Did Some Overclocking...

[Aηdy]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a102/muckingfuppet/overclock.jpg

Got my 3.00GHz Core2Duo up to 4.00GHz running very stable and temps still perfectly fine, booted up on 4.5Ghz but was a bit unstable. But runs lovely on 4.00GHz!

Fantastic processor, I'm glad i waitied a few days for it to come out, the 6mb cache and the 1333Mhz FSB is brilliant.

[Jesse]

Cool! I got my P4 cranked up to 4.9Ghz (Won't run stable at 5 for some reason...). I'm too poor to buy another, better processor, hehe. And yeah, those Core2Duos are nice, my friend has one.

[Aηdy]

Yeah the P4's overclock amazingly. But having a total output of 8.00GHz from this beast! And the 6mb L2 cache makes a big difference to speed along with the FSB.

[kerry]

confusin#

[Blahages]

I've been wanting to overclock my new processor. Intel Quad Q6700.

Supposedly the Q6600 can get to 3.6GHz easily on stock cooling, and Possibly 4GHz or more. The original clock is 2.4GHz on the Q6600, and mine's default is 2.6GHz.

I'm waiting until I replace my PSU, which will be in the next week or so, so I have 3x12v rails, instead of just two.

Also, a Dual Core 4GHz machine doesn't equate to a Single Core 8GHz machine. That's not how it works.

How's your temps, and are you using the stock cooling, or not? Also, what motherboard are you using? Just curious. :)

[0=]

I'd OC mine, but it's an Intel board. Damn emergency situation. It's plenty fast stock, anyway.

[Aηdy]

I've been wanting to overclock my new processor. Intel Quad Q6700.

Supposedly the Q6600 can get to 3.6GHz easily on stock cooling, and Possibly 4GHz or more. The original clock is 2.4GHz on the Q6600, and mine's default is 2.6GHz.

I'm waiting until I replace my PSU, which will be in the next week or so, so I have 3x12v rails, instead of just two.

Also, a Dual Core 4GHz machine doesn't equate to a Single Core 8GHz machine. That's not how it works.

How's your temps, and are you using the stock cooling, or not? Also, what motherboard are you using? Just curious. :)

Yeah I know it's not 8GHz but it sounds good!

Temp is showing 38C, never seen it go over 44C on max laod.

Motherboard. (http://global.msi.com.tw/index.php?func=proddesc&prod_no=1485&maincat_no=1&cat2_no=170)

Cooler. (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=369638)

If I'm honest I'm not very impressed with the cooling. Even at stock it was running about 36C no load.

[0=]

I love this thing. Absolutely silent. It never has to rev up really. It can handle up to 90 watts and the e8400 only actually uses a bit over 30 at full load stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186009

[Underage_Thinker]

I can just barley overclock my p4 (from 3.4 to 3.55), unfortunately i am still using the stock cooling that came on a hp i bought 4-5 years ago:(, so even at that low a clock im running mid 60's idle so im probably gonna have to clock it down some.

[0=]

I'd say water cool it, but a good Core 2 Duo is cheap now.

[Blahages]

I just tried to overclock my CPU an hour ago, and I kept getting a BSOD on boot, even after changing a lot of things around. Supposedly, I should be able to get a stable 3GHz easily with my processor on stock voltage, just by raising the FSB to 1200 MHz, but I did that, and it wasn't stable. I even tried increasing the voltage.

I'll mess around with it again later when I can figure out why it's doing that.

EDIT: Well, I decided to change my Multiplier from 10 to 9, and was able to get it to 3.0GHz without any BSOD. Checking Stability and Temps now. If it's good, I'll go higher.

EDIT2: Changed multiplier back to 10, and knocked the voltage down from 1.45 like it wanted to 1.32 something, and left the FSB at 333, and it's running at 3.33GHz just fine now, with 4-5 degree cooler temps under 100% load.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/blahages/CPUzOC.png

[Aηdy]

I love this thing. Absolutely silent. It never has to rev up really. It can handle up to 90 watts and the e8400 only actually uses a bit over 30 at full load stock.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186009

Mine has to rev up a fair bit under even a small amount of load. Will get a better one once I start earning more money in a few weeks.

I'd say water cool it, but a good Core 2 Duo is cheap now.

I might look to see how much water cooling would cost.

I just tried to overclock my CPU an hour ago, and I kept getting a BSOD on boot, even after changing a lot of things around. Supposedly, I should be able to get a stable 3GHz easily with my processor on stock voltage, just by raising the FSB to 1200 MHz, but I did that, and it wasn't stable. I even tried increasing the voltage.

I'll mess around with it again later when I can figure out why it's doing that.

EDIT: Well, I decided to change my Multiplier from 10 to 9, and was able to get it to 3.0GHz without any BSOD. Checking Stability and Temps now. If it's good, I'll go higher.

EDIT2: Changed multiplier back to 10, and knocked the voltage down from 1.45 like it wanted to 1.32 something, and left the FSB at 333, and it's running at 3.33GHz just fine now, with 4-5 degree cooler temps under 100% load.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/blahages/CPUzOC.png

Cool, that's not a bad overclock.

What motherboard you running on?

[Blahages]

I just tried to overclock my CPU an hour ago, and I kept getting a BSOD on boot, even after changing a lot of things around. Supposedly, I should be able to get a stable 3GHz easily with my processor on stock voltage, just by raising the FSB to 1200 MHz, but I did that, and it wasn't stable. I even tried increasing the voltage.

I'll mess around with it again later when I can figure out why it's doing that.

EDIT: Well, I decided to change my Multiplier from 10 to 9, and was able to get it to 3.0GHz without any BSOD. Checking Stability and Temps now. If it's good, I'll go higher.

EDIT2: Changed multiplier back to 10, and knocked the voltage down from 1.45 like it wanted to 1.32 something, and left the FSB at 333, and it's running at 3.33GHz just fine now, with 4-5 degree cooler temps under 100% load.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b191/blahages/CPUzOC.png

Cool, that's not a bad overclock.

What motherboard you running on?

The motherboard is an eVGA 750i SLI FTW Motherboard (http://www.evga.com/articles/401.asp).

CPU Heatsink/Fan is This one (http://www.xigmatek.com/product/air-hdts1283.php).

I'm not sure if I'll go much higher for now. It's at 3.33GHz, which is good, and under 100% load on all 4 cores (running something like Prime95 or OCCT testing stability), it maxes out at 57C, which is sort of warm. I know I could go higher, but meh.

I guess we'll see. Maybe I'll try 3.5 or 3.6 sometime later. I might just try it in a little while for a minute and see. But, I kind of prefer my computer fairly quiet. And, besides, bumping it up 25% to 3.33GHz added approximately 30 watts under idle and 65 watts under full load onto my power consumption from before. It's 173/270 under idle/load respectively. It was 143/205.

I'm also added a eVGA GeForce 8800GS to my computer tomorrow (Which was only 90$) which will add like 100-160 watts to that.

My case was built for water cooling, so it's all ready. It's just if and when I get around to it. Then, I'm sure I'll push it to its limits.

[Aηdy]

Your mobo is pretty similar spec to mine (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=636580). And I have a XFX 8800GT (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=712422)

What PSU you got?

[Blahages]

Your mobo is pretty similar spec to mine (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=636580). And I have a XFX 8800GT (http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=712422)

What PSU you got?

Antec NeoPower 650.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817371011

I only got that one because it was 50$ off the usual price. Otherwise, I would have gone for the NeoPower 550.

[Aηdy]

Oh right cool, this is my one:

http://www.scan.co.uk/Products/ProductInfo.asp?WebProductID=644038

Does the job nicely really.

I'd like to go for water cooling, that way I can scrap the case fans, then I'll have a virtually silent PC.

[Blahages]

I just upgraded my PSU the other day because it only had two 12v rails. I wanted to make sure I had three before I worked on stressing it out by overclocking things. Also, my old one had a fan on the bottom of the PSU instead of the Back, and with my Case configuration, it didn't work as well as I'd hoped.

Besides, I needed a new one for my Server/Media Center Machine, and my old one will do nicely.

My CPU Temps are 34/34/27/28 right now, under fairly idle conditions. They jump to 50 under load, then max out at 57. The CPU Fan isn't set to kick into high until it hits around 60C.

[Aηdy]

My CPU is about 36 idle then 39/40 under normal load, fan set to kick up a step at 45, usually only kick up with lots of apps or a CPU heavy app. But for this CPU it should be around 32 idle really, it's a 45nm processor so it's much cooler.

[Blahages]

My CPU is about 36 idle then 39/40 under normal load, fan set to kick up a step at 45, usually only kick up with lots of apps or a CPU heavy app. But for this CPU it should be around 32 idle really, it's a 45nm processor so it's much cooler.

Meh, 32 isn't bad, and neither really is any of those. 32C is only 89.5F. You've got the thing overclocked by 1GHz, anyway.

You can probably tell the fan to turn on high at higher temps if you wanted. Mine was set by default to kick into 100% at 60C by default, so that's where I've left it. But, I could change it to something lower if I wanted.

It's ridiculous how large my fan is for my CPU. I wasn't expecting it so big when I bought it. :P

Reason I went for a Q6700 (65nm) is because I posted on an overclocking forum, and pretty much everyone there was in agreement that the 65nm quads, although they might run a little warmer, had a higher ability to overclock, besides the fact that the price went down by 50% on my processor right before I bought it.

[0=]

I'd like to go for water cooling, that way I can scrap the case fans, then I'll have a virtually silent PC.

I managed near-laptop-volume cooling with fans. My PSU is silent (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817103941), the processor fan is silent (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835186009&Tpk=alpine%2b7), the video card fan is silent (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127333), and the case fan is silent (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999070). All of those fans are temperature-controlled. The loudest part under normal conditions is the hard drive clicking. I have some old fan I pulled off another computer on the 80mm processor intake, a Vantec Tornado on exhaust (http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=674635&CatId=801), and a Silverstone FM121 at the hard drive intake (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811999344) all hooked up to a 5.25" bay fan controller that are off most of the time. When they're on they drop the temps 10ºC in a couple minutes, so I just blast them while I go get a snack after it's been full load or something for a while and run them on low while gaming (with loud music on, anyway). It's more thorough than water cooling, actually. Water cooling doesn't cool every square inch of every piece of hardware. Water cooling still uses 120mm fans on radiators, anyway.

[Aηdy]

Oh right cool.

Something I'll look into later on, not exaclty got much money right now!

[0=]

I know what you mean. I've accumulated all this stuff since 2005.

[Rutherford The Brave]

I have four words for you: 4 gigs of RAM!

[0=]

I also have four words for you: XP won't recognize it.

[Aηdy]

You can run 4GB ram on XP, I think it will only recognise up to about 3.2GB of it though, unless you run XP64 which is pretty much useless.

[0=]

My point exactly. Maybe he's running Vista, in which case he'd need another couple gigs to match the performance of XP :p

[Aηdy]

Yup, on my laptop i'm running loads of programs, 11 tabs in avant, msn messenger, utorrent, limewire, itunes, dual monitor software, dreamweaver, auslogics boostspeed, launch manager, asus epower management, my phone explorer and an ftp client. not to mention antivirus and mouse software!

All that using 1.06gb ram, about the same as vista used at IDLE!

[Blahages]

Either way, XP or Vista 32bit will only support a max of 4GB of Memory, including what is used for the hardware address space, so yeah, it limits it to 3-3.25GB usually. Mine seems to limit it to 3GB.

I use the x64 XP, because I have quite a bit of RAM. And, I use a lot of it too. You can easily use 4GB of RAM if you're running a couple Virtual Machines, and browsing the internet, and playing music, among other things, especially if you turn off the page file.

[Underage_Thinker]

I'd say water cool it, but a good Core 2 Duo is cheap now.I would but my mb dosn't say it supports C2D:(, and i don't wan't to risk buying a C2D only to not have it work.

[0=]

It's just not worth it to water cool a P4 and overclock it now. It would be better to save up for a major system upgrade to Core 2 Duo, DDR2 RAM, and PCI-E graphics.

[Underage_Thinker]

i can check pci-e(7600GT) and ddr2(1.75Gb value ram) off the list, i guess im just holding out as long as i can, maby if windows 7 is worthy of succeeding xp, it'll give me the excuse to upgrade.

[0=]

Oh, a socket 775 P4? Silly me, mine was 478 and none of those boards supported DDR2 or PCI-E. The performance gain when I switched from a 3GHz Pentium 4 to a 3Ghz Penryn Core 2 Duo was pretty huge. Six time the cache and a 1333MHz FSB compared to 800MHz, and the RAM is twice the frequency. I switched from a GeForce FX5500 to a factory overclocked 9600GT. I also made an XP disc that could install on my SATA drive. For me it was an absolutely huge performance gain. It doesn't really sound like it would be that phenomenal if you already have DDR2 and a fast graphics card, so you can probably hold out another generation unless you really need a lot of processor speed.

[Underage_Thinker]

ya its nothing too urgent, and i figure the deals are only gonna get better the longer i wait, my p4 is fine for most games, its just when i play some RTS's like Supcom, or COH it lags some, and editing/compiling movies isn't the fastest, but it isn't anything unbearable.

[Aηdy]

I went from an AMD 1.6 Sempron with a 256kb L2 cahce to an Intel Dual Core 3.0GHz with 6mb of L2 cahce. The difference was incredible! Also going from unmatched DDR memory of different frequencies and sizes to Corsair matched DDR2 Dual-Channel memory with low latency and high frequency, also makes a huge difference.