XiM II
07-01-2008, 06:55 AM
Hi Y'all :icon_tiphat:
I been tinkering with a new rig and trying to OC a Q6600 in the XFX 680i LT SLI but for the life of me I’m not having the best luck in the world and I may be worse off than some others that have been having OC problems with this MB. I purchased 2-XFX 680i LT’s in the beginning for 2 new rigs I had orders for while the first MB was DOA and the second, lets say I’m nowhere close to a burn-in with a week past of one huge headache plus feeling lost and quite amateurish if that makes any sense but when you have built gamers and super machines from back in the day to the presant only to figure out a lite version of your default system board has the better of you then you know how I feel! Anyway and first thing out of the box with power on I flashed the bios on this 680i LT from a loaded P06 to P07 then have had pretty good luck with a casual clock to 2.7GHz with no voltage adjustment and the thing will bench like any big-boy tank MB you ever seen then I begin cranking past 2.7 in the usual 10-15 MHz increments then bootup and the machine always locks either before desktop logon or shortly afterward ten I hit ‘reset’ and have to start all over again. The usual stuff we LQQk for when peaking out any board but 2.7MHz on a semi high end gaming board is nowhere close to hitting it's peak so finally, I can crank it up to 2.7GHz then load nTune and take it on up to 3.4GHz like nobody’s business but to me that’s not a true overclock while letting the nTune application take the MB by the reigns even though it works fine, I can't say I really care for nTune utility but this board is really weird. There seems to be several dead spots here beginning at around or between the 2.7GHz to 3GHz mark then from 3GHz to 3.2GHz the board smoothes out like a stock MB and it is sweet even on stock or auto-voltages managed by the bios then between 3.2GHz and 3.3GHz there seems to be another dead spot so lets move on to 3.3GHz to 3.4GHz, that works pretty good and it smoothes out again so I got to 3.3050GHz last night and the board benched up there with any Quad big boy I have ever benched smooth as silk on air running at or around 30-37C ‘under load’ and on a air with a Zalman CNPS9500 LED then at idle the temp will shoot up to around 40-45C.
I seem to have the best luck with letting the board bios adjust the voltage automatically because every time I crank that voltage up even the slightest of something like ‘.25v’ on the vcore, it’s back to the bios I go to shoot back to voltage auto-adjust so at this point I’m totally lost here and any help or tips you guys may have would definitely be appreciated…
Thanks
XiMo II :help:
System: XiCon Custom Quad Phase-III
Chassis: Zalman Z-MACHINE GT1000
CPU: Intel QX9770 @ 4.4GHz
PC PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200 W0133RU
GPU PSU: XiCon Phase-V External Custom WB Rated @ 4KW, 92% Continuous
Motherboard: EVGA nForce 790i Ultra 3-Way SLI
RAM: Corsair Dominator 4GB Quad-Kit, 1800MHz CL7 DDR3 - OC @ 1940MHz
GPU: XFX GeForce GTX280, 1GB GDDR3 Tri-SLI
HD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB x2 RAID 0 Array
Storage: Hitachi HD Deskstar 1TB x2 RAID 5 ARRAY
Media: BenQ DW400A 4X DVD+RW DRV INT IDE
BenQ BW1000 Blu-Ray Disc Recorder IDE
Silverstone Grandia GD01MXR 52-in-1 Card Reader + Floppy
OS: XP Pro/Vista Ultimate 64-bit Dual Boot
I been tinkering with a new rig and trying to OC a Q6600 in the XFX 680i LT SLI but for the life of me I’m not having the best luck in the world and I may be worse off than some others that have been having OC problems with this MB. I purchased 2-XFX 680i LT’s in the beginning for 2 new rigs I had orders for while the first MB was DOA and the second, lets say I’m nowhere close to a burn-in with a week past of one huge headache plus feeling lost and quite amateurish if that makes any sense but when you have built gamers and super machines from back in the day to the presant only to figure out a lite version of your default system board has the better of you then you know how I feel! Anyway and first thing out of the box with power on I flashed the bios on this 680i LT from a loaded P06 to P07 then have had pretty good luck with a casual clock to 2.7GHz with no voltage adjustment and the thing will bench like any big-boy tank MB you ever seen then I begin cranking past 2.7 in the usual 10-15 MHz increments then bootup and the machine always locks either before desktop logon or shortly afterward ten I hit ‘reset’ and have to start all over again. The usual stuff we LQQk for when peaking out any board but 2.7MHz on a semi high end gaming board is nowhere close to hitting it's peak so finally, I can crank it up to 2.7GHz then load nTune and take it on up to 3.4GHz like nobody’s business but to me that’s not a true overclock while letting the nTune application take the MB by the reigns even though it works fine, I can't say I really care for nTune utility but this board is really weird. There seems to be several dead spots here beginning at around or between the 2.7GHz to 3GHz mark then from 3GHz to 3.2GHz the board smoothes out like a stock MB and it is sweet even on stock or auto-voltages managed by the bios then between 3.2GHz and 3.3GHz there seems to be another dead spot so lets move on to 3.3GHz to 3.4GHz, that works pretty good and it smoothes out again so I got to 3.3050GHz last night and the board benched up there with any Quad big boy I have ever benched smooth as silk on air running at or around 30-37C ‘under load’ and on a air with a Zalman CNPS9500 LED then at idle the temp will shoot up to around 40-45C.
I seem to have the best luck with letting the board bios adjust the voltage automatically because every time I crank that voltage up even the slightest of something like ‘.25v’ on the vcore, it’s back to the bios I go to shoot back to voltage auto-adjust so at this point I’m totally lost here and any help or tips you guys may have would definitely be appreciated…
Thanks
XiMo II :help:
System: XiCon Custom Quad Phase-III
Chassis: Zalman Z-MACHINE GT1000
CPU: Intel QX9770 @ 4.4GHz
PC PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 1200 W0133RU
GPU PSU: XiCon Phase-V External Custom WB Rated @ 4KW, 92% Continuous
Motherboard: EVGA nForce 790i Ultra 3-Way SLI
RAM: Corsair Dominator 4GB Quad-Kit, 1800MHz CL7 DDR3 - OC @ 1940MHz
GPU: XFX GeForce GTX280, 1GB GDDR3 Tri-SLI
HD: WD VelociRaptor 300GB x2 RAID 0 Array
Storage: Hitachi HD Deskstar 1TB x2 RAID 5 ARRAY
Media: BenQ DW400A 4X DVD+RW DRV INT IDE
BenQ BW1000 Blu-Ray Disc Recorder IDE
Silverstone Grandia GD01MXR 52-in-1 Card Reader + Floppy
OS: XP Pro/Vista Ultimate 64-bit Dual Boot