kristos

lol you lucky [fill in rude word here ]!



Most people get stuck at 140-150 fsb



or perhaps you found a way around this?

vegeta

I couldn't wait for my OCZ powerstream :grin:
So I've done some preperations saturday night
Modified a Chieftec 360W PSU to up the 3.3V rail
But I'm dissapointed 3.42V->3.55V :grum:, I thought it would give me at least 4V . Crappy PSU, but I'm settled for now .
Don't mind the crappy DMP , but it does the job.



Also done the Vdimm-mod
Used a SMD grabber. In case it goes wrong, I can still RMA this expensive board :grin:.
I spend more time modding the SMD-grabber than soldering the VR. The grabber was too thick to grab the leg of chip.

vegeta

I've done some testing
All test were run with a single stick 256MB Corsair PC3500 BH5. Shove 3.5V up its arse
Result speak for itself
Standard SuperPi=>28s not too shabby huh



I've also ran the controversial Patched SuperPi.
It gave me a full second lower time

jmke

pretty impressive results

don't think that BH-5 needs 3.5 to reach <250Mhz speeds though

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jort

howly mother nature
that beats my nasty 3000+ :grin:
its time to do some tweaking & better cooling.
Going to say to friend @ school
=> YOU BETTER MAKE THAT WC BLOCK OR ELSE

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vegeta

I just did in precaution
I've tried the 3/5 divider. But SuperPi didn't took advantage of it.
I had to remove those Corsair heatspreaders to obtain more than 255Mhz. And without heatspreaders I only achieved 261Mhz :grum:, after I've runned SuperPi it booted (unstable).
Maybe these are crappy BH5's, or need some more voltage .
It's hard to believe that this RAM is crap, 2years ago I've spended 135EUR a piece (got 2). Maybe I'm in a denying phase
Even tried lower the timings to 2.5-3-3-7, still stuck at 261 :grum:
I think it's board limited, but it's strange that I can do 183FSB stable on 3/4 (BH5@261with 3/5 divider is 157FB)

Now I wish I had some TCCD ram (or any other ram that can do 300+ on 2.5-3-3-7) to test it.
To be sure whether it's board limited.

jmke

BH-5 is meant for CL2, CL2.5 won't do a thing for the OC

not sure if running TCCD at 283 1:1 CL2.5 3-3-7 will be better then 261 CL2 2-2-5, actually.. I'm pretty convinced the BH-5 will beat it

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vegeta

At school we have an CNC-mill. But I don't think I have access to it, I wish I had (maybe ask a friend to do it )

The "COOLEST" thing about a dothan is that it barely generates heat, 30degrees stressed with the standard Heatsink (that wa provided with the board) . Don't think it would OC lot better

:grin: Is my dothan ready for THIS :grin:

jmke

do I see a MAC in the background?

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jort

the container is way too small
it could give you some more mhz with the accent on "could"

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