Wolfdale and Yorkfield watch thread and performance thread

[trog100]

i spose i aint a real overclocker.. i know exactly what my current set up will do.. so short of ripping it all apart and buying a whole new bunch of stuff thats it..

in less than two months i have gone thru three new mobos.. amd to intel.. e6750 to e8400.. crossfire and back to single.. tweaked the best out of everything.. so boredom might be setting in.. he he he

learning what things can do is part of the fun. i now know exactly what i have will do.. whats else is there to do except use it.. he he

i would be disappointed if i threw it out.. nothing much out there is gonna go better for quite some time.. except praps the odd grafix card or two..

trog

 

[trt740]

anyways.. a little hope for those that dont run shops just buy from them..

its at the end of the road for me mobo/memory limitations.. its also at the point the chip starts to need unrealistic voltages.. more volts would take the chip higher i think.. but i cant put it to the test.. i am at the point the extra half multiplier the 8500 chip has would be usefull..

trog

looks like you chip is slightly better than mine great job I can boot at 4.6ghz but not bench. Whats your max Fsb use a 7 multipler to see.

 

[Fitseries3]

if i knew the x38 better im sure i could do better but this bios has too many features.

 

[erocker]

There a couple people here that know x38's pretty well. I know I'm probablly going to need some help with mine soon.

 

[giorgos th.]

Anytime M8.........

 

[Fitseries3]

There a couple people here that know x38's pretty well. I know I'm probablly going to need some help with mine soon.

it's all the different voltage settings that confuse me.

 

[giorgos th.]

dont worry about volts.........
the multi-divider-boost settings will blow your mind away until they`ll work...

 

[trog100]

looks like you chip is slightly better than mine great job I can boot at 4.6ghz but not bench. Whats your max Fsb use a 7 multipler to see.

i hit a wall around the 500 mark.. probably my memory which is running at 1000mhz..

i dont have to bother about what it boots at i use abit guru.. in some ways it makes it too easy.. far far easier to play when u dont have to keep hitting the clear cmos button.. plus at the press of mouse button i can run on the edge speeds and just as easily swop back to a more a more sensible one..

i swopped the 6750 chip mainly to get the 9 x multiplier that came with the e8400.. i wanted the nice round 4 gig figure for 24/7 running.. i have what i wanted so i am happy.. but a bit bored cos i aint got anything to play with now.. just a PC that goes nicely.. he he

now i know it runs 4.5 i can run 4 and know its stable..

trog

 

[Fitseries3]

dont worry about volts.........
the multi-divider-boost settings will blow your mind away until they`ll work...

no... it's definitely time for some voltage. i've already got the vcore at 1.425v. ram is at 2.3v(that's what it runs stock though) all the other voltages need some tweaking.

 

[trt740]

i hit a wall around the 500 mark.. probably my memory which is running at 1000mhz..

i dont have to bother about what it boots at i use abit guru.. in some ways it makes it too easy.. far far easier to play when u dont have to keep hitting the clear cmos button.. plus at the press of mouse button i can run on the edge speeds and just as easily swop back to a more a more sensible one..

i swopped the 6750 chip mainly to get the 9 x multiplier that came with the e8400.. i wanted the nice round 4 gig figure for 24/7 running.. i have what i wanted so i am happy.. but a bit bored cos i aint got anything to play with now.. just a PC that goes nicely.. he he

now i know it runs 4.5 i can run 4 and know its stable.. I have a second e8400 sitting here gonna use pauls logic test both and sell the only that performa the worst.

trog

if you use 1.472v you can run 24/7 at 4.2ghz and it won't get hotter than 53c. try it and see
9x467

 

[PaulieG]

My new e8400. I'm happy so far. Vcore in bios is 1.328v.

 

[giorgos th.]

looks good M8..

 

[trt740]

My new e8400. I'm happy so far. Vcore in bios is 1.328v.

very good batch number? to reach that I would be at 1.4v. Second cpu testing to begin soon. I will use you exact setting to let you know what I need to reach that. speed

 

[PaulieG]

Now at 4.2ghz. 1.4v.

Batch #Q745A553

 

[trt740]

Now at 4.2ghz. 1.4v.

Batch #Q745A553

looks like I'm gonna need 1.448v to match that you got a keeper there, will post my results next to yours after it primes a while. Your looks like it is older than my second chip and newer than the one i'm testing now. Whats the date packaged? my first chip (testing now) Q740A473T packaged 12/27/07
second chip is batch Q746A502 pakaged 1/11/07

 

[Fitseries3]

you know... they say the 680i isn't a very good overclocker but i think thats entirely wrong. the e8400 runs better(more stable) and OC's further on my 680i than my x38. a lot of the wold records are from cpu's OCed on 680i boards.... who can argue with that?

i will say though... the intel boards are very nice!


and so this post isn't entirely pointless.... my chip is e8400 batch q740a523 and my max oc is 4320mhz

 

[trt740]

you know... they say the 680i isn't a very good overclocker but i think thats entirely wrong. the e8400 runs better(more stable) and OC's further on my 680i than my x38. a lot of the wold records are from cpu's OCed on 680i boards.... who can argue with that?

i will say though... the intel boards are very nice!


and so this post isn't entirely pointless.... my chip is e8400 batch q740a523 and my max oc is 4320mhz

thats because they handle memory better than just about any boards made . what they lack In fsb is made up with memory.

 

[trt740]

you know... they say the 680i isn't a very good overclocker but i think thats entirely wrong. the e8400 runs better(more stable) and OC's further on my 680i than my x38. a lot of the wold records are from cpu's OCed on 680i boards.... who can argue with that?

i will say though... the intel boards are very nice!


and so this post isn't entirely pointless.... my chip is e8400 batch q740a523 and my max oc is 4320mhz

is that a 24/7 clock?

 

[trt740]

Great paul you got a E8500 by mistake LOL I cannot come close to that

My new e8400. I'm happy so far. Vcore in bios is 1.328v.

 

[Fitseries3]

thats because they handle memory better than just about any boards made . what they lack In fsb is made up with memory.

680i handle memory better? i'd say so... my 1066mhz sticks run up to 1290mhz on my 680i and only 1120mhz on my x38 and about the same on my p35.

 

[Fitseries3]

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is that a 24/7 clock?

i haven't ran it full load for 24hours yet but i'd say so. it ran orthos for 8 hours without error. im using it right now and it hasn't been shut down or rebooted since yesturday at about 8:30am.

i could go further but i don't want to get into ridiculously high voltages. temps aren't a problem at all with the d-tek fusion/PA120.2/D5 setup i've got.

 

[trt740]

well my first cpu something is slightly wrong with it I thought it was my motherboard but it's the chip. It wouldn't reset right and would hang if you pushed ther reset button but this second chip doesn't chip have the same problem. I also had jerky multitasking but I was thinking that it was from losing two cores but this chip isn't having any of those troubles. I was also getting a bunch of blue screens. Which i though was a bios issue. The second chip is very close to Pauls. I think it not the batch on the first chip I think the chips faulty, because this chip is a month newer than the first one I tested and it runs better, doesn't have the reset problem, blue screens etc. That the first truely bad chip I have ever bought.

 

[trt740]

i haven't ran it full load for 24hours yet but i'd say so. it ran orthos for 8 hours without error. im using it right now and it hasn't been shut down or rebooted since yesturday at about 8:30am.

i could go further but i don't want to get into ridiculously high voltages. temps aren't a problem at all with the d-tek fusion/PA120.2/D5 setup i've got.

very nice very nice

 

[Fitseries3]

very nice very nice

thank you sir. sorry to hear about your chip. going to send it in?

 

[hat]

Seen a review on Newegg for the E8400. Said he's at 4GHz with 1.3 volts, however, his temps were a little high for the cooler he was using... something like 56C load with a thermalright 120 extreme.