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aussiejunior · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 6:15 am Post subject: Can I go any higher?

Hey all.

I recently bought a new rig, stats are in me sig. I was just wondering how much higher I can take this e8500. I am running the noctua nhu12b cooler
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RockyAMD · Black Belt Joined: 15 Aug 2004 Posts: 780 Location: Ohio

You can keep going, and stop when your computer becomes unstable. Make sure your temps are low and voltages aren't too high. Or until you hit a fsb wall.
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aussiejunior · Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2008 5:43 pm Post subject:

The main problem is I can seem to get it stable over 1600mhz fsb. Anything higher and it either reboots endlessly or just wont load windows or play something simple like diablo 1
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core i7 920@4.0ghz
asrock x58 extreme 3
6 gig ocz ddr3 1866mhz @ 1600mhz
evga gtx 460 1gb external exhaust *2
Creative x-fi xtreme gamer
custom watercooling loop for both cpu and gpus

evasive · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 1:37 am Post subject:

are you sure that is not the motherboard cr*pping out? What is the maximum FSB reported on this board?
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aussiejunior · Posted: Wed Jul 23, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

The rated maximum fsb is 2000mhz,
It supports 1600mhz cpus such as the qx9770.
It even supprots the ddr3 2ghz I have with overclocking.
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core i7 920@4.0ghz
asrock x58 extreme 3
6 gig ocz ddr3 1866mhz @ 1600mhz
evga gtx 460 1gb external exhaust *2
Creative x-fi xtreme gamer
custom watercooling loop for both cpu and gpus

aussiejunior · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 2:40 am Post subject:

doesn't matter much now anyway lol...
This is the second time I've had to send the board back with a dead bios... And apparantly this time there must of been something screwed with the motherboard as the company who I got it through have sent it back to their supplier.
It's been like a month and I've only been able to use the board for approx 2 or 3 days total.
So I'm not really impressed with the board or xfx (whom make awsome vid cards... only killed one in 5 years), why would such a big company bring out such a dodgy board? A qucik google search on the board turns up a ton of people who all have been having nothing but bios troubles with the board, and when xfx released the updated bioses to fix the problem then if you don't flash from a floppy you can kiss the board goodbye, even though xfx reccomends you use the nvidia system tools.
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core i7 920@4.0ghz
asrock x58 extreme 3
6 gig ocz ddr3 1866mhz @ 1600mhz
evga gtx 460 1gb external exhaust *2
Creative x-fi xtreme gamer
custom watercooling loop for both cpu and gpus

evasive · Posted: Fri Aug 01, 2008 4:46 am Post subject:

somehow flashing through anything but a floppy drive still gives major headaches overall. I have no idea why, one would think there's been enough progress in the area of making things bootable be it under DOS or Linux.

Flashing from within anything windows still is not an option for me. At all. I'd rather put out a special PXE-image for that matter.
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aussiejunior · Posted: Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:38 am Post subject:

Then why would xfx post on their website to use the nvidia system tools?
And in my own personal experience using the asus windows bios updating utility for me has been nothing but flawless for the last 3 years at least.
So not all things are bad lol
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core i7 920@4.0ghz
asrock x58 extreme 3
6 gig ocz ddr3 1866mhz @ 1600mhz
evga gtx 460 1gb external exhaust *2
Creative x-fi xtreme gamer
custom watercooling loop for both cpu and gpus

evasive · Posted: Sun Aug 03, 2008 2:19 am Post subject:

well, I have used a windows flash utility more than once but always on a crisp clean windows install. If a system has quirks I shall not and will not use a windows flash utility.
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aussiejunior · Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 2:42 pm Post subject:

Well I finally got the board back....lol, This time round the supplier had to replace it as it was dead dead lol, I managed to get the p06 bios on. I cheated alil and used the gigabyte @bios utility lol
Now that the board is working properly it's a real screamer lol,
with alil overclocking setting the cpu @ 4.25ghz the 9600's @ 770 core 1750 shader and 1003 mem I was able to get a score of 18639 in 3dmark06.
Thats bloody quick considering I'm running a dual core and two tiny video cards lol
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core i7 920@4.0ghz
asrock x58 extreme 3
6 gig ocz ddr3 1866mhz @ 1600mhz
evga gtx 460 1gb external exhaust *2
Creative x-fi xtreme gamer
custom watercooling loop for both cpu and gpus

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