E6420 Batch #?

[g14novak]

I have no clue how to tell if I have a good batch so:

L709A537

Is it a good batch? Bad batch? Be honest please. ;)

[xTrEmEoVrClOcKr]

If I'm reading that correctly, you have a week 70? It's really early in the morning so hopefully I can get some similar responses LOL. I'm not sure whether that's a good batch or not, only one way to find out eh. ;).

[g14novak]

Hmm, guess its time to call up the mum and ask her to bring my rig up to work...

[batboy]

L=Malay
7=2007
09=week 9

Should be pretty good, but you'll need to try it to find out for sure.

[g14novak]

Ok, repairing my XP installation right now.

Anyone willing enough to give me a Intel CPU OC'ing crash course? AMD oc'ing is unbelievably easy compared to Intel...

[OnDborder]

Motherboard?

[XTTX]

Here's just something from my own experiences. Well, I'm not sure about your processor exactly, but... Generally, intel mobos will either lock the FSB or multiplier. So if they lock the multiplier, just increase by one each time. If unbootable or unstable then, increase voltage. If FSB is unlocked, then increase FSB by ~15 MHz (really depends how exact you want to get the OC), then when you get higher, start to ween down increments to ~3-5.:attn:

[g14novak]

The motherboard is the P5N32-E SLi.

Although, I peeled off the little sticker that says "P5N32-E SLI" and it says "Striker Extreme" underneath.

I need a complete from the bottom runthough of oc'ing. Intel's are soo different from AMDs. Its like switching from Windows to Mac

[g14novak]

Ok, I've started to play with the settings, but now im getting some crazy reading for the TJunction temp.

Any suggestions?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Xenium911/TJunction.jpg

[batboy]

Intel CPUs are easy to O/C, slowly start raising FSB in small increments. Multiplier is 8X default and locked upward, but you can go downward to 6X (although I don't know why you would want to go lower).

[g14novak]

I see this. I was playing with it at work and managed to achieve this completely stable.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v112/Xenium911/3-1.jpg

[batboy]

Looking good. You should easily do 3.2 gig (400 FSB) with no more than 1.4v.

[g14novak]

For some odd reason, whenever I try and go into the bios to make changes and raise clocks, the system will either hard lock or restart.

Any reason why this would be?

I've run memtest, superpi does runs at 32M and 16M no problem, and orthos has been going for about 16 hours now with it a 3.0 but it was having problems when I first tried tryed to get it to stay in bios.

Maybe a burn-in problem?

[batboy]

Those nvidia chipsets are a pain. You probably need more chipset voltage.