New To Intel. Overclock Settings?

"Eric Parker" <newsnet RemoveThis @thedrossericparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Have you locked PCI-Express at 100 and PCI at 33 ?
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> Initially I would leave the RAM voltage at auto rather than assume it
> needed changing.
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> Eric
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Right you are! All's well with the RAM voltage on auto and with PCI and
PCI-Express locked. I'm at 2.6 GHz so far.
Thanks very much!
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"Peter van der Goes" <p_vandergoes.DeleteThis@toadstool.u> wrote in message
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>> Have you locked PCI-Express at 100 and PCI at 33 ?
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>> Initially I would leave the RAM voltage at auto rather than assume it
>> needed changing.
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>> Eric
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> Right you are! All's well with the RAM voltage on auto and with PCI
> and PCI-Express locked. I'm at 2.6 GHz so far.
> Thanks very much!
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Glad to see it was of help.

How are your temps running a couple of instances of Prime95 or similar ?

I recently built a P5B Deluxe with a 6600.
I had to put an Arctic Cooler Freezer7Pro on it to keep cool enough.
I got the clock up to 3.1 from 2.4.
With two instances of Prime95 it would keep the CPU below 60c.
Above that I was getting failures.

Let us know where you get to.

Eric

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Keep going

bob



"Peter van der Goes" <p_vandergoes.DeleteThis@toadstool.u> wrote in message
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> "Eric Parker" <newsnet.DeleteThis@thedrossericparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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>> Have you locked PCI-Express at 100 and PCI at 33 ?
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>> Initially I would leave the RAM voltage at auto rather than assume it
>> needed changing.
>>
>> Eric
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>>
>> --
>> Remove the dross to contact me directly
>>
> Right you are! All's well with the RAM voltage on auto and with PCI and
> PCI-Express locked. I'm at 2.6 GHz so far.
> Thanks very much!
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"Eric Parker" <newsnet.RemoveThis@thedrossericparker.plus.com> wrote in message
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> Glad to see it was of help.
>
> How are your temps running a couple of instances of Prime95 or similar ?
>
> I recently built a P5B Deluxe with a 6600.
> I had to put an Arctic Cooler Freezer7Pro on it to keep cool enough.
> I got the clock up to 3.1 from 2.4.
> With two instances of Prime95 it would keep the CPU below 60c.
> Above that I was getting failures.
>
> Let us know where you get to.
>
> Eric
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> --
> Remove the dross to contact me directly
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I see what you mean about the heat. I was naive enough to think the stock
HSF would be sufficient, but going beyond 2.6 GHz, it seems (idle in the
upper 40'sC and 60 - 62 C stressed), shows otherwise. This is one area where
I think AMD does better. I have three X2's here, all overclocked ~30% and
there are no heat issues with the stock HSF's.

That Arctic Cooler F7Pro seems pretty reasonable at NewEgg...
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Peter van der Goes wrote:
> That Arctic Cooler F7Pro seems pretty reasonable at NewEgg...

but only until you see this:
http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/Arctic-Cooling-Freezer-7-Pro-p-16334.html

My stock Intel HSF had the seemingly smooth but malleable copper
surface distorted. I presume this to have happened when the copper
part was pressed into the aluminum.

How fast does your fan spin at max speed?
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> Peter van der Goes wrote:
>> That Arctic Cooler F7Pro seems pretty reasonable at NewEgg...
>
> but only until you see this:
> http://www.heatsinkfactory.com/Arctic-Cooling-Freezer-7-Pro-p-16334.html
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> My stock Intel HSF had the seemingly smooth but malleable copper
> surface distorted. I presume this to have happened when the copper
> part was pressed into the aluminum.
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> How fast does your fan spin at max speed?
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Quite a price difference. Thanks!
The fan on the stock HSF runs at ~1850 at idle, I've seen it go up to 2100
while running Prime95.
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Peter van der Goes wrote:
> The fan on the stock HSF runs at ~1850 at idle, I've seen it go up to 2100
> while running Prime95.

Mine from the E6400 only goes up to around 1750 on my Biostar board. I
even tried shorting the fourth pin to +12v which supposedly simulates 100%
duty cycle of the PWM fan controller. I wonder if higher speed processors
get a different fan which is capable of turning a bit faster, because I've heard
of these fans turning 2800 RPM...
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Peter van der Goes wrote:

> Quite a price difference. Thanks!

This is better still:
www.ewiz.com/detail.php?p=FAN-AC7PRO&c=fr

Weird, if you leave off the "&c=fr" it costs more!
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