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| Iron Maiden:
--- Quote from: Iron Maiden on March 21, 2009, 02:26:20 am ---Welp, with a quick attempt at an overclock 4GHz seems to be out of the reach of the RAM as the only option is to run 800Mhz at 890Mhz and I kept getting blue screens on load up of windows.. The PC boots, but won't load windows.... Backing the FSB off a little 3.7Ghz is running quite easily.. 3.7Ghz over the stock 3Ghz makes a world of difference to games like Sanfran Rush and Guantlet. --- End quote --- Soooo I ended up buying some Team Xtreem DDR2 PC-8500 1066 5-5-5-15 2x1Gb RAM and the 1066Mhz speed did the trick.. Even on the stock quad core intel cooler I acheived 4Ghz first pop. It seems that because of the limits of the multplier for the RAM with this Motherboard, running 800Mhz at the lowest speed of 890Mhz (with 2x multiplied FSB ) was just to much for the ram... But the CPU runs fine at 4Ghz and probably will go higher... Now.. Just for a cooler... What do you think of this one IceAge 90 CPU Cooler ? |
| taz-nz:
--- Quote from: Iron Maiden on March 30, 2009, 05:23:40 am ---Soooo I ended up buying some Team Xtreem DDR2 PC-8500 1066 5-5-5-15 2x1Gb RAM and the 1066Mhz speed did the trick.. Even on the stock quad core intel cooler I acheived 4Ghz first pop. It seems that because of the limits of the multplier for the RAM with this Motherboard, running 800Mhz at the lowest speed of 890Mhz (with 2x multiplied FSB ) was just to much for the ram... But the CPU runs fine at 4Ghz and probably will go higher... Now.. Just for a cooler... What do you think of this one IceAge 90 CPU Cooler ? --- End quote --- Nice RAM, I find overclocking RAM is far more hit and miss than overclocking CPUs, I've seen cheap DDR2-800 hit DDR2-1200 with only a little extra voltage, but I've also seen expensive DDR2-1066 kits that called it quits at DDR2-1100, it's why I prefer to avoid overclocking memory if I can, and with current memory prices there is little reason not to buy the fast stuff and keep life simple. Welcome to the 4ghz club, just watch your temps until you replace the stock heatsink, hate to see you cook your CPU. As for what I think of the Iceage 90 cooler, if have a space restriction that limits you to a 92mm FAN heatsink then it's probably ok, otherwise I'd say it's so so, the larger Iceage 120 result are 3 deg hotter than a Sunbeam Core contact freezer, so if you scale the cooling preformance down to the 92mm fan and heatsink and allow foronly 3 heatpipes vs the larger versions 4, your going to see a noticable drop in cooling preformance compared to a larger solution like the core contact freezer. It will still be better than the stock item your using now, but I prefer to keep CPU tempatures as low as possible when overclocking, it gives you a larger safety margin for loss of heatsink preformance due to dust, hot days, etc. |
| Iron Maiden:
--- Quote from: taz-nz on March 30, 2009, 06:45:55 am --- Nice RAM, I find overclocking RAM is far more hit and miss than overclocking CPUs, I've seen cheap DDR2-800 hit DDR2-1200 with only a little extra voltage, but I've also seen expensive DDR2-1066 kits that called it quits at DDR2-1100, it's why I prefer to avoid overclocking memory if I can, and with current memory prices there is little reason not to buy the fast stuff and keep life simple. --- End quote --- Yes, thats my thoughts exactly. And if you look at overclocked RAM the performance vs stability is not worth the hastle.. --- Quote from: taz-nz on March 30, 2009, 06:45:55 am ---Welcome to the 4ghz club, just watch your temps until you replace the stock heatsink, hate to see you cook your CPU. --- End quote --- Cheers mate. It's good to be up here :) .I'd hate to see me cook it also... I've read that 65 would be the max limit yeah? Would that be for each core reading, or the overal CPU (in everest ) --- Quote from: taz-nz on March 30, 2009, 06:45:55 am ---As for what I think of the Iceage 90 cooler, if have a space restriction that limits you to a 92mm FAN heatsink then it's probably ok, otherwise I'd say it's so so, the larger Iceage 120 result are 3 deg hotter than a Sunbeam Core contact freezer, so if you scale the cooling preformance down to the 92mm fan and heatsink and allow foronly 3 heatpipes vs the larger versions 4, your going to see a noticable drop in cooling preformance compared to a larger solution like the core contact freezer. It will still be better than the stock item your using now, but I prefer to keep CPU tempatures as low as possible when overclocking, it gives you a larger safety margin for loss of heatsink preformance due to dust, hot days, etc. --- End quote --- Well lucky I didn't win the auction on ebay then. On reading your reply, Ive decided to pull my Thermaltake Bigwater 735 cooling system out of my main PC (Q6600) and do swapsies. I haven't overclocked this old girl for a month or more so this 3 radiator system (ya need multi radiators with these quads.. especially at 1.7v) needs to be put to good use. The intel fan thats on the e8400 is the stock one from this q6600 so it gets to go back to its daddy. I should see some pretty high numbers in doing it this way I think. Especially now with the 1066Mhz RAM. |
| Todd H:
Which would be better...Vista 64 or XP 64? I have Vista 64 already installed but I can get a copy of XP 64 for free (one of the perks of being a MCT). I have yet to install MAME and the other game software as I haven't yet mounted my monitor. Would there be a speed difference between the two? |
| BASS!:
The biggest difference is the windows shell. Speed is pretty much the same, but you can completely hide the xp shell and replace it with the frontend of your choice. You can't really do that with vista. I'd use either this post: http://forums.maximusarcade.com/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=506 or mala instant sheller. |
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