Time for me to upgrade ??

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

ok, LinX 3 passes, no errors...........on to 180 bclks and 4.0 !!! ;)

[Chike]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

oops, just noticed only 4 threads running.....musta shut off ht when i shut off c states, ect............gonna turn on ht, run prime for a few mins, then linx, if ok 180/181 bclk ;)

4.5ghz.......damn don't remember when i saw that.........i will keep my eye on that.....and the voltage and the temps......haha

btw, cpu pll is on auto......have never touched it........should i ?......options for it are like <normal, auto, or manual setting>

If normal (default) CPU PLL is 1.8 you can try a 1.81/1.82.
BTW you cannot type &lt; it's reserved for html options, instead type &lt&#59; and &gt&#59;(&gt;)

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

ok, changing cpu pll to 1.81 and gonna rerun linx at 3850 for a couple of passes, then try 180 bclk

[Chike]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

ok, LinX 3 passes, no errors...........on to 180 bclks and 4.0 !!! ;)

3.96GHz.
After that I think it's time to see how much can the memory be Oced.

The way I have found mine was I jept increasing ram freq. with a know stable CPU freq./settings until i got errors in memset86+, then tried to lower the voltage to see if it can be pushed further. More is not always better, and I found my memory to OC better with 2.0v even though it's EPP(DDR2 euivalent of XMP) is programmed with 2.1v.
Of course the maximum that passed memtest86(~1145) was never stable in windows, but I can tun it stable at 1090 instead it's rated 1066.

If your ram is capable to do DDR-1460/1500 with the 7-7-7-21 timings there's enough room for OC to 4GHz/4.1GHz.

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

ahhh, ok, well, i trust your advice.....will do, and thanks !...... ok, gonna try 180 bclk now.......(crosses fingers)

[Chike]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

You boot fast LOL how long it takes with the SSD?

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

oh, probably 45 seconds til windows is loaded, a good half of that for ahci, i think

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

ok, 3960 mghz in bios now......onto windows ;)

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

three successful passes in Linx :) cpu voltage topped out at 1.32, temps around 80, now what......i think i got the memory at a multiplier of like 6........and 7-7-7-21.........

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

[Darkje]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

now you're getting somewhere... it seems the cpu is fine at 4g and it was the memory or the memory-controller (imc) acting up before.

[Chike]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

I'd stop there or maybe you will get lower temps if you run LinX with HT off.
What is CINEBENCH score now?

[Darkje]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

yeah, temps are getting near max tolarable, but you could try lowering the multi and get fsb higher (reaching for 20x200 with some luck...) just set it @ 20x with the voltage you are using now and raise fsb in 5mhz steps, if it doesn't work, lower in 2mhz steps back. (adding vcore would be an option if you had some more cooling)

[Chike]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

Lower multi and higher FSB would be worse because the uncore freq. is much higher and will need more VTT and will be more difficult to get stable.
Some 400 million transistors that can create a lot of heat.

[lotsip]

Re: Time for me to upgrade ??

bios memory multiplier choices are auto, 6, 8, 10, or 12, so best i can do is 180x8 =1440, 7-7-7-21,,,,,,,,,,,right ??, ........when i try 180x10=1800 i am exceeding the 1600mhz limit of my memory, i guess , and thats why it won't take that setting..................?