Asus P5Q-E and E8400 OC help

[CTA]

Originally Posted by enaberif

Umm he has a 45nm chip which means he WANTS to use RealTemp but he will have to modify his TjMax to show 100 not 95.

Also if you are those temps with your cooler either you didn't properly put thermal paste on or you have poor circulation.

sorry i thought all e8XX is 65nm...

[Alwaysrun]

Well cool! literally and figuratively heh. My nose is about to drop off I'm so cold but Prime went 3 hrs without a hiccup and as I thought once I turned my *extra cooling measures off the load temp jacked back up to 78C for the last 10mins of the test.

Yawn it's been a long day of newb OC'ing for this Canuck but I'm learning so much thanks to you guys. Tomorrow I'm going to set that FSB Strap to 333 as enaberif suggested and take the Vendetta out, re-paste and give the bolt-thru kit one more go.

I'm off for a really hot shower and bed but I'll leave a couple more picts to show you just how cold my room got and my last prime run.




Nite folks and thanks again

[matsta31]

Waht is your tjmax in RealTemp ? Just to be sure, but normally the newer version do have the 95C by default.

[Alwaysrun]

Morning matsta. cough I think I got a cold from my extra cooling shinanigans last night, I feel like a truck ran me over. Yes tjmax reads 95

On a side note here pertaining to the LGA775 bolt-thru kit I have. Do you see that clear plastic cover fitted around the back plate? When I tried to install this before I tried with that plastic thingy on the backplate thinking it was some protective feature like a fiber/paper washer you see ppl use when screwing their mobo down. I'm wondering if I should take that off and it's just there as a packing feature to stop undue wear.

I'm going to hit the hardware store this morning for some wet/dry sandpaper to lap my Vendetta as I thought it was awefully rough when I was cleaning it with alcohol. Also my brother whos a mechanic suggested I put the bolt-thru springs in the freezer for an hour and that should shorten them up minutely enough so I can reach the backplate.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Alwaysrun

Morning matsta. cough I think I got a cold from my extra cooling shinanigans last night, I feel like a truck ran me over. Yes tjmax reads 95

You need to change that to 100 instead.

Intel released specs that showed TjMax for 8xxx chips was 100 not 95

[Alwaysrun]

OK thanks guys I changed that to 100 but the temps it's reading didn't change. I was reading up on a few things this morning and I disabled LLC (Load Line Calibration) in my bios after reading this tidbit AnandTech: Overclocking Intel's New 45nm QX9650: The Rules Have Changed

enaberif I also changed FSB Strap to Northbridge to 333 but my FSB/DRAM ratio in CPU-Z still reads 5:6

[cwestwell]

I took the plastic piece off...mind you I had the same thought ...but I figured it looked to much like protective packaging and plastic is a bad static surface so I took it off.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Alwaysrun

OK thanks guys I changed that to 100 but the temps it's reading didn't change. I was reading up on a few things this morning and I disabled LLC (Load Line Calibration) in my bios after reading this tidbit AnandTech: Overclocking Intel's New 45nm QX9650: The Rules Have Changed

enaberif I also changed FSB Strap to Northbridge to 333 but my FSB/DRAM ratio in CPU-Z still reads 5:6

Good idea on disabling the load line and then change your FSB strap to 400 :)

[Alwaysrun]

Originally Posted by cwestwell

I took the plastic piece off...mind you I had the same thought ...but I figured it looked to much like protective packaging and plastic is a bad static surface so I took it off.

Sweet thanks for the confirmation cwestwell. Maybe thats the culprit why I couldn't get the spring screws to reach.

Yeppers enaberif that was my next coarse of action...widdling down the options heh. I figured the reason I had seen others say FSB strap to 333 was because they were using *cough* lesser ram, while mines got ninja powah

I'm gonna be about an hour here as I've got my mobo out and dismantled as I lap this Vendetta 2. You guys wouldn't believe the uneven surface on this, I was very astonished at how much the aluminum base fingers that holds the copper heat pipes were. took me an hour to lap them down till I hit copper. Anyways I'll make a post with lotsa picts in my worklog in a bit as it's not really pertinent to my OC and is DEFINATELY work!

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by Alwaysrun

Sweet thanks for the confirmation cwestwell. Maybe thats the culprit why I couldn't get the spring screws to reach.

Yeppers enaberif that was my next coarse of action...widdling down the options heh. I figured the reason I had seen others say FSB strap to 333 was because they were using *cough* lesser ram, while mines got ninja powah

I'm gonna be about an hour here as I've got my mobo out and dismantled as I lap this Vendetta 2. You guys wouldn't believe the uneven surface on this, I was very astonished at how much the aluminum base fingers that holds the copper heat pipes were. took me an hour to lap them down till I hit copper. Anyways I'll make a post with lotsa picts in my worklog in a bit as it's not really pertinent to my OC and is DEFINATELY work!

DON'T LAP THE VENDETTA 2

you'll destroy it.. ugh... please stop.

Dont buy Exposed Heatpipe CPU HS's