Venice/San Diego overclocks

WizZard

They have an insane amount of settings, but I have started from a clean install and even a fresh BIOS flash. No different. I haven't tried loosening the timings too much. That's for tonights attempt. I was away all weekend...

gline

u try different ram??? maybe try different ram in it to see if its just the memory that it doesnt like

WizZard

I don't have anything else. I all but sold my soul for this PC

dubdvd said he'd lend me some RAM he has for a while. I have a few ideas but I need to get home to try them out!
Damn work... (although without it I couldn't afford to eat while funding my PC habit)

gline

WizZard wrote:

I don't have anything else. I all but sold my soul for this PC

dubdvd said he'd lend me some RAM he has for a while. I have a few ideas but I need to get home to try them out!
Damn work... (although without it I couldn't afford to eat while funding my PC habit)

food, hahaha i gave that up after my 2nd rig, i sold my clothes for the 3rd and now i may be homeless for my 4th on the way, hehehehe. Its like having kids except pcs probably cost more, lol

WizZard

OK, stability at last. /me touches wood.
Stable at 2411MHz with 1gb of RAM @ 2-2-2-5 (DDR400)

Overclocking will soon be happening!!!

gline

so what was the problem?

WizZard

I'm still trying to decipher it myself tbh. I changed some of the RAM timings, then upped the voltage to my graphics cards cores by modding their BIOS's (nearly made a big boo-boo outta that, but that's another story!)
After that it seems stable enough. Primed for 30 mins earlier and i will leave it priming overnight and all tomorrow at stock to run-in the chip. Then the fun will start!
Still can't beat dub's 3dMark score - but I'll leave that for another day. May aswell let him have his 15 mins of fame

gline

good to hear your making progress, we need a guniea pig so when everyone else on boards wanats similar setups we can ask you what settings need to be tweaked, hehehe

you'll need to get a good 3dmark score together soon as dub mite think he has won for good

WizZard

Another problem I had was the voltage going to my RAM was unsteady/dirty, I think to do with the +5v jumcaper on the DFI board. But I'll have to confirm this with the guys on DFI street before I say for sure.

gline

WizZard wrote:

I think to do with the +5v jumcaper on the DFI board.

dubdvd

At least your back up and running now and i have some real competition to go up against...all joking aside i think everybody here knows what its like to spend big money on the latest and greatest hardware and then run into a brick over and over ..i had it when i set-up my first pci-express system ...but remeber how it feels when you do get it right and see the timings come down and FSB going up it one expensive habit to feed but man its goooood ...when it does go right ..sure if it was to simple no-one would bother doing it ...

NOW burn that baby

Horsefumbler

I heard the venice is meant to be savage for overclocking but I was just wondering what kind of overclocks people have got with it, or know of, without watercooling ie. just a good heatsink and fan?

Was thinking of getting one with an dfi nf4 ultra d board and would be using anxp120 and 120mm fan to cool it.

Richard Dower

I'll have my San Diego 4000+ Tuesday or Wednesday so i will post some numbers!