Q6700, P5Q-E... 500 fsb quad

[prime81]

I never could get my Rampage/maximus to pull 500 fsb with a quad. So I decided to test it out on this p5q-e and much to my suprise it's working! Anyway here's what I'm testing.. I could probably come down on the vcore as that was what I ran for 3.6ghz 24hr prime stable.

[YMAA]

That's a nice low VID. Mine is 1.3v, not the highest I've seen but not great :cry:

Great results!

[cadaveca]

3D stable? I mean, you got lots of volts headroom, so I don't doubt, but 2 mins of prime is not exactly bench stable even.

[prime81]

Oh yeh she's good.. that was just a SS right when I started prime. Ran 17,140 3dmark06 single hd4870. Just got done playin cod4 fer about an hour... im gonna let it prime most of today, so far it's done about 2 hours prime.

[Leeghoofd]

Nice result mate... P45 is so fab for high speeds... at the price of something else ofcourse

[NBF]

Oh yeh she's good.. that was just a SS right when I started prime. Ran 17,140 3dmark06 single hd4870. Just got done playin cod4 fer about an hour... im gonna let it prime most of today, so far it's done about 2 hours prime.

What BIOS settings you did? Or is it mostly on "auto"?

I am able to boot @ 516 with P5Q-DLX but it's not near stable.

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=387853

[prime81]

I'll take a shot of em after she's done priming...
Off top of my head here's what I remember:

FSB Strap:333
DDR Freq:1203
CPU Voltage:1.42
Loadline Enabled
NB Volts:1.5
SB Volts:auto
CPU GTL 1:0.65
CPU GTL 2:0.67
Spectrums are enabled

[Zucker2k]

Nice result mate... P45 is so fab for high speeds... at the price of something else ofcourse

Impressive, but I did this with a Maximus Formula x38 and 8GBs of RAM: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=187947

[prime81]

Impressive, but I did this with a Maximus Formula x38 and 8GBs of RAM: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=187947

Yep, as stated earlier I couldn't get my maximus to do it.

[NBF]

I'll take a shot of em after she's done priming...
Off top of my head here's what I remember:

FSB Strap:333
DDR Freq:1203
CPU Voltage:1.42
Loadline Enabled
NB Volts:1.5
SB Volts:auto
CPU GTL 1:0.65
CPU GTL 2:0.67
Spectrums are enabled

Did you forget Spectrums enabled or it's on purpose?

I see you have a lot more NB Volts than I was givving, and I had both GTL @ 0.67.

Thanks for sharing it

[prime81]

I've had some "wierd" experiences while disabling spectrums, such as inconsistent performance. Thus I run them enabled on purpose.

[coo-coo-clocker]

yep, nice results indeed.
Looking forward to seeing your BIOS SS...

[cadaveca]

Yeah I found the same...it seems that FSB varies 1-2mhz each boot. Nice chip, BTW!

[prime81]

Well here are the screens, most of my stuff is auto... so lots of room for fine tuning.

[cadaveca]

wow DRAM volts on auto even... board has some potential too! Nice setup!

[ZenEffect]

i was able to pull 525fsb out of the same board with a q6600. the board is indeed very nice for high fsb.

[NBF]

Yeap, these boards are indeed benchable with Quad at 500fsb with mostly all on auto.



PS. I know... Overkill Volts... I was too lazy to change it

[ZenEffect]

lol xtreme 3d team taking over!!!

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=381434

p5q-e ftw. was not able to validate this high on ANY other mobo.

[Nasgul]

Pimping!

I tend to believe that the 2nd best (not the high-end) Core Logics from Intel are the best IMO. Which is why I've always gone for like 865 instead of 875, 915 instead of 925XE, P965 instead of 975X and sure enough, the P45 will be my next chipset, not so much into the X38 or X48.

That's a badass speed.

[prime81]

Any bets on a 8 x 500 validation? I'm gonna strap the balls on and go for it later tonight.

[prime81]

Okidoki... here's the beauty of 4ghz, I haven't done any benching other than everest... hopefully once it cools down here(currently 95f ambient outside here), I'll grab some 3dmark06 runs. For comparison, I stuck my E8500 @ 4ghz shot at the bottom...needless to say, interesting.

First one up is 1000mhz DDR2 with 1:1 ratio...

Second one up is 1200mhz DDR2 ...

E8500 500 x 8

[scooter.jay]

some good fsb for quads there is hope for us yet!

[prime81]

Yes sir... now I need some Ln2 for some higher runs lol

[cadaveca]

This board could be the next P5K, if they can fix the PL issues.

[OC_Newbee]

Yes sir... now I need some Ln2 for some higher runs lol

Prime81 which bios are you on?