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Is vdroop only between idle and load? The thing with my board is that if I set 1.375v, it's only 1.328v at idle and 1.312v at load. The droop between idle and load isn't bad but the actual setting is way higher than either. I'm guessing this isn't droop right? You may say that this isn't a real problem, but I've found that 1.6v is unstable and isn't actually 1.6v at all, so my limit is whatever the highest 1.5v is and that is actually around 1.50v idle 1.49v max.
Yeah i don't have that problem, if in bios i set 1.40v its going to be 1.4v in idle but then i get 1.3v under load. So you have something else. Can't imagine it though you setting 1.6v and in reality its only 1.5v, also wouldn't know if vdroop mod works to fix it. If you get that pencil its very easy to do it + its very easy to take it back of. You have awesome overclock btw 8x450 sounds really good :) good luck
Is it odd that my E6300 & DS3 Rev 2.0 combo will do 3.2ghz with stock volts but isn't stable at 3.5ghz even with 1.45v? I can boot at 3.5 and everything but Orthos goes red within a few minutes or the entire machine freezes. Any suggestions?
How bout your ram? enough voltage to feed it?Quote:
Originally Posted by HeadOn
He might also need more vCore to reach 3.5. I need up to 1.55v to reach it. It's way too much for such a small gain. YMMV though.Quote:
Originally Posted by laziepig
when a chip gets close to hitting its wall it happens fast, and big jumps in voltage start to result in very small frequency increases.Quote:
Is it odd that my E6300 & DS3 Rev 2.0 combo will do 3.2ghz with stock volts but isn't stable at 3.5ghz even with 1.45v? I can boot at 3.5 and everything but Orthos goes red within a few minutes or the entire machine freezes. Any suggestions?
For me the F9 BIOS has been a great improvement! :up:
Previously I was using the F4 that was on the board from the start and couldn't go above 316MHz FSB or 2600MHz CPU. :mad:
But yesterday I finally fired up the machine again and flashed to F9. Loaded optimized defaults after reboot.
Then in windows I just began upping the FSB with SetFSB and hit 340x9 ~3060MHz with all voltages at default. I had changed back to Intel stock cooler and core temp was showing 79C under load so I didn't want to push the CPU further just now...
Ran Orthos blend for 2 hours without a hitch. Then rebooted and set the multi to 6x and mem ratio to 1:1 and went into windows again.
Pushed the FSB right up to 400MHz and it was still Orthos stable.
Though when I tried 420 it rebooted. So I upped FSB and MCH +0.1V and now it's been running Orthos at 6x410 for almost an hour without problems.
I'll let it run for another hour before I go up a bit more!
I'm sure a happy camper now after thinking I'd gotten the worlds worst DS3 or E6600! :toast: :woot:
Gigabyte GA-965P-S3 power: http://img488.imageshack.us/img488/7...em25055pt2.jpg :toast:
Alright by no means stable, S3 F7 BIOS really improved my max benchstable CPU speed.
S3 F7 BIOS gave me ~100MHz more. :clap:
Is your board C1 or C2 rev?Quote:
Originally Posted by OnLine
wondering if i can pass the 446FSB with my DS3 , im using the 680I now and no way i can pass 446fsb, im tempting on switch everthing t the DS3 and try with the new bios
Rev. C2, don't know if it makes a difference but I've had kind of luck with a kit of Crucial DDR2 Tenth Anniversary PC5300 mem.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudyn
The funny part, 9x425(+) 1:1 is a no go, but 4:5 will work! :stick:
fyi i can get to 454 stable for 2+ hours prime95 and still running over weekend at work. hopefully will be good come monday. that's using the f5 bios. will boot at 458 but def not stable. ram is 1:1 as f5 has issues with d9 mem @ high speeds which i have. with f8 or f9 bios i can hit same high speeds but have cold boot issues, no cold boot prob with f5. board is c2, which next to c1 has ruled. funny, i've got a 650i board on way to compare and you're looking at going the other way! i'm also on air, hope this helps.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ajfina
I have S3 C1, could not get past 450FSB on any bios prior to F7(S3) and now can actually post at 480 (stable 475).Quote:
Originally Posted by Rudyn
with f9 I still have cold boot issues. however, i have less when i set my pci-e to 102. :cool:
Updated sig with specs and what would you guys put as the highest vcore for 3.5ghz?
1:1 nb needs more volts to stay stable iirc so you could fix that with a gmch mod :confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by OnLine
I can't get my oc settings to hold after updating the bios to F9 (or back to F7 for that matter). It just resets back to default clocks for my e6300... Can someone tell me the procedure that they used to update and then oc?
Do I have to put everything at 'optimized defaults' then update the bios, shut down, boot to new bios then put my oc settings in, then shut down and boot?
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Originally Posted by Hamilton
Are you insane??! 79C underload is gonna burn out that CPU fast. Intel C2D chips throttle at 85c...that means they throttle it because it reached it MAX temp already.. lol The most you want is to hover around 60c underload
Yep, could be.Quote:
Originally Posted by MartianInvader
+0.3V V(g)mch probably doesn't cut it with a 9x multi at 425(+) 1:1 while 7/8 x 425(+) 1:1 def will work.
I don't think I'll do such a mod though, because 9 x 425(+) 4:5 is actually a bit faster than 9 x 425(+) 1:1.
Maybe not in Super PI 1M but in anything else, that is 3Dmark benches, WinRAR & Super PI 32M etc ...
I did a Super PI 32M at 4.0GHz and it gave me:
http://img177.imageshack.us/img177/2...2505za3.th.jpg
Don't really know if that's good though, maybe I975X mobo's are a lot faster!? :stick:
:)
That's why I lowered the multiplier to 6x so I could continue upping the FSB to find its limit! :stick:Quote:
Originally Posted by markopoleo
When I put the Scythe Infinity back on I'll continue to push the CPU since it held load temps around 56C!
Flashed my S3 to the F7 bios and have the board stable so far at 523 with 1.51v (1.47v w/ droop), +.1 vFSB, vMCH +.3.
With the F6 bios the board didn't respond to vcore increases above 1.5v and my FSB ceiling was 515 no matter what.
Could someone post some pictures of the Scythe SCINF-1000 on the DS3 to show the distance it is neat the Ram? Should I have any problems with it on this motherboard?
Prob going to order one this week to replace intel HSF..
What kind of cooling are you using with that setup? And what are the temps using TAT with the high voltage?Quote:
Flashed my S3 to the F7 bios and have the board stable so far at 523 with 1.51v (1.47v w/ droop), +.1 vFSB, vMCH +.3.
With the F6 bios the board didn't respond to vcore increases above 1.5v and my FSB ceiling was 515 no matter what.
I was using a Scythe Infinity on my DS3 but I've temporarily replaced it with the Intel HSF.Quote:
Originally Posted by markopoleo
With the Infinity I was using the fan on the side towards the ram and I couldn't use my Corsair Dominators in the first slot.
But if you have some memory with a lower profile it should be fine.
More or less finalized my water cooling setup last night. Will snap pics sometime. But still, $300 later, I'm not really able to do that much better. 3.5ghz can be had stably now, with temps at 65'c compared to near 80'c before. Overall, system is much quieter, although I'm still wanting to go 7v mod on my fans, but they overload the psu for some reason once I have more than 2 fans 7v'ed.
Still running 7x466=3266 as a daily setup currently because it seems to have less of a cold boot issue. 7x500 doesn't even post half the time for some reason, but when it does, it is stable with lots of vcore.
Also, since going watercooling, I've lost 20mhz in video ram. Hmm
update: hmm picked up 40mhz free on the video card :)