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Spectrum · Jun 29, 2011

never go with sky. they mug you off BIG time... i'm paying for 20mb but i get 9mb...

cheesy999 · Jun 29, 2011

Spectrum said:
never go with sky. they mug you off BIG time... i'm paying for 20mb but i get 9mb.

thats the same with all ADSL companies, ADSL companies advertise the cap and not the actual speed, you can't complain when its unlimited Data for £10 a month , thats better then most 8mb tarrifs

Spectrum · Jun 29, 2011

see i like sky+hd... but i hate their fucking internet... would changing to a virgin fibre optic line mean cancelling my tv aswell?

Fourstaff · Jun 29, 2011

Virgin told me that they can only fix my interweb on 11th of July. That is the day my results are out. W T F.

Millennium · Jun 29, 2011

Ok guys here's the deal

I won a competition to go to another competition. There are hardware prizes from Asus there. The competition (the one I won a place in lol) is an overclocking one. Presumably CPU overclocking but there may be some GPU overclocking involved too.

I have not tried overclocking sandy bridge yet (don't have one) but presumably this is what will be going on. I understand there is a set clock (100mhz +- 5ish?) and an unlocked multiplier on a K series. What I don't know about are memory clocks and voltages. Should I clock the memory above 1600 mhz and what volts should I put through it? I understand vcore should be kept to about 1.45 max (presumably we will be using air coolers lol) is there any chance of a speed improvement with more?

Also I have no idea what kind of clocks to expect from newer graphics cards. I can test them with furmark and all but I read some newer ones actually underclock in stress tests? Any tips at all would be great. I'll let you know how I did (and what I won) tomorrow night.

There will be about 20-23 other people there and the competition is in London.

Cheers for any tips!

MightyMission · Jun 29, 2011

I think the Most you can set the base clock is 107 and no higher(or corruption will ensue)i will find the details to support this,but i am pretty sure the 59x multi limit (5.9ghz) can be bested by upping the base clock by a fraction.
1.45v is absolute max on air(more heat=higher temps=less chance of completing your benches at those clocks)though of course its all down to luck,some 25/2600k's wont do above 5 ghz.at all.

580s downclock in furmark etc tho the bios can be flashed with a modded one.(its due to current inrush)
I assume the gear is there so you just play with whats available?that pretty much rules out vmods etc.
i did hear about one guy being called out at such an event because he flashed the mobo he was to use with a "special bios" this was the MSI event last year.

You would expect Asus to have there highest parts on show so the downclocking may not even be an issue.1ghz is possible with a 580 but i have not heard of this using air cooling,most was around 900mhz.I don't know what mileage you can get out of directCU.
this might help:
http://forums.nvidia.com/index.php?showtopic=192720

FreedomEclipse · Jun 29, 2011

I think you are screwed.

but heres a few tips anyway.

Keep temps no higher then 70-75'c.

Air cooling - never go above 1.4
Water - maybe 1.45-1.5
LN2 - skies the limit - 1.6v even

but the silicon in SB chips have been known to start degrading around 1.5v so you gotta stay under that as much as you can unless otherwise.

Leave the base clock and increase the multi - You can do it another way too buy increasing the baseclock to something like 104-105 and have lower multi. that should OC the ram too that way so keep an eye on it. youd be lucky to get anything high then 105 on the base clock. maybe 110 if your really lucky.

if you want to OC via the baseclock, it takes a lot more tinkering and more skill.

You are in over your head on this one IMO.

MightyMission · Jun 29, 2011

whats he got to lose?
Go Millenium Represent TPU gaptooth chavs :laugh:

Millennium · Jun 29, 2011

We'll see tomorrow won't we

thanks for the help. Any tips on memory speeds/timings for best benches would be great.

I'm going to look for the inevitable TPU sandy bridge oc thread and read through that too.

cheesy999 · Jun 29, 2011

Spectrum said:
see i like sky+hd... but i hate their fucking internet... would changing to a virgin fibre optic line mean cancelling my tv aswell?

no, but the fibre optic cables are about £20-£30 a month if you want unlimited bandwidth and all of them have fair usage policies

MightyMission · Jun 29, 2011

I would mooch around The Bot too millenium,setting air as one of the parameters,then take a look at the cpu-z's/gpu-z's for an idea of whats what.

Fourstaff · Jun 29, 2011

cheesy999 said:
no, but the fibre optic cables are about £20-£30 a month if you want unlimited bandwidth and all of them have fair usage policies

For Virgin it seems to only cap P2P transfer during the day, and even then its still quite fast. From personal experience point of view anyway.

MightyMission · Jun 29, 2011

Virgin were the only isp's that i have ever been able to use newsgroups with.

Download speeds were so consistently quick you could really see how fast your 'net is.

I don't think they support newsgroups any more though

InnocentCriminal · Jun 29, 2011

Millennium said:
Ok guys here's the deal

I won a competition to go to another competition. There are hardware prizes from Asus there. The competition (the one I won a place in lol) is an overclocking one. Presumably CPU overclocking but there may be some GPU overclocking involved too.

I have not tried overclocking sandy bridge yet (don't have one) but presumably this is what will be going on. I understand there is a set clock (100mhz +- 5ish?) and an unlocked multiplier on a K series. What I don't know about are memory clocks and voltages. Should I clock the memory above 1600 mhz and what volts should I put through it? I understand vcore should be kept to about 1.45 max (presumably we will be using air coolers lol) is there any chance of a speed improvement with more?

Also I have no idea what kind of clocks to expect from newer graphics cards. I can test them with furmark and all but I read some newer ones actually underclock in stress tests? Any tips at all would be great. I'll let you know how I did (and what I won) tomorrow night.

There will be about 20-23 other people there and the competition is in London.

Cheers for any tips!

Is this the next Bit-Tech ASUS Overclocking Summit? I won a place on the first one, it was awesome apart from the majority of people were either retarded, rude or arrogant. Only one person stood out was a lad I knew from the Novatech forums.

Oh yeah, well done!

FreedomEclipse · Jun 29, 2011

Fourstaff said:
For Virgin it seems to only cap P2P transfer during the day, and even then its still quite fast. From personal experience point of view anyway.

Congratulations! You've just declared to the entire interwebs that you are a Pirate. Call your lawyer before the RIAA trace your IP and mobilize a hit squad to blow a hole in your roof, kidnap you and ship you and your Oriental ass to Guantanamo bay

NdMk2o1o · Jun 29, 2011

Spectrum said:
never go with sky. they mug you off BIG time... i'm paying for 20mb but i get 9mb...

cheesy999 said:
thats the same with all ADSL companies, ADSL companies advertise the cap and not the actual speed, you can't complain when its unlimited Data for £10 a month , thats better then most 8mb tarrifs

ADSL depends on the line quality and the distance from the exchange, fibre doesn't hence go with fibre you get your rated speeds. TBH 5MB+ is more than enough for browsing and anything 8MB is fine for everything else, anything more is just a bonus IMO

NdMk2o1o · Jun 29, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
Congratulations! You've just declared to the entire interwebs that you are a Pirate. Call your lawyer before the RIAA trace your IP and mobilize a hit squad to blow a hole in your roof, kidnap you and ship you and your Oriental ass to Guantanamo bay

Dont be a cock, there are plenty of legal uses for P2P, all Linux distros are freely available on torrent, as are freeware apps, demos, trials, indie music, films, games etc the list goes on. Heck even streaming services are based on P2P tech now because of the low overheads required.

TPU host torrents for the downloads section, oh noes TPU is a pyrate!!

Fourstaff · Jun 29, 2011

FreedomEclipse said:
Congratulations! You've just declared to the entire interwebs that you are a Pirate. Call your lawyer before the RIAA trace your IP and mobilize a hit squad to blow a hole in your roof, kidnap you and ship you and your Oriental ass to Guantanamo bay

Ah yes. I thought this might happen. I winscp a lot of pictures off my friends (yes, I do take tons of holidays and I am a camwhore), and also my anime fix (how else are you suppose to get subbed stuff before box sets?), and on top of that Starcraft 2 downloads off P2P anyway (done that a few times already, 3 reinstalls needed and I didn't bother keeping the file). But thx for the warning too.

NdMk2o1o said:
Dont be a cock, there are plenty of legal uses for P2P, all Linux distros are freely available on torrent, as are freeware apps, demos, trials, indie music, films, games etc the list goes on. Heck even streaming services are based on P2P tech now because of the low overheads required.

TPU host torrents for the downloads section, oh noes TPU is a pyrate!!

He is just joking

NdMk2o1o · Jun 29, 2011

Fourstaff said:
Ah yes. I thought this might happen. I winscp a lot of pictures off my friends (yes, I do take tons of holidays and I am a camwhore), and also my anime fix (how else are you suppose to get subbed stuff before box sets?), and on top of that Starcraft 2 downloads off P2P anyway (done that a few times already, 3 reinstalls needed and I didn't bother keeping the file). But thx for the warning too.

He is just joking

I know

why does no one get my sarcasm :mad:

TheoneandonlyMrK · Jun 29, 2011

MightyMission said:
I don't think they support newsgroups any more though

yeh man low retention though > news.virginmeidia.com

MightyMission · Jun 29, 2011

sadly i'm with sky now,but i would just set a :love:

0 days parameter in binsearch.
i haven't used those things in years,but it was very handy for up/downloading 10gig +/- audio files for my pal to mixdown.

KieX · Jun 29, 2011

Back from holidays in some nice islands off western coast of Spain. What did I miss? What's with the Star Trek avatars? Am I doin' it right?

Spectrum · Jun 29, 2011

NdMk2o1o said:
I know why does no one get my sarcasm

sarcasm isn't as obvious when people aren't actually speaking to you

Spectrum · Jun 29, 2011

and we're doing star trek avatars because cheesy made the suggestion one evening... and we all thought "yes we shall do this." and we are now doing this.
however somebody has decided it'd be funny to become a spock even though i was already spock

NdMk2o1o · Jun 29, 2011

Spectrum said:
and we're doing star trek avatars because cheesy made the suggestion one evening... and we all thought "yes we shall do this." and we are now doing this.
however somebody has decided it'd be funny to become a spock even though i was already spock

Awwwww dont worry, you are the best spock!!! someones suffering from spock insecurities I see

your spock is most definately bigger than my spock, envy over :toast:

Edit: I didn't know I couldn't be the same as someone else, your defo more of a spock than me

Spectrum said:
sarcasm isn't as obvious when people aren't actually speaking to you

Exactly............. :rolleyes:

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