300,000 point milestone

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by HarapAlb

Is that the Arctic Freezer 7 on your CPU? Not that many variables that you need to change when OC-ing. Keep your voltages at stock levels and increase your FSB. Increase voltages only if the system is not stable, but I think you should be able to reach 3 GHz on stock voltages. The other thing you need to consider is the memory multiplier. Make sure you lower it initially to be within its specifications, to eliminate memory as a source of stability issues. If the system is stable you can then increase the memory clock slightly to a level with which you are comfortable. You are fairly close to 3GHz now (FSB from 311 to 333).

Thanks for all your help. Unfortunately I tried and tried and never got this damn board to go over 2.8ghz. I few reviews popped up on newegg after I bought this that complain about the board's OC potential, so I guess I'm not alone. I'm going to pull it and find a good OC'ing value board + a $30 video card :P

I did get my main machine built last night. It's a Q6600 running very cool and steady on Zalman air @3.4Ghz. I already threw it on folding. 4200 PPD! Amazing board. It's that new 780i Tri-SLI board that just came out. I may try a little higher tonight.

Spoiler:

Now I just have my game machine to build. It's going on an Asus P5E with X38 chipset & watercooled so it should OC even more I hope. Amazing how much "free" clock cycles you can get out of these Q6600's. Can't wait for the penryns


Oh.. btw, we broke 1/2 Million on our points last night!

[Knoffhoff]

Bah, two days and 3520 points lost due to my stupid firewall.

[[WOLF] Ionizer]

Originally Posted by Rad-FH

Oh.. btw, we broke 1/2 Million on our points last night!

I think that deserves a new thread.

[Rad-FH]

Originally Posted by Knoffhoff

Bah, two days and 3520 points lost due to my stupid firewall.

It's OK, we have plenty more days. We'll leave room for you at the top. loosing WU's are depressing. I lost like 60% of my first Quad WU's by discovering it's not good to Ctrl+C the clients. It ruined my whole day.

Originally Posted by [WOLF] Ionizer

I think that deserves a new thread.

eh?.. I suppose. *sigh*

All of these threads have been going randomly off topic and turning into tech threads that should be gathered, organized and stickied. soon, soon. (Sooner than the PZIII, I promise)