Striker pwns EVGA with Q6600 G0

[Stigma]

Hey guys, what is generally the voltages that have to do with max stable FSB? NB? SB? I have no idea anymore heh.

I have my Q6600 now at prime stable (all tests) 4.05Ghz 450x9, but it can go much higher, I just know it. I have hardly even touched the voltage on the CPU, so I can pretty much rule that out. Besides I still can't get past POST even on 6x multi.

I have a phasecooler on my CPU, chilling at -70 to -50'ish depending on the load and how I tune it. I think withut some serious cooling, its the pure heat that will stop many people overclocking quads. The amount of heat a Q6600 with slight overvolting makes at 4.05Ghz is CRAZY! With some math I estimate like 220watts. Don't try that with the stock cooler people, you have been warned

So well, I'm having a hard time getting anything significantly past 1800, and I NEED more FSB. Can anyone help me out as to what voltages I am going to have to increasse?

Right now all mosfets, NB and SB have assistance 120mm fans, so they can handle pretty much any voltage withut any real danger I should think. Eventually they will be on high-end water.

Whats the most FSB anyone has gotten on the Striker Extreme, and does anyone know aprox the max on an A1 Evga 680i? I'm still tempted to swap to it because of that fix, especially if ti can give me more FSB headroom...

-Stigma

[linflas]

@ Stigma, Highest FSB I have had is 485 on the Striker, took alot of manipulationg all the voltages to get it.

@Natalia, Not sure about your maya problem, could you Stop the maya task or was the whole system locked up. Or when you say "stopped responding" were you refering to the awful "driver Not Responding" issue famous on SLI and Vista with Nvidia?

As to your score, 14,700 on Vista 64 with non overclocked GT and CPU @ 3.4 seems about right, especially with no tweaks etc...

[Khaotic]

I'm still thinking about pulling the Q6600 out of my Striker Extreme and putting in either an E6700 or an E6850. I'm leaning more towards the E6850.

Is a 400 FSB possible with the 6850 and Striker combo? Or do FSB walls/holes prevent 400 with a 1333 FSB processor? If 400 is do-able with a 6850, i'll more than likely just go with that. From what I'm reading, the 1305 BIOS is better for the Exx50 series processors. I've had my head in so many threads on different boards, i've confused myself.

[Natalia]

@Natalia, Not sure about your maya problem, could you Stop the maya task or was the whole system locked up. Or when you say "stopped responding" were you refering to the awful "driver Not Responding" issue famous on SLI and Vista with Nvidia?

As to your score, 14,700 on Vista 64 with non overclocked GT and CPU @ 3.4 seems about right, especially with no tweaks etc...

Maya itself stop responding. But Vista never tagged it as "Not Responding." I tried closing it under the task manager, both by ending the task and stopping the service tree. But not even those did anything. I could keep using Windows just fine though...


Happened about 8 times over the 5 hours.


As far as my score goes, I guess I should be researching some tweaks now

[Leeghoofd]

I'm still thinking about pulling the Q6600 out of my Striker Extreme and putting in either an E6700 or an E6850. I'm leaning more towards the E6850.

Is a 400 FSB possible with the 6850 and Striker combo? Or do FSB walls/holes prevent 400 with a 1333 FSB processor? If 400 is do-able with a 6850, i'll more than likely just go with that. From what I'm reading, the 1305 BIOS is better for the Exx50 series processors. I've had my head in so many threads on different boards, i've confused myself.

I got 3600mhz so easily on the E6850 with 9 x 400 ( 1.32 real volts) but only thing missing was the 1066Mhz support I used to run with the E6600, anything higher than 1000mhz on the ram made it practically impossible to get the rig stable... I also got 450 FSb on the E6850 no issues there...

And for me I tried 1305 bios, and it did the 400FSB with all settigns on AUTO besides Vcore and ram voltage... later on I upped CPU VTT to 1.35 to get it prime stable...

[Stigma]

If anyone have gotten significantly above 450 on a quad, I'd love to know your BIOS settings (or at the very least your voltage settings).

Linflas has said he would try to give me the settings he used for 485 when he got home and rested, but I would like to hear from others too if anyone have anything to try. Im currently stuck at 455Mhz, so anything above is interresting.

-Stigma

[linflas]

Maya itself stop responding. But Vista never tagged it as "Not Responding." I tried closing it under the task manager, both by ending the task and stopping the service tree. But not even those did anything. I could keep using Windows just fine though...


Happened about 8 times over the 5 hours.


As far as my score goes, I guess I should be researching some tweaks now

natalia i have ~70+ tasks running at any given time in vista64, so with a C2Q @ 3.6 with 8800GTX SLI 625/975 I score ~18000, so from what i have seen of the 8800GT with some overclcoking and such you should get a bit closer to 16-17000 in Vista64

The maya thing sounds more like a programing error within the 64bit app, have you contacted maya support to see if they can shed some light? Wish i could help on that one but I am at a loss.

[Akuma2000]

just to let you guys know, I'm running 3.825Mhz with Linflas' settings for a few days now (non-stop).

No blue screens, hangs or whatever.
Everything runs perfect and very fast!!

Really happy with my Striker Extreme!

[Khaotic]

I just dropped the E6850 in with the 1303 BIOS and 3.6 w/ 1600FSB with a 9 multi was a BREEZE.
Could someone point me to the VDROOP pencil mod for this Striker Extreme please.
I think my next direction will be to replace this 4GB (2x 2GB) set of OCZ Platium and get some of that GSKILL. At the price its hovering at now, prolley' gonna get two sets for 4GB. Seems a lot of folks are having good RAM overclocks with this board and that ram.

[humeyboy]

1305 is a POS full stop so is 1401, I run 1303 and can do upto 1900FSB and 1900mhz Memory, then its basically a brick wall.

This is by far the buggiest POS I have ever owned (ignoring other factors that are faults).

[linflas]

Well, I went back this morning and started playing around again, and I can agree, the 1401 with Q6600 is just as bad as 1305, I can do nothing with it.

I am back to 1303, and nothing has really changed, max stable overclock on my crappy G0 is 3.825, it does not like 3.9 or better, I believe it is a chip wall for me and not a board wall. As 450x8 is fine.

As to a higher FSB with lower multi, I am at a loss, no matter what I did today I could not pass 450+-8, I did not try anything lower than 1301 on the bios's though, time did not allow for it.

I ran WCG for the last 12 hours with valid work units being produced, so pretty much the best stability test I know, as I have had prime stable for 24 hours, and had some WCG workunits fail after just a few hours. So this is rock solid.

Just a not for those with the 2x2GB pc28000 Gskill kits, these are rough to work with, the multi's they like and do not like are all so different. This seems to be the fastest setup for them I could find. As at 450x8 with the memory cas 5 running 1000 they have a read time of 8500, though the writh time was 7900, so a trade off there, and the latency, as usual on the NVIDIA chipset is absolute garbage.

[J-Bo]

Asus makes some good boards no doubt. I will always consider them when looking for my next board. But I am really enjoying my eVGA 680i SLi.

[linflas]

Asus makes some good boards no doubt. I will always consider them when looking for my next board. But I am really enjoying my eVGA 680i SLi.

Vapochill can make any board look good, LOL, nice clocks on that B revision, have been thinking about fleabay for my G0 and heading to Fry's to grab one of the newer G0 and see what it can do, as temp wise, I have a lot more headroom even on water.

[J-Bo]

I was hitting 3.6GHz Benchable on Intel's Stock cooler.

[linflas]

@J-BO nice, yeah, may have to do that this week, and get a new one, as my vid is 1.35, basically the worst binned of the lot.

Quick 06 run with above clocks, and stock GTX's, I still have not found it necessary to OC the cards, was thinking about it with crysis, but looked like it does no good, wait for the patch, and do some reading on clocking video cards, as I am very uniformed when it comes to them.

[J-Bo]

I scored 18+K @ 3.6GHz with my GTX's overclocked. I don't own the Pro version of 3DMarks06 so I will have to wait for the ORB to come back up in order to submit my results @ 4.2GHz. Nice score for stock clocks on the cards though.

[linflas]

OK, that was easy, went and grabbed rivatuner, and just cranked a few things. Not a huge diff but broke 19K, vista64 with 169.25 drivers, yeah orb is still down as well, could not submit.

[Khaotic]

I've taken so many notes that i've got yellow sticky on top of yellow sticky here on my desk. I did manage to score an E6850 that is humming along at 3.8 so far with a 425FSB.

Now to work on RAM. I know we talked about G.Skill, but i can't remember the model................someone nudge me.......

@-/ Edit.
I think i have it drilled down: G.Skill PC2-8000 (5-5-5-15) @ 2.0 - 2.1 volts.
So, using this RAM with the 680i -- is it better to go with 4x 1GB sticks or 2x 2GB sticks.

Natalia is using 2x 2GB with a Quad core - how is that overclock coming?

[linflas]

I've taken so many notes that i've got yellow sticky on top of yellow sticky here on my desk. I did manage to score an E6850 that is humming along at 3.8 so far with a 425FSB.

Now to work on RAM. I know we talked about G.Skill, but i can't remember the model................someone nudge me.......

@-/ Edit.
I think i have it drilled down: G.Skill PC2-8000 (5-5-5-15) @ 2.0 - 2.1 volts.
So, using this RAM with the 680i -- is it better to go with 4x 1GB sticks or 2x 2GB sticks.

Natalia is using 2x 2GB with a Quad core - how is that overclock coming?

All of my clocking after 10/15/07 has been done with those Gskill's you mentioned, they are not great overclockers but have some range with the CL.

I am running now as seen in the above screenshot 4-4-4-15 @ 850 @ 2.2V and they are faster in read, but slower in write than 5-5-5-15 1000. I had a hard time getting a multi to stablize around 1000 with a fsb of 1700.

They are worth the $130 to have just 2 dimms, as you will have less problems than with 4

[Leeghoofd]

Yep great ram kit, loving them, running them on the P5K DLX now at 1066mhz 5-5-5-15 2.0 volts... and very cheap in price !!!

I would advise to go with 2 x 2 surely on the 680i, as running 4 dimms can be a pain in the arse to get it stable, these rams work great...

Khaotic can you run over 1000mhz on the ram with ya E6850 ? I couldn't with mine and 1303 bios...

[Akuma2000]

how much voltage did you set for the RAM linflas?

[linflas]

how much voltage did you set for the RAM linflas?

2.15 bios

[jerseyfreaker]

Well guys finally got it. 1400 on a 9x multi with vcore set at 1.625 and rock stable for 13 hours and counting in prime. Took so major overhaul though. I bought a D-Tek Fuzion CPU Watercooler
MCP-655 Swiftech Pump
MCP320 Swiftech Rad
Swiftech Micro Res
Tygoon 7/16 Tubing
Swiftech 8800 Stealth Water Blocks for SLI (Yes I know it will cause corrision in the system but have some of that Swiftech Hydra in the system.)

Temps are between 55c to 58c at full load.
Idle temps I forget. I will post everything in a new thread once I take some pics.

[Akuma2000]

I got a issue with the Striker motherboard.

Everytime I disconnect the powerplug, it forgets all the BIOS settings!

Does anybody has this too and got a solution for this?

[linflas]

I got a issue with the Striker motherboard.

Everytime I disconnect the powerplug, it forgets all the BIOS settings!

Does anybody has this too and got a solution for this?

sounds like you may need a new battery, are the settings recoverable from the OC profile save section?