If at first you don't succeed...

[v8envy]

So I've had this X3210 for about a month and a half. It's been chugging along in the house server. Ripping DVDs, shaping traffic, serving VMs, doing work stuff, playing music, driving the 65" tv. Usual home PC duty.

My wife and kids are out of town for the weekend, so I decided to shut the thing down and give OCing another try.

For those of you not keeping score, I hit 8x374 on that chip and could go no further. 7x374 -> POST but hang on booting.

Today I was feeling lucky. Now that the CPU has been broken in I figured I'd give it one more shot. Dialed it straight to 8x400, made sure PCIe bus was locked, no speedstep or c1e, checked to see the nb had +.1 juice and let 'er rip.

Short story long, it's been an hour of 8xmprime instances at 3.2 ghz so far. Temperatures are 56-58c via lm-sensors (equivalent to speedfan, not coretemp so I'm looking at 70-ish core temps). I see I'm going to have to work on airflow a bit.

Consider me happy. That < 3 ghz G0 quad was my first failed overclock since I started with a 486/66 cranked up to 80. But today, looks like the streak of successful overclocks continues unbroken. =)

Moral of the story: after chips are broken in sometimes they may get over their weird hangups.

 

[JAG87]

OR you were stuck at an fsb hole and didn't dare to go straight to 400...

I'd say the moral of the story is: grow some balls and stop increasing FSB by 1 Mhz at a time

congrats on your new OC

 

[v8envy]

Thanks for the congrats. I did try 400 mhz before -- at 7x400. Absolutely no go. My ram was fine into mid 900 mhz, but I didn't try any higher FSB figuring it was pointless. Hmmm. If it passes overnight, I may just see how high this bad boy will go on 1.35.

A little voice inside is saying I may need a new board by the time the family comes back...

 

[bryanW1995]

CRANK THAT MOFO UP TO 8X475!!! :evil:

 

[v8envy]

On a stock cooler & TIM looking at a possible 70C tjunction already? As a wise man once said upon hearing beeeep beeeep beeep beepbeepbipbip "Get outa there, it's gonna blow!"

410 booted and ran mprime fine. I think I'll just see if it'll boot at 425 and declare victory.

I do have an unused Koolance case and some fans to point at the chipset. Wonder if I could somehow adapt an Athlon water block to this bad boy or if that hacked up 600 watt PSU with only 24 amps on the 12v rail would work...

 

[bryanW1995]

yeah, um, if you're already at 70c then you might want to stop at 410...3280 is pretty good for stock cooling!

of course, with good sandpaper, some toothpicks, pliers, and duct tape that athlon water block should be gtg. that could get you to 8x450...

 

[soccerballtux]

Originally posted by: JAG87
OR you were stuck at an fsb hole and didn't dare to go straight to 400...

I'd say the moral of the story is: grow some balls and stop increasing FSB by 1 Mhz at a time

congrats on your new OC

this is what I do.

I research beforehand to know what the general limit of the chip is, and then I crank it 2daMAX right off the bat after I've verified the temps are fine (that I seated the CPU correctly).

I pumped my e2180 right to 10x320 and increased the voltage until it suck; because I knew I could get it with my TR-Ultra120 cooler.

Then I got ambition and pumped it to 340 and found I could get it at 1.5075 in the BIOS-- and 1.48 after vdroop, in CPUz-- right below the rated max of 1.5V for these CPUs.

So happy.