kimosabi

I`m not sure if youll make it as far as go4life on this board. The P5Q-E has alot higher rated(overclockable) FSB and RAMspeed but you should make 4.0gHz stable IMO.
IDK about the multiplier on the E8500 but if its x8 max my vote is still around 4.0gHz.
I`m close to the FSB/RAMspeed limit and the E8200 is 2.66gHz stock.

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Plasticmonkey32

Cool, thanks for your input...

Im thinking of getting 3.8-4.0 max on this chip...
If im only aiming for 4 (hehe, only) isnt it a better option for me to go for the E8400? just a thought

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kimosabi

Hmmmm, E8400, maybe? 4gHz on that chip would be closer to the board limit IMO. The RAMspeeds wont get much higher on this board than I`m at right now. RAMspeed gives you headroom.
If youre going clockadoodley i`d gun for a board upgrade.

Anyways i`m speaking from my E8200 experiences. Use it as you see fit.

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DIRTYDUCK

I am having problems going past 3.6...even posting much past that is hard...I dont know whats wrong.

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kimosabi

Whats your FSB and RAM speeds at? Temps? All powersaving features disabled?

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go4life

cool, even if you are on a 750i I think you will get 4-4.2ghz out of it, and the E8500 is not 8x like kim thought, but 9.5x

btw when I switched from my Q6600 to E8500 I didnt really see any difference in everyday tasks, but in games its flying

@ DirtyDuck, I second what kim said, please give us what settings you are using! I dont think your temps are bad though since you have a fuzion v2

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3d mark 06 is fixed now there was a dbase error my scores are in the top 30 single gpu thread

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DIRTYDUCK

ok lets see here.

fsb 450 x8 multi
vcore 1.4265 (no vmod yet)
Dram 1.97 (max=2.0)
HT 1.26
NB 1.44
BS 1.5

ram timings 5-5-5-15 have also run at 5-5-5-18

temps are
amb air 75f
idle 22c
load 34c
not only do I have a dtec fuzion v2 but its on a bong cooler so I have all the CPU cooling I will need. I have tried bumping voltages up pretty high to try to get it higher but much over 3.6 and it wont post.

I have the ram at 800

all my power saver settings are off I think... and I have the updated the bios.

I don't know what people are getting out of this E6740 chip but I have a 35% OC on it now. just under a full Gig of OC I would love to join the 4.0 club though I know my cooling can handle it.

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looks like you got a good chip there duck! you can run the volt up to 1.5v for 24/7 use, and up to 1.6v death run (that may bring you up to the 4ghz club) I got my friends E6750 up to 3.8ghz stable with 1.5v, so you may try that first if you want some more!

So have this settings worked good before? I know after a while some cpu`s want more volt, so you can try to up the volt a bit or two!

@ gouki, nice you got it to work

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DIRTYDUCK

Yes I am very impressed so far with this chip and my cooling. This bong fing rocks!

I was wondering about the pencil mod though...should I do it before I take my Vcore that high?

I guess I never have taken the vcore up very high really. Most people I see have their vcore set pretty low...like ~1.35. However it is hard for me to find many people with my chip and board going over 3.2.

I will try upping my vcore to 1.5 and see what happens...I hope its that easy.

these settings I showed you have been working for over a month now. I wanted to make sure it was really stable...its been folding the whole time.

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