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Just to say this is my system ill be fitting into c-macc's 2 my arcade system ive been working on wich is on there forums here some ware.
Congrats!But, i do not think it is worth it in terms of time and money you have put in to have that set up. core i7 system eats your system alive easily without intensive setup requirements.
who cares about core i7 esp when this cost 8 times less than one of them.
are you sure about that? how do you calculate to come up with your figure. I have i7 setup at 3.8g. I know how fast it is and how much it is. Leave alone the stability issue he might have at that frequency. Think about the water cooling setup and power consumption. It is a great overclocking achievement, but it is just not practical.
Yeah you can do a lot with water cooling. I would be impressed if it was on air.
My old 65nm 1.86ghz e6300 runs 3.45ghz on air at stock voltage with ddr2 800, if I had 1006 ram I bet I could get a 2ghz overclock too, on air.
I wouldn't doubt the overclock. That's a gigabyte x38 or x48 d6q. i had one and an e5200 and got similar (4.2ghz ish) overclocks. that's an fsb 1600 board, so the only thing you are stressing with that overclock is the processor.
and to the duche up there ^ bashing this build because he's sad it's got a faster clock rate than his i7, the point of an overcock like this with those sorts of voltages isn't practicality and stability. it's for shits and giggles. i think this guy's had his money's worth in fun.
After loads of messing closing down nearly every services with in windows 7 and slight adjustments on my timing and another 6 hour's worth of reboots .
got super PI down to 12.277s Considering what i am using i am happy now.
If i had better Ram and a better mother board i think i could hit 4.7 gigs easily and if i could tighten up my timings some what a little more.
Ive tested it out on windows xp (tiny version as per rev advise) slimmed down as much as possible and i could only achieve a score in the 13+ seconds.
So over all with all my findings i think i have push this cheap chip to its max on my system and i dont think its possible to do any more unless i went phase / cascade or even more extreme.
How ever im running quite smoothly at 4.6 Ghz normally with in windows and having no real heating problems at all. My max out voltage i found is 1.45 V-core ..
Quite impressed with this little chip and i blame all you to getting me into this stuff again lol. Just a shame i cannot afford to get equipment for the moment as im itching to pass the 4.7 gig mark.
next step is to see what i can push the q6600 go to..
here are my setting for windows 7 shown and all my services i disabled to help aid getting my scores.