32m Low Clock Challenge

[dinos22]

What do you reckon it takes on your E6700? At least 5.5GHz i'd say with 600 on the rams or am i wrong?

we'll be running DDR3

with ddr2 probably ~5500-5550 with 5:6 ratio and my dominators would smoke the 32M run

[fredyama]

12m50.047s--My first DDR3 run @3.6G

(Set up)
M/B: ASUS P5E3 Deluxe 79M0AIF16*** (Bios 0402, No Mod)
M/B Bed: V-TEC ARC Bed Rev.5.0 PRO by Vigor
CPU: Core 2 Extreme X6800 L629B800/2L638013/A10**
CPU Cooling: Air Scythe Infinity + Delta TFB1212GHE x 1
Chipset Cooling: Normal
Memory: CellShock DDR3-1800 1GB x 2
VGA: ATI 3D Rage PCI 8MB
HDD: Hitachi HDS722540VLAT20 PATA 41.1GB
Power Supply: OCZ PowerStream 520W
Vcore: 1.50V, Vdimm: 2.20V, Vnb: 1.71, Vsb: 1.20V, Vfsb: 1.5V, Vcpu pll: 1.76V, Vio: 3.556V --> all in Bios setting
OS: Windows Server 2003
MEM: 5:8 1T, Bios setting: 6-5-5-12-5-48-7-5, Sec Inf: all Auto, -A-A
Others: FSB514@boot, SetFsb2.0.b.16h, MemSet3.4beta2, ERAM2.11, AutoGear, Copy-Waza, MAXMEM=600, OCZ Ultra5+

[eva2000]

nice... already beaten my 12m 51s run at 7x514FSB LOL

[over@locker886]

my new personal record at 3600Mhz.. DDR2 alive




Fredyama:very good first run

[bachus_anonym]

Heya,

Great submissions eva2000, 3oh6 Although not exactly fitting the rules but fredyama and hipro5 have some sweet times at 3.6GHz!!! Toasty 2.36v on DDR3 George Also, very nice CAS4 on 10000C5DF, dinos I'm personally looking forward to even more DDR3 results, though.

BTW, can still play with you guys? It's been almost 4 months since I had a moment to sit down and cook up another result. I finally got around to doing it and managed to raise the bar a little higher Let's get some competition going, right?

12:xx

Corsair Dominator TWIN3X2048-1800C7DF @ DDR3-2016 7-7-7-15, vdd=2.34v
Core 2 Duo E6850 @ 3528MHz
Asus P5E3 Deluxe, BIOS 0503
DRAM Command Rate - [1T]
DRAM Static Read Control - [Auto] --> effectively same as [Disabled]
AI Clock Twister - [Strong]
AI Transaction Booster - [Enabled 3]
"nothing special" standard WinXP Pro SP2 installation; Copy-Waza, Maxmem=600
all set in BIOS, straight boot to Win, no changes done with Memset, SetFSB, etc.



Note: CPU-Z 1.41 seems to have a problem correctly reporting memory frequency on this motherboard. But FELIX's Memset as well as Everest Ultimate get it right. However, the former shows Command Rate as 2T when BIOS sets it at 1T.

Thanks a lot for giving me a chance to submit another score, guys!

[eva2000]

woah bachus @3528mhz!

[rick_fx]

Wow Bachus, very fast 32M

[Gautam]

Damn, screw the Pi time...check out the RAM....1000 7-7-7

Let's get some competition going, right?

Get the prices down to the point of sanity and maybe we will.

[dinos22]

Heya, Also, very nice CAS4 on 10000C5DF, dinos I'm personally looking forward to even more DDR3 results, though.

holy smokes man killer run
thanks for the compliments

i am squeezing the last bit of life out of the DDR2 gear before i move onto some serious DDR3 benching very soon

it's awesome to see what these DDR3 sticks can do and having RAM clocking that high also helps a lot with lower multi chips and will make even more drastic differences with LN2 benching as most guys are going 1:1 so RAM is not maxed out properly......

this Saturday i've got a big event and some LN2 .....we'll have 6x different rigs setup for the OC show but only a couple of extreme clocking ones

it should be a lot of fun and i'll certainly work on the 8.xx category a little

those sticks are on fire
someone call the fire department

[3oh6]

You guys are all making me damned jealous, nice to see all this action going on. Love seeing 3ho6 right at the 59.984 mark for 12.xx--that's the sign of a totally squeezed setup.

you know it...if it isn't in there by a hair, it isn't trying

Great submissions eva2000, 3oh6 Although not exactly fitting the rules but fredyama and hipro5 have some sweet times at 3.6GHz!!! Toasty 2.36v on DDR3 George

thanks man and great to see you setting the bar in this thread again. you beat me to the punch though with the 1000MHz+ runs. i just happened to be working on my 12.XX run but i am definitely not at 7-7-7 or 500FSB at PL6 but i am also not at 2.34v, these sticks are my only set so i gotta make sure they last...hopefully soon i get some more to play with. absolutely sick memory and MB. this DDR3 sure is fun to play with isn't it?

i thought i was doing good getting the 12.XX category feasible at 3550MHz...apparently not thanks to BA

**removed image...a couple posts down i replaced with a real run

[bachus_anonym]

woah bachus @3528mhz!

Wow Bachus, very fast 32M

Damn, screw the Pi time...check out the RAM....1000 7-7-7

holy smokes man killer run

Thanks guys!

Get the prices down to the point of sanity and maybe we will.

Too many factors out there determining the price end-user will pay but cost of Micron's 1Gbit DDR3 is still the most significant chunk of cash that goes in it...

@ dinos

Yeah man, I've seen you cranking some serious clocks lately, on DDR2/DDR3 as well as CPUs! Great stuff! I'm looking forward to seeing you break into 8:xx. I also need to get back to some more serious overclocking, although single stage is not cutting it anymore, haha, and since I started this job I somehow just can't find enough spare time...

thanks man and great to see you setting the bar in this thread again. you beat me to the punch though with the 1000MHz+ runs. i just happened to be working on my 12.XX run but i am definitely not at 7-7-7 or 500FSB at PL6 but i am also not at 2.34v, these sticks are my only set so i gotta make sure they last...hopefully soon i get some more to play with. absolutely sick memory and MB. this DDR3 sure is fun to play with isn't it?

i thought i was doing good getting the 12.XX category feasible at 3550MHz...apparently not thanks to BA not quite there but no ERAM, no maxmem, memory still hasn't been tweaked, and the OS is my benchmarking OS, not my 32M benching OS. another free afternoon and i will have a 12.XX time at >3550MHz:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...876x_32m-1.png

Damn man, that's very impressive run!!! I thought I could be safe for a moment at 3528MHz but I guess I need to start working on a backup score now

Let's keep this thread alive, it's a lot of fun

[dinos22]

Yeah man, I've seen you cranking some serious clocks lately, on DDR2/DDR3 as well as CPUs! Great stuff! I'm looking forward to seeing you break into 8:xx. I also need to get back to some more serious overclocking, although single stage is not cutting it anymore, haha, and since I started this job I somehow just can't find enough spare time...

i heard about your work ethic there man....lol they better reward you with a nice cascade

[dinos22]

damn 3oh6
such low vdimm at those clock
new crucials are rocking as well wow

i noticed those sticks have the new Intel XMP SPD as well

[3oh6]

damn 3oh6
such low vdimm at those clock
new crucials are rocking as well wow

i noticed those sticks have the new Intel XMP SPD as well

these sticks seem to get better the more i beat on them. i am certainly impressed with how they are holding up to the big boys that BA is running. normally i don't openly plug reviews like this but since a few people have been asking me what 24/7 stability of this particular kit is like, you can see some stability testing in my review of these exact modules that i am beating on here. a dual 32M OC Report will be out in a couple weeks on these sticks...still finding the limits of the MB at this point. now on to the matter at hand...

i have almost evened up the playing field, still not ready to go over 2.0v with my babies yet so CL7 is out of the question at this frequency and my MB still says P35 in the description instead of that yucky X38 suff, but i did spend a couple minutes with a 50K ohm VR and the P5K3 to get that PL down to 6 at this FSB

you better find some free time next week because here i come BA

i believe in full disclosure so here is a pic of the mod...thanks to SF3D and his P5K-Dlx vmod thread (the MCH mod is the same for P5K3 obviously)


back on my 32M prepped OS so a similiar setup to previous runs of late:

E6600 (L629B383) 7 x 505 (boot from bios)
Thermalright Ultra-120 (CPU cooling)
Asus P5K3-Dlx (vMCH mod)
Noctua NC-U6 NB cooling / Thermalright HR-05 SLI SB cooling / naked PWM
Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 2x1GB
Biostar 8600GTS 512MB
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (20GB partition for OS/programs/page file)
Silverstone Zeus ST56ZF 560W
Win2K3 SP1 (custom nLite'nd job)

realtime / core 1
maxmem = 615
copywazza = 1GB (single folder with 1MB files each in an individual folder) from C:\ > Z:\ - Z:\ > C:\ - C:\ > Z:\
eram 2.11 (Z:\) - about 1.3GB in size running SPi
and i think...i think...a dash of CDT as far as i understand it

visual effects all off
memory usage = "System cache"
processor scheduling = "Programs"
page file = no page file (still a page file i think but i set it to none)
plenty of services disabled but not all

reg tweaks:
"EnableSuperfetch"=dword:00000001
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:00000001
(there may be a couple more of the NTFS reg tweaks in there as well)

3535.1MHz SPi 32M = 12m 59.953s
click for full size including memset...


not quite as tight as the last one Gautam, but i tried, just for you

[Gautam]

@bachus, I know, I know, was just kidding.

@3oh6-seems like it could've been .2MHz lower...keep trying

[dinos22]

that PL mod is interesting

what chip would i look for on other motherboards to do the same thing

say Gigabyte P35 or X38 ones for example????

[Gautam]

That's a vmch mod...

[dinos22]

That's a vmch mod...

aHHHH cool

nothing that a bit of dice won't fix with max volts on X38 then

[3oh6]

That's a vmch mod...

yeah, the P5K3 is a bit crippled with just 1.70v as the max voltage selectable from BIOS. without a little more juice, PL6 at 500FSB was a pipe dream for my board...instant lockup. 500FSB PL6 1:2 was so much further away from a pipe dream. with 1.95v now, i ran 32M at PL6 1:2 for damn near 4 hours straight with the Noctua NC-U6 for cooling so rock solid.

i still haven't had time for testing but i hope that the new found MCH voltage helps get me over the 940MHz dual 32M wall i found. otherwise the OC report of this Ballistix kit will have to focus on tight timings where it doesn't really excel.

[GemmyBTL]

My first run. 12.xx Category
CB Tracer 8500 2.8V

[sonicsallen]

So close

[3oh6]

it looks like Coop hasn't been around in a while...does that mean the death of this thread? "say it ain't so Joe..."

playing with the new kid on my block:

E6850 (L724A479) 8 x 490 (boot at 501 SetFSB down...don't ask why, i don't understand it yet)
Thermalright Ultra-120 (CPU cooling)
Asus P5K3-Dlx (vMCH mod)
Noctua NC-U6 NB cooling / Thermalright HR-05 SLI SB cooling / naked PWM
Crucial Ballistix PC3-12800 2x1GB
Biostar 8600GTS 512MB
Seagate 7200.9 80GB SATA2 (20GB partition for OS/programs/page file)
Silverstone Zeus ST56ZF 560W
WinXP Pro SP2 (custom nLite'nd job)

realtime / core 1
maxmem = 615
copywazza = 1GB (single folder with 1MB files each in an individual folder)
from C:\ > C:\Documents & Settings x 3

visual effects all off
memory usage = "System cache"
processor scheduling = "Programs"
page file = no page file (still a page file i think but i set it to none)
plenty of services disabled but not all

reg tweaks:
"EnableSuperfetch"=dword:00000001
"DisablePagingExecutive"=dword:00000001
"LargeSystemCache"=dword:00000001
"ClearPageFileAtShutdown"=dword:00000001
(there may be a couple more of the NTFS reg tweaks in there as well)

3920.2MHz SPi 32M = 11m 59.875s
click for full size including memset...

[Zeus]

Can't believe what a struggle it was but i finally got sub 13 minutes at 3.6GHz.

I must be one of the very last to achieve this but i finally acomplished my target.

I have been concentrating on 965 board results way too long, ignoring the fact i have a P35 chipset based board.

This might look similar but i found out the hard way they're not.

On 965 boards one could get sub 13 min at 3.6Ghz with just 400MHz FSB and a 2:3 divider to set mem to 600MHz.

For too long i've been thinking that this was possible on a P35 board too, how wrong i was!!

I just didn't understand that changing my timings and subtimings didn't give any gain in SuperPi, then i suddenly dawned on me that i was starved for FSB!

After crancking up my FSB and lowering my multi, i found that i gained a hell of a lot, so i needed ram that could do real high frequenty's so i rolled the dice and got me two sticks of Crucial Ballistix PC8500.

These didn't let me down, heck, they even do 1M at DDR 1200 4-4-4.

So back to the drawing board, first untweaked run brought 13 min 6 seconds, next was what i was looking for:



I think i can better this with some finetuning but hey, the result is there!

Geez, can't remember the last time i typed such a long post, i'm exited!!

[massman]

Finally some 'decent' times on a 2MB chippie. No windows tweaks, just experimenting with copy-waza and CDT.

[Zeus]

Hey massman, keep in mind, 2mb chips are only 3-4 seconds slower in 32M than 4mb chips.

If you don't believe me, check out this thread, a lot of pages back.