Rate My First OC 3700+ @2860mhz

[btabios]

Hey guys,

I've completed my first stable oc today here's what I have:

AMD64 3700+ San Deigo @260x11=2860mhz
Zalman CNPS7700-ALCU
OCZ PC4000 2gb Gold Gamer XTC DDR Kit @260ddr 3-4-3-8
a8n-sli premium bios: 1011
Antec TX1050B with 500W SmartPower 2.0 PSU
xfx 7800 gt @ 480/1140 on stock cooling (getting a artic nv silencer 5 rev 3 soon)
Maxtor DiamondMax 10 - 200 GB SATA 16MB Cache 7200rpm w/NCQ
LG GSA-4167B Dual Layer 16x
Floppy
Windows XP Pro
Latest Nforce4 drivers
Latest Gforce drivers

Voltages:
CPU: 1.488
Ram: set to auto, not sure what the actual voltage is (how can I check?)
PCI-E: ?

Temperatures (Degrees C) with CNPS7700 @ 1800RPM
Ambient: 29
CPU Idle: 32
CPU Load: 43
GPU Idle: 38
GPU Load: 62

Prime95 for 3 1/2 hours no erros
Memtest86+ for 3 hours no errors.
TTHDRIBL (8 multi-sample 1280x933 ~25fps) for 1 hour stable, no artifacts
3DMark05 no artifacts

Super Pi 8M: 5m 45s
PCMark05 Score: 4837
3DMark05 Score: 7938
Sandra CPU Arithmetic 12902 MIPS, 5832 MFLOPS
Sandra Memory Bandwidth Benchmark: 5998MB/s and 6057MB/s
Sandra Cache @ Mem Benchmark: 7789MB/s Combined Index

I haven't tested my max memory frequency or my max cpu frequency yet. I heard these ram sticks can go up to 265mhz from a review. I'm not sure how high my CPU Frequency can go though. Should I drop my multi down to 10 and run a divider enstead of 1:1? I'm pretty excited about this 40% overclock and I would like to tweek a littlebit more. Coments, suggestions, improvments would help me alot!

Thanks,
Brian

 

[Painman]

2860 on a 3700+ is very nice, and on very sane voltage :thumbsup:

OC only one thing at a time to find limits. CPU should run Prime small FFT for at least 12 and preferably 24 hours to ensure complete stability. If it can run 3 1/2 hours on 1.488 that's very promising. It may need a bit more to pass a 12-24 test, but not much more. Run it and see. Don't let RAM or other things interfere, slow them down, drop them out of the picture - CPU speed > *. Make everything else work around that once you find its max.

 

[bjc112]

Looks awesome!

3 Hours is not enough for stability though.. Keep pushing.. I would bump those volts.. You easily have 2.95ghz in there!

 

[drpootums]

other than the suggested running Prime for at least 12 hours to make sure of stability, very nice!

 

[furballi]

Excellent. It's easy when you have a good chip.

 

[btabios]

Thanks for the suggestions guys! I'll run Prime95 over night tonight and see how that goes. Just to make sure it passes the overnight test, I'll set my cpu voltage at 1.5125 and ddr voltage at 2.7 (resonable?). So you guys wouldn't suggest droping the multi to 10, and trying to increase my cpu freq?

 

[Painman]

I would leave the volts at 1.488. See if that passes overnight. If it does, shoot for 2915 and save the extra voltage for that test if needed. 🙂

 

[StrangerGuy]

Congratulations you have the fastest chip on the whole planet at 2860GHz!

 

[Painman]

Originally posted by: StrangerGuy
Congratulations you have the fastest chip on the whole planet at 2860GHz!

I noticed that, but decided to let someone else razz him for it 😀

 

[btabios]

lol, my fault