OC'ing the Q6600 on the Intel D975XBX2 board

[ThunderRd]

That Speedfan vs Coretemp thing must be board-dependent. My readings are always exactly the same in the two but I haven't had to make any adjustments to get them there. Maybe something about the particular sensors in various boards.

[ShawnP]

Originally Posted by MUff1N

Yes, if you are getting errors on the cores then you need to up the vcore.

On Speedfan, if you go into Advanced options you can adjust (re-calibrate) the temps to where they are exactly the same as Core Temp!
You can adjust the DTS sensor to + or - to where it's exactly the same. (Screenshot)

Muff1n I will do that, thanks. Good news is that with the B3 Q6600 I do have it ran through a 1 hour Test of OCCT at 3.12 Ghz with no errors. Will post all settings later.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by ThunderRd

That Speedfan vs Coretemp thing must be board-dependent. My readings are always exactly the same in the two but I haven't had to make any adjustments to get them there. Maybe something about the particular sensors in various boards.

Yea there will be slight differences in the sensors & how they read information & then how it's deciphered by Speedfan.
That's the reason it has the option to alter the calibration of the reading.
It's the same with my board as it is with yours too, no need for any adjustments as all the reading are correct to begin with.

Originally Posted by ShawnP

Muff1n I will do that, thanks. Good news is that with the B3 Q6600 I do have it ran through a 1 hour Test of OCCT at 3.12 Ghz with no errors. Will post all settings later.

That is good news Shawn!
Feels good to have a solid OC setting after all the time it takes to get it there in testing which at times can be a royal PITA...

[ShawnP]

I set up OCCT with Speedfan calibrated to the proper temps. I changed the Ram to 5-5-5-15 and now it will run OCCT for 1 hour at 3.2 Ghz with no errors. Since I am selling it I think I will just leave it like that.

I was lucky to have to corruptions in the Boot Drive and I am guessing it was to do with booting off of a SCSI U320 with enhanced Error Correction.
The sequencential r/w is nothing to get excited about, but the random r/w is excellent with a Seek time of 4.2ms.

[ThunderRd]

To be sure, so you don't get a lot of service calls, run OCCT overnight. Although 90% of the errors will be in the first hour, I have often seen errors in a supposedly stable machine after several hours as well.

If you want, the SMP folding client stresses things even more than OCCT. It's a real acid test of stability.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by ThunderRd

To be sure, so you don't get a lot of service calls, run OCCT overnight. Although 90% of the errors will be in the first hour, I have often seen errors in a supposedly stable machine after several hours as well.

If you want, the SMP folding client stresses things even more than OCCT. It's a real acid test of stability.

I have to agree with TR on this as well if you plan on selling it OCed.
But what I would do is just OC it to 3.0GHz so you got a good safe zone on heat & voltages & sell it like that.
That way you won't ever get a call on it.

But if you want to leave it at 3.2GHz for sale you better stress test it for a lot longer than an hour.

Btw Shawn, my system is stable up to 3.31GHz all at default voltages which is a 24% OC...
So if the quad is anything like my duo is, you should be able to do the same at 3GHz which is a 24% OC on that.

[ShawnP]

I am running a longer test on it, overnight, right now. The thing I am wondering about is I am using Speedfan with OCCT and I calibrated it to be in line with CPUTemp and I have gotten max temps of only 50 C so far. At 3.2 I would think it would be a bit higher. Is there any other programs that you would suggest to check the temperature?

[ShawnP]

Muff1n mentioned before regarding Acronis. If you want a free tool to backup and restore disk images you can try the Seagate Disk Tool. It is based on Acronis and will work with any disk.

[ShawnP]

Here's the progress so far:

[ShawnP]

With OCCT and the LINPACK test with the 64bits checked -- what kind of real world conditions would stress a computer that much?

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by ShawnP

With OCCT and the LINPACK test with the 64bits checked -- what kind of real world conditions would stress a computer that much?

Codec conversions will if you have them set to use the cores hard like I do to speed up the process.
DivX Converter really puts it to the cores during the conversion process!
Then of course it's boring watching the coversion process so you load up other apps at the same time like using your browser & that's when it hits 100% CPU usage....

[ShawnP]

Muff1n good point. I will have to back it off a bit. It is getting a bit warm now. I have it running stable under OCCT for 12 hrs at 3.4Ghz.
CPU Override: 1.425
FSB Override: 1.375
MCH/ICH 1.650
Clock: 378
Mem Volts: 2.20 5-5-5-15

[ShawnP]

I backed it off to 3.33Ghz and ran the CPU Test through OCCT which to my understanding is the toughest on your system working your Ram, CPU and GPU. It ran flawlessly. I am happy with that, but I had to have my case fans running on high.

[ShawnP]

Here's a funny little thing. I am setting up my new system, got it all together with a EVGA Classified. I pulled two drives that I had from my BDX build. One had the OS on it and what do you know, it boots up. I've never had that happen before. Man that was amusing.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by ShawnP

I backed it off to 3.33Ghz and ran the CPU Test through OCCT which to my understanding is the toughest on your system working your Ram, CPU and GPU. It ran flawlessly. I am happy with that, but I had to have my case fans running on high.

I'm glad you got it all worked out & it's running strong, solid & smooth for you!

Originally Posted by ShawnP

Here's a funny little thing. I am setting up my new system, got it all together with a EVGA Classified. I pulled two drives that I had from my BDX build. One had the OS on it and what do you know, it boots up. I've never had that happen before. Man that was amusing.

It may bootup in that new system, but as soon as you connect to the Internet "Windows" will see it as a new system & ask you to re-activate the OS or it.

[ShawnP]

Oh yeah, I can imagine that. Just to avoid any possible future glitch problems I am going to do a fresh install.

[ShawnP]

If I was going to keep the BDX2 I think I would put an ATI card in or maybe 2. I tried playing "Batman -- Arkam Asylum" and it was a bit slow but fun to check out. My 8 year old son was totally stoked and thinks we ought to keep the BDX and not sell it, LOL.

Muff1n, I gotta thank you again man. Without this thread and your help I never would've been able to do what I did with this Motherboard.

[MUff1N]

Originally Posted by ShawnP

If I was going to keep the BDX2 I think I would put an ATI card in or maybe 2. I tried playing "Batman -- Arkam Asylum" and it was a bit slow but fun to check out. My 8 year old son was totally stoked and thinks we ought to keep the BDX and not sell it, LOL.

Muff1n, I gotta thank you again man. Without this thread and your help I never would've been able to do what I did with this Motherboard.

You are quite welcome Shawn, glad I was of some help to you.

Yes, the Badaxe II is Crossfire certified so you'll be able to run 2 ATi cards in crossfire at x8 each.
(It splits the x16 when you run crossfire)