The Intel 630 4ghz Project

[neokeelo]

Tonight I am planning my overclocking for this weekend. It would greatly help me out if you guys could help me along the way. Right now I am planning out what settings I will need to change and what I need to keep a close eye on. I have overclocked before but I am doing it this way to make sure I "go by the book" to say.

I will be using the following
CPU- Intel 630 3ghz cooling via Thermaltake Blue Orb II
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116198
Ram - OCZ 26672048ELDCGE-K 2GB Kit DDR2-667 PC2-5400 Gold Edition 4-4-4-8
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=85206

Motherboard - ASUS P5WD2 Premium
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131534

Here is a simple spreadsheet of what I intend to do starting Sunday.
If I am leaving anything out, please correct me.

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a397/neokeelo/Spreadsheet1.jpg
After many hour of installing stuff and a little burn in I ran my first test.

I think my voltages and temps are a little high. Do you?

Stock run

1st RUN HERE
What ya think?

Also is there anyway I can post the pics here in the forum?

 

[stevty2889]

Hmm, stock voltage is a little high, but should be fine, just means you can go longer without a voltage adjustment. 58C isn't bad for stock speeds, it's a Prescott after all. Just keep you temps below 67c while overclocked, or you'll start throttling, and lose all the performance you gained from the overclock. Normaly throttling kicks in at ~72c, but it kicks in at lower temps when you overclock, mainly from voltage increases. Should be good up to about 1.55v, I wouldn't go higher than that on a Prescott.

 

[neokeelo]

That 58C was the max temp I wanted to hit. The load temp is 52C

 

[stevty2889]

Originally posted by: neokeelo
That 58C was the max temp I wanted to hit. The load temp is 52C

Nice, no problems then, thats an excellent load temp for a Prescott.

 

[acegazda]

never even heard of the thermaltake blue orb, how much did you pay for it?

 

[neokeelo]

$40

Im at 3.53Ghz right now with 57C load temps kinda hot

Voltage in the bios is set to 1.4V but in windows everything reads it as 1.46V while idle and 1.41V when I'm at load.

 

[acegazda]

its not terrible for 3.5 ghz but you could be doing better. If youre disatisfied with that I would check out the thermalright xp-90c. Its all copper as opposed to your copper core thermaltake. at 50 dba, it does 28c...not too shabby. Yours idles at 38c if im not mistaken, inferior to that of the xp-90c and other heatpip coolers.

 

[neokeelo]

here is an Update.

I am overclocking right now. It would greatly help me out if you guys could guide me along the way.

I am using the following
CPU- Intel 630 3ghz cooling via Thermaltake Blue Orb II
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16819116198
Ram - OCZ 26672048ELDCGE-K 2GB Kit DDR2-667 PC2-5400 Gold Edition 4-4-4-8
http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=85206
Motherboard - ASUS P5WD2 Premium
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131534


After many hour of installing stuff and a little burn in I ran my first test.


3.53Ghz was not stable

3.6
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Im running mine at 3.6ghz 250x15 1.435V in bios but I get 1.51V Idle in Windows.
I can't seem to move up any at all. Any Ideas?

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: neokeelo

Also is there anyway I can post the pics here in the forum?

Sry, no.

 

[secretanchitman]

Originally posted by: Maluno

Originally posted by: neokeelo

Also is there anyway I can post the pics here in the forum?

Sry, no.

sure you can. just upload your picture to a site like imageshack, or our own bbzzdd.com and just link it in your post!

 

[neokeelo]

If I go past 242FSB in the bios it does not want to boot even when I give it up to 1.55v in the bios ( Im afraid to go any more because this board overvolts a little bit) I am running my ram at stock settings all the time to try and test out my chip.

 

[neokeelo]

nevermind, the higest I can get it is still 242fsb 3.6ghz with standard ram timings. I ran memtest86 last night and got an error on one of my sticks so i think im going to send it back for some diffrent ram. Does anyone know if having a bad stick of ram can limit the overclock even if you are running the ram at rated speed?

I hope this is the case because no matter what I do I can not get past 242 fsb.

 

[neokeelo]

Here is a current screen of my overclock. I am at 4ghz now wOOT! I'm just trying to get prime to be stable.

I went from 6mins, to 10mins, to 20mins to 1 hour 40 mins of being stable, each time upping the cpu voltage by 1 notch.

Now I am at 1.475V and have not ran prime yet. I hope it will stay stable at this voltage.

I get 41C idle and 61-63C Load it has gone up to 65C but it goes back down.

 

[neokeelo]

I am running 3.75Ghz right now for 27\7 use at 1.45V 4ghz is fine for most games (BF2, Quake 4, UT2004) but has crashed a few times in windows when using ventrilo (althought it might be my craapy soundblaster driver)

and when I played TOCA3 with all the Starforce checking everything it crashes about 5 mins into the game.

I think 3.75 with overclocked x1800XT 685\795 will be fine for gaming untl newer games come out or I can get a better cooler and Power supply.

As for benchmarks. At 4ghz , ram @ 712Mhz , x1800xt at 680/794 I get

3dmark 2003 = 17944
3dmark 2006 = 4452
Quake 3 "Fast" = 418fps
Super PI 1MB = 31 secs

Does that seem about right?

However this is NOT 24\7 stable with all programs and games so I'm not going to leave it at this.