Right i installed today some of that liquid pro aka. "its bloody mercury" thermal paste stuff. For the record.. only a drop of about 2 degrees so far but meh. I decided to overclock my system once again (had it running stock for a while due to heating in house buggering up and making it like a sauna in my room). I have taken my e6300 to 2.75ghz. With ram settings of 4 4 4 15 (stock) +0.1 vdimm and stock volts. However when i booted in to windows it was really really really dragging. Taking forever to load up the system tray, so i decided to up the volts on the cpu (1.35v a bit overkill) and added +0.1 mch for good measure. It now boots up fine as it would have done at stock. But my question is why does this happen? is it because the cpu has the overclock but not the power to handle the information? Second question is to do with my super pi scores. It seems that clock for clock my system is running anywhere between 1 - 3 seconds slower compared to others. That is quite a big difference i would say. Even with similar set ups bar hard drives and ram there seems to still be this difference. Now looking at that surely it is to do with my ram? i noticed before loosening the timings hindered my pi times. So what im trying to get at really is 4 4 4 15 (ocz ddr 2 800 platinum) holding me back and is it possible for me to get more out of it? if so how...?
u'd prolly need to post ur rig, so guys like highlander and such will be more apt to answer you. as for my opinion on question one, was that a consistent issue? like more than the first time you booted it seemed to drag? my mobo auto sets the volts for the cpu, and @ 3.15, i think its pullin 1.425. so i would think that yes, it just needs the power to run that speed. second question, if im right about first question, is prolly more of the same. you can throw out the harddrive, but the ram is key, and again, without knowing how much you have, it's hard to fully analyze. even for a noob like myself. i have 2 gigs and i run @ 4-4-4-12, and my SPi score is 18.99.
My system: Corsair psu 520W 2gb Platinum OCZ ddr2 800 currently at 4 4 4 14, from standard 4 4 4 15 gigabyte ga 965p s3 BFG geforce 7950 gt E6300 currently @ 2.8ghz idle temp 46/44 Liquid pro thermal paste / lapped cpu with arctic freezer pro 7 Super pi currently coming in at 22 seconds.. it seems to be the end writing that adds another 2 seconds on. voltage at 1.344 according to cpu z
seems about right tbh...if you get ur proccy up around mine, ud prolly shave 3 secs or so from ur score. u might be 1/2 second off, but close, which could speak to your mobo and the timings on ur ram being slightly (minutely) looser than mine.
running mine dual interleaved at 4 4 4 12 should get me below 20's i would have thought even though at 2.8ghz. It just seems to be a bit of an arse getting it to run at 3ghz+ stable. Most i have had is 3.15 and it was all over the place for stability. What settings you currently using? i know its never going to be the same but im wondering if im over volting something too early.
im running 450 fsb, with vcore at 1.445 i believe (not at home right now). how is your fsb/dram?? mine is 1:1...i set the divider at 2 and manually set timings to 4-4-4-12 in bios. other than that everything else is stock...what version of bios are you running? when i was on v3, i couldn't get over like 2.8 stable, so maybe a bios flash
yea ive had to reinstall my whole pc today got some damn trojan after downloading a dodgy porno. Im running it only at 2.33 at mo with 4 4 4 12 timings. Im just going to keep pushing it up now until it fails to boot. That vcore is very high, maybe thats why i have never got the same clocks as you. The most i have used is 1.4v, ill give it a a try anyway. I mean my ram isnt exactly shite quality so i should be able to push it harder than how i had it before. oh yea and i have the same settings for fsb:ram
Seems to have improved now. I have hit a bit of a wall at this speed thought, i think its time to give the bios an update. Im just going to keep taking it as far as it will go on the 4 4 4 12 timings. It seems its not worth sacrificing the memory over the cpu.
