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Conroe - C2D (Overclocking) Results

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Pederv

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This has a poll with it.
FSB speed, C2D chip type and speed.
Motherboard and memory speed.


Note: Must be a member to view results

Edit 1: Changed the name

Edit 2: I don't think I'll be able to coralate the polls to what people have, but putting your system information will help people know which configurations are working.

Edit 3: Modified sub-title.
 
Sigh...so many P5W's, even though the 975X isn't really "officially" meant for Conroe like the 965 is (and yes, I saw the article with the different boards all being overclocked).

Anyways, I've got an Asus P5B system that should be coming online tomorrow, so I'll answer the poll then. Shooting for a 3.6 GHz overclock at a minimum, with hopefully closer to 4.0 Ghz if I get really lucky.
 
Added the MSI 975X

What would be REALLY NICE is if all these polls could be linked to show what motherboard with what CPU with what memory at what speed and FSB. It would make for a big chart, but the chart could be downsized if only non-zero results were shown.
 
Is 'Memory' meant to indicate the rated speed of the RAM, or the final operational speed? If the latter, then the options should probably be ranges, like for the FSB settings.
 
Originally posted by: Some1ne
Is 'Memory' meant to indicate the rated speed of the RAM, or the final operational speed? If the latter, then the options should probably be ranges, like for the FSB settings.
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Rated speed. Changed it in the poll. With the FSB changed a lower rated memory could be higher than the operational speed of higher rated memory, causing confusion.
 
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
The poll doesn't really tell us what a particular user started out with. So what are we to make of this?
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For those that are asking, "What motherboard should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What C2D should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What speed memory should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What kind of overclock will I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.

I still say it would be REALLY NICE is if all these polls could be linked to show what motherboard with what CPU with what memory at what speed and FSB.
 
I still say it would be REALLY NICE is if all these polls could be linked to show what motherboard with what CPU with what memory at what speed and FSB.
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Well, you could always ask people to do like eelw did and post their specs in addition to voting in the poll, and then aggregate the data by hand. I got:

Asus P5B Deluxe
Conroe E6600
2 GB G.Skill DDR2-800 CL4 RAM

...chip should be here in another hour or two, so I'll have overclocking results sometime tonight, probably late.
 
Good poll, it will at least help us to see if some patterns develop. If all goes well I'll be posting my own results tomorrow 😀
 
Chip is here, popped it in and everything just sprang to life (just about all the other components arrived 2 days ago, so it was all assembled and waiting). Formatting my RAID to install Windows now. Overclocking to commance after a BIOS flash and driver install/refresh.

Oh, and the latest P5B BIOS boost the maximum allowable FSB to 650 MHz. That should make a lot of people with E6300 and E6400 chips very happy. Not too useful with my E6600 though...I doubt it can hit 5.95 GHz under any circumstance.
 
Originally posted by: Pederv
Originally posted by: keysplayr2003
The poll doesn't really tell us what a particular user started out with. So what are we to make of this?
Click to expand...

For those that are asking, "What motherboard should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What C2D should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What speed memory should I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.
For those that are asking, "What kind of overclock will I get?", they can see what everyone else is getting.

I still say it would be REALLY NICE is if all these polls could be linked to show what motherboard with what CPU with what memory at what speed and FSB.
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Still interesting to see that most people aren't topping 3.4GHz. I guess the Anandtech article got my hopes up 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Some1ne
Chip is here, popped it in and everything just sprang to life (just about all the other components arrived 2 days ago, so it was all assembled and waiting). Formatting my RAID to install Windows now. Overclocking to commance after a BIOS flash and driver install/refresh.

Oh, and the latest P5B BIOS boost the maximum allowable FSB to 650 MHz. That should make a lot of people with E6300 and E6400 chips very happy. Not too useful with my E6600 though...I doubt it can hit 5.95 GHz under any circumstance.
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4 ghz won't be likely either.

it seems like most that have hit 4 on air were engineering samples.
 
Originally posted by: Some1ne
Chip is here, popped it in and everything just sprang to life (just about all the other components arrived 2 days ago, so it was all assembled and waiting). Formatting my RAID to install Windows now. Overclocking to commance after a BIOS flash and driver install/refresh.

Oh, and the latest P5B BIOS boost the maximum allowable FSB to 650 MHz. That should make a lot of people with E6300 and E6400 chips very happy. Not too useful with my E6600 though...I doubt it can hit 5.95 GHz under any circumstance.
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Increased possible FSB's to 649.
 
Intermediate update while windows installs updates...with everything at stock, idle temps are about 38 degrees on the CPU, both cores at full load give 46.5 degrees. A little warmer than hoped for, though still quite a bit of headroom to take things higher. Mainboard temp is reported as 32 degrees.

This is with the retail box version of the E6600, and the Zalman 9500 AT cooler w/ Arctic Silver 5.

Edit: superpi benchmarks on the new setup are consistently a solid 50% better than my previous system (X2 3800+ @ 2.4 GHz), and this is with everything *stock*. I can't wait to see what happens when I start tweaking...it looks like doubling the performance of my previous system is not entirely out of the question, depending upon how things scale.
 
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