Super Duper (costly) Upgrade Time!

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » July 11th, 2007, 11:52

tandino wrote:How many of you fuckers are overclocked? I know my system's up to it and I'm wondering if there's anything you swear by for all your OCing needs?

Yeah, what kind of things?

Core Temp for temps
CPU-Z for checking clocks, timings etc.
Everest for other monitory things, voltages etc.
Orthos to stress test the overclock

buzzmong · Post by **buzzmong** » July 11th, 2007, 12:15

Pfft.

Pen and Paper.

Access to the bios.

A pair of tweezers to reset the bios.

And a temperature monitoring program.

And gamez to test it (or something like 3dmark).

Edit: And a list of manufacturers spec's for the parts, so you know the standard stuff and maybe tolerances.

Chickenz · Post by **Chickenz** » July 11th, 2007, 16:39

I'm all overclocked up. I've had my old E6300 from 1.86GHz to 2.5GHz on the stock Intel cooler. I'm currently running my E6600 at 3.01GHz although I have had it up to 3.7GHz stable on my ASUS air cooler

Fucking crazy daft that was.

Lateralus · Post by **Lateralus** » July 11th, 2007, 17:01

M4niachicken wrote:I don't watch porn, I have 3DMark06 instead.

Post by **deject** » July 11th, 2007, 17:05

100% fact!

Post by **tandino** » September 7th, 2007, 18:32

NECRO!

Right ho, I've had a bit of a fettle with overclocking today and it seems to be working out fine (though it's a <i>very</i> slight overclock - safety first). It's occurred to me though that I don't really know much about the overclock voltage malarkey. Am I right in thinking going over 1.35 V CORE is a Bad Thing?

Also, how stable should post-overclock V CORE be? A slight variation of .01 is acceptable yes?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 7th, 2007, 18:37

tandino wrote:Am I right in thinking going over 1.35 V CORE is a Bad Thing?

Also, how stable should post-overclock V CORE be? A slight variation of .01 is acceptable yes?

Generally I'd never go more than more than .05 from whatever the default vcore is. as it'll rarely offer much unless you have very good cooling.

also, with an e6600 you shouldn't need to fettle the vcore too much, I'd bet you'd get 3ghz on stock voltage.

a little vcore movement shouldn't be anything to worry about.

Post by **tandino** » September 7th, 2007, 18:41

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:
Generally I'd never go more than more than .05 from whatever the default vcore is. as it'll rarely offer much unless you have very good cooling.

also, with an e6600 you shouldn't need to fettle the vcore too much, I'd bet you'd get 3ghz on stock voltage.

a little vcore movement shouldn't be anything to worry about.

This is what I was thinking, I'm confident I could push it to 2.8 from 2.4. Pen, paper and calculator ACTIVE. Temperatures are still super low and I know my power supply is spot on so I'll keep upping it bit by bit until stuff breaks*.

*Will definitely not keep upping it until stuff breaks

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 7th, 2007, 18:49

if it stops booting, clear the cmos and go a few mhz less

Post by **deject** » September 7th, 2007, 20:30

With Vcore you should never ever go more than 10% over the default. Ever.

Post by **tandino** » September 7th, 2007, 20:40

deject wrote:With Vcore you should never ever go more than 10% over the default. Ever.

No danger of that, my voltage has stayed very stable. Gonna take her up to 2.8 tomorrow then test it with prolonged STALKER/Bioshock I think.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » September 7th, 2007, 20:48

Just hammer it with orthos. That'll find problems in 45 minutes that gaming won't in 6 hours. (the same problem that'll make your machine crash the second you try to do something important)