My first Overclock.... by Fisher Price!!!
Hi Folks,
Finally received my 2900xt, and put it all together so here are some of my initial findings with a Q6600, board revision 1.03g running bios 2301:
Q6600
2GB Gskill HZ
2900XT 1GB DDR4 (o/c 838 Mhz Core 1150Mhz GDDR4)
Max stable FSB I cold reach 350 X 9 3.15Ghz
VMCH 1.85 Volts
Vcore 1.35 Volts
All other volts on stock
Gskill running at 2.1v 890Mhz 4-4-4-12 (This stuff is great I had it running at 1000 Mhz 2.3V and it was fine, just backed off as I'm new to this overclocking stuff)
Temps are 30c idle, 40c load- Thermalright Ultra 120
Orthos Stable for 9 hours
I tested Lawrys 2004 G0 bios but prime/orthos failed within minutes at 333 x 9
(Although Bioshock ran for about 4 hours at 1920 X 1080 with no problems)
The 2301 bios was much more stable for me, The system will even boot with a 400 x 8 but it hangs after post or will crap out at the windows loading bar. Anything between 351 - 400, The system will boot but highly unstable.
By the way.. all of the above is running on air.
That's my 2 cents, If anyone knows of any other settings I could try as I think I got lucky and there might be some more in this board for me.
Thanks again for starting this thread, the amount of information I learned here is staggering. This is my very first system build and I didn't have 1 problem assembling everything and setting the Bios thanks to this thread.:)