[Mihai]

50C° seems a little high. What is your room temperature? You need to run a 10 hour test to see if it's still stable. Might be a good idea to invest in a better cpu cooler.

Btw, could you run the Cinebench thing with the overclock?

[firebird]

50C° seems a little high. What is your room temperature? You need to run a 10 hour test to see if it's still stable. Might be a good idea to invest in a better cpu cooler.

Btw, could you run the Cinebench thing with the overclock?

jep, I ran the Cinebench again, I don´t have the exact figuere at hand, but it was something around 930 for two CPUs, wichis is exactly 20% more, by 20% overclocking!

The cooler is a Zalman 8000 or something, This monster thing, so it should be fine! I want to run a quiet system so everything is at low noise, but I am going to check CPU temperature when the fan is at maximum load!

@ Hybaj

yep, I will run this V1.1 speedtest up to 1h37mins and post it!

[KRZ]

hi udo!

cool to see that you have a conroe now...and makes me abit jealous too;)
did you buy it in schillerstrasse-area? did they had it in quantity? i wonder cuz the last time i checked i couldnt find conroes at all.

do you know if there is another maxwell meeting in munich anytime soon?

greetings
chris

[Micha]

Hi Firebird,

I have the same system here, but I don't know so much about overclocking. Did you use the tool of the ASUS board? Any hints to do it?

What was your temperature befor overclocking? Here it was 44°C after two hours full speed - Zalman fan at lowest level.

-Micha

[ludi]

I get my conroe at friday *excited*

[firebird]

Hi Firebird,

I have the same system here, but I don't know so much about overclocking. Did you use the tool of the ASUS board? Any hints to do it?

What was your temperature befor overclocking? Here it was 44°C after two hours full speed - Zalman fan at lowest level.

-Micha

hi micha!

yes the same here, before overclocking it ran at the same temperature of 44°C or 45! I just used the AI booster and set the overclocking to 20% and 30% that worked fine, but 30% seems to be the limit! I set the overclocking manually to 33% = 3200MHz, and the booting process failed!

If the system runs fine with the 30% overclocking and all temperatures are allright, then I stick with the 30%. BTW temperatures at idle (only XP running) are at 37°C!

What RAM do you use???

[Micha]

Same temperature here. Interesting. Which settings did you use for the AI booster? Only the CPU frequency? What did you mean "manually at 33%" - per BIOS?

My RAM is Kingston 2x 1GB PC2 - 5300.

The Cinema Bench give me 742. If I have opened Photoshop, Rhino and Opera with some open websides, all in Background, than the Bench is 644 only.

[numerobis]

If the system runs fine with the 30% overclocking and all temperatures are allright, then I stick with the 30%.

So the 30% is on stock vcore? I think this is a really good result. Then now the real OCing starts!

I would set the speed in the bios. If booting fails you have to raise the vcore a bit so that it is stable again - i would go up in 0.025v or 0.05v steps - max 1.35-1.4v. If AIbooster supports vcore adjustment then you can do it in Windows.
Don't know how it works on the new intel boards, but with a higher fsb it could be necessary to raise the chipset voltage too to get a stable system. And always watch your temps!

To test stability i use sp2004 stress prime (http://sp2004.fre3.com/) with two instances (dualcore) to test the cpu under full load. You have to run it for some hours to see if the system runs stable.


numerobis

[firebird]

nonono! I stick with the 30% overclocking, that´s fair enough!

and I don´t want to have a vacuumcleaner running next beside me all the time, to get the system temperatures low!

[glebe digital]

Firebird, Just comparing your last time running the speedtest scene in v1.1:

time: 3h46m34s
BM: 18.94

My X2 4800+:
time: 3h56m42s
BM: 18.12

My system is running at stock mhz, CPU temp at completion was 41c.
With a bit of OCing.......who knows.........hey I'm still looking pretty good.

[firebird]

hey glebe digital!

no one said you´ve got a bad axe!

I will just have a look what your benchmarks on the V1.0 speedtest were!

[glebe digital]

hey glebe digital!

no one said you´ve got a bad axe!

I will just have a look what your benchmarks on the V1.0 speedtest were!

Yes I was feeling a bit deflated about the Conroe until I did the v1.1 test.... ..........didn't do it in v1.0 though.......
Tinkering with voltages this eve......no burnouts yet...

[-Adrian]

Btw is Win XP64 worth it? Does Maxwell run fine on it?

[firebird]

Btw is Win XP64 worth it? Does Maxwell run fine on it?

I haven´t quite figuered it out yet! mxcl runs absolutely fine, studio is a bit wacky! but that´s all fine for me!

[Micha]

OK, I have test the overclocking too - 2.988 GHz stable - Temp 37°/44°.

I have try to set the bus speed and let all other options in the BIOS at default "auto". But so, the ASUS AI suite show me 1.376V (without clocking it was 1.312V). The Temps was 39°/45°. Than I have set the voltage to 1.272V (standard value for the E6600). Now I get at ASUS AI suite my default voltage back (1.312V) and the Temps are lower - 36°/42° (low fan speeds). If I try a higher bus speed as 332, than I get a hangup at booting.

So, I let it work stable at 2.988GHz. Cinema Bench at 917 now, without overclocking it was 742.