAAH thats the chip below the Extreme version that I got JOKING!

Stelly

lol why waste all that money on a chip that doesn't overclock aswell as a cpu 60% cheaper... urr'll get more grunt out of a 6600 than the extreme edition will ever do.

quotes from Anandtech:-

To provide some idea of overclocking abilities with other Core 2 Duo processors, we ran quick tests with E6700 (2.67GHz), and E6600 (2.4GHz). The test E6700 reached a stable 3.4GHz at default voltage and topped out at 3.9GHz with the Tuniq Cooler. The 2.4GHz E6600 turned out to be quite an overclocker in our tests. Even though it was hard-locked at a 9 multiplier it reached an amazing 4GHz in the overclocking tests. That represents a 67% overclock.

We had another Core 2 Extreme X6800 that we tried overclocking. The results were 3.4GHz being the most stable we could get it. We're going to be playing around with these processors more in the future to hopefully get a better overall characterization of what you can expect.

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:00

ferrettoes said:
lol why waste all that money on a chip that doesn't overclock aswell as a cpu 60% cheaper... urr'll get more grunt out of a 6600 than the extreme edition will ever do.

quotes from Anandtech:-

To provide some idea of overclocking abilities with other Core 2 Duo processors, we ran quick tests with E6700 (2.67GHz), and E6600 (2.4GHz). The test E6700 reached a stable 3.4GHz at default voltage and topped out at 3.9GHz with the Tuniq Cooler. The 2.4GHz E6600 turned out to be quite an overclocker in our tests. Even though it was hard-locked at a 9 multiplier it reached an amazing 4GHz in the overclocking tests. That represents a 67% overclock.

We had another Core 2 Extreme X6800 that we tried overclocking. The results were 3.4GHz being the most stable we could get it. We're going to be playing around with these processors more in the future to hopefully get a better overall characterization of what you can expect.

Just when I thought that no one was going to bite

Stelly

Durzel · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:07

Stelly said:
6600s??? AAAAAH thats the chip below the Extreme version that I got JOKING!

Stelly

You're completely wrong Stelly.....

....it's the chip two below the Extreme you've got.

Stelly · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:11

Durzel said:
You're completely wrong Stelly.....

....it's the chip two below the Extreme you've got.

LOL

Stelly

Jay_t · 19 Jul 2006 at 16:14

Durzel said:
Well I've just got my G.Skill HZ 2GB and the serial number starts 6270 - so I've got no clue what I've got.

I got some with a serial starting 627 & emailed G.skill to find out what I had. He emailed back saying thats Micron D9 without a doubt.

I think the very latest ones are quoting the week it was made in rather than just the month. I think 6 is the year here & 27 the week of manufacture.

I have been told that the latest Micron D9's are even better than the famous fatboy ones as they do the same with less volts.

Durzel · 19 Jul 2006 at 19:12

Jay_t said:
I got some with a serial starting 627 & emailed G.skill to find out what I had. He emailed back saying thats Micron D9 without a doubt.

I think the very latest ones are quoting the week it was made in rather than just the month. I think 6 is the year here & 27 the week of manufacture. I have been told that the latest Micron D9's are even better than the famous fatboy ones as they do the same with less volts.

Thanks, you've put my mind at ease. If you were close by I'd buy you a pint!

easyrider · 20 Jul 2006 at 00:21

just clock them and find out!

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