The Official Venice Overclocking Thread

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Just received my OEM 3200 Venice from Monarch today

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I'm using the XP-90 heatsink with a relatively quiet 90mm fan, and very thin layer of AS5 only, flashed the 414-3 Bios on my DFI Ultra D motherboard and it picked up the Venice on the fly, no time for messing around so I jumped straight to 290 x10 @2.9Ghz with 1.50v, can run a bunch of benchmarks and SuperPI 1M for fun but won't bother to take any screen shots because they mean absolutely nothing to me because it's not 100% stable, so scratch that, load into the BIOS again and lay the hammer down on the vcore and settle on 1.66v, but SuperPI 32M crapped out at "21 finished" then BSOD.

OK, something gotta give right? so I Back it down to 285 x10 (2850) and boost the vcore up to 1.71v, temperature was looking unbelievably good in the BIOS, so I ran the Memtest #5 and #8 for about 30 error-free passes again, then boot into Windows XP, room temperature was around 22'C and cpu temperature idle at 27'C....sweet!!! Fired up the SuperPI 32M and crunch away.......Bingo!! I hit the jackpot under load temperature is surprisingly low at only 42'C!! Unlike the Winchester I had before...this Venice thrives on higher vcore, since 1.71v hasn't put a dent on the under load temperature I'll shoot for 2.9Ghz again with higher vcore, maybe 1.75~1.80v. I can't help but wonder how good is the 3700 San Diego that I'm going to receive from Monarch in a week or so. For now I'll settle on a rock solid 2850Ghz @1.71v AIR COOLED!!! and going to watch a movie...this chip rocks!!!!







Edit: I think I better off running 317 x9 @2.853Ghz, this is about as far as I'm willing to run 24/7 till I get my 3700 SD




Another shot at 2.862Ghz:




This might be what we considered the 'Sweet Spot', only required 1.58v to hit 2.808Ghz on air.