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[Solaris17]

I've just purchased an EVGA X58 board and 2GB of RAM to run in it. I'm going to pick up an i7-920 as soon as I hear back from the seller about his PayPal address
I'll pick up a Xigmatek Gaia later on and I'm hoping for ~3.5-4GHz or so, depending on temperatures

the 3x sli?

 

[[Ion]]

the 3x sli?

Yeah, why do you ask?

GL with that Pops!

 

[Solaris17]

Yeah, why do you ask?

GL with that Pops!

my foirst i7 was a water cooled 3x sli with a 920, pay attention to VTT and watch VRM heat.

 

[[Ion]]

my foirst i7 was a water cooled 3x sli with a 920, pay attention to VTT and watch VRM heat.

I'll keep that in mind, thank you!

 

[Chicken Patty]

I'm going to carry over my discussion from the pie thread to over here.

Since the rig (x3 720) went down again yesterday. I decided to just move it to the other room for when I get a screen I can just leave it set up and figure out whats wrong with it. I just turned it on after it was running for a il while with fans at ful speed and the mouse/kb wasn't connected and I couldn't shut it down via power pins. I happen to look around the massive havik 140 and forgot the cpu power plug lol. Plugged it in and figured what the heck. I'll try turning it on again. Behold, the wlan connected. I guess it was having issues connecting from where it was. I had it under my tv stand by the door on the floor. Don't worry, it was on a box lol.

So I'm gonna watch it closely time to time and see if it drops or restarts again. Fingers crossed. When I get the monitor, I'll run stability tests out the wazzoo and see if I can find any issues and post my findings here.

Just figured I'd give you guys an update. I know alot of you who have been following this knows I've been having my hand full of issues with it lol.

Good luck man, keep us posted.

 

[newlife]

just letting everyone know i wont be able to crunch for the next week due to no internet

 

[Daimus]

just letting everyone know i wont be able to crunch for the next week due to no internet

You can set download buffer for 7 days. Once you get connected, just upload results.

 

[[Ion]]

You can set download buffer for 7 days. Once you get connected, just upload results.

Daimus makes a very good suggestion here

In general, I'd suggest that you keep a buffer of at least 2-3 days. That way, if something happens with your internet connection of the WCG website, you can keep crunching while it's solved

 

[Solaris17]

well just poured my first cup of coffee and im about to BSEL mod the E2140 I have pushing my WCG settings. I make about 879 24hour avg and it runs at 1.6ghz (dual core)

with 800mhz FSB BSEL to 1066 should get me

2.1ghz and if i can get the board to support it ill try pushing 1333 fsb which will get me

2664mhz

ill BSEL volt mod if needed.

silly gateway mobo

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

Keep us posted on the results man.

 

[[Ion]]

well just poured my first cup of coffee and im about to BSEL mod the E2140 I have pushing my WCG settings. I make about 879 24hour avg and it runs at 1.6ghz (dual core)

with 800mhz FSB BSEL to 1066 should get me

2.1ghz and if i can get the board to support it ill try pushing 1333 fsb which will get me

2664mhz

ill BSEL volt mod if needed.

silly gateway mobo

What board is this? If it's a P35 or newer, I could send you a faster chip for it. I have a Pentium DC E5x00 at home and I think even a C2D E8300

 

[Solaris17]

Well turns out its a 2180 so multi of 10

So 10*266 (1066 fsb) would net me a clock of 2660mhz

10*333 (1333 fsb) would bring me too 3330mhz.


As for the board I'll probably bios mod it later by quick glance it's an OEM ecs board

 

[Solaris17]

Bare with me I'm on my phone and using the PC in question to upload (my PW is like 14 hashed characters I don't know it)

At stock volts.

 

[[Ion]]

But is it stable like this? If so, a 33% OC on stock voltage is pretty sweet!

 

[Solaris17]

Running fine so far WCG auto starts reports have this CPU at 3ghz no problem if it isn't ill BSEL vmod

 

[ChristTheGreat]

Daimus makes a very good suggestion here

In general, I'd suggest that you keep a buffer of at least 2-3 days. That way, if something happens with your internet connection of the WCG website, you can keep crunching while it's solved

I agree

 

[Solaris17]

I'm pumped but what if....,what I go.....higher?

 

[brandonwh64]

I'm pumped but what if....,what I go.....higher?

I see 4ghz in your future

 

[[Ion]]

Running fine so far WCG auto starts reports have this CPU at 3ghz no problem if it isn't ill BSEL vmod

I'm pumped but what if....,what I go.....higher?

I'd suggest that you give it at least an hour of two of Linpack to verify that it's stable so it doesn't throw errors during WCG. Your choice though

 

[Solaris17]

No boot strap at 1333 board won't do it

 

[[Ion]]

No boot strap at 1333 board won't do it

Well presumably you can still go back to 266MHz, right? That's still a nice improvement

 

[Solaris17]

Just to recap

E2180 dual core default clock 2Ghz

Boot strap to 1066FSB

brings me to a total overclock of 2.6ghz on stock voltage

ill see your picture and raise you a validation

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2517346

Load 46/48c (real temp)

For the love of WCG

you can call me bootstrap Solaris17

 

[Solaris17]

just figured id update been running non stop no interupption for sevel hours now at 100% usage and shes stable as can be!

 

[[Ion]]

Sweet job!

 

[Jstn7477]

My i7-870 *finally* appears to be stable at 3.8GHz (173*22, 1.325v vcore /w LLC and 1.3v VTT). I'm also messing with my FX-8150 rig but 4.4GHz doesn't look feasible as it requires 1.35v and it's basically like lighting my chip on fire with 65c core temps and 82c CPUTIN. Right now I have it at 4.2GHz 1.3v and it's at 53c cores/72c CPUTIN and *seems* to be stable. For a while I had it running at 4GHz 1.25v which seems quite decent, but I wanted more than a 400MHz OC out of this $200 chip.

I also unfortunately have stopped crunching on my good laptop (Toshiba A665D-S6091 with PII X4 @ 2.1GHz) as I'm tired of using a 7 year old laptop for school that I can barely do anything on when I have to wait nearly 6 hours between classes on Mondays. Don't really want to keep it out of my backpack at every possible moment either to crunch as the time it takes to set it up everywhere adds up and it's hard on the power connector and stuff. With my other rigs running nominally and not going down or crashing, it shouldn't be too much of an issue losing 1000-1500 PPD.