The Official Conroe Overclocking Thread

Scoobie Dave · 31 Aug 2006 at 08:51

silversurfer said:
Where did you read that about the rd600, Ive not read any reviews yet. Are these going to be premium boards like the 975 are?

http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/926/

Not a review as such, but it looks promising.

mmj_uk · 31 Aug 2006 at 09:18

TheG said:
First stab at OC this baby, All voltages at auto apart from Mem @2.1v

http://img219.imageshack.us/my.php?image=333octo3ghzkm9.jpg

e6600
Asus P5W DH Deluxe
Geil 2GB DDR2 Ultra 6400
Scythe Ninja + Fan

here are the settings im using
vMCH - Auto
Vcore - Auto
memory voltage 2.1
PCI - Auto
PCI-E - Auto
Hyper path 3 disabled
memory timing 4-4-4-4-12
memory divider 4:5
bios 1301

[img=http://img219.imageshack.us/img219/2833/333octo3ghzkm9.th.jpg]

isn't 21secs a little slow for 3GHz?? mine's at about 2.9 and does in 17ish. :confused:

TheG · 31 Aug 2006 at 09:20

mmj_uk said:
isn't 21secs a little slow for 3GHz?? mine's at about 2.9 and does in 17ish.

Prime was running the same time as Orthos, So I assume thats the reason for the slower time.

I will rerun it after work and post the result, but I do not think I should have run it at the same time ..>DOH!!!!

G

grs_link · 31 Aug 2006 at 12:30

ok all oces ar very nice... but my only concern is a 24/7 setup...

so is anyone with a 6400 or 6600 runniing at 8/9x333 for 24.7?

rock stable... i mean for more than 2 weeks with no crashes,,, not even game crashes to desktop... and offcourse 6400mems at 1:1

please let me know as my basket is a click away

TheG · 31 Aug 2006 at 15:24

mmj_uk said:
isn't 21secs a little slow for 3GHz?? mine's at about 2.9 and does in 17ish.

You were correct, I ran it on its own and as stated 17s was correct.

G

PikeyPriest · 31 Aug 2006 at 15:24

grs_link said:
ok all oces ar very nice... but my only concern is a 24/7 setup...

so is anyone with a 6400 or 6600 runniing at 8/9x333 for 24.7?

rock stable... i mean for more than 2 weeks with no crashes,,, not even game crashes to desktop... and offcourse 6400mems at 1:1

please let me know as my basket is a click away

Im at 340 x 9 (6600). Was perfectly stable for gaming at stock volts and settings, but would crash after 5 mins on orthos. I raised the Vcore to 1.34 and it has been rock stable for 3/4 hours of orthos (hitting ~55C on stock cooler - getting a scythe ninja soon, so that might bring it down). I dont use my PC 24.7, but apart from the orthos crashes that were sorted by raising the Vcore, there have been no other crashes.

As for memory think im running 4:5 or something (think its at 850, whereas its rated to 800 - 6400 HZ gskill). I could probably get around 3.3-.5 ghz, but im going to wait for my new cooler.

grs_link · 31 Aug 2006 at 18:27

cool.. tnx pikeypriest... that was exaclty what i needed to know..

I am with a custom H2O setup here so temps are not an issue...
as for mems i am gonna go for the corsair C4.. found them at a very good price.
I have to admit though those Gskill are pretty good as well :cool:

by the way... imo go for a water urself... u wont go wow!!! but in time u will learn to apreciate it... and its something that u will always have.. whatever rig u are running. u can build a basic setup as cheap as 70-80£ and upgrade as you go along (30£pump, 30£block 20£rad, no tank just T-line) and trust me a single rad for future use on a gfx is not bad at all.. bare in mind that gfx waterblocks have very low resistance... i.e a small pump is more than adequate.

sorry for getting off topic.. but I think it was worth it... I mean u have a nice setup... invest in something worthwile

easyrider · 1 Sep 2006 at 10:05

grs_link said:
so is anyone with a 6400 or 6600 runniing at 8/9x333 for 24.7?

rock stable... i mean for more than 2 weeks with no crashes,,, not even game crashes to desktop... and offcourse 6400mems at 1:1

please let me know as my basket is a click away

yeah

9x 423

nick_000000 · 2 Sep 2006 at 23:46

You have an ES though you lucky :mad:

they genrally OC better.

easyrider · 2 Sep 2006 at 23:49

9x 333 = 2.997ghz and all conroes will do that with ease

matt1 · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:06

easyrider said:
yeah

9x 423

What volts are you running through the FSB, MCH, ICH for those FSBs?

easyrider · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:09

matt1 said:
What volts are you running through the FSB, MCH, ICH for those FSBs?

1.55v vcore
1.65v MCH
ICH Auto

matt1 · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:20

easyrider said:
1.55v vcore
1.65v MCH
ICH Auto

Ouch, more than I though. My system runs 400FSB fine at Auto settings, ran at 414 for a while but backed off to 400 due to wanting to use my system rather than stability testing. Looks like 428 (for 3GHz) is going to take some extra volts, managed to use clockgen up to 441 before a freeze so it's got to be possible

(he hopes)

monkeypants · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:21

matt1: How have you got an E6300 with a multiplier of 8?

matt1 · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:24

Ha, did that whilst playing CS:S, typo

easyrider · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:24

matt1 said:
Ouch, more than I though. My system runs 400FSB fine at Auto settings, ran at 414 for a while but backed off to 400 due to wanting to use my system rather than stability testing. Looks like 428 (for 3GHz) is going to take some extra volts, managed to use clockgen up to 441 before a freeze so it's got to be possible (he hopes)

Yeah but TBH 2.8ghz is not really stretching that cpu.
I am on water and temps are around 29c idle 50-55c full load depending on ambient temps.

NB temps are fine too.

So no worries there

3.6ghz needs less volts obviously

matt1 · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:26

easyrider said:
Yeah but TBH 2.8ghz is not really stretching that cpu.
I am on water and temps are around 29c idle 50-55c full load depending on ambient temps.

NB temps are fine too.

So no worries there

3.6ghz needs less volts obviously

Couldn't agree more, this has 3.2+ in it but I simply can't take the FSB that high with this board - originally had a E6600 otherwise I would have got a DS3. In reality I can't get this chip higher than 3GHz for 24/7 usage without frying my board.

easyrider · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:29

matt1 said:
Couldn't agree more, this has 3.2+ in it but I simply can't take the FSB that high with this board - originally had a E6600 otherwise I would have got a DS3. In reality I can't get this chip higher than 3GHz for 24/7 usage without frying my board.

What happened to the E6600?

matt1 · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:33

Felt I went OTT, originally thought I'd upgrade my Venice to an X2. Then thought Core Duo will cost me a bit more but I could do with going 2Gb of RAM, should have gone for a 6300/6400 originally but got swayed into a 6600 for the extra cache. Bottom line, I spent too much and could recoop £100 by downgrading and getting comparable performance. This 6300 is plenty fast enough

easyrider · 3 Sep 2006 at 00:37

matt1 said:
Felt I went OTT, originally thought I'd upgrade my Venice to an X2. Then thought Core Duo will cost me a bit more but I could do with going 2Gb of RAM, should have gone for a 6300/6400 originally but got swayed into a 6600 for the extra cache. Bottom line, I spent too much and could recoop £100 by downgrading and getting comparable performance. This 6300 is plenty fast enough

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