I had been playing around with the 1.6A on both a Gigabyte 645DX chipset and the Gigabyte 8IEXP. Using Crucial 2100 DDR I was easily able to get to 2.3Ghz with both systems. Seems that the SIS chipset overclocks a little easier. Yesterday I decided to give the 2.26B a try since I had heard good things about it, and with it I got 2 sticks of 256MB Corsair 2700 (CL2) memory. I added .1V on Vcore and tried 170fsb at setting of 2 latency and ran without a hitch. Then I tried 180 Mhz !!!!!! and boom again ran without a hitch. That is 3060Mhz with the retail HSF and only modification was removing the pad and putting AS3. I then tried 185fsb but bsod'ed. I ran sandra burnin loop all night long and no hangup's in the morning, then I tried 3DMark 2001 all night demo loop, also no hangup when I woke up in the morning. I guess with better cooling more volts and Corsair 3200 memory things could get better, but I am happy as is !!! I have now installed 2 HDD's in RAID 0 (2 Maxtor 740's 40GB) and benching 42,000 (I know not the best but 64K clusters on NTFS). All I can say is I now have one hell of a system. Also installed it with a brand new Radeon 8500 w/128mb DDR so things are looking good. This system has humbled my previous hero (MSI KT333 Ultra with XP2100). I will stick with this rig until Hammer comes out.
AMAZING !!! P4 2.26B is my new HERO !!!!
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Fantastic malandro!!! Looks like you've got yourself a heck of a chip! Run Prime 95 all night before you call it totally stable...
Congrats!
Congrats!
Whats your 3dmark with your new vid card?? I am thinking about getting one of those and I have a p4 and 845g chipset mobo. Thanks
Wow, that's crazy. Excellent chip you got there!
I'm not familiar with that Gigabyte board, what kind of memory dividers (if any) does it allow you?
I'm not familiar with that Gigabyte board, what kind of memory dividers (if any) does it allow you?
I have taken the cpu out for now since I am planning to put a Zalman flower cooler. I want the system to be silent and have had great success with the Zalman flower coolers even at overclocked systems. I still have my Zalman in my KT3 Ultra and using a Seagate Barracuda 4 and a Zalman Quiet PS (300watt) and using the funky looking VGA card coolers I plan to have a dead silent system. Installing the funky VGA cooler is tricky. I have to first put my VGA card in a freezer and then use a nylon padded screwdriver to quickly dislodge the fan on the VGA chip. I then clean the glue off and install the Zalman VGA cooler with Silver epoxy. I also have the motherboard Zalman chipset fan. One more thing I am doing is to change my HDD's to the liquid bearing Matrox's to get complete silence on my RAID setup.
To those asking about the 3DMark scores, I remember that they broke the 10,000 figure (no card overclocking yet). And as for the memory scores on Sandra 2002 it was much higher than the rambus 800 CL2 scores and very close if not higher to the 1066 scores. One thing I noticed that there is a setting in the bios which is 1.5 and 2.0. I had thought that was a latency setting ... well it most definetely is not since setting it at 1.5 dramatically reduced memory scores. I will have to check more on that setting and what it does. If you know what it is let me know. I will rebench everything when I reset my rig up. I have a feeling that using Corsair 3200 memory on an 845G chipset will give better performance. I haven't seen an 845G chipset mobo around yet, but they should rock.
To those asking about the 3DMark scores, I remember that they broke the 10,000 figure (no card overclocking yet). And as for the memory scores on Sandra 2002 it was much higher than the rambus 800 CL2 scores and very close if not higher to the 1066 scores. One thing I noticed that there is a setting in the bios which is 1.5 and 2.0. I had thought that was a latency setting ... well it most definetely is not since setting it at 1.5 dramatically reduced memory scores. I will have to check more on that setting and what it does. If you know what it is let me know. I will rebench everything when I reset my rig up. I have a feeling that using Corsair 3200 memory on an 845G chipset will give better performance. I haven't seen an 845G chipset mobo around yet, but they should rock.
You haven't seen any i845G chipset mobos? Try EPoX 4G4A(I|+), Abit BG7, Asus P4B533-V for starters.
I'm also running a 2.26Gig P4 on a ASUS P4B533-V and 1 stick of 512 Corsair XMS 3200 memory. I've got an Alpha cooler on mine and have it running at 2.5 so far. I don't have balls as big as you to try it out of the box at those speeds your running. What I want to know is mal, what are all your memory settings at??? as I'm not sure how far to push mine.
You've got some great memory there, Detoyminador_, play with your settings to get the best performance you can. Don't go over 2.8v tho on the ddr. I played a lot with my timings and have run them as agressive as 2/2/2/5 with no problems at 2.5v. Good luck!
I am in Kuwait and I still haven't seen the 845G chipset out here. And by the way Detorminator, why in the world are you running your system only at 2.5Ghz. With Corsair 3200 I guarantee you will get at least 2.8Ghz at default. Try it! Go for 170Mhz FSB at default voltage (hell asus always adds +.05v anyway and MSI adds +.1v) and that gets you around 2.9Ghz. If system is not stable add .1volts and try it out. Adding .1volts is still within design specs. Basically what you doing is not oclocking, you are just "freeing" your underlocked cpu. The way I figure it is if I can push my cpu to 3.1Ghz, then subtract 200Mhz and that is its real speed. Hell some XP2200 can't even make an extra 100Mhz at default settings yet it is not called an overclocked cpu. Also I remember not so long ago a P3 600Mhz that also couldn't do anything over 650Mhz. You have to realize all cpu's are manufactured equally. There is no special foundry for 2.26Ghz and then another for 2.53Ghz, they are all the same and are then sorted out according to yield. With todays sophisticated manufacturing, as the chip matures, you get almost identical yields. So theoretically your 2.26Ghz is identical to a 2.53Ghz with the only advantage being that the multiplier lock on the 2.26Ghz would give you more play when it comes to FSB.So long you don't go over .1v to get the cpu stable you are well within specs so no danger there.
Okay mal, I'm going to try 2.8Gig. I'm currently at 2.7Gig 1:1 2/2/2/6 seems to be very stable. If I go 4:5 mem at 2.6 It's very unstable when try out Quake-III. Will keep you informed.
I'm sitting at 2.7Ghz now and it seems to be running rock solid so far, mem 1:.1 2/2/2/6 2.65v. It don't like 2.8Gig at all. it'll boot past the post screen then trying to get into windows xp is impossible, it locks, even with memory settings at 1:1 2.5/3/3/6 and I raised the cpu voltage to 1.60 volts. I'm pretty happy running it at 2.7Gig which was my goal when buying the chip. I might increase the FSB by 1 each time to try the maximum speed.
What batch CPU is that i just got a 2.26 and im dying to get it flying i have
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I want a P4!!! All these great OCing stores make me drool for one. They're just too damn expensive for me though. Sure there's the 1.6A's but 2.2GHz is too low for a P4. That's the same as an Athlon 2000+. I need to get ahold of one of those 2.26B's so I can get 3 GHz That'd be great for more living room DivX rig. I got about 50 DVD's to encode and its taking way too long on my Tbird 1.2 @ 100 FSB (bleh!) I gotta give the P4 props for two things: super overclockability and awesome video encoding power
Anyone wanna buy a PS2, Game Boy Advance, or a Neo Geo (yes the original from 1989)? I need a P4!!
That'd be great for more living room DivX rig. I got about 50 DVD's to encode and its taking way too long on my Tbird 1.2 @ 100 FSB (bleh!) I gotta give the P4 props for two things: super overclockability and awesome video encoding power Anyone wanna buy a PS2, Game Boy Advance, or a Neo Geo (yes the original from 1989)? I need a P4!!
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