P4P800-E Deluxe or P4C800-E Deluxe & memory ?

On Sun, 11 Apr 2004 21:31:35 GMT, "NT Canuck" <>
wrote:

||"Pluvious" <> wrote in message news:...
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||> Thanks for the help. I had gotten a pretty stable 2.9 with setting the
||> PCI/AGP ration to fixed 33/66, and fixed memory timings... got the FSB
||> up to about 220. I have 1 gig of Corsair XMS DDR PC-3200
||> (TWINX1024R-3200C2PT) Cas Latency: 2-3-3-6 is stock.
||
||ok, the corsair xms is nice ram...likely do 2.5 3 3 7 at 220 (10% o/c).
||

Yeah.. I bought good ram thinking I would O/C.. but its kinda baffling
me. I used the mobo's auto overclock feature at 5% and up to 15% with
no problems..but that was such a little boost it didn't seem worth it.
I would like to get at least 3.0 out of my 2.6c. I know there is some
setting that will achieve that.. just don't know exactly what it is.
Not something you just poke around with.. I have to actually LEARN
what I'm doing before I mess around I think. Maybe I'll plug in
those timings you listed there and see what happens.

||iirc that ram should goto about 250 but may need to set
||ram speed from 400 speed to 320 speed (4/5 of bus speed).
||remember it's ddr (double data rate so a 400 speed is 200mhz)
||Mostly I might try togo as high as you can without any voltage
||changes and the cpu/board heat/temp are fairly close to original.
||I suspect 12-17% overclock should be stable w/o much effort.
||

I'm using stock cooling and have an Antec case with 4 fans. It's very
cool in my case so I can probably get away with the stock heatsink.

||> I think I crashed in UT2k because of I didn't mess with the memory
||> timings. Nor did I mess with the voltages. I understand UT games are
||> cpu intensive and that might have been why FarCry had no problems at
||> 2.9, but the old Unreal Tournament 2003 choked.
||
||hmm, yes ut2k and ut2003 are ram/cpu intensive,
|| I don't know/have the Far Cry...how is it?

FarCry is amazing with the right rig. Little choppy on the last few
levels but overall its a must have. (only $40 list..definately check
it out)

http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/...FarCry0008.jpg
http://img43.photobucket.com/albums/...FarCry0012.jpg

Pluvious

Asus P4C800-E Deluxe
Intel P4 2.6C 800 FSB
1 Gig Corsair XMS TWINX1024R-3200C2PT
ATI 9700 PRO w/ Direct X 9.0b / Omega drivers o/c'd 378/330.75
XP Home
etc....

"Pluvious" <> wrote in message news:...

> Yeah.. I bought good ram thinking I would O/C.. but its kinda
> baffling me. I used the mobo's auto overclock feature at 5% and
> up to 15% with no problems..but that was such a little boost it
> didn't seem worth it.

Try hunting for aida32 diagnostices (free) and doing the memory
speed tests before/after any changes to see what you did.
http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php

I am using 2 infineon and 2 kingston ddr400 (2.5 3 3 7)
all 256mb in dual-channel on p4p800 (2.6c htt) ati 9500pro.
I did perk up to 3.0ghz for awhile but video card won't run
any quicker and I suspect the 9700pro while faster will still
be the bottleneck for anything over 3.0ghz cpu speeds.

So I just run at normal clocks and set the performance mode
to "normal" and have the MAM (PAT clone) set on...this
gives a stable boost and no problems. (cpu 22c board 31c).
Your 875 chipset should be a bit quicker than my 865pe.
aida 32 with bunch items loaded on desktop
mem read 4658
mem write 1575

> I would like to get at least 3.0 out of my 2.6c. I know there is some
> setting that will achieve that.. just don't know exactly what it is.
> Not something you just poke around with.. I have to actually LEARN
> what I'm doing before I mess around I think. Maybe I'll plug in
> those timings you listed there and see what happens.

Those timing should be (I think) ok for a 10% boost in speed
but likely just optimizing your system at stock speeds about same.

> FarCry is amazing with the right rig. Little choppy on the last few
> levels but overall its a must have. (only $40 list..definately check
> it out)

Is there CD formats as I think it comes on DVD.
(heh...I'm getting behind but do have dual CDRW's)

some ram/timing notes review..
http://www.tomshardware.com/motherbo...119/index.html

--
'Seek and ye shall find'
NT Canuck

On Mon, 12 Apr 2004 21:29:14 GMT, "NT Canuck" <>
wrote:

||"Pluvious" <> wrote in message news:...
||
||> Yeah.. I bought good ram thinking I would O/C.. but its kinda
||> baffling me. I used the mobo's auto overclock feature at 5% and
||> up to 15% with no problems..but that was such a little boost it
||> didn't seem worth it.
||
||Try hunting for aida32 diagnostices (free) and doing the memory
||speed tests before/after any changes to see what you did.
||http://www.aida32.hu/aida32.php
||

Wow..that's a cool little program thanks for the link. This will
really help.

||I am using 2 infineon and 2 kingston ddr400 (2.5 3 3 7)
||all 256mb in dual-channel on p4p800 (2.6c htt) ati 9500pro.
||I did perk up to 3.0ghz for awhile but video card won't run
||any quicker and I suspect the 9700pro while faster will still
||be the bottleneck for anything over 3.0ghz cpu speeds.
||

Yeah.. I'm going to consider getting the new ATI card thats going to
show up in the coming months. The 9700 pro is a killer card..but its
starting to show it's age already.

||So I just run at normal clocks and set the performance mode
||to "normal" and have the MAM (PAT clone) set on...this
||gives a stable boost and no problems. (cpu 22c board 31c).
||Your 875 chipset should be a bit quicker than my 865pe.
||aida 32 with bunch items loaded on desktop
||mem read 4658
||mem write 1575
||

mem read 4782
mem write 1562


Thanks again..

Pluvious