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21st November 2003, 11:59 | #1 |
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| First Oc try. I was wondering what my system could do, so I started to do some research about overclocking. After some trying here's what I've got : ( system : sig ) 3.36 GHz Fsb : 240MHz, Multi : 14 ( duh ), performance mode : turbo, DRAM frequency : 320 ( I guess this means a 5:4 RAM divider? ), agp/pci locked @ 66/33. Everything else standard, including video and mem timings ( latter one I don't really understand, so I just set it to SPD ) Using all the latest drivers, except for the catalysts ( 3.7 ). Gonna try the 3.9 now. Video : -mem : 338MHz -core : 378MHz I think everything is stable, tried a sandra 2k4 bench, ran both 3d marks couple of times, no problems at all... temp idle : 33°, load : 45° ( I think ) 3d2k1 : 18540 3d2k3 : 5831 On the website of my vid card ( www.connect3d.com ) I saw that my mem speed should be 680MHz and "engine" speed 380MHz. I suppose my mem is running correctly? Because it's DDR mem and 338 x 2 nearly is 680... How can I check if my system is completely stable? Prime or something like that? Where to get and what settings? Thx! |
21st November 2003, 13:24 | #2 |
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| run prine & 3d mark (looping) for 5 or 6 hours
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21st November 2003, 15:12 | #3 |
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| a quick run of Super Pi or Pifast is a good and fast check if your system is stable I could run F@H without any crash, but Super Pi crashed |
21st November 2003, 15:24 | #4 |
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| prime and folding at home together for a hyperthreaded cpu for 6 hours, if that stixx, you have 100% cpu stability (run them both! they will use up more cpu power then any of them alone, I see temps 5° higher with prime+f@h then prime alone then you test the gpu with runs of 3dmarks, running background prime or f@h doesn't matter any more this way you're sure which component freaks out on you if it crashes
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21st November 2003, 15:39 | #5 |
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| Catalyst 3.9 results in a slight decrease in 3d2k1, haven't tried 2k3 yet. Pi calc : ( 1M ) 44s Not bad I think? What would be a good oc for my system? I already think 560MHz is quite a lot, but I see ppl like Gamer etc with +20k 3d marks. How the hell do they do it?? My guess : I should try oc'ing the vid card? ( which I'm not gonna do, too expensive + Zalman, don't trust that thing 100% ) Gonna try pushing the cpu further when I have the time, I think it can do more :grin: btw idle temp dropped to 30°c ... Is this possible?? That's 1° lower than my case temp... Measured by mobo moni 5 latest version... |
21st November 2003, 15:42 | #6 |
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| don't push it further if you haven't tested it first, you want a stable system I think... why do people like me and gamer go over 20000 (or in my situation 22k and gamer 23k) : because we have exotic cooling powerful watercooling (my set costs 800 euro) or phase change (about 1000 euro for the cooler)
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21st November 2003, 15:58 | #7 | |
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Oh well, then i'll be happy with my 18k score. lol So Cpu power / fsb speed is quite important for those 3d mark scores... Ok, I'll try if system is completely stable first. Can u guess from where I'm gonna get in trouble? I think my RAM is going to be the first to start whining... Had to choose between 1 gig Twinmoss or 512 mb Corsair, chose wrong to Oc I guess. ( Already knew it at the time, but I didn't think I was gonna Oc this comp. ) | |
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21st November 2003, 18:19 | #9 |
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| not when your gpu is clocked at default and the system is prime+f@h stable...
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21st November 2003, 19:00 | #10 |
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| i tought that superpi tests the stability off the mem, ain't I right?? greetz |