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CPC Benchmarks Top 100 + Festive clocking

combatus

Posted in Uncategorized on December 25, 2007 at 12:51 am

I set myself a little challenge a month or two back to try to stay in the CPC benchmarks top 100. - without spending any more money of course! All was fairly easy to begin with - my scores of 1100 and eventually 1200 were enough to keep me in the top 80. But now the heat has really turned up and now there are only a handful of Dual cores fighting amongst the Quads for position.

Following the dimise of my X1900XT, my watercooling is now minus a GPU in the loop and this means there is plenty more cooling to be had for the CPU, RAM and fuzion block system. I go through phases with overclocking. One minute I’m all for it and clocking the nuts of anything than has a frequency, other times I get tired of waiting for Orthos to do its rounds and with the occasional crashes in games no doubt related to a few too many Mhz on something or other!

However tonight  I decided to see what I could push my E6600 and OCZ Flex RAM to as my CPU temps at 3.5Ghz (my cruising speed for 100% stability at just over stock voltage) were temptingly low and just begging me to start tweaking!

 I completed the various tests of finding the max FSB, RAM speed and CPU speed and then set about finding a balance between them that was stable. I eventually ended up with 415Mhz x9 which pits it in at just under 3735mhz and the ram at 1240mhz. Voltages were pretty hefty by this point 1.57v to the CPU, 2.38V to the ram, but no need to raise anything else yet!

The CPU still idles at around 37′C and loads in the mid 50’s which isn’t too bad -  a far cry from the 27′C idle and 44′C load at 3.5ghz though! This was enough to scrape me in at number 100 with a total score of 1324

All I can say is well done to anyone with a dual core system that can crack the top 100 at the moment. It’s very tough going indeed and I’m not sure how much more I can squeeze out of my poor E6600 before it spontaniously combusts!

A Merry Christmas to everyone, especially those who get up to a bit of festive clocking over the holidays, either with their existing kit or some shiny new hardware!

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