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Originally Posted by DesertShooter
is it me or the vcore is not visable? what's the vcore on that 3Ghz? is it stable at 3? also could you please tell us your settings like mobo, heatsink/fan, etc.. thanks.
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Originally Posted by DesertShooter
is it me or the vcore is not visable? what's the vcore on that 3Ghz? is it stable at 3? also could you please tell us your settings like mobo, heatsink/fan, etc.. thanks.
hrmm this is odd. i post a reply to desertshooter's post in the official venice overclocking thread and it ended up here. i wonder why? any ideas mod? thanks.
Because the Official thread is for results ONLY, this one is for all the variable-value chit-chat :)Quote:
Originally Posted by dng29
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Originally Posted by stryg
right i understand that, but why did my reply to his post in the official venice overclocking thread ended up here in the Venice OC discussion thread. oh well.
Been getting some pretty sad results with memory and memory controller, seems liek diffrent multis are worth a diffrent overclock with diffrent volts, I have to bassically test every setting. 10 * 280 is cpu stable my memory is stable to 295 with a 7 multi, but with 10 multi and 280 fsb i can only get 275, with other multis it only get werid and harder to overclock. :S dam it these a64 are such a pain in the a** it seems.
Testing my new venice on AIR
For now finnish 2825mhz 32m while i am @ Xtremesystems.org
3000+Venice
CBBLE 0512DPAW batch 0151
Got me new venice (well first venice)
Running it with water (water temp is around 30c now due to ambient temp of 29c inside room... hot hot -_-)
Priming @ 2.7ghz @ stock volt for last 20 mins or so.
I think I might have more fun later :p
3200+
LBBLE 0515APAW
One thing is, I never saw APAW before... (starting with A?)
What does that signify?
Quick update.
vs stock 1.36 vcore of running prinme @ 2.7ghz... 1.57v nets measly 2.85ghz prime stable for past 30 mins... Not a bad result in anyway but I am running out of room with temperature. (it seems to be aboue 10c higher on cpu temp under same voltage vs winchester I had... instead of going to 42c under prime, now it hovers around 52c under same voltage I was running winchester at... -_-)
Could be mobo isn't reading the core temp wrong by 10c but I will play safe until I hear a little more verdict. (the cpu is cooled by BIP3 with 3 panaflo M1A 7v and MCP600 Storm g4, GPU has its own loop with similar component) Based on reviews, etc on storm G4, I should be getting about 10-11c above water temp but there is that extra 10c where I am not sure is coming from.
Since I am going for 24x7 setup with 100% stability, I will settle for this for time being. If someone can enlighten me on this interesting temp issue, please let me know.
PS) it even reads 10c higher on core even at stock setting vs stock winchester.
This seems to the best that I can do. This went on to run prime for almost 4 hours before it errored out. Completely stable in windows though, I can game all day long.
http://img261.echo.cx/img261/7066/2565ghz3gc.th.jpg
285x9=2.56GHZ w/ 1.67v
180mhz divider
When I try 290x9 prime fails immediately no matter what voltage I give it. I don't think this is the limit of my chip yet but I don't know why I can't get higher. Can someone help me out?
Edit: I forgot to mention that this is with highend watercooling.
TDX, MCP600, 2x120mm Rad
Did you try dropping the HTT multiplier to 2.5x or 3x? You might want to try a new BIOS, too.
I've tried a bunch of different bios' and I'm already using LDT multi of 3x.
Well all day I've been playing with the memory, trying to get it to run with the cpu, what a pain in the a**, Cpu keeps causing memory errors so far best I can do is 10*280 ram 1:1 2.5-3-3-7 at 2.6volts 2t :( even then i left it runing #5 while i went to watch star wars and it errored 10 times in 5 hours so I dont think I'll be able to run my 2.9ghz with ram 1:1 what a shame, ram does 295 at these timings and into the 310+ with 2.5-4-3-7 :( o well I'll play with it more later but right now I just want to use my system. So tired of dam rebooting like a million times, guess I can try a new bios to. I dont know will see what happens seems like a wack memory controller.
So far 2.8ghz stable at stock vcore 2.9ghz stable at 1.5vcore and i can boot 3ghz easy but need to work on it to stablize, but right now i dont see the point in 3ghz since my ram memory controller it seems is stuggling.
4rory:
I don't know WTF the deal is with our stuff, but my setup went from bad to just complete and utter crap. I can't even do 240 FSB 1:1 anymore 2.5-3-3-6 1T without it shutting down now.
I am about to say screw it and either buy some new ram and try it, and if that doesnt work just sell the damn processor and mobo and start over, or just keep it stock clocks. I am really sick of my system shutting off in the middle of playing a game and cannot figure out what is causing this problem. I have a feeling it is our chips b/c my ram was perfectly fine with a 240 FSB on my winchester!!!!!
Got my 3200+ in yesterday:
Stepping
Stable at 2.75Ghz @ 1.5V so far. Prime, Super Pi and OCCT. I think 2.8Ghz is possible, but this thing doesn't like much in the way of voltage increases.
Compared to my '05 Winchester its insane though. :banana:
Yeah we might have dmged our chips :S my neo2 reported pretty high temps but that was with lower vcore...
I've spent countless hours trying to get my ram stable its just a matter of tring every setting in ever possible configuration, then up it 2 mhz and do it again. :(
Mine will still shutdown if i go high with vcore, I dont know what to say email msi about the board and tell them that, just don't tell them your overclocking or they will just blame it on that and ignore you like asus did to me.
Are you trying to run with your ram under 200mhz?
I made it to 280*10 with 1.575 stable but too hot for my taste... runnin an Alpha 8150 with my TT-SmartFan at 5k rpm (max) at about 50C loaded.Quote:
Originally Posted by bonzer
275*10 stable at 1.50
270*10 stable at 1.45
Very satisfied with my results..................
Can your memory controller pull the memory at those speed, if the memory is capable of it, mine seems to be picker then my mother.
just when I thought I had mine stable the b**** shut down again in the middle of guild wars. I can run SuperPI 32m endless times and it wont shut off. Give it 1 hr of guild wars and down it goes. Hit me up on msn I have something to tell you that I found out.
Is a 3200+ LBBLE 0516 EPEW a good choice?
My goal: 2.7GHz at least, do not passing over 1.65~1.67v
Thanks
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Originally Posted by rancid
Spi is a benchmark NOT a stability test. Benchmarkers use it as proof of stability for the very reason that it sucks as a stability test. Because you can pass it even if you aren't close to stable (this means better scores). So far 3d gaming and Prime are the only apps that even come close to being reliable stability tests.
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Originally Posted by higherøx
You'll get it to work at 10x270htt ldt3x 1.6vcore(prime,3dmark,memtest,pi stable) So yeah you'll get 2.7 without passing over 1.65. Don't hold me to it though since we're often seeing identical chips behaving differently.
Any results with a
LBBLE 0516 GPBW
Venice 3000+
Lithan:
That def explains it then. Guild Wars seems to make it shut down faster then 3dmark or anything else so that is my "stability" tester :) I run superPI while having guildwars minimized in the background.
I found out that even though core center said my cpu voltage was 1.63-1.65 it was actually OVER 1.70 volts. I discovered this on accident by clicking the red arrow on the side of the core center. I lowered the voltage from 1.55V to 1.45V+0.8% CPU overvid and this seemed to make it stable (not shutting off) but I still cant run anything stable @ 250 HTT without guild wars locking up :(
The saga continues..
Well, I was finally able to install Win 2k3, and I did it at 2.7GHz at stock voltage with my LBBLE 0515APAW 3200+. I figure installing an operating system is at least indicative of stability because if it were to fail at something, it would be a major operation like that. :)
I'll do some more in-depth stability tests later.
Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind is my real world tester. Its one of the primary games i play and i have yet to see a game that cooks a CPU as much as Morrowind does.Quote:
Originally Posted by rancid
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Originally Posted by Deus Falsus