Wow, NZ yes. Lived in Oz for 6 years. Went to NZ as well. Absolutely beatiful country.
Wow, NZ yes. Lived in Oz for 6 years. Went to NZ as well. Absolutely beatiful country.
Q6600 1hr OCCT 425fsbx9 3.8G at 1.4V with 4G of ram.
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...67863468nIMJCf
This is my low voltage silent settings with all fans on low. 4G needs the nb fan on high.
I am guesing with an air cooled setup there is no room between the cpu cooler and the gfx card for a nb fan, and no small fans on the fet coolers? Is this why there are not many high clocking Strikers?
Aight.. ford.. your settings/voltages don't look too far off mine, but the instant I go to 360fsb, it freaks out. Let's say I just wanted 400fsb even, I'm going to put out some 'guesses' as to what might work, then, if you're up for it, please tweak and re-post. And I'll give them a shot (I won't be an ass if something goes wrong).
FSB = 1600 (400mhz)
MEM = 800 (400mhz)
@ 9 mult = 3,600mhz
Voltages:
CPU Voltage = 1.6
CPU PLL = 1.6
CPU VTT = 1.5
Mem Voltage = 2.2
NB Core = 1.60
SB Core = 1.60
1.2v HT = 1.50
Bridge = 1.20
CPU GTL_REF Ratio = +30mV
NB GTL_REF Ratio = +30mV
DDRII Contr. Ref = DDR2_REF+30mV
DDRII Chan. A Ref = DDR2_REF+30mV
DDRII Chan. B Ref = DDR2_REF+30mV
Got an 80mm fan directly over the NB, sort of wedged b/w CPU heatsink and GFX. Still, NB temp is 75C idle lol :down: Stock cooling solution IMO is appaling, especially with the known heat related issues of the 680i/780i chipsets. Why Asus didnt offer a fusion block on the striker ii like the maximus boards is beyond me...
Currently waiting for MIPS blocks to replace the stock solution.
Hypothetical question:
If you've got an E8400, a Striker II Formula, 2GB of the best DDR2 ram out there, and moderate water cooling for the CPU, without remounting the chipset cooling....
can you achieve a 500x8 1:1 4-4-4-12 overclock ?
oh yeah, is the 1101 BIOS any good?
Sorry, for me it would not even post with 5-5-5-18 at 500fsbx8. I have run this mb to 475x8 with a quad but never got to 500fsb.
Can any of you post pictures of your air cooling solutions for the NB?
I am not getting the drop in bandwidth over 450fsb like some posted. Memtest shows it climbing from 450- 475 still.
Bios overclock only. Have not use a clockgen since 865P and I have not used everest in years as I thought it was only a synthetic benchmark just calculating from ram setting values to give theoretical bandwidth.
My post says I see an increase in memtest that is hard to show screens.
I am working on some other tests to see if performace goes up.
Some info on cpus at 4G same rig and ram settings.
450fsbx9 for all, ram 1:1 at 4-4-4-12.
Opening scene of 3dmark06, prxycon.
E6600 110fps
Q6600 115fps
E6850 120fps
E8400 130fps.
The E8400 gives 2more fps in crysis benchmark than E6850, medium@1600x1200 giving 76.5fps AVRG.
I dont know why there is a diff with the e6600 to e8650 both at the same settings, its a good e6600 needing only .5Vcore more to be stable at 4G than the E6850.
The E8400 is also only 1000 points behind the Q6600 at 4G in 3Dmark06 overall.
475fsbx9 almost 12000mb/s read and 44.4ns latency.
http://good-times.webshots.com/photo...67863468IhqJfp
Is this good or bad?
At 475fsbx9 the e8400 is only 200 points lower overall in 3dmark06 than the Q6600 at 4G.
Opening scene of proxycon 3dmark06 at 475fsb is 138fps .
This is the best I got with my first striker II with trd=5.The second striker I have now,can't even reatch 10000MB/s in everest like it doesn't get the trd I am setting in bios.Please go in bios and try trd=5 and let me know what you got.