The San Diego OC DISCUSSION Thread

Hi guys...i am new here...have a dilemma hope u guys could help me...i'm choosing between 3500+ Venice and 3700+ San Diego...3500+ has been tested and proven that it can run up to 2.8ghz...as for 3700+ SD its still doubtful...i've checked with my retailer...and he has only 1 stepping available...its CABGE 0522XPMW...anyone using the same batch ? Care to share ur experience in oc-ing it ? I dunno whether i shld get it or not...since there is a high possibility of a bad cpu (many bad feedback on 0522)

Where have you seen bad feedback on xpmw ??

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Originally Posted by fatty

Where have you seen bad feedback on xpmw ??

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Not bad feedback on xpmw...juz bad feedback on 0522...read my post again...anyway u using 0522xpmw ? is it gd for oc? how high can it reach ?

The San Diegos can reach high clocks...I have reached 2.8GHz easily...just haven't spent the time to tweak the memory to match the clocks...

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Originally Posted by ugp

The San Diegos can reach high clocks...I have reached 2.8GHz easily...just haven't spent the time to tweak the memory to match the clocks...

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Ur steppings and vcore ?

Steppings are in Sig and vCore was at v1.6

Right now I am sitting on 250x10.0 @ v1.5

Mine is stable in benchies to 2.9(sisoft arithmetic) but around 2.8-2.85 for everything else. I am prime 95 stable for 24 hours at 2.71 and I have my memory running at 246 now instead of 270x10. My memory is now failing memtest after 2-3 passes at 265. I just started running a new bios and this is the result. I think there will be some improvement with the new bios, but my memory is really holding me back. It is not stable at all at 1t timing. I think it is a bios problem for memory timings. I am using 1.80. I tried the modded bios with 1t but it was very unstable for my hynix memory. DDR booster is at 3.4 volts. I did have a pretty stable overclock with 1 t timing using 1.37b, but I like the new bios better for overclocks. I don't need more than 1.6 vcore anyways....

Zxlr8, if you upgrade cooling I'll bet you can get at least 2.8ghz prime stable. And maybe 2.93-2.95 bench stable.

Yeah I guess I need to update that in my sig. I bought a TT typhoon and it rocks! I am running 1.6 vcore and I have a near-silent case now. Before I could run benches only to 2.8. Idle is 32 and load is 46-7.(Prime large fft) Obviously a big help. I have a lttle bit better than average chip. Most 100% cpu tasks only put me to 44c. I lapped the HS and I think that helped. I needed a silent case for my theater. That is where I game and I also use the pc to upconvert dvds using FFDShow. With 1.65 volts, I could probably get 2.75 stable for prime, but I am happy with the way it performs now. If I was worried about benching it to death, I would have alot higher 3d01 score for sure. I would like to see my memory stable @ 270 though. 2.5,4,4,7 is what it runs at now. I have tried a couple things, but it is only supposed to be 3,5,5,10 to 250, so I am pretty happy with it for overclocking as much as it has. There would be a big performance gain though if I could run async at 270 though. I wonder if there issome good cheap memory that will overclock like that. Anybody?

Need a little help if anyone can. I am running my SD at 310x10, things seems fine, and it's prime stable as well. I can run 3DMark fine, but when I try to run BF2 it seems to crash after a short time at 3.1GHz. I set it to 300x10 and it handles it no problem. At 3.1GHz, I had it at 1.66v. Pushing the vcore higher didn't seem to have any effect on stability. I tried 2.5HTT ratio, that didn't work either. Tried boosting LDT voltage, that didn't work. What else can I do?

Some games are really over sensitive to overclocks though...

Ok I seem to have figured it out. The memory was the culprit. Had a set of TCCD 437 in there and although it was handling ok at 310MHz, it seem to have been spitting out occasional errors at 2.7v. It didn't like higher voltage too. I switched it with the 440 from this machine and bumped it to 2.9v and problem solved. 3.1GHz BF2 stable.

Glad to see you solved the problem...

I as well fixed my problem I was having with my BFG 6800GT OC...

It wasn't scoring right...I found out another device was sharing the same IRQ so I did a reinstall and it solved it and the video card is now using IRQ #5 instead of #19. I am now back up to 12K+ on 3DMark03

I have decided for sure this time to revert to stock clocks because everytime I overclock it screws my windows install up and I have to reformat it all. It is getting tiresome right now and I really don't have the time for it all :(

anyone get a sandy recently with some results? 052x?

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anyone get a sandy recently with some results? 052x?

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Yeah thats wad i wanna ask too...btw...does 05XX matter more than the SPMW/XPMW/TPAW thingie ?

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Glad to see you solved the problem...

I as well fixed my problem I was having with my BFG 6800GT OC...

It wasn't scoring right...I found out another device was sharing the same IRQ so I did a reinstall and it solved it and the video card is now using IRQ #5 instead of #19. I am now back up to 12K+ on 3DMark03

I have decided for sure this time to revert to stock clocks because everytime I overclock it screws my windows install up and I have to reformat it all. It is getting tiresome right now and I really don't have the time for it all :(

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hey

glad to hear but

i think its a mobo or sata problem cannot check why your systems doesnt overclock well.
sry m8

seEn

Anyone know what week newegg or monarch are shipping? Whats ocing the higher.. older or newer?

Well in my profile is what I got from ZipZoomFly...they were cheaper and free 2nd day shipping.

And I don't think I have gotten the right BIOS for my Motherboard yet...

EDIT: Current testing...

This is what I got testing for stability now..

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...ter/250x11.jpg

OMG I had to post this behind this...

http://arc.aquamark3.com/arc/arc_vie...run=1497321297

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...ark3-94269.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y19...rk03-20093.jpg

I am getting it now... :D

The AquaMark3 score was done with 2.75GHz but wasn't stable for 3DMark03 I I clocked it down to 2.5GHz and that is what I scored.

has anyone tried a CABXE???

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http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/show...light=Pay+Load

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Thats not right. Maximum Payload Size has absolutely nothing to do with the amount of on-board memory on your GPU. It is not the PCI-E version of Aperture size. It should be left at the default 4096 setting. Lowering it will lower performance.

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anyone get a sandy recently with some results? 052x?

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I've got a sandy 3700+ cabge 0518UPAW

Have been testing it for the last couple of weeks on 2 mobo's an epox 9NDA3+ which is a good board,I may go back to it yet but currently I'm running it in a Neo 2 Plat,haven't really had much tweak time with the Neo yet but here's a few screenies with the Epox.

First Post so I make a :toast: to you all.Cheers!

http://img293.imageshack.us/img293/7...5time09.th.jpg

dont know my stepping as never looked and CBA removing waterblock. does 2.9 prime stable at 1.6V watercooled. but the best setting is for the summer weather when i still want my fans silent. its running @ 2650MHz at only 1.32V. ;)

How are the newer 3700+'s from ZZF and Newegg overclocking now? Are the memory controllers improving any? I just ordered one from ZZF a few minutes ago in place of my 3200+ Venice.

I got one from newegg's nj facilities 1.5 weeks ago, its a cabxe0512xpmw and it does 2.85ghz @ 1.6v prime stable on air 2.8ghz 1.53v prime stable on air also. However its memory controller is not exemplary and cannot 3dmark above 270mhz(memtest passes though) One of my older venice cpus did 315mhz on the very same ram without issue. There is a tradeoff with the memory controller, nonetheless the venice never went higher than 2.75ghz so I'm content.