Interesting OC result

[jinexile]

You can see my Computer in my sig. Last night I finally decided to see how well I could OC my cpu with just air cooling (I have a 80mm fan in the back, one in the front and a Zalman big ass mofo on my cpu)

Before tweaking clock speeds I checked my temps. 31*C on the CPU and 36*C on the mobo. I started with 10Mhz at a time then got impatient and bumped it up to 300Mhz (to a total 2.3Ghz or 3300+ equivillent)... no my computer Idles at 28*C cpu and 31*C mobo!

I ran a burn for 10 minutes and the cpu never broke 40*C

The only thing I did other than overclock was clean out my heatsink a bit as it was hella dusty.

 

[Elbatrop1]

That's pretty good. Did you run 3DMark or any other benchmarks to see if there was any improvement?

 

[jinexile]

I ran the CS Source stress test and my FPS went from 35 aveage to 47

But it was late and I didn't have time to run any other benchmarks.

 

[bigbmxdave]

that sounds lucky, my computer doesnt get those temps even when idle, so your Zalman must be doing its job very well.

 

[jinexile]

It might have something to do with living in a basement suite where room temp is about 14*C as well.

 

[m3trj]

That's pretty cool. I have noticed that the room temperature does make a noticable difference to the temperature of your CPU.

 

[Nubius]

see if it runs prime95 for atleast 12+ hours, then you can safely assume it's fairly safe for number crunching atleast, but playing a lot of games will be a good test too. If it starts crashing then you will probably need to up your vcore for stability.

 

[phosho510]

any screen shots?

 

[jinexile]

sure gimme a couple mins

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[Nubius]

Do you have your RAM running 1:1 with that 229HTT?

Nice job dude, especially if you're fairly new to OC'ing

Keep pushing it You should be able to hit 2.5GHz at that current pace