I'm doing the free upgrade thing tomorrow at work and was wondering if the 2.6 is any better at overclocking than the 2.4?
Both 800fsb with hyperthreading.
It all depends on the stepping and week of each CPU.
Most enthusiasts choose the 2.4c over the 2.6c because of the lower multiplier (12), allowing them to reach higher FSB's and get more memory bandwidth.
Eh, I'm gonna go for it and won't be dissapointed unless I can't even hit the same speeds I got with my 2.4.
One other question though, it says in the bios that sata drives are overly sensetive to overclocking, and I'm running my os off of a 36gb raptor. Is there any truth to that? I had my system overclocked, but didn't push it past 2.8 because it was getting too hot, but with winter coming and maybe a new hsf(slk900) coming too, I'm hoping to make it even faster.
The Malaysia built chips in general do better than Costa Rican or Phillipine chips. Just picked up a 2.6C SL6WS Malaysia, gonna see tonight what it'll do.
keto had this to say The Malaysia built chips in general do better than Costa Rican or Phillipine chips. Just picked up a 2.6C SL6WS Malaysia, gonna see tonight what it'll do.
All of the CPU wafers are stamped at Intel's plant in Arizona before they are shipped to the Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Costa Rica and Phillipine plants for package assembly.
Malaysia CPU's do turn out to be the best overclockers, especially the SL6WF lineup of Week 11's, but the other assembly point chips work pretty much just as well. There are some Costa Rica chips that overclock well (Week 21's and 30-35's), but the Week 11's really suck ass.
I know... I've got one of those Costa Rica week 11's. UGH. 2.4@2.9.
without doing too much and with a semi decent copper startech hs and a ys tech 3500rpm 7cm fan, I'm running 3.1 @ 54°c with 2 instances of f@h running which is not too bad imo. While I had it apart today I did some quick lapping of the heatsink and switched from AS2 to ceramique.
I don't have time to play with mine atm. Running 1 only F@H (will set up 2 when I get back Friday) 250 FSB = 3250 MHz, 5:4 = DDR400 45C not bad. I also switched to Ceramique for the first time with this install. Tons of optimizing to do when I get home.
keto had this to say I don't have time to play with mine atm. Running 1 only F@H (will set up 2 when I get back Friday) 250 FSB = 3250 MHz, 5:4 = DDR400 45C not bad. I also switched to Ceramique for the first time with this install. Tons of optimizing to do when I get home.
I'm now very curious what the second instance of f@h will do to your temps. I'm still saving my loonies to pay for an slk900 hs so I can reclaim my spot @ 21 on the list, and beat the general to 20.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
edited October 2003
If you are running only one instance of F@H on a hyper threading-enabled machine, you are effectively only using 50-60% of your CPU's maximum power. If you want to know what the second instance would claim on your cooling resources, simply find a program that will run your CPU at full blast. With No. 1 below, the CPU core temp increase was about 2 - *3C if I remember correctly.
OK been home <48 hours and slept a great deal of that (1 week road trip will do that to ya!).
BUT have spent a bunch of time setting up WinXP Pro and the various utilities n such. Am very pleased so far with performance and don't think I have reached the penultimate yet.
System looks like this right now:
P4C 2.6 @ 3363 (258 X 13), 1.5875v set, actual fluctuates
5:4 divider, DDR 416, 2 X 256 Corsair PC3500 v1.1, 2-3-3-6-8
P4C800-E Deluxe, PAT enabled, Turbo on 'auto', spread spectrum disabled, **Legacy USB disabled - important setting for overclocking**
Gigabyte R9700Pro (earliest version 1.0 unfortunately)
With modest (GlobalWin something or other) air cooling, running F@H 1 instance PLUS Prime95 for 2 hours, I read 47C according to AsusProbe.
Didn't quite get the record in 3DM2K1 - clocked the 9700 up to 357/326 and ended up with this = 17,954 That's 700+ pts higher than my highest score on the NF7-S/2100+@ 2277 with the same video card, imagine what it could do @ 3363!!!@! as if.
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LeonardoWake up and smell the glaciersEagle River, AlaskaIcrontian
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Most enthusiasts choose the 2.4c over the 2.6c because of the lower multiplier (12), allowing them to reach higher FSB's and get more memory bandwidth.
One other question though, it says in the bios that sata drives are overly sensetive to overclocking, and I'm running my os off of a 36gb raptor. Is there any truth to that? I had my system overclocked, but didn't push it past 2.8 because it was getting too hot, but with winter coming and maybe a new hsf(slk900) coming too, I'm hoping to make it even faster.
All of the CPU wafers are stamped at Intel's plant in Arizona before they are shipped to the Taiwan, Malaysia, China, Costa Rica and Phillipine plants for package assembly.
Malaysia CPU's do turn out to be the best overclockers, especially the SL6WF lineup of Week 11's, but the other assembly point chips work pretty much just as well. There are some Costa Rica chips that overclock well (Week 21's and 30-35's), but the Week 11's really suck ass.
I know... I've got one of those Costa Rica week 11's. UGH. 2.4@2.9.
Best of luck.
I'm now very curious what the second instance of f@h will do to your temps. I'm still saving my loonies to pay for an slk900 hs so I can reclaim my spot @ 21 on the list, and beat the general to 20.
BUT have spent a bunch of time setting up WinXP Pro and the various utilities n such. Am very pleased so far with performance and don't think I have reached the penultimate yet.
System looks like this right now:
P4C 2.6 @ 3363 (258 X 13), 1.5875v set, actual fluctuates
5:4 divider, DDR 416, 2 X 256 Corsair PC3500 v1.1, 2-3-3-6-8
P4C800-E Deluxe, PAT enabled, Turbo on 'auto', spread spectrum disabled, **Legacy USB disabled - important setting for overclocking**
Gigabyte R9700Pro (earliest version 1.0 unfortunately)
With modest (GlobalWin something or other) air cooling, running F@H 1 instance PLUS Prime95 for 2 hours, I read 47C according to AsusProbe.
Didn't quite get the record in 3DM2K1 - clocked the 9700 up to 357/326 and ended up with
this = 17,954 That's 700+ pts higher than my highest score on the NF7-S/2100+@ 2277 with the same video card, imagine what it could do @ 3363!!!@!