3,6ghz issue on E6850 @gigabyte ds3 p35

[Hazek]

Greetings

The last few days ive tried to make the dirty moves with my new machine:

E6850
Gigabyte DS3 p35 Rev1 Bios: F10
2x1gb Geil pc6400 CL4
Sapphire 1950xtx 512mb
Scythe Infinity CPU cooler
PSU 500w Antec

My problem is, that i cant cross the 3600mhz limit. Atm im going rock solid on 400x9 at 1,35 and 4-4-4-12 and 450x8 at 1,35 and 4-4-4-12. But if i cross the 3600 limit my computer freezes and reboots twice, and then turns into some sort of "safe mode", wich disables the FSB-tweaking option, and locks the rest of the options, and resets the PCI-e into "Auto".

Did:
PCI-e Locked at 101
RAM timings at 5-5-5-18
Vcore op to 1,5v
+0,2 at the rest op the voltage options

Do any of you have an idea of why my motherboard/CPU wont cross the limit, or did any of you try to have some fun with the hardware yourselfes, so i could cross the 4ghz linit wich was my plan at the beginning. Then i would go into happy-mode and dance a little elf-dance all by myself

Loadtemps according to CoreTemp latest beta is: 68. According to Intel thermal analysing tool load is 54.

/Hazek

 

[myocardia]

Welcome to anandtech. In case you haven't heard yet, most E3850's are topping out between 3.6 & 3.8 Ghz, so you've most likely just reached the limits of your processor. If you want to see if you can get it to go a bit faster, leave your RAM 1:1 (333 Mhz, until you raise the FSB, in other words). But, before you do that, you're gonna need a better heatsink, because 68C is reaching the limits of how hot you want to let your $300 processor get. And CoreTemp .95.4 is what you want to use for your temps, not iTAT. Good luck.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Interesting "intel," Myo__

I'd done some "look-sees" on both the 6850 specs and what comments I could find.

3.6 is a 20% OC, and I was speculating it would go further. But 25% is not as far as I thought possible.

I was thinking about getting an E6850 myself.

I guess we'll see what develops in January with the Penryn releases . . .