Post Your Overclock!

[Mark]

For stock voltage that's not bad. I can hit 3.58 on stock voltage. You should try for more, i bet you can do it. Just don't go above 1.3625v

I agree that's good for stock volts but even better considering it's a Xeon and those are not meant for overclocking and more designed for stability, I have friend who has one and he can't OC his at all so that's a great effort, well done

 

[GregB]

I don't do gaming - but lots of video and graphics work.

I used Gigabyte O/C software to crank the speed up to 3.2GHz (WinXP and Win7 reported 3.6GHz, CPU-Z did, too - but BIOS reported only 3.2 [400x8]). Stable as a rock!

I ran WEI before and after - and this was a surprise, AFTER O/C the CPU score dropped by .3 to 6.8. Also, Win7 felt slower - not by much, but noticeable.

I reversed O/C to stock (F7 - optimum settings in BIOS) and the WEI CPU mark slid right back up to 7.1.

As far as I can tell - in a 2D world like mine, O/C seems to be of very limited value. And in fact, could be detrimental.

Comments?

BTW - although I'm not a gamer, I do love to tweak and am not afraid to tinker around under the hood and get dirty.

 

[wierdo124]

I agree that's good for stock volts but even better considering it's a Xeon and those are not meant for overclocking and more designed for stability, I have friend who has one and he can't OC his at all so that's a great effort, well done

I believe you're mistaken. The Xeon E3110 is a wolfdale. EXACTLY the same as the C2D E8400. No difference. Just a different name.

 

[Arxos]

I'm putting together my gaming rig atm. How much could I OC an i7 Extreme??

 

[scaramonga]

Don't bother wasting cash on a 940 or 965, as they ain't worth the money. Head over to XS Forums and you will soon find that out.

Grab the 920 as its the best clocker, and best bang for buck.

 

[skunksmash]

I believe you're mistaken. The Xeon E3110 is a wolfdale. EXACTLY the same as the C2D E8400. No difference. Just a different name.

i will admit they have the same architecture & as such ''should'' clock just as well as its desktop counterpart, but....

they have different VIDs.... the E3110 is a server chip designed to run 24/7 @ full load & the E8400 is a desktop chip designed for domestic use.....





SK

 

[chev65]

I figure what good is an overclock without it being 12 hours Prime Blend stable. Notice that the max temps over the 12 hour span are also shown with real temp. I can boot up at 4.8Ghz and do a cpu-z but doesn't hardly mean it's stable now does it? I have benched at 4.7Ghz so far with no heat issues at all.

 

[chev65]

i will admit they have the same architecture & as such ''should'' clock just as well as its desktop counterpart, but....

they have different VIDs.... the E3110 is a server chip designed to run 24/7 @ full load & the E8400 is a desktop chip designed for domestic use.....





SK

In fact the Xeon's are supposed to be higher binned so should overclock even better. But I just went with the E8600. The E8700 is on it's way also.

 

[wierdo124]

i will admit they have the same architecture & as such ''should'' clock just as well as its desktop counterpart, but....

they have different VIDs.... the E3110 is a server chip designed to run 24/7 @ full load & the E8400 is a desktop chip designed for domestic use.....





SK

The higher VIDs will allow it to run better at full load, but IIRC (could be wrong) both the Xeons and the C2Ds were made with the same. The VID just varies randomly.

I figure what good is an overclock without it being 12 hours Prime Blend stable. Notice that the max temps over the 12 hour span are also shown with real temp. I can boot up at 4.8Ghz and do a cpu-z but doesn't hardly mean it's stable now does it? I have benched at 4.7Ghz so far with no heat issues at all.

Very nice. I wouldn't push the voltage any higher than that though. As soon as you hit 1.5v they just start wanting more voltage all the time even when stock.

In fact the Xeon's are supposed to be higher binned so should overclock even better. But I just went with the E8600. The E8700 is on it's way also.

I haven't heard that, but it could be so. From what i've heard the E8700 isn't going to be much improvement over the E8600.

 

[chev65]

The higher VIDs will allow it to run better at full load, but IIRC (could be wrong) both the Xeons and the C2Ds were made with the same. The VID just varies randomly.



Very nice. I wouldn't push the voltage any higher than that though. As soon as you hit 1.5v they just start wanting more voltage all the time even when stock.


I haven't heard that, but it could be so. From what i've heard the E8700 isn't going to be much improvement over the E8600.

Yes the higher VID's tend to run much cooler than the low VID ones but it takes more voltage for the same clocks. I'am glad I have 1.25 VID it runs so cool it's rediculous. I agree,I'am running max Vcore for 24/7 use. I've seen too many of these CPU's degrade at higher Vcore's. Probably E8700 not much better than E8600 I agree also.

 

[wierdo124]

Yeah, kinda like how the E8500 doesn't give much over the E8400. E8400 or E8600 or go home!

 

[Freelancer852]

Meh, nothing really special here, but it's a decent OC for daily use. Haven't tried getting past 3.2GHz with my new RAM though...

 

[wierdo124]

^Lawd you can go farther than that with Dominators. It's a G0 stepper too, i would be surprised if you couldn't break 3.6.

 

[Freelancer852]

^Lawd you can go farther than that with Dominators. It's a G0 stepper too, i would be surprised if you couldn't break 3.6.

Motherboard and BIOS don't want to cooperate with anything over 3.0 since the new BIOS update that I installed...

 

[skunksmash]

nice score freelancer..........14.2k & your CPU @ only 3ghz.....




SK

 

[Freelancer852]

nice score freelancer..........14.2k & your CPU @ only 3ghz.....




SK

Thanks!

I compared to other systems using the Futuremark "ORB" thing, and there were only three other systems using Core 2 Quad (45nm) processors and GTX 285's... They were Q9550's and a Q9650, yet they each had less memory than me (4GB and 2.8GB). Unfortunately they were all either SLI or Triple-SLI so there Vantage GPU scores alone were in the high 20k...

I may attempt to OC my processor more when I add another 120mm fan to my CPU cooler...

 

[Airbot]

CPU-Z version 1.50 available Mark.

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[Mark]

CPU-Z version 1.50 available Mark.

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Thanks for the Update Aaron I will update the first page.

 

[Airbot]

You're welcome buddy.

 

[scaramonga]

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