nice proc

@jarofclay
afaik 3800 need to mod the pod on the motherboard then oni can clock higher. i think babyelf has a thread on that. i dun dare to mod it..

@e-jump
Oh... icic.. i tried those. level 1 or level 8 also same... strong or weak drive also level 3 or level 1.... no matter what i do i kenot reach 270Mhz 3-4-4-8 3-5-5-8 can....

@Darkmage12
thanks.

btw, any 1 dare to pump more than 1.6v into a dually??

This post has been edited by joylay83: Apr 18 2006, 01:36 PM

oh well, probably thats ur ram limit..
cant do anything thou~
well, i only take XS results as reference n guide...
not all rams are equal anyway...

hope u r happy with the tweaking...
but hey, at least u tried all possible settings

what to do..... haih maybe wait till warranty over then try pod mod then can run 7/10 divider or maybe ram can naik a bit (susally dun happen). or change to crossfire and run 4x1gb

but now its really rock stable man...... can do anything and its real fast. oni thing is that i loose cpu bandwidth la....

the funny thing is that e.g. steinberg wavelab: whether my clock is 1.8, 2.4, 2.6, 2.8Ghz, it still uses 50% of my proc speed (probably a software limitation). hence, clocking the cpu higher actually increases its speed. from 1.8 to 2.6, my job time of a rendering change from 5 mins to 2 mins.

any1 dare to pump more than 1.6v into this proc? opty 165? what is the max that i can pump?????

Dude, no doubt it is a good overclocking result, except the RAM timing part

I'm not sure if you are going to use this PC for long hours and yr lifespan expectancy (must be workable for 2-3 yrs or wat). Let's assume u r concerned about hardware stability and lifespan, here are some suggestions:

1. CPU vcore no more than 10% from original Vcore, or for even safer play, AMD recommends about +0.05V from default. Well, this is only if u wanna use tat PC for 8-10 years, so IMHO, 10% is good enough bcoz it gives u about 0.12V increment from default.

2. Tighten the RAM timing. Run it at DDR450 / DDR466 using fine tuned tight timing might give u much better results than 3-4-4-x or even 3-7-7-x @ DDR560.

3. Make sure yr system is stable, bcoz multimedia content creation software is as stressful as SuperPI. I am sure u dont want any error in yr results, or yr software suddenly auto close / BSOD when the encoding process is near the end

ya... i very scared render half way then BSOD....

i think i will settle with HTT297@2.67Ghz@1.5v DDR534@3-4-3-8 superPI 32M stable...

see if i can do more with the coming Gskill or not.

one strange thing is.... after i OC from 1.8 to 2.6, pinnacle CPU usage drop from 50% to 20%. this change does not happen when i migrate from Athlon XP to Opteron. Maybe its due to software limitation... i am no programmer so can't do anything bout it

what does burning in means?

can you eleborate?? burning as in???

in overclocking, burning-in means you run stressful program e.g. sp2004 or prime95 to see if your system is stable or not.

or it can also mean burning a cd

joylay83, you have such a sweet ram , my Gskill only can do 260 3-4-4-8 (pass memtest #5 about 5hrs) dont have any idea how to go further. now I only run at 245mhz @ 3-4-3-8

but mine is pc4000 woh.. not pc 3200...

edit.. juz noticed that your ram is also pc4000. maybe your cooling not enough.... or voltage not enough. i running mine at 2.8v

omg.. i am ordering another set of gskill ram for my the other rig.. i tot gskill supposed to go quite high woh...

This post has been edited by joylay83: May 21 2006, 07:56 PM

agree, although i am not using uccc, but last time my samsung tccd cannot run ddr600 even at 2.9v, after i added an 8cm fan blowing directly to it, it passed every burn in test... maybe ur ram overheated in ur case...

it is a possible cause. but i touched the ram heatsink it is really cool. it has the processor fan blowing on it. now my question is, is the contact between the heatsink and the ram chips good? and if i open take out the heatsink means warranty void

ichiban might be having a overheating problem.....

This post has been edited by joylay83: May 23 2006, 11:59 PM