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MrWizard6600
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so, like many of you on the forum, I bought an EVGA 680i board. It seems to be a rock solid one. I don't run raid, and my hitachi isn't reporting any problems. Formattation, installation, and defragmentation all went perfectly.
So I got started on overclocking. Due to everyone saying "this board [EVGA 680i] with this proc [E6300] will reach 2000MHz FSB!" i set my FSB:RAM to 1:1, and started taking fairly big leaps and bounds at the beginning. I got it up to 1650 when i hit a snag. wouldn't post at 1700. I let out a sigh, and started downplaying the MHz till I could come out with something stable. I came up with 1656. I was happy, I mean comon, I was nearly at X6800 speeds. But the claims other people were making were demoralizing and, well, embarrasing. temps were fine, changing voltage did absolutly nothing.
Then I figured what the hell, and I pumped a ton of voltage into the, well, everything, and tried for 1700. Didnt post, tried for 1750, no such luck, tried for 1800, again, no post. I was on my last try, for 1850, when it posts. Not only does it post, but it boots. Goes into windows, flawlessly. I log in, everythings going fine. I run CPU Z, it states that yes, I now had 3.2GHz. Proporties on My computer says the same, so does Ntune (although it has now adjusted the max value of overclock to 461MHz bus speed). So now I'm really happy, because theres no way that the extra L2 on an X6800, can outperform the extra 300MHz I'v got on it. so I've quadrupled the value of my proc. However, it will not go one MHz past 1854, not one. And at 1850, it will only post every other time. so I backed off to 1846, where it posts and boots almost all the time.
But, I'm wondering if theres another one of these gaps, and that if the next one, might be above 2Ghz FSB. Anyone had any experiances like this one? Aside from pumping more voltage into it, whats the best ocing advice you can give me?
System specs:
Evga 680i mobo
Intel E6300, Stepping 6, revision B2.
two gigs, PQI DDR2 667 5-5-5-15 (stock is 4-4-4-12, but i didn't want anything holding my back for any reason)
Nvidia 6200TC... I know, I know... the 8800s gonna be here boxing day
--- holy shit.... my cat just jumped INTO my open computer. he was standing on top of the platform above the PSU, i just about had a heart attack, thank god he didn't shock himself. ---
where was I...
oh yeah, and a Hitachi Deskstar (like that matters).
I've got new Forceware, I'm keeping my eye on EVGA's site for a BIOS revision. Is there anything else i can do? I really had my heart set on 3.6, cuz I wanted to be able to say "100% overclock baby YEAH!!!"
thanks for any advice
So I got started on overclocking. Due to everyone saying "this board [EVGA 680i] with this proc [E6300] will reach 2000MHz FSB!" i set my FSB:RAM to 1:1, and started taking fairly big leaps and bounds at the beginning. I got it up to 1650 when i hit a snag. wouldn't post at 1700. I let out a sigh, and started downplaying the MHz till I could come out with something stable. I came up with 1656. I was happy, I mean comon, I was nearly at X6800 speeds. But the claims other people were making were demoralizing and, well, embarrasing. temps were fine, changing voltage did absolutly nothing.
Then I figured what the hell, and I pumped a ton of voltage into the, well, everything, and tried for 1700. Didnt post, tried for 1750, no such luck, tried for 1800, again, no post. I was on my last try, for 1850, when it posts. Not only does it post, but it boots. Goes into windows, flawlessly. I log in, everythings going fine. I run CPU Z, it states that yes, I now had 3.2GHz. Proporties on My computer says the same, so does Ntune (although it has now adjusted the max value of overclock to 461MHz bus speed). So now I'm really happy, because theres no way that the extra L2 on an X6800, can outperform the extra 300MHz I'v got on it. so I've quadrupled the value of my proc. However, it will not go one MHz past 1854, not one. And at 1850, it will only post every other time. so I backed off to 1846, where it posts and boots almost all the time.
But, I'm wondering if theres another one of these gaps, and that if the next one, might be above 2Ghz FSB. Anyone had any experiances like this one? Aside from pumping more voltage into it, whats the best ocing advice you can give me?
System specs:
Evga 680i mobo
Intel E6300, Stepping 6, revision B2.
two gigs, PQI DDR2 667 5-5-5-15 (stock is 4-4-4-12, but i didn't want anything holding my back for any reason)
Nvidia 6200TC... I know, I know... the 8800s gonna be here boxing day
--- holy shit.... my cat just jumped INTO my open computer. he was standing on top of the platform above the PSU, i just about had a heart attack, thank god he didn't shock himself. ---
where was I...
oh yeah, and a Hitachi Deskstar (like that matters).
I've got new Forceware, I'm keeping my eye on EVGA's site for a BIOS revision. Is there anything else i can do? I really had my heart set on 3.6, cuz I wanted to be able to say "100% overclock baby YEAH!!!"
thanks for any advice