€212,- well spend!

[Zeus]

After waiting a couple of weeks for the local store to get a week 32 or newer CPU, i finally got mine yesterday. :banana:
It's a 3400+NewCastle 0434MPMW ver0.6 and i have to say it's darmn impressive! :D

Have a look at those screenies:

PiFast @ 9x316 2,5-3-3-7 :slobber:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19709&stc=1

SuperPi 1M 31 sec:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19710

How bout over 5K in Sandra's bandwidthtest?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19711&stc=1

Check those timings at 321MHz! OCZ power!!

This is all watercooled by just plain water and a rather small Black Ice microII rad with 20C ambiant.

Not too shabby i'd say. :D

[CTKP]

Nice clocks man :toast: Really good speeds coming from the newer newcastles.
Whats your max stable?

[Ubermann]

So now i order a new one also.
Mine just sucks afters seeing those screens =)
Those are the highest 2.5-3-3-x shots i ever seen i think with 512mb module.

[Mag Master 21]

And now my bh5 is getting jealous.. I may be getting a gig of the 4200el to take his daily 24/7 job..

[slayer899]

how many volts you feeding that ram to get 321 mhz man?

[Dagalidis]

ZEUS well done my friend.... :toast:
0.6 Version is just perfect :D

Now you need to update your Signature (ClawHammer => New Castle) ;)

[Tony]

Awesome results m8, just awesome.

Also a point we all need to remember, the ram is the same you were having issues with, a new cpu cured the problems.Memory controllers are making a huge difference here ;)

[bias_hjorth]

wow impressive results by watercooling!
heck I´ve had to use a prommy to get same result on a older 3000.
I bet you´ll hit 30 at 2910Mhz and a bit of windows tweaking / win2k3 :)
http://www.oc-central.dk/tobias/31.gif

[Zeus]

Thanks guys, it surely is one impressive CPU.
Like Bigtoe said, the memcontroller can really make or break one's overclock.
My old Claw barely reached 270 1:1 stable and now look what this RAM is capable of.

Gonna loosen the timings and see where the RAM will max.

Looks like i have to update my sig indeed :D , will do tommorow, off to bed now.

I don't think 2910MHz is within my reach for a 30sec run, i was a little dissapointed that 316x9 didn't show 30 sec.
Oh well, only got this CPU yesterday, there's plenty of ground to explore yet. :)

[Geforce4ti4200]

good god, this overclocks better than my winchester and youd probably be right around the performance of my winchester too(dual channel here) gonna try for 21k marks with ti4200? ;)

[Zeus]

good god, this overclocks better than my winchester and youd probably be right around the performance of my winchester too(dual channel here) gonna try for 21k marks with ti4200? ;)

Don't know about this 4200, maybe one day when i'm bored.
I still have this 4800se that did 345 core with stock cooler, already voltmodded and everything and i also have this DD maze4 laying around, so 21K could be taken down with my current hardware i guess.

Mem on this card was real gay, irrc artifacts appeared around 720 or so, that was why i lost interest.

For now i'm setting my sights on other benchmarks like PiFast and SuperPi.

[van Basten]

0.6 Version is just perfect :D

Well, I don't hink that 0.6 has anything at all to do with the OC-Ability of the CPUs. It looks as if the iMC has been improved, but my tests with the 0.6 CPUs were frustrating.

3.000+ (Week 42) 0.6 = Max @ 2.250 Mhz (1,62V Air Cooling)
3.000+ (Week 44) 0.6 = Max @ 2,340 Mhz (1,65V Air Cooling)
3.400+ (Week 34) 0.6 = Max @ 2,620 Mhz (1,65V Air Cooling)

This is not very impressive, since I sold my 3.000+ (0.5) for one of these "beauties" :stick: and the old NC did 2.550 Mhz @ 1,55V :dammit:

[Zeus]

Yeah you could say that the memcontroller is improved, how's DDR626 2,5-3-3-7 at 2.9V errorfree in memtest test5?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19759&stc=1

At 2,8V it maxed out at DDR620, with 2,9V i get this DDR626 max. :)

[Playful_Buffalo]

:banana: nice OC

[trans am]

Beautiful oc!

[saaya]

watercooled????? :slobber: damn dude your such a lucky sob getting such a sweet chip and memory! :D congrats!

[funkflix]

Nice oc there m8! Grats! :toast:

[Geforce4ti4200]

hope you get bored fast because 21k or more is my goal with winchester and tccd dual channel but that wont happen for a few months yet. I need a strained silcon winchester with an improved ondie controller so I can get 273x11=3GHz then with my ti4200 21k or even 22k will be mine all on air :D dont worry about artifacts, I run my ti4800se ram at 760 artifacts ;)

[Zeus]

Thanx guys, it's nice to show some nice numbers again. :)

watercooled????? :slobber: damn dude your such a lucky sob getting such a sweet chip and memory! :D congrats!

LOL, yeah, it's just plain watercooling in an 20C ambiant.
In the coming days i think i'm gonna put my case outside to see if there's something left.


hope you get bored fast because 21k or more is my goal with winchester and tccd dual channel but that wont happen for a few months yet. I need a strained silcon winchester with an improved ondie controller so I can get 273x11=3GHz then with my ti4200 21k or even 22k will be mine all on air :D dont worry about artifacts, I run my ti4800se ram at 760 artifacts ;)


If it won't happen for a few months, why hurry? :confused: :D
Don't know man, maybe just one day i feel like a challenge and fire that thing up...

[Nanobot]

Simply Awesome Zeus ! :thumbsup:

Have you done any mobo mods to get the HTT stable that high ? Mine craps out at 320 no mather what I do,i'm either suspecting the mem controller or the weak OEM chipset cooler.

Could you post a CBId screenie ?
* New Version of CIBd* (http://cbid.amdclub.ru/files/cbid73b.zip)

[Zeus]

Simply Awesome Zeus ! :thumbsup:

Have you done any mobo mods to get the HTT stable that high ? Mine craps out at 320 no mather what I do,i'm either suspecting the mem controller or the weak OEM chipset cooler.

Could you post a CBId screenie ?
* New Version of CIBd* (http://cbid.amdclub.ru/files/cbid73b.zip)

High HTT?
That aint high. :p:

This is high:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19782&stc=1

To answer your question, no i didn't do any mods to this mobo, not even did i swap the chipsetcooler or the thermal paste under the chipsetcooler.

Here's a Central Brain id screen:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=19783&stc=1

[Nanobot]

Thanks Zeus !

That's one sick high HTT :eek:

Now I'm convinced it the CPU's mem controller holding me back.

Going to have to go hunting for a week 32+, I guess.

2700Mhz on ~1.5 v that's one quality proc!

[Geforce4ti4200]

"If it won't happen for a few months, why hurry?
Don't know man, maybe just one day i feel like a challenge and fire that thing up..."


as soon as the ram I purchased off ebay comes, I will bench then vmod my ti4200 and bench again and I think I can take out your old 20k score, might motivate you, eh? :D

[Ubermann]

Nanobot raise the Max async value to 10.

[Nanobot]

Thanks for the tip Ubermann :)

Lol that's one of the few settings I haven't touched,everything else is tweaked :D .
I just tied it and anything over 9 gives me the dreaded "Detecting nvidia raid array " message.

Your RAM seems quite different than mine,you stated in a previous thread yours doesn't even boot at 2.7v and it responds to voltage -->not mine.
I manage to get 1 stick of my rev2 stable at 290 2.5-3-3-5 @ 2.7. Seems to be the sweet spot for me.

Going to try for better with the max async latency set to 9 .

The more time I spend tweaking this board the more I'm second guessing going to socket 939;most 939 mobos dont seem too stellar at the moment.

[Ubermann]

Sometimes a setting make detecting drive..and on next boot it works.
Buggy..