tomaskir

How does this look for a 24/7 OC on this CPU?

440*8 = 3520MHz

1.275v set in bios, undervolts to 1.24v and no vdroop thanks to loadline calibration. 1.42 on the nordbridge, the NB keeping at 48c.



I actually booted on 3.8GHz, with 1.26v on vcore, but i got a crappy ram, and it couldnt handle it. So far i have to say.... if i got a better ram this CPU is an insane OCer!

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tom

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Danylu

Too bad... you could go so much higher.

Whats the VID on that?

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1.21v vid. So, any recommendations on a ram that can handle about 1000Mhz with decent timings? (5-5-5-15)

A quad on 4GHz on air would be ... mmmmm.

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Danylu

I am about to throw up in disgust...

Thats an awesome VID mate I think. OCZ Reaper is pretty good, what chipset and RAM is your motherboard first of all?. My OCZ Reaper 2x2gb 800Mhz 6-6-6-24 can overclock itself to 1006Mhz 5-5-5-15. DDR2 or DDR3? If DDR2, you can get the OCZ ReaperX that comes at 1000Mhz and overclock that further.

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x38 chipset DDR2, running the stuff in my sig rig. As for ram, when i went for 3.8, the ram couldnt handle 950MHz even with 6-6-6-22-2t. Its corsair XMS TwinX, using 4x 1GB sticks, the 800MHz CL4 ones, looks like i got a really crappy chips there tho. The way its now: 1.42v on the nordbridge, 48c. A whopping 2.25v on the rams to keep this stable.

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Dragoon

Nice overclock on that CPU

Why don't you unlink your RAMs from the FSB, that will give you some room to put that Q9450 @ 3.8GHz

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Danylu

By that I assume you use DDR2.

Product Page here:
http://www.ocztechnology.com/product...pc_4gb_edition
But honestly, most of the products on the below page would suit you well.
http://www.ocztechnology.com/product.../reaper_series

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I didnt see a memory unilnk anywhere in the bios. Not sure if x38 can do it, or if this board can do it.

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liqwidstyx

i got 3.4 on mine and have room to keep going. BUT im not going to.....yet
:-P

also got my 4870s overclocked quite a bit with this new fan hack that has me idling at 46 celcius and loading at 70 I got plenty of headroom for OCing!!!!

anyhow nice OC. I was hoping to do a suicide run at 533x8 so i could do a 1:! ratio but I dont trust this cooler. Maybe ill yank my dtek fuzion out of my other rig and see what i can get

btw do you have the c1 stepping? I have it and this chip seems magical and golden. 3.4@ 1.24 vcore on air is super sick

Dragoon

Dang, unlinking the RAMs from the FSB can make wonders when OCing

EDIT:
3.52 with only 1.275v on the BIOS? Thats great, that gave me an idea on how far I can get mine to, that 3.6GHz I got to was a "quick" OC to benchmark and I had set the BIOS to 1.3125v vdroop to 1.280v, and it ran quite stable after a couple of 3DMark06 runs. But it heats up alot during 8k FFTs, it easily hits over 70C. Poor Zalman 9500 can't handle 1GHz overclock lol

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