P35 + C2D Is Sweet!

Geoff

Geoff

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I just bought the Asus P35 motherboard and E6400, and they overclock like a dream! I have it up at 3.25Ghz right now with only a slight vcore boost, I havent had to tweak anything else yet.

Heres a screenshot so far:
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Why is it an odd choice? I've had those tall Freezer 7 Pro's and they cause nothing but problems for me. They are really top heavy for one, and when they do work my load temps were ~65C.
 
[-0MEGA-];681081 said:
Why is it an odd choice? I've had those tall Freezer 7 Pro's and they cause nothing but problems for me. They are really top heavy for one, and when they do work my load temps were ~65C.
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I was thinking more along the lines of a CNPT 9500 or 9700:)
 
[-0MEGA-];681105 said:
I'm looking into a thermoelectric cooler from Vigor that should work much better, but for now this one works great.
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I would advise against it it has awesome idle temps but horrible load temps if you want a TEC go WCing
 
For those who wondered how high the FSB could go, well to find out I lowered the multiplier and I was still able to achieve ~3.2Ghz with an FSB of 1820!

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Cromewell said:
Wow. Are you sure the RAM isn't limiting it now or did you set it to the slowest speed as well?
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I've messed around with the RAM settings as well. I have it set to a low speed with high timings to make sure the RAM isnt making the system unstable, but once I find a stable processor speed I mess with the RAM to have a high bandwidth and low latency configuration.

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Very impressive!
I have a question though, is there any way that OC'ing can effect the PCI-e slot, in any way, IE, if I OC, can it raise / lower anything to do with it?
 
Kornowski said:
Very impressive!
I have a question though, is there any way that OC'ing can effect the PCI-e slot, in any way, IE, if I OC, can it raise / lower anything to do with it?
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They should be disabled automatically, or you can disable them manually in the BIOS. With good motherboards when you raise the FSB, the only thing that should increase is the CPU speed and RAM speed. Although for kicks I raised the PCI-E speed from 100Mhz to 115Mhz.

And this pretty much answers my own question, since I wasnt sure if it was the high FSB at the time that was limiting me to go past 3.2, or if it was the fact that I couldnt get past 3200Mhz. Now I know since i'm at 1828Mhz bus speed, haha.
 
Ok, good, I wasn't sure if when I had a go a couple of weeks back, that was the reason my old GPU went funny, I was just a bit worried that if I tried OC'ing again I would damage my new card...
 
Just make sure to disable the PCI-E Spread Spectrum.


But whats funny about this is, it seems to be more stable then when the multiplier was at x8!
 
Kornowski said:
Alright, Sure.

That's a nice OC you've got there though, Have you noticed a difference from stock?
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Oh ya, it improves gaming performance a heck of a lot, and it seems faster overall as well. I'm going to try to take it to 3.3Ghz and see if thats stable.
 
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