heres an excerpt from another forum on vsta/4300 overclocking and some results compared to an athlon 64. BTW my e4300 and asrock dual will be here on mon. !!!!!
Update,
Processor received and temporary assembled with the original fan.
First thoughts and elements:
-Better mount the intel fan outside the case as it is hard to clip and on a flat surface (table).
-For the MB AsRock 775DualVSTA, I had the bios 1.80 pre-installed and couldn't install WinXP until updated to Bios 2.10
So if you fear bios update by dos disk, better buy the 4CORE DUAL-VSTA motherboard which is a more recent revision, you won't have this problem (verified in hardware forums).
I run on a temporary hard drive to see how it reacts;
- It doesn't heat (52°C full load both cores)
- Very reactive feeling
- Easy overclock from 200 (1800) to 267 (2404); still doesn't heat
More infos when available.
Did
Pookie
27th January 2007, 21:54
Well done
BigDid
28th January 2007, 19:55
Well done
Well yes and no,
With that 1.80 bios stuff, I had problems with my windows partitions on my HDD so I do have a working SP2 on an empty disk but my WIndows boot partitions are quite messed up
BTW I never used the recover documents and parameters assistant from WInXP so if I can figure it out it could be a good occasion to learn
If not I guess starting from scratch is not a bad thing as I have transferred my main working partition From SP1 to SP2 and from a Athlon 2400 to 2800 to an AMD64 (754) in the 3 past years... but I need time for that and I don't have much ATM.
Wait and see.
Some tests made with the SP2 on the empty disk:
- Nuclearus went from 3500 for the AMD64
to 5100 for the C2D@1800
to 6700@2400 with some tunings
to 7200@2600
- SuperPi went from 39s for the AMD64
to 33s@1800 defaults settings and RAM @166
to 25s@2400 with Ram@200-1T-3.3.3.8
to 24s@2600
The Dual VSTA MOBO can have 2T and aggressive timings or 1T (with Ram voltage to High) and SPD timings, not both.
It also seems both settings give +- same results so, for overclocking, I go with 1T and SPD.
Working @ 2400 until all is settled and stable, 2600 is functional even if not stable tested, so it seems I will reach my goal
Did
Did
Pookie
2nd February 2007, 19:15
So thumbs up or thumbs down so far ?
Blue_MiSfit
3rd February 2007, 03:26
They're $176 @ Newegg now - I will get some C2D love happening soon
BigDid
3rd February 2007, 04:08
So thumbs up or thumbs down so far ?
I have been out all the week, coming back home late so I just toyed with the working SP2. I will have part of the week end to see if the mess is recoverable ...
@ Blue_MiSfit
They're $176 @ Newegg now They are now at 165? at my french internet reseller.
So far, I have made tests with a short divx trailer clip 1 pass encoding with Autogk, results to come soon.
@Pookie,The following may interest you
I re-made the tests with the avisynth script and made the MT working so if I don't have the record I should not be far
I will post results directly in the avisynth thread soon: /DONE/
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=120371&page=4
Did
Edit: Autogk test for the LastManStanding.divx divx6 trailer (with menus) 1mn 36s
Agk 1 pass, 75% - no audio -
Athlon 64@2420Mhz (see sig)
Duration was: 1 minute, 52 seconds
Speed was: 25,58 fps.
Job finished. Total time: 2 minutes 37 seconds
E4300 stock speed 1800Mhz
Duration was: 1 minute, 15 seconds (-33%)
Speed was: 38,08 fps.
Job finished. Total time: 1 minute, 41 seconds
E4300 speed 2400Mhz
Duration was: 1 minute, 3 seconds (-44%)
Speed was: 45,25 fps.
Job finished. Total time: 1 minute, 27 seconds
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