Hi there

I'm new to overlcokcing and was wondering if anyone can give me settings to be able to get 3.6ghz or 4.0ghz on the following system spec


Motherboard Gigabyte ep35-ds3r
Processor Q6700
Ram 2 x 2gb Geil pc6400 800mhz
Gpu xfx 9600gt
Cooling Thermaltake Bigwater 745
Psu 700watt

as you can see cooling shouldnt be a problem since im running water cooling but everytime i try hit 3.6ghz i get the blue screen of death so any input would be much appreciated, also if there is anything that i would need to change on the system advice would be appreciated once again

Regards

Michael

Sure, how about running either real temp, or Core Temp, and listing the VID of your processor.

Box or OEM??

--Lupi

vid according to real temp is 1.3250 and box

Okay, that is the worse possible VID. Meaning its new. Intel has been being very mean with releasing any good ones.

I have a 1.2250 and a 1.2375 and those are the 4.0 chips. (without needing more than 1.55 volts.)

You chip may or may not get 3.8Ghz at that.

You have a kit water set up. Time to check its performance, let me review my tests on a 1.3250 Q6700... Gotta find the pic...

What is your Bios revision? f12?

We need to test a few things. VDrop and droop.

Stay at stock, and hit the Bios, disable speed step, and anything like EIST!

Set the VCore manually to 1.3250

And re boot to windows. Then use CPUz and look at the Core Voltage section. List that here, please?

That reflects VDrop. The initial drop from in bios, to idle windows.

Now run Prime 95 small ffts test on all 4 cores and after 1 minute, list the now lower Core Voltage listed in CPUz, as well as your current temps with core temp and real temp. (Or just the one, if thats all you have for now.)

That will show us your VDroop. The drop from windows idle, to loaded on small ffts, all cores.

List that junk here, and then we will get onward!

--lupi

Wow, guess I didnt know what I was doing when I got the pics! LOL, just looked at a q6600 @ 3.6 with 1.440 Volts, and the Q6700 was at 1.47, lol!

But I was a newb back then, for real. Only been over clocking for like maybe 6 months.

Hehehehe

Kewl, fist step, update your Bios! It's a new box board you got as well? Can you look at the box and list the revision number?

Gotta hunt down that Bios site again. Just helped someone else with a brand new one. f2 is initial release bios. The one before people find the flaws!

There ate 11 updates already out. You want version f12.

Lemme find it...

Got AIM?

--Lupi

that is the most up to date bios for my board other than the 2 beta versions that are on the gigabyte site

http://www.giga-byte.com/Support/M [...] uctID=2743

Only have msn

Michael

Gah, different board!

meant to add revision is 2.1

Should be about the same anyways. It just has that added epu thingie. I wonder if you can disable it.

My MSN LordLupiron@live.whatever

k added but u seem to be offline, whats the best settings im looking at?

Oh, you can easily get 3.6, prolly 3.7. I like to keep within the stock voltages. 1.500 or lower, but you can always get more outside those!

Whatever=.net I think. Maybe.com. whatever Live.xxx is.

heres a screenshot running prime95 on 400x8

any reason when i try the multiplyer on 9 or 10 i get the blue screen of death?

also my voltages are running on auto in bios just now while im testing

Michael

uhh, do you know what the Multiplier does? It adds another instance of the FSB to the processor speed. So without changing the voltages, you jump from 3.2 Ghz to 3.6 Ghz, and that isnt donna work. And x 10 is 4.0 Ghz!

You wanna get the 3.6?

Enable Load Line Calibration! I believe its in there in yer Bios?

Then re test the vdrop and droop.

Make sure its working, and if you already have a FSB stable 400, then 3.6 will be easy. Just list the enabled VDrop and droop!

--lupi

Without the Load Line calibration, you'd need like 1.5250 in the Bios for the 4.2 or so needed for 3.6 Ghz on your high VID processor.

And that means that most of the time it would Idle high, just to drop down for vdroop too.

--Lupi