Overclock/Benchmark results from my New FX-55

[DragonFire]

Ok, I just got everything up and running and figured I would shared my benchmark/overclock results.
A Quick note about my temps in CoreCenter. The NEO2 seems to have a bios/board flaw that causes the temps to be read wrong.....really wrong. However, I believe the CPU temp is really my PSU reading, and my system temp reading is really my CPU temp.

System Specs with pricing:

$100 - Antec PlusView1000AMG SOHO
$150 - Antec NeoPower 480W PSU
$140 - MSI NEO2 Platinum
$841 - AMD FX-55
$248 - Corsair 1GB 3200XLPT
$350 - ATI X800 PRO
$200 - SB Audigy ZS Platinum
$70 - NEC 3500A DVD burner
$75 - Seagate SATA 80GB
$90 - Seagate ATA 120GB
$300 - ViewSonic P95F+
$350 - Klipsch Promedia 5.1 Ultra
$140 - Logitech Cordless Desktop MX
$195 - DangerDen TDX waterblock, MAZE4 waterblock, Heatercore, 20FT Tygon 3603 Tubing.

I think that is everything....Now for the benchs.

Current settings:
12x236 - 2830Mhz
Ram @ 2.5-3-3-6
ATI X800 Pro @ 551/551
AA/AF set to App control


Sandra-Arithmetic

Sandra-Multi-Media

Sandra-MemTest

AMD N-Bench 3.1

AquaMark3

3DMark 2001

3DMark 2003

3DMark 2005

I would like to point out that my ram can run at 2-3-3-6 at 236Mhz, however Super PI and 3Dmark 2005 much give errors/crash but all others run without a problem. Any ideas why that is?

I really haven't tweaked anything yet like my video settings. I also need to play around more with how fast I can get my chip to go. Since my res and heatercore are outside I should have no problems getting to 3-3.1Ghz. Once I nstall HL2 I'll add what there stress test gives me.

So what do all think? Do my scores look about avg? Above avg? Any suggestions on how I can get more out of it? And what is up with my ram @ CAS2 causing only Super Pi and 3dmark 05 to crash?

 

[Duvie]

Yeah it is unstable!!! Superpi and 3dmark are far mopre forgiving then prime95 which I am sure would error out in a few minutes....try cas 2 at 2,4,4,8 or greater....

 

[DragonFire]

Originally posted by: Duvie
Yeah it is unstable!!! Superpi and 3dmark are far mopre forgiving then prime95 which I am sure would error out in a few minutes....try cas 2 at 2,4,4,8 or greater....

My voltage is at 1.6V btw. I just find it odd that I did the Sandra benchs and Aquamark, 3Dmark01 and 03 str8 in a row without a problem and yet 3Dmark05 crashs back to the desktop and superpi fails 1MB and up tests.

I'll give 2-4-4-8 a try but would that be faster then 2.5-3-3-6?

EDIT:

HL2's strees test at 1600x1200 4XAA 8XAF was 89FPS avg.

 

[DragonFire]

I'm now running at 266Mhz x 11 = 2936Mhz. Mem timings at 2.5-3-3-8. Sandra memory scores went up to 7845/7721.

 

[DragonFire]

WOW! I was expecting more replies then this....

 

[zakee00]

dont worry about timings, the difference is NOT noticible in any games. and you really need to run prime95 for a few hours...if your system crashes on superpi, its not stable at all.

 

[DragonFire]

Memory timings were causing Super Pi to crash.