Love my 9NPA+ Ultra!

[ChicagoPCGuy]

My first attempt at overclocking and I get a FX-55. My GOD DO NOT BUY THE 3700 SAN DIEGO FOR STOCK SPEED--IT IS NO FASTER THAN A NEWCASTLE 3500, BUT BUY IT FOR THE SERIOUS OVERCLOCKS YOU WILL GET!!!!!

System spec:

EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra
San Diego 3700+
1 Gig Patriot XBLK (2 x 512MB)
eVGA 6800GT
Chaintech AV-710
Hitachi T7K250 160 Gig SATA II 3G/Sec Hdd
NEC 3520A DVD Burner
Thermalright XP-90C
Antec SLK-3750 BQE with 2 x Vantec Stealth 120MM
Alps 3.5" floppy
AMC 7 in 1 media reader
OCZ 520 Watt Power Stream PSU

Clocked to the following:

FSB = 240 Mhz (CPU FSB therefore 240Mhz and RAM is DDR 480)
CPU speed = 2640 Mhz
HTT multiplier at 4X, yielding 960 Mhz
CPU Voltage at 1.45 Volt (default was 1.4)
RAM voltage at 2.9V
Default chipset voltage being used
RAM timings: CAS 2.5-3-3-8 1T

MemTest86+ 1.55 passes
SuperPI passes
Prime95 stable with blend torture test for 11 hours

CPU Temps:

Idle: 41C
Load: 56C

Yes, I am using AS-5.

BTW, I am also running a Zalman northbridge cooler (the big tall blue one). It is epoxied on using Arctic Alumina Thermal Epoxy.

Since I know this is an overclock I am willing to live with day in and day out, I am reluctant to push futher, although I am sure I could.

Edited to add PSU type.

 

[imported_Talisman]

Nice overclock...!!! Keep it up buddy. 1 thing is can u tell me what is NCQ...people are telling about? Sorry 'bout the dump question though...I just don't seem to know.....

 

[ChicagoPCGuy]

Hey guy!

NCQ, or Native Command Queueing, is another method for the hard disk drive to read and write data to and from the drive. It is designed to make random read requests faster by intelligently reordering commands on the fly. It is most useful in multi-user (read: server) environments where there are a lot of outstanding random read requests. In a desktop environment, there is no benefit to NCQ and it should be disabled.

A version of NCQ, or TCQ (Tagged Command Queueing) has been in use since the day SCSI first came out. It was previously a technology only seen on file servers. The WD Raptor has TCQ, but not NCQ.

I hope I am making sense here. If you wish to use NCQ, you must have a harddrive that supports it, and a chipset that supports it as well. Your system motherboard suports it (from your signature).

There are only three chipsets that support NCQ with a NCQ harddrive:

nForce4 Ultra/SLI
Intel ICH6/R
Uli M1573 southbridge