thanks!

I corrected it, Acook. Sorry about that. I didn't do the stock data since you had so many other things running at the time. I noticed even on my quad that having a bunch of stuff open in the background can actually lower your results. You game to run it @ stock levels clean?

thanks for the info... what o/s?

NeoNSX wrote:This is a fantastic thread. Kudos for starting it.
I'm another rev.B3 @ 1.3250v statistic.


Just wondering, what's the lowest voltage people using when overclocked to 3GHz?

Mine does it on 1.2625V in the BIOS.

Okay all, this will be the final update; please don't post new VID data. I'm not totally sure the integrity of the data collected is that high. What I mean by that is I have read several reports of different reported VIDs for the same chip on different boards. I have also read about the VID changing...

As of 20-Sep-2007, we have data on over 100 Intel-based systems and on over 40 AMD-based systems. There are a few trends I picked-up on while browsing through the database. I put them into a single table and color coded them to make them easier to see. If you see a trend I missed, lemme know and I'l...

Mikael wrote:

graysky wrote:@Mikael - Jag mår bra, tack!

Åhh, är du svensk? Och varför skrev du "Jag mår bra, tack!"?

Sorry dude, I have no idea how to speak the language. I just looked up Swedish on wikipedia and there was a list of common phrase

@Mikael - Jag mår bra, tack!

...but, the program kept running. X2 4400, 2 GB DDR400 dual channel, 6150 chipset and XP 32 bit stock clocked Cool man, thanks for the results. Can you report your mem timings and final mem core rate (i.e. 5-5-5-15 @ 400 MHz) Also who makes your motherboard? I never heard of a 6150 chipset. Thanks!

@cescelb - thanks for the result
@Billy - I'm sure you can run the benchmark during some 'scheduled downtime' In all seriousness, it would be pretty cool to see how your octa core machine scales x264.

cool, thanks guys

@acook and protellect - thanks for the results, guys... also what O/S are you each running?

If you don't have AVISynth 2.5.7 on your machine, you'll need to install it before running the benchmark. what happens if you have a diff version of avs installed? and when I already have a version of dgindex.dll in my avs plugins? no id which version. I believe if the version you have is older, th...

Core 2 Duo E6600 (2.4GHz, 4MB) @ 3326 (475 x 7), 2x1GB DDR2 950 5,5,5,15 dual channel, Asus P5B-E Plus P965 motherboard. (WD 5000AAKS, ATi X1950pro, etc etc) Vista Home Premium 32bit Thanks for the result. What is your mem clocked @ (like 475 MHz or ...?) Also, would you be willing to run the same ...

I put together a self-contained x264 video encoding benchmark. Techarp kindly agreed to host the file and results at this URL. Basically, you run the test encode and it will report back frames-per-second values for your machine @ it's clock/overclock level. You can run it at your stock settings and ...

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (208 replies now)...

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (182 replies now)... this has turned into a nice little thread

@jag: that does seem high, but I checked and indeed, TH's article shows those values.

Yeah, same one... remember though that not spcr user reads the stuff on other boards.

I don't know about real-world apps, but WinRAR, for example, reeeeally likes memory bandwidth in its internal benchmark. Look at this thread . I agree that the internal benchmark scores faster, but you have to take your disk access time into account since you won't be running winrar in benchmark mo...

Edited on 08-Jun-2008 : Guide is now version 1.7 – added a 2nd example minimizing the vcores on my system. Before you continue, I wrote this guide with the newbie in mind, so please don't reply criticizing it for being too simplistic -- it's this way by design. Also know that the steps for overcl...

What is a better overclock? Good question. Most people believe that a higher FSB and lower multiplier are better since this maximizes the bandwidth on the FSB. Or is a low bus rate and higher multiplier better? Or is there no difference? I looked at three different settings on my Q6600: 9x333 = 3.0...

smilingcrow wrote:Try this link for data on VID values for G0 and B3 steppings.

Thanks dude, but that's the thread I started

Topic says it all. I'm only interested in your vcore @ 9x333 if you own a g0 Q6600 and you minimized the vcore and if it's stable to 2x orthos or prime95 v25.3 for over say 4 hours. It would also be cool to see your VID as reported in coretemp. So I guess I'd like to see two things: 1) Your minimize...

Updated the first post of the thread with the data collected (123 replies now) and added some histograms and basic statics to help visualize the data set.

Just updated the first post of the thread with the data collected... I counted 113 replies so far.

Yeah, mine was like that as well. Please let us know how it goes; I'm sure you'll be happy with the results.

I just edited/updated the first post of the thread with a few more pics and a brief description of how I lapped the chip for anyone interested.

I don't quite know what to make of this whole lower VID = higher o/c potential thing. My chip for example, is a B3 stepping Q6600 w/ a reported VID of 1.2875V (coretemp), yet I can run 9x266 (stock) which is stable to 2x orthos for over 8 hours (I stopped it after 8 hours) @ 1.1375V in the BIOS whic...

Okay guys, just updated the first post of the thread to reflect the new replies... have a look!