Anyone with a Week5 '05 Venice 3200+?

[cryogenic666]

pcper reviewed the 3200+ but it was a week4 and got 280x10 out of it on stock cooling @ stock voltage. Pretty impressive if you ask me. I've not bothered to overclock mine as of yet but I'm going to try at some point. I'm kinda worried my RAM is going to be the limiting factor (most likely have to use 83% instead of 1:1). I have two different sticks of Corsair XMS3200LL. One is a rev 1.1 (2-3-2-6) and the other is rev 1.2 (2-3-3-6?).

 

[Linearsoup]

would doubt that was stable m8,or was cherry picked.2.8 on stock volts is good steppng opteron range,e3 venices are good but by all accounts the new e6s dont overclock so well,mines an e3 not sure the stepping and does 2.6 at 1.475 vcore,needs 1.5 for 2.7.

 

[cryogenic666]

I was honestly hoping for 2.5 or so... I'll play with it when I get home and see what I come up with. pcper was reviewing the E3 Venices and I would assume that mine being only one week away from theirs (wk5 vs wk4) mine would be the same core. I still think my RAM isn't going to let me run 1:1 at a very high FSB (doubt I'll even get 225 out of it).

 

[Linearsoup]

wouldnt worry about running your ram at 1:1.unless you bench i dont think you will notice any difference using a divider,i use corsair and mine dont like going higher then 230,even with very relaxed timings

 

[cryogenic666]

well, we'll see how it goes... I'll report back with my findings when I'm all done

 

[Linearsoup]

good luck with your overclock

 

[cryogenic666]

well... my RAM officially sucks... 210Mhz @ 2-3-3-6 was the best I could do... couldn't even get 215 Mhz @ CL 2.5 or anything.. and that's at 2.8 Vdimm. Best I managed overall was 235x10 with the RAM at set at 333, which ended up running it at 190Mhz (DDR 380). 240 x 10 booted into windows and ran Prime95 for 10 minutes but then eventually bluescreened with a "machine check error" completely at random. I dropped back to 235 and it's fine. Good enough for me. I'm running 1.5vcore though I could probably get away with lower. It's running 31C at idle.

 

[Allio]

My E6 3200+ topped out at 283x9.0 at 1.50v for about 2.55ghz. Not up to E3 heights, but the way people talk about this stepping you'd think you'd be lucky to get to 2.3.

 

[cryogenic666]

I'm jealous.... Mine's an E3 and 235x10 was the best I could do. Then again, my board wouldn't even boot @ 250 FSB (with any CPU multi). I'm also not running an ATX 2.0 PSU so I only have a 20 pin power cable. Possible that a better PSU might help things?

 

[Allio]

Definitely.

 

[adiabaticgfx]

Originally posted by: cryogenic666
I'm jealous.... Mine's an E3 and 235x10 was the best I could do. Then again, my board wouldn't even boot @ 250 FSB (with any CPU multi). I'm also not running an ATX 2.0 PSU so I only have a 20 pin power cable. Possible that a better PSU might help things?

Try lowering your HT multiplier to 3x.

My week 36 or something E3 venice can barely pull out 2.55gHz but I need better cooling to actually run it there full time.

 

[cryogenic666]

Actually, I set the HT @ auto and it automatically lowers it as it sees fit. Right now it's @ 4x and seems to be doing fine at 2.35Ghz. I'm fine with it where it is so I'm going to leave it until I get a new PSU.