Got all my stuff today and the build took about 2 hours. Everything fired right up pretty easily, had a little trouble with the SATA HD, but nothing a little BIOS check didn't fix.
I've been messing with settings, and I think I have a pretty stable 3.2ghz OC. I bumped voltage to 1.3, and ran Prime95 for about 5 hours and I've been playing a lot of Oblivion and COD4. Nothing bad yet ^_^
One thing: In CoreTemp it says my clock is 3204. In the BIOS it says 356x9. But in CPU-z it says 356x6. I assume this is a speedstep kinda thing as it jumps up to x9 when under a load. Is that alright, or should I try to disable it? It runs at about 50c under full load in 4 core prime95 tests. Not bad for a full tower with NO (0) fans. Just a tuniq 120 and well placed AS5 I guess.
If anyone knows how to disable the "speedstep" thing in the DS3R bios, lemme know. I disable the CIA2 (I think that's the name) thing, but it still underclocks when at idle.
Also, my RAM timings are 5-5-5-15, think I could push +.2 volts and do 4-4-4-12 with my CPU OC? Guess only way to tell is to try, but I couldn't find the ram timings in the BIOS. I read somewhere Ctrl+F gets you more settings, but do I need to hold it down WHILE I go into the tweaking section, or before? I couldn't get it to work..
Anyway, here's an idle and load screenshot.
I've been messing with settings, and I think I have a pretty stable 3.2ghz OC. I bumped voltage to 1.3, and ran Prime95 for about 5 hours and I've been playing a lot of Oblivion and COD4. Nothing bad yet ^_^
One thing: In CoreTemp it says my clock is 3204. In the BIOS it says 356x9. But in CPU-z it says 356x6. I assume this is a speedstep kinda thing as it jumps up to x9 when under a load. Is that alright, or should I try to disable it? It runs at about 50c under full load in 4 core prime95 tests. Not bad for a full tower with NO (0) fans. Just a tuniq 120 and well placed AS5 I guess.
If anyone knows how to disable the "speedstep" thing in the DS3R bios, lemme know. I disable the CIA2 (I think that's the name) thing, but it still underclocks when at idle.
Also, my RAM timings are 5-5-5-15, think I could push +.2 volts and do 4-4-4-12 with my CPU OC? Guess only way to tell is to try, but I couldn't find the ram timings in the BIOS. I read somewhere Ctrl+F gets you more settings, but do I need to hold it down WHILE I go into the tweaking section, or before? I couldn't get it to work..
Anyway, here's an idle and load screenshot.