Conroe E6700 2.66GHz - Step 4 / B0
Motherboard: Intel "BadAxe" D975XBX Revision 304 BIOS 1181:
Rest of the system:
2GB Corsair XMS 6400C3
Sapphire x1900XT
Zeus 560W PSU
3 HDDs
1 Optical
...blah, blah, blah.
First boot:
The board takes a little getting "used to" for OCing. BIOS has totally different options and OC features are pretty different than any standard BIOS. There are no "1 FSB increments" and mem dividers are limited. I was still finding interesting "things" out today that appear to be board-related and doubt I've found them all. I really miss the ASUS "OC butt saver" though because resetting this board is a bit of a pain (power down/switching jumpers)...it requires me to actually get up, LOL. Luckily that only happens when there is a pretty serious setting problem.
I spent most of a day messing around just learning the board and OCing with, but had no problem kicking out big FSB with just standard BIOS options and a totally stock board. I didn't even need to use the max BIOS voltages for the NB or FSB....board is really strong:
All I had for cooling was a P4 stock HSF (POS), but still managed to do 3.33GHz @ 10x333 with relatively little Vc (1.40V). On water, it does 3.33GHz @ 1.350V. I have no idea what "default Vc" is. Depending on which BIOS I use, it defaults to 1.30V or 1.40V, so for stock clocks, I dropped down to BIOS minimum which is 1.275V on the latest one.
Since everyone and their mama is using "good air cooling", of which I have none (water->phase->DI->stock P4 sink? HAHA), I put water on it and will bring you some of those results to start since I haven't really seen any.
Good air cooling should go a good way on these, water slightly better. This 6700 isn't the best one out there, but if they are all like this or better, I don't think anyone will have trouble reaching the true XE speed of 3.33GHz (unless FSB-limited). Given that 425-450FSB looks like it will be a breeze on any Conroe-capable board with no mods, even the slightly lower default multi Conroes might not have a bunch of trouble getting >3GHz clocks.
These are just baselines while learning the board/CPU. Other than playing a bit with memory timings, they are not "tweaked up", go for broke benches, they are just benches...some not even on clean boots. I haven't clocked over 3.5GHz yet and the first time was on the stock P4 cooler. There will be plenty more benches coming, obviously. These are all 3.33GHz 10x333FSB clocked not even using what is necessarily the "best way". As weird as it sounds, how you clock on this board doesn't necessarily mean the results will be the same, even if the final clocks/FSB are identical. Like I said, the board is a bit strange, hehe.
The ubiquitous SPi 1M:
32M is *almost* bearable to sit through at these speeds, hehe.
x1900XT single @ a mild 730/800 clock. I ran a bunch with stock XTX speeds (650/775), but that's no fun to show, so I wanted to kick in some card clocks. I'd go higher on the card, but it's on air and already not very happy with the temps from the clocks/volts (~80C load).
Straight-through standard bench, no tweaks or ordered tests. OOPS, looks like the Crystal window was left behind the 3D01 window...it was late, I was tired.
This one is just for Gautam, LOL. Can't wait to crank the mem on this!
more Conroe results from El<(')>Maxi...
Motherboard: Intel "BadAxe" D975XBX Revision 304 BIOS 1181:
Rest of the system:
2GB Corsair XMS 6400C3
Sapphire x1900XT
Zeus 560W PSU
3 HDDs
1 Optical
...blah, blah, blah.
First boot:
The board takes a little getting "used to" for OCing. BIOS has totally different options and OC features are pretty different than any standard BIOS. There are no "1 FSB increments" and mem dividers are limited. I was still finding interesting "things" out today that appear to be board-related and doubt I've found them all. I really miss the ASUS "OC butt saver" though because resetting this board is a bit of a pain (power down/switching jumpers)...it requires me to actually get up, LOL. Luckily that only happens when there is a pretty serious setting problem.
I spent most of a day messing around just learning the board and OCing with, but had no problem kicking out big FSB with just standard BIOS options and a totally stock board. I didn't even need to use the max BIOS voltages for the NB or FSB....board is really strong:
All I had for cooling was a P4 stock HSF (POS), but still managed to do 3.33GHz @ 10x333 with relatively little Vc (1.40V). On water, it does 3.33GHz @ 1.350V. I have no idea what "default Vc" is. Depending on which BIOS I use, it defaults to 1.30V or 1.40V, so for stock clocks, I dropped down to BIOS minimum which is 1.275V on the latest one.
Since everyone and their mama is using "good air cooling", of which I have none (water->phase->DI->stock P4 sink? HAHA), I put water on it and will bring you some of those results to start since I haven't really seen any.
Good air cooling should go a good way on these, water slightly better. This 6700 isn't the best one out there, but if they are all like this or better, I don't think anyone will have trouble reaching the true XE speed of 3.33GHz (unless FSB-limited). Given that 425-450FSB looks like it will be a breeze on any Conroe-capable board with no mods, even the slightly lower default multi Conroes might not have a bunch of trouble getting >3GHz clocks.
These are just baselines while learning the board/CPU. Other than playing a bit with memory timings, they are not "tweaked up", go for broke benches, they are just benches...some not even on clean boots. I haven't clocked over 3.5GHz yet and the first time was on the stock P4 cooler. There will be plenty more benches coming, obviously. These are all 3.33GHz 10x333FSB clocked not even using what is necessarily the "best way". As weird as it sounds, how you clock on this board doesn't necessarily mean the results will be the same, even if the final clocks/FSB are identical. Like I said, the board is a bit strange, hehe.
The ubiquitous SPi 1M:
32M is *almost* bearable to sit through at these speeds, hehe.
x1900XT single @ a mild 730/800 clock. I ran a bunch with stock XTX speeds (650/775), but that's no fun to show, so I wanted to kick in some card clocks. I'd go higher on the card, but it's on air and already not very happy with the temps from the clocks/volts (~80C load).
Straight-through standard bench, no tweaks or ordered tests. OOPS, looks like the Crystal window was left behind the 3D01 window...it was late, I was tired.
This one is just for Gautam, LOL. Can't wait to crank the mem on this!
more Conroe results from El<(')>Maxi...