Back from Fry's W/ new CPU

Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy KnobPflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
edited November 2003 in Hardware
I'm back, got it installed OK and did some tinkering. First, it is not locked and is looking pretty good so far. It actually OC's almost as good as my 2100 did. I will have more time to play over the weekend. I am wondering what weeks NE has in stock. I also took the oportunity to replace the fans in my PSU as one was going out. I noticed a vibration some time ago and determined it was one of my PSU fans. That was a real royal pain in the butt job to do. Those Robanton's are real tanks on the inside. I used a Vantec Stealth for the exhaust fan and an Enermax adjustable for the intake. It is not only pushing more (which I can tun up if I need to) air but is a lot quieter!!! :)

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  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Here is proof that it is not locked and will OC pretty good on a first run. This screenie is 12x200 and I also had the equivilent with 11x220=2420 running stable folding for almost 2 hrs.
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    What voltages are you using???

    John.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It was set to 1.875 in bios but is 1.856 in real life. I am a happy camper!
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    i got my 3000+ today and i got mine up too 220 x 10.5 at stock voltage right now. I know i can get more outta it! but that is really impressive with a 2600+
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    I was only able to get it to 10.5x210 @ default vcore.

    Here is a better shot of the stepping.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    1.856v? Aren't you concerned w/ Frying the CPU, or am I just too gun-shy when it comes to giving my CPU extra voltage?

    Either way, impressive! :) Definitely lays some smack down on my 2.3GHz!
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    It's folding at 46C with those settings right now and is now at almost 3 hrs! :D

    Default is a bit higher than the T'Breds.
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    I'd love to run 220FSB, but my PC3200 won't handle 214 . . . at least not @ the voltages & timings I tried. When it crapped out @ 214 I just went back to 200 because I got tired of trying to find my sweet spot. What RAM do you have, what are the timings and what's the voltage? Also, do you keep the chipset voltage @ default for those higher FSB speeds or do you up it?
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    well larry ...if you can push it to 1.95v with decent temps I'd say you have a great chance at 220x11.5 which would give you 2.5ghz ...and if you're folding at 46c then I say it looks good from here.
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    a2
    I have 1 512mb stick of Corsair XMS32ooC2 running @ cas2-5-2-2. When I get to between 210 and 215 I need to bump the chip volt to 1.7 and after 220 I need to start juicing my memory.

    csimon
    Right now 11.5x214= 2464 is as far as I have got. When I try for anything higher I keep getting Windows boot errors and I have tried the vcore up to 2v and chipset @ 1.8. I am wondering if I want to cut my 3rd L12 or not.
  • csimoncsimon Acadiana Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    well ...if I juice mine up I can get it to 12x218 but ya know what? My 3DMark03 scores aren't as good and neither is my Aquamark so I say ...what's the point until I get water cooling.
    You're probably best off at 11x220 IMHO
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    a2jfreak had this to say
    I'd love to run 220FSB, but my PC3200 won't handle 214 . . . at least not @ the voltages & timings I tried. When it crapped out @ 214 I just went back to 200 because I got tired of trying to find my sweet spot. What RAM do you have, what are the timings and what's the voltage? Also, do you keep the chipset voltage @ default for those higher FSB speeds or do you up it?



    Kingston HyperX DDR 3500 1 gig twink pack
  • Mt_GoatMt_Goat Head Cheezy Knob Pflugerville (north of Austin) Icrontian
    edited November 2003
    Well 2420 seems to be the sweet spot for this chip. I'm not complaining as it was the sweet spot on the 2100 it replaced and I now have the larger L-2 and even with the tad extra voltage it needs it is still running @ the same temps that the 2100 did. :D
  • a2jfreaka2jfreak Houston, TX Member
    edited November 2003
    Thanks for the recommendation, Gnome, but I just got my PC3200 a few months ago so I'll stick w/ that . . . unless someone wants to give me what I paid for it or come very close to it: $115 per stick for a total of $230. It's 1GB of matched PC3200 Kingston HyperX.

    The PC3700 is the roughly the same price as the PC3500, only difference is the 3700 has lower timings (CAS 3). Think the PC 3700 would be able to run @ CAS 2 when @ the same speed as the 3500?
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited November 2003
    I would think so a2j. Remember that with higher clock frequencies the same CAS setting doesnt mean as much. Its going to make up for the longer delay with faster speeds. But anyway it should work as long as its not cheap stuff.
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