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noobie o/c'ing
I have previously had a couple of AMD PC's which I toyed with, an Opteron144
(ran at 2.6GHz) and an FX55 (which just wouldn't run above 2.6GHz), and I decided to try an Intel based system. I bought an Asus Striker Extreme mobo and Q6600 (been assured it ran at 3.5GHz on air in a P5K board) with a Freezer 7 Pro cooler and 2 Gig of DDR2 800 ram (Corsair PC6400 TwinX). I bought this mobo because it was an ROG board and thought it would overclock with ease. How wrong I was. I tried upping the memory, FSB and vcore voltages but it all still fails above 2.8GHz. I so wanted a 3GHz System for gaming etc.... My vista score is 5.3 because of my slow Hitachi 500GB SATA hard drive but memory is good for 5.8 (915 MHz overclock at standard voltage). How do I figure out What is holding me back? The CPU goes to 2.8GHz at standard voltage but no higher (except temp) when I increase vcore! Even after lowering the memory ratio and increasing the FSB the whole lot bogs down. Is it a dud board or bad BIOS version (1305) for overclocking. I thought spending extra on the mobo would mean better overclocking than a p35 Gigabyte or the likes. TIA Rob |
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"Dumbo" wrote in message
... I have previously had a couple of AMD PC's which I toyed with, an Opteron144 (ran at 2.6GHz) and an FX55 (which just wouldn't run above 2.6GHz), and I decided to try an Intel based system. I bought an Asus Striker Extreme mobo and Q6600 (been assured it ran at 3.5GHz on air in a P5K board) with a Freezer 7 Pro cooler and 2 Gig of DDR2 800 ram (Corsair PC6400 TwinX). I bought this mobo because it was an ROG board and thought it would overclock with ease. How wrong I was. I tried upping the memory, FSB and vcore voltages but it all still fails above 2.8GHz. I so wanted a 3GHz System for gaming etc.... My vista score is 5.3 because of my slow Hitachi 500GB SATA hard drive but memory is good for 5.8 (915 MHz overclock at standard voltage). How do I figure out What is holding me back? The CPU goes to 2.8GHz at standard voltage but no higher (except temp) when I increase vcore! Even after lowering the memory ratio and increasing the FSB the whole lot bogs down. Is it a dud board or bad BIOS version (1305) for overclocking. I thought spending extra on the mobo would mean better overclocking than a p35 Gigabyte or the likes. I have a Q6600 running on a aBit IP35 Pro mobo at 3.24GHz with a Freezer 7Pto.. no voltage increase etc. So it is acheivable. The fact that your chip ran to 3.5 on another board makes me think it is something on your mobo that is failing rather than the chip... Have you locked the PCI and PCIE busses to fixed frequencies etc? Usually these are set to multiples of the FSB but if you overclock they need to be fixed to standard speeds. Rarius ---- Posted via Pronews.com - Premium Corporate Usenet News Provider ---- http://www.pronews.com offers corporate packages that have access to 100,000+ newsgroups |
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noobie o/c'ing
Somewhere on teh intarweb "Dumbo" typed:
I have previously had a couple of AMD PC's which I toyed with, an Opteron144 (ran at 2.6GHz) and an FX55 (which just wouldn't run above 2.6GHz), and I decided to try an Intel based system. I bought an Asus Striker Extreme mobo and Q6600 (been assured it ran at 3.5GHz on air in a P5K board) with a Freezer 7 Pro cooler and 2 Gig of DDR2 800 ram (Corsair PC6400 TwinX). I bought this mobo because it was an ROG board and thought it would overclock with ease. How wrong I was. I tried upping the memory, FSB and vcore voltages but it all still fails above 2.8GHz. I so wanted a 3GHz System for gaming etc.... My vista score is 5.3 because of my slow Hitachi 500GB SATA hard drive but memory is good for 5.8 (915 MHz overclock at standard voltage). How do I figure out What is holding me back? The CPU goes to 2.8GHz at standard voltage but no higher (except temp) when I increase vcore! Even after lowering the memory ratio and increasing the FSB the whole lot bogs down. Is it a dud board or bad BIOS version (1305) for overclocking. I thought spending extra on the mobo would mean better overclocking than a p35 Gigabyte or the likes. P35 is the best chipset for overclocking Intel CPUs. Check all the 'world records' and see what chipset they use.... -- Shaun. DISCLAIMER: If you find a posting or message from me offensive, inappropriate, or disruptive, please ignore it. If you don't know how to ignore a posting, complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate... ;-) |
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noobie o/c'ing
An older revision of BIOS did the trick and then finding that 2 Gig of my 4
Gig ran at 2.1v rather than 1.9v sorted it all out for now. 3GHz was what I wanted and now have. Thanks Robin |
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