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

[LagunaX]

Sorry guys and RADAJA for the long hiatus - I had a lot of stuff going on in my life and work not to mention some traitorous material such as the Ipad and Iphone 4...the last Diablo II Ladder didn't help either...

Well, like in post 111 it was a mediocre batch before I even tested it - L942B539 i3 540.

However, despite needing more vcore than some of these golden chips in this post I did get my Prime 95 stable goal of 4.6ghz - forget LinX - I'm not planning on making bacon or eggs...

Anyways sorry Radaja for the long wait but here is my 2 hr Prime 95 stable 4.6ghz i3 540 just in time before Sandy Bridge arrives =)

http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/g...42ghzprime.jpg

[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

[OC Nub]

Max safe VTT is 1.40v, try going up on it to get higher oc.

[OC Nub]

Try using the 2:6 memory multiplier, on my evga p55FTW board it would only oc a clarkdale chip well if I used the 6 multi for memory.

[Gameman]

CONGRATULATIONS it appears i got me a CRAP-DALE

I've had enough of this

even rajaja's bclk stability test went BOOBS UP...

i'm unloadin this one and swappin for a 540

ASAP

it'll only only end up costin me 10.00 bucks at most

so i guess we'll call it a 30.00 dollar lesson

Ladies and Gentlemen i'm happy to report that it is a

P.O.S.

i'll report back next week when i got a new one

[LagunaX]

LOL @ Gameman and I thought I got a mediocre batch

Better luck!

[Gameman]

If anyone keen on avoiding this b.s. batch (which i would strongly advise you to do) it is:



FPO Batch# L008B586
Pack Date 5/03/10
Made in Malaysia

May i help save someone else the trouble of ending up with a P.O.S. like this
Will be trying out a 540 by the end of the week...
i'll get back to you then

edit: @ rajaja - obviously don't add this to any charts as i can't even get it to do 1 round of Prime an ANY settings whatsoever even at 3.2 ghz...just may be keep an eye on this batch and hopefully we can save someone else the trouble of of ending up with a cpu of this mediocre quality...

EDIT: oNE GOOD Thing... it seems that just by switching to a higher end cpu and 2x speed ram my score jumps from 15000 to 18000 in 3d mark o6

funny part is though the gpu was the same and actually overclocked LESS this time - bizarre...

[[B]attery]

just picked this chip up yesterday along with a gigabyte h55m-ud2h and 2x2 ocz pc3-10666 cas 9 sticks. i'm using the stock intel cooler with as5. i've literally had this thing running about 2 hours including windows install time. after install i raised bclk to 200 and set qpi it 32x or 28x, i can't remember. when did life get so easy?

batch# L947C477
pack date 07/08/2010
stepping SLBMQ




edit* upped qpi to 40x

[[B]attery]

woops double post.

[Gameman]

just picked this chip up yesterday along with a gigabyte h55m-ud2h and 2x2 ocz ddr3-1333 cas 9 sticks. i'm using the stock intel cooler with as5. i've literally had this thing running about 2 hours including windows install time. after install i raised bclk to 200 and set qpi it 32x or 28x, i can't remember. when did life get so easy?

batch# L947C477
pack date 07/08/2010
stepping SLBMQ

Just be glad you didn't get a P.O.S. like me...

and yes this is for real...


i'm currently in the process of unloading this thing-i'll be keepin an eye out for that batch...

i know i got a cheap 530 already lined up...lets hope this time i get a DECENT one like you...

[[B]attery]

dont feel too bad, this is a computer i put together for my dad for the holidays. i personally own an e7500 on a maximus formula x38 with about 500 bucks worth of watercooling and i can't get 500fsb stable or 4 ghz.


i would look closely for a later pack date.

[Gameman]

what was your vid btw???

thanks

[[B]attery]

good question, tbh i'm still running all the voltages on auto. i'll hop in the bios and see

[[B]attery]

1.20625

[radaja]

[B]attery, nice chip and awesome OC with low vcore is it stable at 4600 w/1.20v?
i will add you to the list

[[B]attery]

stability is so subjective :P

i keep restarting and playing with setting so i haven't had a chance to let prime95 run for more than 30 minutes. expect an update with better ss

[radaja]

yea i hear you,im a big fan of as long as it dont cause me no problems,then im good.
i only run prime95 and linx for SS's and i only run an 1hr 20m of prime and call it good
then once in a blue moon i will run 20 linx runs for the 4.5GHz linx club

[Gameman]

stability is so subjective :P

i keep restarting and playing with setting so i haven't had a chance to let prime95 run for more than 30 minutes. expect an update with better ss

I couldn't even run prime 95 for 5 minutes on the stock cooler at 3400mhz and temps hit 75-80... then it BLUESCREENED ...

I'd be curious to know how it's doing at 4600mhz...on the stock cooler

lemme know your secret...

infact lemme know if there's any way at all to oc and run p95 on the stock cooler with out the you know what hittin the fan

cheers and more power to you...

hopefully tomorrow or wednesday i can get me a 530 with some oc potential...

needless to say this has been a somewhat sad experience...

good to hear there's still good ones out there...

[[B]attery]

when i first fired it up the cord was hitting the fan blades. so i just shut it off and tried to pulled a little slack into it. i also positioned my cooler so the cord was right where it needed to be to be plugged in.

no real secret, just used as5 instead of the intel TIM

[Gameman]

when i first fired it up the cord was hitting the fan blades. so i just shut it off and tried to pulled a little slack into it. i also positioned my cooler so the cord was right where it needed to be to be plugged in.

what are yer temps at 4600 on stock intel cooler (runnin p95)- can it even be done???

i personally have never been able run p95 on the stock cooler on ANYTHING other than stock and even then...

this b.s. 550 particularly, can't run p95 at nothin but stock... which obviously defeats the purpose

yeah, and i even threw in an extra FAN......