- Joined
- Feb 20, 2001
This is just a thread to keep track of my tweaking, playing and benching. I'm a complete S775 newb, so this is a learning curve for me. I've also never had a board with as many tweaking options . I just find it easier to collect my notes and thoughts in a thread, on the offchance that I run into either an issue someone knows their way around, or I manage to overcome an issue someone else has.
So, I've got my benching setup together and booting:
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Sunday 15th January
I had issues with the Celeron. It would boot, but if I changed *any* BIOS setting it crapped it and wouldn't boot until I reset the CMOS again ... it's a 533 MHz FSB chip which may have been the issue.
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Tuesday 17th January
The E6300 works. Windows 7 (32 bit) installed. I had a quick go at some tweaking (set FSB strap to 400 MHz). I've submitted CPU Frequencies all the way up to 3.325 GHz (http://hwbot.org/submission/2242780_) with only a little voltage nudge. The RAM is running well out of spec (950 MHz vs. 800 MHz) which I reckon is why I can't get past 475 (480 no boot, even with DDR RAM voltage at 2.1 V and CPU at 1.5 V, and timings loosened as far as they'll go (IIRC). I'm satisfied having hit the average overclock, so I'm hoping that the faster RAM will give me enough headroom to hit closer to 4 GHz and maybe take some boints (air overclocks have hit around 4 GHz on the bot). The 3.325 GHz run validates, but isn't stable enough for UCBench.
I plan to push this as far as I can, validate as high as possible, then work back from there to get the benchmarks to run. The ebay seller informed me that he has a family crisis (his wife has had to go into hospital, I do hope she's OK) so the RAM will be delayed (not a problem for me, this is just me killing evenings). I might pop the P4 in tomorrow .
There's probably also some room to compare the Micron and Geil, in case I can get a little more out of one than the other.
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So, I've got my benching setup together and booting:
- Asus Rampage Formula Motherboard (I'll check the Rev.). The BIOS is quite old I think (2008 IIRC), I might flash it to something newer in case it helps.
- Geil or Micron PC6400 DDR2 RAM, 2 GB in each case, one stick. I also have a pair of 1 GB PC8500 DDR2 sticks on the way.
- Celeron D 2.8 GHz, Pentium 4 3.0 GHz and Core 2 Duo E6300 (1.86 GHz) CPUs. These are effectively disposable, I'm happy to burn them out and move on. I hope that I can effectively fund my entertainment with the occasional cheap chip from Ebay
- Corsair CX600 PSU
- Corsair A70 cooling (if this works out, I'll get a pot this summer)
- BFG GTX260 graphics (going to replace this with a cheap Quadro NVS 285 I got from Ebay, so I can return the GTX260 to the gaming rig)
- Seagate 320 GB SATA HDD (old, but can't imagine it'll matter for 2D; I don't plan on tackling PCMark05)
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Sunday 15th January
I had issues with the Celeron. It would boot, but if I changed *any* BIOS setting it crapped it and wouldn't boot until I reset the CMOS again ... it's a 533 MHz FSB chip which may have been the issue.
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Tuesday 17th January
The E6300 works. Windows 7 (32 bit) installed. I had a quick go at some tweaking (set FSB strap to 400 MHz). I've submitted CPU Frequencies all the way up to 3.325 GHz (http://hwbot.org/submission/2242780_) with only a little voltage nudge. The RAM is running well out of spec (950 MHz vs. 800 MHz) which I reckon is why I can't get past 475 (480 no boot, even with DDR RAM voltage at 2.1 V and CPU at 1.5 V, and timings loosened as far as they'll go (IIRC). I'm satisfied having hit the average overclock, so I'm hoping that the faster RAM will give me enough headroom to hit closer to 4 GHz and maybe take some boints (air overclocks have hit around 4 GHz on the bot). The 3.325 GHz run validates, but isn't stable enough for UCBench.
I plan to push this as far as I can, validate as high as possible, then work back from there to get the benchmarks to run. The ebay seller informed me that he has a family crisis (his wife has had to go into hospital, I do hope she's OK) so the RAM will be delayed (not a problem for me, this is just me killing evenings). I might pop the P4 in tomorrow .
There's probably also some room to compare the Micron and Geil, in case I can get a little more out of one than the other.
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