Starting overclock rebuilt PC

JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
edited March 2005 in Hardware
I've just done a major rebuild on my gaming rig, new case, modified cooling & new psu and got it all running right so it's time to start overclocking it again.

The 6800nu is now pelt cooled, see here , previous to this I could only push the core to about 425 & the memory to 906mhz. Now I can go to 450 on the core & about 925 on the mem. :)

My first run of 3dmark I finally cracked the 13000 mark :cool: , prior to this I could only get about 12500.

I don't know how much of this is down to the psu or the cooling but either way I'm happy. Just got to see if I can push the cpu & memory any further now, they're currently on a 250fsb with loose timings at present.

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  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    nice rig Jim!

    When are you moving to pci-e?
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    MackanzOCZ wrote:
    nice rig Jim!

    When are you moving to pci-e?


    Thanx Mack,

    I'll be moving to pci-e when I can afford it :).

    If I'm going to switch then I'll do it when I can afford an sli rig with two top cards; thats means late summer at the earliest or may be not till next year.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    That's a killer 03' score Jimborae! Especially on a NU card, I havent seen many GT's break 13K. Glad to hear that pelt is doing a number on your card!.. Any signs of condensation around the block?

    What do you currently have your winchester clocked at? (250x10?)
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    Thanx mate, no signs of any condensation, I used alot of dielectric grease so that should prevent any problems.

    The winnie is currently at 250x10 as you guessed; the rig is not prime stable any higher & i dont know whether its the cpu or board. I can easily push it past 250, upto around 270 but I just can't get it stable.
  • lemonlimelemonlime Canada Member
    edited March 2005
    Jimborae wrote:
    The winnie is currently at 250x10 as you guessed; the rig is not prime stable any higher & i dont know whether its the cpu or board. I can easily push it past 250, upto around 270 but I just can't get it stable.

    I have very similar issues with my winchester. The source of my problem seems to be the memory controller. I have to use lax timings (2.5-4-4-8 1T) and a 10x multi just to get stable in the 2.6 range. My TCCD easily does 300+ MHz at 2.5-4-3-7 with a low multi. Pretty frustrating when you can't take your ram to it's limits while keeping a good cpu clock.

    I'm seriously thinking about picking up one of those new 'AS' clawhammer 3500+ chips, or I may wait and see what the 'E' revision has in store..
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    Yeah I'd considered getting an AS Clawhammer too, but it's a lot of money for potentially no gain if my motherboard is the problem. I need to do a bit more investigating & playing with the multipliers to determine the problem.

    I've also managed to up my score a fraction to 13083 ;D
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Vey nice Jim!

    I am at the same spot w/ my Winiie as well. I was very tempted to go with one of the 'AS' Clawhammer XP3500's as well but will wait as the new cores look to be more promising. If cash allows I will even go to an XP4000 on the new cores.
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    Cheers Larry,

    I haven't really read anything on the upcoming cores, do you have any links to good info?
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited March 2005
    Not anything onhand in particular. Jut what Omega has posted here and the buzz over at http://www.xtremesystems.org/
  • JimboraeJimborae Newbury, Berks, UK New
    edited March 2005
    Ok so I started pushing the cpu a bit, managed to get it to 280x9. Looks like the stable limit of the cpu is about 2.5ghz but both the board & the cpu can take 280fsb after that I dont know whether its' the ram crapping out.

    Anyhow here's my new 3mark 03 score.
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