Finally hit 500 FSB with my QX6700!!

[mgoode]

Finally hit 500 fsb 1:1 with my quad. I had to change the NB refrence voltage to .063 and she booted into Vista fine. I played an hour of titan quest no problems. I will prime while at work.

[Oc1Kenube]

Very nice!

[One Bull]

Very nice indeed. It's very hard to clock those quads because they get hot very quickly :) But from what I see in your sig, it's on water so it should be pretty cool..

[bing]

Great OC !

[dudleycpa]

Great Job - Thanks for sharing!

[mgoode]

Thanks, When I left for work she was priming at 64-65-67-72c , One core is alway 6-7c hotter than my lowest one.

[dudleycpa]

That's pretty warm and your on water.

Wonder what your temps would be with a Ultra-120 Extreme?

[deathman20]

Least not the only one that feels bad that on water (well you have a quad at least) and run really warm. Heck I run warmer on water than air, but benifit is that I cool my GPU.

[Hazaro]

PCI-E bandwidth is 1x in that photo, up to 110?

[Gautam]

Very nice work. :thup: Heck, I've never really hit 500 stable on a dual core yet. :p

[Evilsizer]

P5K-DLX, the best boards for overclocking a Quad-Core processor, and some people just don't understand that.
more like p35 is the best of ocing a quad. while asus pumps out bios's left and right.

this guy here is the only one i could find with a ip35-pro and quad.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2257201&postcount=119
seems his good ram has bit the dust so 490mhz, though once you hit 500 the 1333fsb strap is forced. you would be better of running 499mhz since its still on the 1066 strap.

[mgoode]

PCI-E bandwidth is 1x in that photo, up to 110?


Nice Catch! I didnt notice that Yes I am running at 111mhz on my pci-e bus.

I will have to check into that when I get home.

BTW it 90 degrees here in Charlotte this am so those are my down south summer temps:)

Evilsizer - I read eva2000's post and will back it down to 499. i just wanted to see my quad at the magical 500fsb.

[Evilsizer]

yea seeing 500mhz is nice but i wonder what 500+fsb speed would we need to match 499mhz, cause of the strap change.

[PrometheuSBoxeR]

How stable is that? Something you can run 24/7 running apps and games? Or is this strictly for benchmark purposes? Sometimes I get confused if people OC with stability for gaming and such, or just enough stability to run SuperPi or 3D Marks or whatever the benchmark is. If someone could clear this common misconception for me up that would be great. Very nice OC by the way :)

[orion456]

Beautiful! :clap:

Where do you get memory that does 1/2 ghz at 4-4-4-9?

I think its been shown that more FSB doesn't improve performance beyond 1:1 so why dumb the processor down to 7x? I assume Intel has picked the optimum setting of 10x for a 266 FSB, so it seems the best results should be achieved by overclocking at the optimum multiplier. Which would mean a 350 FSB?

[deathman20]

Beautiful! :clap:

Where do you get memory that does 1/2 ghz at 4-4-4-9?

I think its been shown that more FSB doesn't improve performance beyond 1:1so why dumb the processor down to 7x?

I know my memory is good up to 485Mhz with 4-4-4-8 and thats 4Gigs of memory my old Mobo wouldn't go any faster than that though.

[Evilsizer]

How stable is that? Something you can run 24/7 running apps and games? Or is this strictly for benchmark purposes? Sometimes I get confused if people OC with stability for gaming and such, or just enough stability to run SuperPi or 3D Marks or whatever the benchmark is. If someone could clear this common misconception for me up that would be great. Very nice OC by the way :)
well i can run 7x476mhz=3.33ghz 24/7 no problem. i have been a bit lazy on getting the rest of my benches done for my ip35-pro thread. got that on the books for this weekend or if i lucky i can get some done each night this week.
orthos will be the time taker since i go for 8hr + stability.

[mgoode]

How stable is that? Something you can run 24/7 running apps and games? Or is this strictly for benchmark purposes? Sometimes I get confused if people OC with stability for gaming and such, or just enough stability to run SuperPi or 3D Marks or whatever the benchmark is. If someone could clear this common misconception for me up that would be great. Very nice OC by the way :)

Thanks, that 24/7, my normal 24/7 is 450x8 at 3600. I run it 3800+ for benching and try to indicate that when I post . I don't want people to get the wrong imppression and think they are going to be running some piece of hardware at some crazy speed 24/7.

[Drinkyoghurt]

i think you arent scoring enough, my cpu scores about same in superpi..

try mem 4-4-4-12 instead of 4-4-4-9, i've heard from some people that that is faster

[Gautam]

The Pi score will be low because of Vista and the strap change at 500Mhz.

[Drinkyoghurt]

so why not set it at 499 to avoid the strap, hey guatam btw do you know when my boards strap kicks in?

[Evilsizer]

p965 strap changes are the same no matter what board it is. though abit's quad gt can force straps and aviod the auto-forcing at certian fsb's. for p965 the fsb forced strap change is 400mhz.

[jordon]

The Pi score will be low because of Vista and the strap change at 500Mhz.


i thought these p35 boards didnt have these weird strap issues.

[Evilsizer]

i thought these p35 boards didnt have these weird strap issues.
they dont but these first run boards dont have fsb straps you can change in bios. so its all auto for now, expect later bios's and boards to allow you to force straps. that is if asus can get it worked out like abit did with the quad gt. though i would have figured that after the quad gt that abit would have manually selecting straps from now on.

[mgoode]

I will run superpi at 499fsb when I get home just to see the difference

[mgoode]

7x499 just a little faster.

[Gautam]

In SuperPi, .2 secs can be considered a very large difference. ;) It'd take you over 70Mhz to match that score on the loose strap. Other benchmarks make it more dramatic.

[Drinkyoghurt]

well i still find that a bit....low

this is what i got on 3.5ghz, and my board has the 400mhz fsb :)

http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/440/14407ez9.th.jpg (http://img510.imageshack.us/my.php?image=14407ez9.jpg)

cmon man push that envelope, and try 4-4-4-12, for console it made some difference in speeds (so he also did 4-4-4-9 and 4-4-4-6 and that was slower)

you might give it a shot

[Gautam]

The 60MHz and Vista are very very large factors here...much bigger than tRAS.

[Drinkyoghurt]

ooh lol wrong pic...hmm cant find the 3500mhz one -_-'

[mgoode]

here is 7x499 with 4-4-4-12 my ram is faster at 4-4-4-9

[Drinkyoghurt]

hmm was worth the try though.. :)

[mgoode]

Definitly worth the try, thanks. Mine picks up at 3800ghz

[Hipcrostino]

well thats more computing power than you'll ever need.

Nice one.

[deathman20]

well thats more computing power than you'll ever need.

Nice one.

How dare you utter those words ;) We always need more power hehe.

[mgoode]

LOL...yea I thought that was whole point!!

[Evilsizer]

well thats more computing power than you'll ever need.

Nice one.
you can never have to much when folding for the cause!

[xgman]

Did NB ref set at .063 really make the difference? I'll have to try that setting.