My small overclock

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I finally got my motherboard yesterday and I've been playing around a bit. Here are the specs:

Asus Striker Extreme
Intel Core2Quad Q6600 G0 stepping on stock cooling
2GB Corsair Twin2X XMS2 DDR2-800
GeForce 7900GT/GTO 512MB
500W Thermaltake TR2-500

I've bumped the FSB to 1,333MHz resulting in 3GHz per core, set the FSB/RAM ratio to 1:1 so the RAM runs at DDR2-667 but I've tightened the timings a lot (4-4-4-12 1T) which actually increased performance over the stock DDR2-800 :D Completely stable, able to complete 32 million digits of PI in SuperPI :)

SuperPI 1 million digits of PI = 19s :cool: I know it might not sound great, but my previous PC took 1m44s :eek:

Just wanted to let you guys know: G0 stepping rules! :D

EDIT: Whoops, forgot about my graphics card :o
 
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Way to go man *applaudes ;) Did u run any other benchmarks yet? 3d or pc marks? Feel free to share with us ...
 
Thats nothing to boast about :p... get that puppy cracking!!!.. i wanna see 3.5 atleast! Cough out a good HSF first though :D
 
xeo: Thanks xeo :) I'm a bit busy with exams at the moment, I'll only really start properly benchmarking my PC sometime after Thursday :o I'll keep you guys updated, though. I've only got a GeForce 7900GT so the graphics will suffer a bit... :o

MoH: Well, that's why I call it my small overclock :D I really want to buy a better HSF but I need to buy one that'll fit on my motherboard. The Striker Extreme has a lot of heatsinks around the CPU area... I'll see if I can buy a Zalman within the next few months, though.

That's quite an overclock on that E6550! :eek:
 
Well, back at stock settings for now, noticed the load temps were about 85'C per core when running Prime95 for a couple of hours :eek:

Truth be told I can't see such a big difference in the games, although UT2004 dropped a few frames... Still 150FPS+ though...

Now the big conundrum: Do I buy myself a better cooler to replace the stock cooling or save money for an 8800GT? :D
 
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Well, back at stock settings for now, noticed the load temps were about 85'C per core when running Prime95 for a couple of hours :eek:

Truth be told I can't see such a big difference in the games, although UT2004 dropped a few frames... Still 150FPS+ though...

Now the big conundrum: Do I buy myself a better cooler to replace the stock cooling or save money for an 8800GT? :D
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Ooh normally i would say difficult choice but maybe wait a little bit for all the new Gfx cards over the next month. But i would prob def go for a new card though! And when you do go for a HS..take some time to look at the thermalright ultima 90. Bad-ass little cooler.
 
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