x2 3800 Owners - OC's

welshtom · 27 Mar 2006 at 23:19

Xtorsion said:
Looks like quite a few of us are getting these CCBWE 0601XPMW cpu's. I havent oc'd mine yet but will be very soon. Just wondering if its ok to use the asus software i got with my motherboard to overclock it in the desktop?

Thanks

Use the bios, will be a lot better.

Tom

Anders0n · 27 Mar 2006 at 23:23

welshtom said:
Use the bios, will be a lot better.

Tom

Why would it be better?

I'd of thought overclocking in the desktop would be better because its a lot quicker :confused:

tomos · 28 Mar 2006 at 00:53

think its cos some/most o/c software that works in windows sucks. it can also get messy if you mess up.

personally, used clockgen and it worked great in the end. first thing i did of course was slide from 2gig to 2.5 gig straight away (10x250). PC rebooted itself instantly and my windows install was a goner! god bless ghost!

took it a little easier, with small voltage bumps and leaving the ram on a divider. used clockgen with superPI and occt to test the overclock. only rebooted to save the settings properly in the bios once each stage had passed (memtest,occt, superPI,prime and s&m)

at the very end i then worried about the ram

ocukcustomer · 28 Mar 2006 at 01:29

Changed my above overclock: I realised my ballistix was capable of 250mhz (500mhz DDR) and so instead of throttling back the ram, I let it fly

Boy does she fly, I'm getting 32 on superpi one million... nice stuff for the cpu at that price.

The 3800x2 is rapidly gaining cult status here.

tomos · 28 Mar 2006 at 01:57

if its the pc4000 variety then it should do higher

mine have hit 280mhz so far @ 2.5-3-3-8

mine are 2x512mb sticks tho

amx · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:38

welshtom said:
And did i make you happy you chose it ?

The recommendation was superb.
It made me moist

Bennah · 28 Mar 2006 at 12:52

Good results amx.

Managed higher after you have burnt it in? What you at now?

Chris19 · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:00

Mr Mister said:
w00t suicide shot fever!!!

Still testing for stabilty (im on phase if you hadnt guessed ) 3ghz is stable on 1.46v!! 3.2 is looking pretty stable maybe 3.3 w00t.

Whats your HTT iam on 1.6V on Cpu-Z and that just covers an clock at 2.7Ghz :s must be doing something wrong

Mr Mister · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:05

to get that speed i was using a mach 2 gt phase cooler. The htt would have been 345 x 3.

matt100 · 29 Mar 2006 at 22:46

Mr Mister said:
to get that speed i was using a mach 2 gt phase cooler. The htt would have been 345 x 3.

what's your max stable then??

still struggling with 3ghz here!

spookywillow · 30 Mar 2006 at 09:12

got mine stable at 2.5ghz at last.

name - SpookyWillow
clock - 2500
HTT - 250
RAM - 250
timings - 2.5-4-4-8
Vcore - 1.45 (bios and software show 1.5)
HT - 3x
core - manchester
cooler - asetek waterchill
stable - yes
________
easy vape vaporizer

welshtom · 30 Mar 2006 at 10:24

getting there in between my dissertation and various courseworks

Kesnel · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:10

Matt, have a play with your Drive/Date strengths. It seems to me that these BH mem controllers like weak strengths.

matt100 · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:28

Kesnel said:
Matt, have a play with your Drive/Date strengths. It seems to me that these BH mem controllers like weak strengths.

okey dokey, cheers for that.. whats your set to?

I'm going to take my gskill 2gb out and put my bh5 2x256 in too to see if I can get some decent 1m superpi times and maybe a higher clock.

Kesnel · 30 Mar 2006 at 11:39

Mine is set to 1/1 right now, and it seems to have helped stability quite a bit. The stronger I make the drive/data strength, the less stable it becomes.

Having less ram will problably improve your clock, these seem to be quite fussy controllers; maybe it's the price we pay for no cold bug.

Mr Mister · 30 Mar 2006 at 12:48

matt100 said:
what's your max stable then??

still struggling with 3ghz here!

Max stable ive tried at the moment is 3ghz at 1.44v. Havent had much time but will be seeing if i can get 3.2. The trouble is it needs a hell of a lot more volts to do it.

amx · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:00

Bennah said:
Good results amx.

Managed higher after you have burnt it in? What you at now?

I haven't managed to get any higher unfortunately, even with a divider. The system 'seems' stable at 2.72Ghz as I can play games etc, but it fails prime immediately.

So stuck it out at 2.6Ghz.

matt100 · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:10

Kesnel said:
Mine is set to 1/1 right now, and it seems to have helped stability quite a bit. The stronger I make the drive/data strength, the less stable it becomes.

Having less ram will problably improve your clock, these seem to be quite fussy controllers; maybe it's the price we pay for no cold bug.

just had a butchers in my bios and I have drive strength settings ranging from about 10 to 1 and data settings asking if I want to reduce by 0%, 50% etc..

what do you suggest?

Kesnel · 30 Mar 2006 at 13:24

Ah I forgot you're using an Expert. I forget which is the lowest drive strength on the board. I imagine you'd be better reducing the data setting though, which would equate to a weaker strength.

I think it will just take a bit of fiddling. Sorry I can't be more help, I'm not very familiar with the Expert.

Dark_Angel · 30 Mar 2006 at 21:05

Quick question, will a stock Venice 3000 cooler be enough to cool one of these CPU's, or would I be better grabbing the reail one, or a seperate CPU cooler entirely?