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Initial Run 1: Using F9B bios; I hit 4.21 on air (just a crap coolermaster, better than stock though) with 8 gb ram (two sets of G.Skill F2-8500CL5D 4GBPK) at 1066 with my E8500 (E0); still testing. At idle with LLC disabled my chip fluctuated between 1.376 to 1.360 in idle, and then between 1.328 to 1.344 under load.
Run 2: After reading up on Load Line Calibration, I decided to give it a go. Kept the Vcore the same (1.41250) and the voltage stayed at 1.392 and didn't dip. It also passed IntelBurn Test (5 runs) (1/2 mem). I'm going to try to bring it down a notch and play with it some more.
Run 3: Brought it down to 1.40625 and it failed a run of IntelBurn Test (4of5). Restarted, set the voltage back to 1.41250 and then it blue screened on me before it got into windows. Where do I go from here?
Run 4: Going to play with the mem dividers and bring the OC down a bit. Currently testing at 437 fsb, 266, 2.66D (latch), 1.41250 VCore.
Run 5: Failed prime after 50 min but passed 5 pass run on Burntest with half mem on previous settings. Upped Vcore to the next bump, running intelburn at max 5 pass run, then will prime. Vcore detecting a 1.392, I'm not going over that, so will probably down clock a bit more if it fails.
Run 6: Ran wayy to hot at the next notch, hit nearly 80C on burntest. Decided to drop down the multi to 8.5, upp the FSB to 471, and OC the ram a lil with a 5:6 ratio (forgot the divider). Will return with tests, and I wish I had a better cooler, I have Cathar's G5 silver waterblock (untouched) laying around and a BIX, all I need is a pump but I have a Coolermaster Wavemaster case (its tight in there and would require lots of hackin with the dremel) and I'm broke. Blurg.
Run 7: I keep on bringing my OC down while sticking to the same volts, 9 multi, FSB 444, 2.4b divider, no oc of ram, and its not stable. Intelburntest thinks my proc is running at 4.2 (doesnt recognize that its at 9 not 9.5). Strange. When I increased all the volts one notch across the board, my comp blue screens. What's the deal here? There is no OC to the ram, all I was doing was upping vcore, term, pll, mch, mch term. I'm going to try to take out 2 sticks of ram and see what happens.
sorry for the stream of process info. Just trying to make some sense of it. Right now I'm using Easy tune as a crutch and it got me to 4 ghz (9 multi, 450, oc'in ram, havent tested it yet).
Run 2: After reading up on Load Line Calibration, I decided to give it a go. Kept the Vcore the same (1.41250) and the voltage stayed at 1.392 and didn't dip. It also passed IntelBurn Test (5 runs) (1/2 mem). I'm going to try to bring it down a notch and play with it some more.
Run 3: Brought it down to 1.40625 and it failed a run of IntelBurn Test (4of5). Restarted, set the voltage back to 1.41250 and then it blue screened on me before it got into windows. Where do I go from here?
Run 4: Going to play with the mem dividers and bring the OC down a bit. Currently testing at 437 fsb, 266, 2.66D (latch), 1.41250 VCore.
Run 5: Failed prime after 50 min but passed 5 pass run on Burntest with half mem on previous settings. Upped Vcore to the next bump, running intelburn at max 5 pass run, then will prime. Vcore detecting a 1.392, I'm not going over that, so will probably down clock a bit more if it fails.
Run 6: Ran wayy to hot at the next notch, hit nearly 80C on burntest. Decided to drop down the multi to 8.5, upp the FSB to 471, and OC the ram a lil with a 5:6 ratio (forgot the divider). Will return with tests, and I wish I had a better cooler, I have Cathar's G5 silver waterblock (untouched) laying around and a BIX, all I need is a pump but I have a Coolermaster Wavemaster case (its tight in there and would require lots of hackin with the dremel) and I'm broke. Blurg.
Run 7: I keep on bringing my OC down while sticking to the same volts, 9 multi, FSB 444, 2.4b divider, no oc of ram, and its not stable. Intelburntest thinks my proc is running at 4.2 (doesnt recognize that its at 9 not 9.5). Strange. When I increased all the volts one notch across the board, my comp blue screens. What's the deal here? There is no OC to the ram, all I was doing was upping vcore, term, pll, mch, mch term. I'm going to try to take out 2 sticks of ram and see what happens.
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Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ] CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 9 x ] Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + .5 ] CPU Frequency 4.21GHz............................[ 444 x 9.5 ] ******Clock Chip Control****** CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ] CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 444 ] PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ] C.I.A 2 [Disabled] ******Advanced Clock Control****** CPU Clock Drive..........................[700mV] PCI Express Clock Drive................[700mV] CPU Clock Skew..........................[0ps] MCH Clock Skew..........................[0ps] ******DRAM Performance Control****** Performance Enhance.............................[ Standard ] MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333 ] System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.40B ] Memory Frequency 1066............................[ 1066 ] DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual ] CAS Latency Time................................[ 5 ] tRCD............................................[ 5 ] tRP.............................................[ 5 ] tRAS............................................[ 15 ] ******Motherboard Voltage Control****** Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ] CPU Vcore [ 1.25 ]...................[ 1.41250v ] CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.30v ] CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.45v ] CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ .848v ] MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.320v ] MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ .863v ] MCH/DRAM Reference [ 0.900 ]...................[ auto ] ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ auto ] ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ auto ] DRAM Voltage [ 1.800v]...................[2.100v] DRAM Termination [0.900v]...................[0.940v] Channel A Reference [0.900v]................[0.940v] Channel B Reference [0.900v]................[0.940v]
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