~Intel Core i3/i5 32nm Dual Core OverCLARKing Thread~

[radaja]

welcome back LagunaX very nice OC
updated

[Gameman]

just hours from getting a i3 550 CPU for my new p55 system



i'll post some results if i can get it oc-d by this evening (assuming everything works)

Gigabyte has never let me down

I'll be popping this thing into a UD4 miniATX SLI board so we'll see what a cheap cpu can do with the 12 phases...

i'm figuring on at least 200bclk which automatically means 4.8 big ones on a 550...



my plans, with this type of board is to stick an i7 in it obviously otherwise a h55 of some sort would have been good enough...but i hear lynnfield is power hungry...

and frankly a 16x slot coupled with a 4x slot for "imaginary" crossfire (ud2h - ud3 etc) don't quite cut it...obviously then it's just a 16x slot with an extra long 4x express slot which is just a single gpu setup - don't get me wrong the ud2h is obviously a fine board, but they can't advertise crossfire when it's "only in their minds"...

yeah i know i'm joining the p55/1156 game a little late... but better late than never...

[Gameman]

Finally got it up (so to speak)

seriously though it's up and running

this was the easiest 4.0ghz i ever got



probably coulda left vcore on auto but i wanted to play it safe...

it certainly feels a whole lot faster than that crap E5400 at 4.0ghz and can handle more operations at once...

i gotta say they've really improved on this Hyper-Threading since the P4 days

it almost scores as well as a real quad at 4.0ghz - maybe 2000 less...
i know it matches my old Thuban X6 at stock which is amazing considering it's 4 physical cores less...



this is absolutely as amazing as i thought it would be...

now the quest for 4.8ghz like i mentioned earlier...maybe even 5.0ghz...

oh and a special thank you goes out to rajaja: thank you for the inspiration - this is unbelievable

[Gameman]

Got 4.4ghz somewhat stable...
but it takes a butt-load of Vcore....jesus

obviously this 550 isn't even as good as the first one rajaja had and that was a 530...i've tried EVERY setting he used (that was listed anyway)



i'm slightly dissappointed...but i'm sure it's not the boards fault, but probably an extremely high vid cpu - something like 1.26-1.27?????

core temp - won't tell me the vid...

my e5400 (previously) was also dud - could ONLY do 4.0ghz where as my previous E5400 could do 4.4ghz stable for every day use...

but then again i'm just funnin' around here ... my real reason for this board with the overkill 12 phases was for i7 4/8 core in january...
so it appears the board is holding it's water (can do 200bclk safe to say) - and ya gotta love onboard reset switches like on my x48 t2rsb plus...

like i said, if clockin just i3's and keeping the temps from ing you over is this much of a biyatch on a 550, then 3.8 ghz to just 4.0ghz on an i7 870 later will be fine...(was hoping for more like 4.4-4.5 - but apparently you have to get a GOLDEN ONE...

well, there you go folks

hey, at least i still get the same score as my Q9550 at 4.0ghz...

ya gotta love a "cheap-quad"...

[Gameman]

figured i'd post just once more with something interesting

this i3 550 at 4.0ghz is slower than my old X6 Thuban @ 3.6ghz by only 2 minutes when it comes to video encoding...
i cannot believe it...

same speed for XviD on pass 1 and 2 minutes slower on pass 2





this means that the 2 physical and two HT threads/cores are pulling the same weight as a genuine 6 core cpu...their HT must be a little better now than when i remember it from p4 days...

anyways...there you go

no wonder i7 beat the Thuban so easily - even when i took it to 4.0ghz

temps are obviously a little high, but i'll be adding a hyper tx later

looks like i came back to Intel just in time...

[Gameman]

last update...

sadly it appears 4.0ghz even is all i can do if i want the voltages to stay safe

i tried gigabyte's auto settings for merely 4.4ghz and it hiked it up to 1.51 vcore in the bios before i realized it...obviously i didn't leave it there since this has gotta last me a month until i7 - but if this is the quality of batches they sell locally then i may just spring for the 875k off a newegg.ca and a big-ass cooler when it comes time for i7 in January and if they don't sell me a decent one then i'm afraid it's going back



jesus christ

i know it's not the board it's when it's about to load windows anything less than 1.42-1.43 vcore and it totally s me over...

EDIT: sorry, obviously i missed something somewhere along the way

just disregard that last post - i ain't throwin' in the proverbial "towel" just yet

CONGRATULATIONS it appears i got me a CRAP-DALE