Check out my OC

[996GT2]

Well, after a lot of on and off testing over the past few months, it looks like this is what I'm going to be sticking with for a while...

2.8 GHz @ 1.344V (Mobo undervolts; set to 1.375V)
DDR2-620@ 3-4-4-12
Idle temp 28C, load temp 38C (in a moderately cool house)
The SuperPi 32M time was with RAM at CAS 4, I have yet to SuperPi at CAS 3 (only primed for ~ 12 hrs last night)

http://i78.photobucket.com/albums/j120/996gt2/CPU2-1.jpg

So how's it seem?

 

[Duvie]

that is below stock vcore right? Why not try for 3ghz?

 

[996GT2]

Well, 3 GHz presents a weird situation for my RAM...right now I have it at 620MHz on CAS 3...if I did OC to 3 GHz, then the RAM would be at DDR2-800...and my OCZ Gold has no affinity for high clock speeds. So if I were to do 3 GHz it'd either be DDR2-800 or 545...not totally stable at the former even with 2.3V, and the latter would probably not get me any performance gains over what I've got now.

Now if MSI were to hurry up and provide some more RAM dividers in the next BIOS version, that'd be a different story

 

[avi85]

Originally posted by: Duvie
that is below stock vcore right? Why not try for 3ghz?

:thumbsup:

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: 996GT2
Well, 3 GHz presents a weird situation for my RAM...right now I have it at 620MHz on CAS 3...if I did OC to 3 GHz, then the RAM would be at DDR2-800...and my OCZ Gold has no affinity for high clock speeds. So if I were to do 3 GHz it'd either be DDR2-800 or 545...not totally stable at the former even with 2.3V, and the latter would probably not get me any performance gains over what I've got now.

Now if MSI were to hurry up and provide some more RAM dividers in the next BIOS version, that'd be a different story

I see your point.....That is tue you have to way out the gains versus the factors...possible instability, added heat due to added vcore and vdimm, and overclocking dangers...

If there is no tangible gains for the work I would stay where you are at....maybe an ocing bios can be created by others or will be released...I wouldn't count on it though...

Stll that aside that is a damn nice OC...the AM2 chips seem to show me 3ghz is attainable...Unfortunately that is not much better then a stock E6700 now and still behind most all of the C2D chips that can hit 3ghz now if not more...

I would like to see how 65nm chips may help the speeds of these chips...at this point AMD just needs to stay close and hope its quad core solution will be better...