Gigabyte GA-8IEXP and P4 2.26B @ 2890Mhz, 1.65V, 170FSB

[Hamburgerpimp]

Just started messing around with this board. It's really stable with my current settings. Only has a 1:1 FSB/MEM ratio, but what the heck. Using a Enermax 431W PS and Corsair CMX512-2700C2 Memory. I haven't adusted any of the Memory settings. I'll run some benchmarks.

 

[Budman]

P4B533 and Intel Pentium4 2260MHz @ 2822MHz, 1.60 v here.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

The Asus 533 boards are rock solid.

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: Hamburgerpimp
The Asus 533 boards are rock solid.

Yes they are,I can boot to windows at 3ghz but it's not prime95 stable & after reading all the horror stories about overvolting & death I am not going over 1.60v.

A few mhz is not worth a dead cpu. Btw nice Overclock there Hamburgerpimp.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Best of all it's aircooled. I should try some multimedia tests to see if it's stable. The Gigabyte MBM says the CPU is at 33C, which I know is wrong.

 

[Budman]

Give prime95 a try,if either your cpu or ram is flaky it will detect it right away & give you an hardware faillure error.

Some say 24Hr torture test,some say 6hours.

I usualy wait 1 hour & move on.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Running Prime95 right now.

 

[mechBgon]

Hey, can you run my WinZip compression benchmark on it? If you have a standard Unreal Tournament Disc 1, just copy the contents into a new folder on your HDD, and then use WinZip 8.1 to make a Zip file out of the folder, using Maximum compression. So far the fastest Pentium4 + DDR time has been 3 minutes 29 seconds, and the fastest period was under 2 minutes for a P4 with PC1066 RDRAM.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Let me look around, I think I actually have that disc here. Should I do it while I'm running Prime95?

 

[mechBgon]

No, I was more curious to see how fast it completes in best-case circumstances (no antivirus or other background programs running).

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Well, after running it a few times, I took screenshots on the last run. Is the UT file 381 MB (400,334,960 bytes)? My Winzip started at 10:58:31 and finished at 11:00:04. That's just over 1 1/2 minutes. I don't think that's the size of the file. Can you check?

I may have not used maximum compression. Let me try again.

 

[mechBgon]

Mine compressed it to a slightly-different size (398,491,648 bytes) but that's close enough to say your system is Darn Fast My AthlonXP 1700+ on KT333 with PC2100 DDR (not overclocked) took 3:19 to do the compression, for comparison. Evidently Pentium4's are great for WinZip. I wonder why the other Pentium4 DDR results were so far back from the RDRAM results...

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Yeah, 2:40 for Maximum Compression for 380 MB (398,470,356 bytes). I wonder why there is so little difference in size between min and max compression.

I don't think I have my Memory tweaked all that much. The bandwidth of RDRam, especially PC1066 is insane. Try running the Sandra tests on those!

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

I ran it again and it was 2:40 with NAV and IE6 running!

 

[Sukhoi]

Originally posted by: Hamburgerpimp
Just started messing around with this board. It's really stable with my current settings. Only has a 1:1 FSB/MEM ratio, but what the heck. Using a Enermax 431W PS and Corsair CMX512-2700C2 Memory. I haven't adusted any of the Memory settings. I'll run some benchmarks.

Any idea why you only have a 1:1 FSB/RAM ratio? You should have 4:3 too. I'm interested to see if the board will also run DDR 340 when using the 4:3 ratio as it seems like a lot of 8IEXPs have problems with high RAM speeds.

 

[Hamburgerpimp]

Yeah, it does have 4:3, I'll have to mess around with that. Damn work gets in the way of play.

 

[Cable God]

hmmm, I got my 1.8a to 2520. Tried 150FSB but no go Maybe needs a bit more tweaking.