Hello guys, I know there are allot of qxxxx (at least 2) topics going on right now, but I to am am having a little trouble. Since Yesterday I've been trying to get passed what I've named the "*** ****** 342 wall".
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Okay first of all, I'm going to lay it all down, my stats are in my sig, but I'm going to go deeper. First off I have a very stable overclock at 3ghz (333(9)), I have ran several tests on linpack passing them all, and I have ran prime 95 for 11 hours with no problem (decided to go to bed, lights are to bright to sleep with so I called 11 hours good)...
Alright So my motherboard is an MSI g41-p33 COMBO with 8GB of 1333*(OC) ram support and of course LGA 775 and the box says optimized for core2quad or something like that.
My Processor is of course a q6600 with B stepping and G0 revision.
My CPU cooler is a logisys Deep Cool, not the most performance oriented cooler, however it is much cooler than stock heat sink and deals with my 3ghz overclock better than the stock heatsink dealt with stock frequencies.
My RAM is G.Skill sniper 2x4GB 1600 with latency 9-9-9-24.
MSI GTX 650 2GB OC.
Corsair 650 watt PSU.
Here is BIOS screen shot: [LINK]
The only setting not shown in that pic is spread spectrum enable/disable.
One thing to note! The RAM is listed at 1.352, is highlighted as NOT RECOMENDED, this is because the motherboard is older and doesn't think RAM should run less than 1.5v and be default runs it at 1.6 (This actually killed my xms3 when I powered on!), I have it tuned down to 1.35 and it actually runs better... (no memory errors and doesn't effect stability).
And DRAM settings: [LINK]
A quick linpack run I did to show: [LINK]
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I've tried lower ram speed, disabling auto PCI, and allot of other things...
Here is my deli-ma:
Googled what Spread Spectrum was... Disabled it.
Something can't be right, because I've went up 0.022 volts for just 72Mhz and still not stable??? I've even tried raising NB voltage...
Now I can't remember were all I've been what I've tweaked, I'd just be happy to see 3.1 and stable... For a day anyway... I have a feeling I'd want to press higher just to see were I can go
Perhaps I'm tapping my motherboards limits? I found another topic were a guy with my same mobo and a core2duo had the same problem at 342(9), but it appeared he made it passed it (The topic died with him saying thanks, I forgot about that or something of that nature), though there was no clear solution that I hadn't yet tried...
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Okay first of all, I'm going to lay it all down, my stats are in my sig, but I'm going to go deeper. First off I have a very stable overclock at 3ghz (333(9)), I have ran several tests on linpack passing them all, and I have ran prime 95 for 11 hours with no problem (decided to go to bed, lights are to bright to sleep with so I called 11 hours good)...
Alright So my motherboard is an MSI g41-p33 COMBO with 8GB of 1333*(OC) ram support and of course LGA 775 and the box says optimized for core2quad or something like that.
My Processor is of course a q6600 with B stepping and G0 revision.
My CPU cooler is a logisys Deep Cool, not the most performance oriented cooler, however it is much cooler than stock heat sink and deals with my 3ghz overclock better than the stock heatsink dealt with stock frequencies.
My RAM is G.Skill sniper 2x4GB 1600 with latency 9-9-9-24.
MSI GTX 650 2GB OC.
Corsair 650 watt PSU.
Here is BIOS screen shot: [LINK]
The only setting not shown in that pic is spread spectrum enable/disable.
One thing to note! The RAM is listed at 1.352, is highlighted as NOT RECOMENDED, this is because the motherboard is older and doesn't think RAM should run less than 1.5v and be default runs it at 1.6 (This actually killed my xms3 when I powered on!), I have it tuned down to 1.35 and it actually runs better... (no memory errors and doesn't effect stability).
And DRAM settings: [LINK]
A quick linpack run I did to show: [LINK]
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I've tried lower ram speed, disabling auto PCI, and allot of other things...
Here is my deli-ma:
- 341(9) semi stable at 1.227v (didn't pass linpack)
- 342(9) not stable, pushed to 1.275v
- 343(9) BIOS refuses to POST.
Googled what Spread Spectrum was... Disabled it.
- 341(9) more stable at 1.227v (made it to 5 passes before stopping linpack instead of 3)
- 342(9) still not stable even when pushed to 1.275v
- 343(9) BIOS posted! BSOD received the 1~2 second(s) after starting linpack.
- 344(9) BIOS refuses to POST!
Something can't be right, because I've went up 0.022 volts for just 72Mhz and still not stable??? I've even tried raising NB voltage...
Now I can't remember were all I've been what I've tweaked, I'd just be happy to see 3.1 and stable... For a day anyway... I have a feeling I'd want to press higher just to see were I can go
Perhaps I'm tapping my motherboards limits? I found another topic were a guy with my same mobo and a core2duo had the same problem at 342(9), but it appeared he made it passed it (The topic died with him saying thanks, I forgot about that or something of that nature), though there was no clear solution that I hadn't yet tried...
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