My first post here, and i like the forum very much. Looking forward to being around here for some time.

Anyway, this is my entry for the 1m superpi database.



Hopefully all the relevent bits are there to get me in the database, if not please let me know and i will redo it.

Welcome to OCC! Nice OC. I probably couldn't even get my poor CPU to POST at 4GHz, forget about SPi 1M at 4.5...

Nice, welcome to OCC BTW. I also found that I can pass OCCT but not Prime 95 ver. 25.4 for quads without adding a little more voltage

Just shove it under Phase, you'll get it there




Not running a Quad myself, but my rig runs at 4.1gig 24/7. I hav'nt got a 24hr Orthos run to post because all the other forums i belong to only require 8hr runs. But i'll post up a 24hr run when i get time to do one. In the mean time i'll post the screenie below.

Actually that was directed @ King, sorry about that. I was letting him know that passing OCCT with a quad can fail on prime 95 and SMP Folding I have found out...

Yea, I know you need more volts for 24/7 operation, but it's getting a little toasty

Anyways, nice results kitfit1, I'll add 'em straight away

[Edit]
Update from me:

Ok, next up is my 32m Pi run. I must admit i did'nt think it would complete. But as it did, it must mean that i have a good chance of getting an even better 1m time

^^nice chip

hi all i am e new member happy to be here


tis is with my E6850 ES @ 3999.9 Mhz
p5k-E P35
gigabyte galaxy 2 watercooling
teamXtreem ddr2 @1250Mhz
maxtor 250gb
i wil push it to the limit

wen i have my dice

Welcome aboard

For this competition, you need to run dual instances though

I guess I need to get phase change next...

OHH GOD, HERE WE GO!

I always wanted one, maybe I can swing one after the new year.

You know it makes sense

hmmm shame i just splashed out like £400 on water cooling again lol but phase might be worth a play ive bin lookin @ them for ages but never got round to buying one lol

Q6600 G0
Air

Spi 1M @ 3004 MHz




man this DFI 680i is hard work, I got this far, changed a couple things, then had to reset the CMOS and forgot what it was at (and couldn't even get 2.7ghz to POST)... tried different bios releases... gonna try the last quad-specific bios next, but now I have to do boring stuff like eat and do laundry lol

That's some hefty Vcore for only 3GHz! Sounds like you got a bad VID chip...

Same VID as my Quad on my DS3R...

is that what it maxed out at?!

I was having serious problems with ocing earlier on this DFI, either:

1) I am using the wrong bios for a quad core
2) I don't know the DFI 680i bios, it's controls and traits (like FSB holes)
3) This Q6600 sucks
4) I suck

Well I had it running at 3.5Ghz Folding only with a higher CFM fan on the Ultra 120 Extreme. When I moved it to be my main rig I put a smaller CFM/quieter fan on it. From what I have read the 680i and Quads do not get along to well...

yeah, I think it's quite a fiddly process on the 680i... particular bios releases, certain settings, etc etc... I'll redeem myself when I get some proper time with it lol

I fully agree on 2, 3 and especially on 4

Q6600 G0
Air

Man, well I redeemed myself with the 2nd day of overclocking... managed to edge past Kingnoobeling for Spi1m

Working with this DFI bios is like spinning plates, so much balancing and tweaking! I'm sure it'll pay off in the end... Was passing Memtest86+ @ DDR996, 4-4-4-12 which I was quite surprised by, because these Geil Ultra sticks are almost the cheapest DDR2 in the UK!

Anyway... here we go:

SPi1M @ 3600 MHz, 1.472v


SPi1M @ 3634 MHz, 1.504v


The vCore droops a LOT under load like down 0.05-0.07v lol...

Made a lot of progress tonight anyway... probably being held back by the fact that the mosfet and NB sinks are only getting slightly cooled because of limited space in those areas... I have a 975x block and a Thermalright mosfet sink gagging to get on this board...


Edit: I was wondering why the times were so bad, started running 32M, was about 7th iteration/step in and my harddrives were thrashing like crazy, opened up Task Manager, each instance using ~256MB, about 100MB of physical ram left... MEMORY LEAK lol... turns out I must've copied an old version of SpiMod from a flash drive or something because I have 1.5 in my installation files, but 1.4 was being run... bah

Put it under water! Yea my DS3R has almost a .1 droop. I think a lot of it is the 4 pin cpu power plug because its not near that bad on the DS4 with the 8 pin plug...

it'll be going under water soon enough...

I'm totally blown away by these air temps though... about 52°C average over the four cores while folding (dual instances of Ubuntu) and it's not even loud lol...

I'm sure my NB and mosfet temps suck a bit though

All will be sorted soon

I think the fact that the max Spi1m and Spi32m speeds are so close at 3.6ghz means that I haven't hit the CPU limit yet, I tried 450x8 just now and it wouldn't even post so I've got some more voltage juggling and FSB hole jumping to do... this will do for the meantime... I only put the Quad in the DFI because my EVGA died lol, I'm supposed to be doing all kinds of other work, bleh

You running Vmware and two SMP clients? Let me know how many PPD that is doing. I have been thinking about setting my other quad up that way. I get 3500PPD with the windows client.

well, one's showing 2350.29 PPD, the other just started so it hasn't got a running PPD in FahMon yet... it's looking good though lol... averaged load has plateaued at 54°C

How did you superPI past me? I'm like 10 seconds faster ya big hardnoob

Are you running two clients in one Virtual OS in VMware? Or are you running 2 virtual OS's in VMware? Cause that's what I'm doing right now, and it seems to work just fine

you can only have 2 processors per Virtual Machine, so you need to run two VMs, an SMP client in each... so yeah, that's what I'm doing... but first, more overclocking lol

Q6600 G0
Air

SPi32M @ 3600 MHz


SPi1M @ 3648 MHz



oh yeah, I forgot you do SPi based on time... remember on the 939 thread I included SPi as a stability test rather than a benchmark... possibly my times suck at the moment because I have Virtualisation enabled... I'll find out eventually

Virtualisation disabled decreases your times? Sweet, gotta try that sometime

But Steve, if you want to, I can bench right past that for ya But now = party time! *goes downtown*

Q6600 G0
Air

SPi 1M @ 3671 MHz
21.437s


OCCT @ 3601 MHz



Next I tried tightening up the timings and running some SPi32M for stability, I was using my computer at the same time so the times are really slow lol... but it's stable at 8x450, 4-3-3-10, and that's the main thing

SPi 32M @ 3601 MHz
Time: laughable

Those GeIL Ultra's are running 4-3-3-10 at 450?! What kinna volts are you giving them?

2.3v... now i'm running them at 1T, 400.5MHz, 4-4-4-12-1T... using a different bios and it seems to be a lot more stable for running 1T, a bit more stable on the CPU too, but the CPU multi is locked at 9x, so I'm making up for the lower bus speed with 1T...

SPi32M @ 3604 MHz
400.5 MHz, 4-4-4-12-1T
35m 10.063s



update:

SPi1M @ 8x425 = 3400 MHz
425 MHz, 4-4-3-10-1T
19.468s


getting there...

It's Firky time



hows about some 500mhz fsb





or maybe 500mhz with a 3.5ghz cpu

How about actually overclocking that processor, not just by a measly 500MHz?

I just noticed, does the DFI board have downwards dividers? Cause you're running a 500FSB, but the RAM is at 400MHz?

as far as i no all 680i mobo's have unlocked links between fsb and the ram sooo you can set any speed you want.



500mhz with no more volts almost passed memtest @ 3.8ghz but it crashed out @ 80% and im not in the mood to play around and fix it right now lol

Stock volts is decent, but then again you also have a G0 Looking at the first pic, you have a high VID though

Ahh, forgot about unlinked Why were you running only one stick for the SuperPI @ 3.5?

one must be dead lol i have 2 sticks in

lol?! You might wanna check that out then Your screenshot says single chanel, one stick

I am playing with a Q6600 GO and a new P5E. Just getting to know it. My first impressions are good!!



WZ

here ya go



E6850@4095Mhz
Asus p5k-e wifi
dual ddr2 team @ 910Mhz
aircooling zalman CNPS9500A

You need to run both at the same time, not one after the other...

How could you have possibly achieved that clock speed on air?

Thats is a G0 chip like my E6850, I can run it full load at 3960 with temps 55c with the Ultra Extreme 120 and nothing is lapped...

nice ram... what is it?

Got a L738B233 this time, my other quad that does well is a L734B164, the one that does not do so well is my L726A855. I will start putting it together shortly...

Edit: It has VID of 1.325...

Got my Blood Iron working again, still not totally certain what the culprit was, but I'm suspecting some voltage in the BIOS. If I changed anything other than CPU Vcore or RAM Vdimm, it wouldn't boot again... weird stuff. Anyways, here's a small increase in speed, whilst a decrease in clock


@ road, not so good luck on that one but lets see what it can do anyways

Well its about the same as my first quad. I have been reading a lot and looking at benchmarks on other sites and from what I can tell the chips with 1.32 VID or higher are having a hard time reaching 3.6Ghz stable no matter what voltage you put to it. Anyway here is 3560 another DS4/Q6600/Ulta 120 Extreme with 1.525 setting in the bios. I can probably get higher with more voltage, but since this is going to be a dual Linux SMP folding rig I am going to leave it at this speed for now and get "Gutsy" installed to boost my PPD by 5,000...

Gutsy? New Ubuntu out?

Neat OC, what are the full load temps like?

Yea Gutsy Gibbon 7.10 Ubuntu is out, I am fixing to try it. As far as temps I saw 63c as the hotest temp, on the hottest core during that run of OCCT. It will probably drop some after the AS settles...