Project Demon Speeding II Underway!

[xipetotec]

Ok, thanks. I'll check it out this evening when I get home from work and post back.

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Also, let me just make sure I have this right. The only really important temps to look at in HWMonitor are the 3 under "Temperatures" right?

With TMPIN0 being vreg, TMPIN1 being Northbridge, and TMPIN2 being CPU? Assuming HWM was just bugging and my actual temps under load were 37, 52, and 47 respectively, are the temps for NB and vreg ok? And as for CPU, doesn't that seems a little hot before I've even started OCing? I was hoping to be able to get it to the 3.8-4.0 range, but with only ~8C to play with, will that be enough?

[Cecil]

Those temps are fine, and you have more then 8C of headroom. You can go up to ~60C. Also, that board overvolts a lot, so you can probably do 4Ghz, at least 3.8Ghz on stock voltage.

[xipetotec]

Oh ok awesome news! Well, as soon as I put my daughter to bed, I'm going to get to work checking the vreg, and then running stock benchmarks. I proly won't be able to get to the actual overclocking until Wed. Thanks again for all your help!

[pilotscrappy]

i noticed you got 2 extra fans i only see you installed 1 in addition to TT stock colorshift fan on top of the case, i have the same case and was wondering did you fan fit when you installed it ?? i havent had any luck finding fans that fit... and also where did you put the 2nd fan ??

[xipetotec]

Originally Posted by pilotscrappy

i noticed you got 2 extra fans i only see you installed 1 in addition to TT stock colorshift fan on top of the case, i have the same case and was wondering did you fan fit when you installed it ?? i havent had any luck finding fans that fit... and also where did you put the 2nd fan ??

Hey Pilot, yea, I got 2 200mm fans. I put one in the top of the case next to the stock colorshift and one on the side panel. They both went in pretty easily, the only problem I had was that the stock screws didn't fit in the holes in the TT case, so I used the extra 4 screws they sent me for the top fan (the same screws that were in the colorshift fan) and used the screws that were holding on the dust filter on the side panel. Both are holding in the case fine and seem to working pretty well.

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Hey, sorry I've been out of commission, my internet went down yesterday, so I haven't had a chance to really do anything. Just playing catch-up now. Another thing I wanted to ask you, Cecil, if hopefully you are still reading this, I finally took down my old PC and set this one up and hooked all my stuff up to it (external HD, printer, 2nd monitor, etc) and did another stock temp check, and my idles went up to about 39-40C (a pretty big jump) however it wasn't much higher on load, but did go up to about 50-51C when running Prime95. I was just concerned and can only assume it's because I have so many other things plugged in.

Also, when I was running prime, I was keeping an eye on my vreg temp and it seemed fine, but I stepped out of the room for a min and when I came back, although the actual temp didn't change, the max value was at 82C again like it did the last time. So I popped open the case and checked it out, and I could touch it, but if I held my hand on it, it was pretty hot. I'm not sure if that's how it's supposed to be or I should be worried and RMA the board or something... Wanted to get your opinion. Thanks!

[Cecil]

Its probably a bug thats making it jump to 82C once. As long as you can stand to touch it its ok, but Id still get a fan pointed there.

As for the CPU temp, that shouldnt be right unless plugging in the other stuff blocked all the airflow in the case. Also check the fan RPM to make sure its spinning apropriatly, and check in the BIOS to see if smart fan or anything like that is enabled.

[xipetotec]

Ok, good. Gonna just keep proceeding then and start on benchmarks. As for fans, I'm not sure what I can really do... I do have my side case fan sitting over my GPU and it should get some air from that, and of course there are 2 200mm fans sitting right on top of it pulling air out of the case... the only other thing I could think to do would be turn one of the fans on top around and have it push air into the case?

As for the temp, yea, I'm not sure what happened... I went into my bios and made sure that all the SMART fan control stuff was off, but I'm still not sure the fans are running at 100%... if they are, it sure is REALLY quiet compared to my old PC. I know there is a psudo-fan control built into the case that controls the stock fans, but it only has a switch for low and high and to change the colors, and of course I have it set to high.

[Cecil]

HWmonitor should be reading your fan speed. As should the BIOS.

[Jahova]

Wow what a nice build.

[xipetotec]

Originally Posted by Jahova

Wow what a nice build.

Thanks!

Sorry I haven't been around, internet was out again for a couple days (long story short, my dog ate the cable running from my house to the pole... 3 times... and no, I'm not joking...). In any case, I was finally able to get settled down tonight and run some stock benchmarks. Going to add it to the first post and see what you guys think before I jump into overclocking.

[xipetotec]

Also, I'm getting pretty worried about the temps.... seems like they are running pretty high. It is a bit warm in my room tonight, but still, with no OC doesn't seem like they should be this high when pretty much all I've done is install stuff... What do you think?

[xipetotec]

Figured I'd throw this in here for anyone else who reads it. I'd like to get some help with my mobo settings and made a post for it here. Any advice would be much appreciated!

[Cecil]

Shouldnt have made a new thread, especially when all your information like CPU, cooling, ram, etc... is here and not there.

For the OCing, what are you trying to achieve? With the same board, CPU, and cooling, I was able to get 4GHz out of mine stable. 3.8Ghz was stable on stock volts, which was 1.4V for me.

What is your stock Vcore? Id try setting it to 1.4V and the CPU multi to 19X and leave the refrence clock at 200 to start with. That would be 3.8Ghz, and you can see how your temps are to see if you can go any further. Leaving the refrence clock at 200 wont change your ram speed, NB, or HT speeds either.

[xipetotec]

Ok, thanks. I'll start with that. The main reason for the other thread was to check and see if there was anything else I should enable/disable from default with the mobo stuff. I think I got most of the important things, but wanted to check for anything I might have missed. Gonna load those settings in and see what I come up with. Be back shortly!

[xipetotec]

Ok, everything seems to be stable at 3.8. Here's a SS of temp with Prime running. The vcore was set to 1.425 by default, so I dropped it to 1.4 and disabled the turbo boost stuff, and so far seems to be running smooth, although temps are floating around 56C. So at this point, do I just start kicking up the multi and running prime for 10 min or so until it becomes unstable? Or is there anything else I should mess with?

[Cecil]

You could either raise the multi to keep the OC simple, or lower it and push the refrence clock to get your mem speed, NB and HT speeds up.

[xipetotec]

Gonna be a really stupid question I'm sure, but what's the difference? I'm not looking to break any kind of records or anything, just to have a solid PC for primarily gaming with some minor encoding (dvd encoding) and really that's about it other than maybe a little photoshop for my wife.

Also, something I know absolutely nothing about, but I was thinking of OCing my video card a bit. Any advice for that or should I just hit up the Nvidia section? Of course, I'm not even going to mess with that until I finish with the CPU OCing.

[Cecil]

Real wold, not much difference. It will help in memory intensive apps having the NB speed a little higher. I would try 240X16, that would give you 2400Mhz NB and HT speed which would help without being really hard or stressfull to get to. And if you use the 1333Mhz memory setting, that should put the ram right back to 1600Mhz.

[xipetotec]

Ok, gonna give it a shot. Back in a few.

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Ok, not sure if I did this right or not.... I couldn't find anywhere in BIOS where I could set it to 240x16, so I just set the NB freq and HT freq to x12 and that bumped them both up to 2400Mhz. Is that right?

[Cecil]

No, you have to set the refrence clock from 200 to 240, keep the NB and HT multipliers at 10x, and set the memory to the 1333 divider so when its running 240 refrence clock the ram will be back to 1600Mhz.