Mmmk, here's whats goin on atm. I've added a Turniq Tower to my cpu to cool it, running at stock speeds on my cpu and it's 20-30c under load. I ran the prime95 test that pushes it to it's max, sits at 40c on both main cores, and 37 on the 2 cores that don't have to do anything but the test.
Soooo, my temps are good so far I do belive. Keep in mind, im at stock speeds for my cpu still, which is 2.4ghz.
Here's where the problems come into play! The 680i chipset is a decent chipset, or was atleast, until MSI got their hands on it. So, I have this really messed up bios to work with, I guess with a mobo that doesn't take too well to extra volts.
- http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P6N_Diamond&class=mb
This is a link to the mobo I have and a review on it
- http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2182&page=4
This is a link to the mobos bios pics of the "cell menu". That's where you do the overclocking.
As you can see, it overclocks in volt incriments. For instance.. It's defaulted at I belive 1.2v for the cpu, so on the cpu volt menu there you would be adding 0.0500 to make it 1.25v.
It's FSB volts goes in incriments of 4%. Starts at minimum:default, max: 20%.
So going one up from default (it doesn't say what default is btw), would put you at 4%. Then again would be 8%, and again 12%.
The north bridge and south bridge work normally. they increase in volts as always, and are set to normal volt amounts by default.
Ok, so... That's the background on the mobo/bios im stuck working with to OC this cpu, and my cooling.
Now, I've tried with someone who knows a fair bit about overclocking, to overclock my cpu to 3.2ghz, and we had to stop because apparantly the turniq tower wasn't seated right, or the thermal paste was messed up. So I took apart the comp, re-did it all, and it all "seems" ok atm. We'll only know once I go to OC it again if it's truely all in good shape or not.
We got it to a stable 2.8ghz last night, but then after I finished rebuilding the comp again today, it refused to boot just like with the other speeds we set it to that night. So I poped the mobo battery and reset it all again, and it booted just fine.
We tried 3.0ghz, and the comp decided to restart itself randomly, and at 2.8 it was fine until I rebuilt it.
At 3.2 the comp just straight up didn't want to load to windows. It would go to the loading screen then lockup.
We had the NB set to 1.5v, SB 1.55v, FSB V to 12%, and +0.13V on the CPU.
I forgot the exact numbers we had the core and **** set to.. It was like 1450, or 1250, can't remember what we had it on with the 2.8... We kept the multiplier at 9x, and I think the mem was at 622.
Keep in mind, im not great at overclocking. Infact, im retarded with it because Ive yet to really do it before. The guys that's been helping me poped on a messager to gimme a hand with it off the guru site. Awesome guy, very helpfull. Helped me to decrypt my weird *** bios.
This bios is so messed up, that turning off the options that force down the CPU speeds well in the OS doesn't do anything. Like one review said of it, it's almost as if the bios has a hidden list of prefrences that it makes sure never changes, no matter what you set things to in it.
Alright, well... The entire point of this post, aside from complaining about my mobo, is that I need some more help with overclocking this thing. It's... Not easy apparantly. I might not even beable to get past 3.0ghz (or get to it for that matter) with this mobo. It would suck, but... Hell, it's getting close to upgrade time mobo wise for me I guess. lol
My goal is 3.2 ghz! Any suggestions would be great, and if anyone could pop on x-fire and gimme a hand that would be awesome too. I'll be around for a while tonight. Lookin foward to hearin some responses.
Thanks guys!
Soooo, my temps are good so far I do belive. Keep in mind, im at stock speeds for my cpu still, which is 2.4ghz.
Here's where the problems come into play! The 680i chipset is a decent chipset, or was atleast, until MSI got their hands on it. So, I have this really messed up bios to work with, I guess with a mobo that doesn't take too well to extra volts.
- http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=P6N_Diamond&class=mb
This is a link to the mobo I have and a review on it
- http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=2182&page=4
This is a link to the mobos bios pics of the "cell menu". That's where you do the overclocking.
As you can see, it overclocks in volt incriments. For instance.. It's defaulted at I belive 1.2v for the cpu, so on the cpu volt menu there you would be adding 0.0500 to make it 1.25v.
It's FSB volts goes in incriments of 4%. Starts at minimum:default, max: 20%.
So going one up from default (it doesn't say what default is btw), would put you at 4%. Then again would be 8%, and again 12%.
The north bridge and south bridge work normally. they increase in volts as always, and are set to normal volt amounts by default.
Ok, so... That's the background on the mobo/bios im stuck working with to OC this cpu, and my cooling.
Now, I've tried with someone who knows a fair bit about overclocking, to overclock my cpu to 3.2ghz, and we had to stop because apparantly the turniq tower wasn't seated right, or the thermal paste was messed up. So I took apart the comp, re-did it all, and it all "seems" ok atm. We'll only know once I go to OC it again if it's truely all in good shape or not.
We got it to a stable 2.8ghz last night, but then after I finished rebuilding the comp again today, it refused to boot just like with the other speeds we set it to that night. So I poped the mobo battery and reset it all again, and it booted just fine.
We tried 3.0ghz, and the comp decided to restart itself randomly, and at 2.8 it was fine until I rebuilt it.
At 3.2 the comp just straight up didn't want to load to windows. It would go to the loading screen then lockup.
We had the NB set to 1.5v, SB 1.55v, FSB V to 12%, and +0.13V on the CPU.
I forgot the exact numbers we had the core and **** set to.. It was like 1450, or 1250, can't remember what we had it on with the 2.8... We kept the multiplier at 9x, and I think the mem was at 622.
Keep in mind, im not great at overclocking. Infact, im retarded with it because Ive yet to really do it before. The guys that's been helping me poped on a messager to gimme a hand with it off the guru site. Awesome guy, very helpfull. Helped me to decrypt my weird *** bios.
This bios is so messed up, that turning off the options that force down the CPU speeds well in the OS doesn't do anything. Like one review said of it, it's almost as if the bios has a hidden list of prefrences that it makes sure never changes, no matter what you set things to in it.
Alright, well... The entire point of this post, aside from complaining about my mobo, is that I need some more help with overclocking this thing. It's... Not easy apparantly. I might not even beable to get past 3.0ghz (or get to it for that matter) with this mobo. It would suck, but... Hell, it's getting close to upgrade time mobo wise for me I guess. lol
My goal is 3.2 ghz! Any suggestions would be great, and if anyone could pop on x-fire and gimme a hand that would be awesome too. I'll be around for a while tonight. Lookin foward to hearin some responses.
Thanks guys!