I Just Can't Help Myself!

I definitely appreciate the offer, but I'm in the US, so the shipping would probably be more than buying a new CPU cooler. Plus, I did get an offer from a friend who's offering me a big Zalman cooler fairly inexpensively, I may try that one out.

I'm running both the 460 and the 275 using FAH GPU Tracker, both have -advmethods running and the 460 is on GPU3. It may just be the WU it has now, I'll check again after it finishes the 5000-pointer it's running now.

Sadly, the "secret weapon" I alluded to in a post in another thread also has to be deferred to get my wife a down payment on a new car. Hers is in the process of crapping out and we decided to get a new one before the wheels literally fall off of this one. Twin GTX680s and a 3930K would have dusted you I think
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I definitely appreciate the offer, but I'm in the US, so the shipping would probably be more than buying a new CPU cooler. Plus, I did get an offer from a friend who's offering me a big Zalman cooler fairly inexpensively, I may try that one out.

I'm running both the 460 and the 275 using FAH GPU Tracker, both have -advmethods running and the 460 is on GPU3. It may just be the WU it has now, I'll check again after it finishes the 5000-pointer it's running now.

No problem. I thought you were probably US based given the time of night it is here... not many people are going to be up.

You will find with -advmethods on the 460 99% of the WUs you get (untill something changes) will be the 5000 pointers. It's very consistant compaired to the SMP WUs.

With you saying that the 460 is on GPU3 that the 275 isn't?.

I have just dropped my 460 down to 700mhz and I will update this post in 15 to 20 mins to let you know what the PPD is for me at the same speed so we have a better idea how much you might be losing out on. I'd guess its only around 1000PPD which isn't all that much really.

I don't know what it is about the GTX 46/7/80 but they don't seem as efficent as the 9800 or 26/7/80 series. With the factory overclock on my old 8800GT (G92) I get about 5500PPD. 1/3 the shaders but only half the PPD.

I guess thats why nVidia really had to get the 500 series refresh out so quickly.

Edit:

Yes. I don't think I could have kept up with Twin GTX680s and a 3930K.

While I may be putting out some decent PPD at the moment. I probably won't be doing a proper upgrade for atleast 2 years. Buy then I will be laging behind quite a few people I would have thought.
 
Ok the PPD on my 460 has settled at 9600 PPD while running at 700 mhz core. So you're down 1700 PPD, a little more than I had guessed.

Hopefully someone can help us get that back for you.
 
What driver are you running on the 460? I'm running the latest (285.33 I think?) on my NVIDIA hardware, just updated drivers while testing some stuff and getting the 275 running.

Mine is also a 768MB version. I know memory bandwidth doesn't factor too much, but 25% lower memory bandwidth might hurt a bit?
 
285.62, that's what I'm running too, just checked the install files. So I guess it's only suffering from running as a secondary card to my GTX275, as it got similar PPD while running as a secondary to my 9800GT. I can't run it as the primary card in a two card setup due to its fan being a POS and the card going >100C and throttling due to lack of air intake with another card pressed up against it (and that's in an Antec 300 with a filtered fan in every spot, which means a 120mm fan blowing air across both cards.) That won't be a problem with the Q6600 since it'll be the only card in that setup (if my friend agrees to sell it to me), alleviating both problems. I'll be running all four cores on the Q6600 since the NVIDIA GPU client hardly hits the CPU at all.

EDIT: I doubt I'll be upgrading this setup for at least two years as well after this. It looks like it's going to be a rather large car payment.
 
Did it again. Typed out quite a long post and then killed the window.

Grrrrrrrr

To cut a long post short.

I had another look to try and find which series the 200 series doesn't get along with folding wise and couldn't find anything. If only my memory was better.

How much are you hoping to the the Q6600 for if you don't mind me asking.

I hope the wife appreciates the car. Giving up new PC hardware is never a plesant experience
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I'm offering him $700 for as much hardware as I could fit in my car's trunk, basically. Q6600, P5N-E SLI, 7 sticks of DDR2-800 RAM, an Antec 900 case (the jewel of the whole kit), some generic tower case with way too many 80mm fans, a couple decent power supplies, an HD 4870, an ATI All-in-Wonder HD, five hard drives including two 1.5TB drives, and basically a whole HP from 2005 with an A64 X2 5200+ as well as some other scattered hardware and DVD drives. It was the "I owe money on taxes and have a spiffy laptop, so bring your car down and load it up with my old crap and give me a quote" maneuver.

EDIT: Just got the go-ahead, and getting the Zalman from my friend. This weekend will be fun for a change!
 
You found Aladins cave right there.

I myself could do with a hard drive or two. Thankfully I managed to get one before the prices went through the roof.... well two I guess if I count the 320 gig drive in my laptop.

Anyway, enjoy your weekend
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Ugh, this NVIDIA chipset is killing me! The Q6600 is a G0 stepping and I can't get it to boot past 2.7GHz. At 1333FSB I have to tweak the motherboard to even POST (even with the CPU multiplier turned down), it refuses to get into Windows past 1200FSB, and it's undervolting the CPU by almost 0.1V compared to what I have it set in the BIOS. I have it running at 2.7GHz right now, gonna try a BIOS update to sort things out.

EDIT: No I'm not, apparently the BIOS the board is running is the best for overclocking. Yay.....
 
Ugh, this NVIDIA chipset is killing me! The Q6600 is a G0 stepping and I can't get it to boot past 2.7GHz. At 1333FSB I have to tweak the motherboard to even POST (even with the CPU multiplier turned down), it refuses to get into Windows past 1200FSB, and it's undervolting the CPU by almost 0.1V compared to what I have it set in the BIOS. I have it running at 2.7GHz right now, gonna try a BIOS update to sort things out.

EDIT: No I'm not, apparently the BIOS the board is running is the best for overclocking. Yay.....

Thats a shame. The P35 board I use to use was pretty happy sat at 400(1600) FSB.... Infact it still is as thats whats in my dads pc now still running 400x8
 
Phh, I updated the BIOS, now it POSTS at 1333 but won't even get into Windows 10MHz above stock. What a piece of garbage.

I take it sugesting clearing the CMOS isn't going to add anything to to what you have already done.

IIRC 1066 is stock for the Q6600 but shouldn't even the earliest C2D boards support 1333? Maybe I'm making that bit up.
 
Nope, after doing some more research apparently that's all this board can do. The NVIDIA chipsets were apparently complete arse for overclocking quads... this one supports DUAL CORES at and above 1333FSB, but quad cores are lucky to even reach 1200MHz. My 750i P5N-D SLI is running my Q9300 just fine, but the 650i in this P5N-E can't.

Guess I'll revert back to the old BIOS and take my 2.7GHz like a man.

EDIT: Heh, clear CMOS. I've had to clear it probably 60 times with all the BIOS flashes and POST fails.
 
Nope, after doing some more research apparently that's all this board can do. The NVIDIA chipsets were apparently complete arse for overclocking quads... this one supports DUAL CORES at and above 1333FSB, but quad cores are lucky to even reach 1200MHz. My 750i P5N-D SLI is running my Q9300 just fine, but the 650i in this P5N-E can't.

Guess I'll revert back to the old BIOS and take my 2.7GHz like a man.

EDIT: Heh, clear CMOS. I've had to clear it probably 60 times with all the BIOS flashes and POST fails.

Might be worth selling that board on ebay and trying to get an intel chipset one off there to replace it.

I was put off Nvidia chipsets after their nforce 3. I know nforce 4 was an improvment but once burnt and all that.

Not to mention intel are really good t chipsets 99% of the time, so once I moved from AMD to Intel that choice was a no brainer for me.
 
I didn't experience the NF3 days, but the nForce2 chipsets for the Athlon XP CPUs were straight up awesome. They're all I'd consider buying back in the day. Shame they couldn't get the later chipsets right.

Can't wait to get this thing set up with my GTX460!

I'll stop hogging your thread now. Build and Windows install commences tomorrow
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I didn't experience the NF3 days, but the nForce2 chipsets for the Athlon XP CPUs were straight up awesome. They're all I'd consider buying back in the day. Shame they couldn't get the later chipsets right.

Can't wait to get this thing set up with my GTX460!

I'll stop hogging your thread now. Build and Windows install commences tomorrow
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lol

Don't worry bout it, you're keeping me off ebay
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Yeah, the nForce 2 chipset was great. I had an Abit... NF7-S 2.0 IIRC. Went through many CPUs on that thing hunting down the next best overclock.

Infact I have a Gigabyte motherboard hanging around with the nForce 2 chipset, but its not the Ultra so it doesn't have the awesome onboard sound and the bios options for the CPU and RAM are pretty much none existant. Not that it matters these days. The 1700+ that's in there (which does 2ghz) probably wouldn't even run the latest version of Internet Explorer very well let alone anything else.
 
I remember my NF7-S 2.0 and 1700+ TBred-B combo. I scored big time on that CPU, it ran 24/7 at 2.2GHz, I got it into Windows at 2.6GHz, and I got it to POST at 2.73GHz (!!!!!) which was insane for those chips. When I got an Athlon 64 X2 I sold the 1700+ to a friend, who for all I know is still using it at 2.2GHz as a Linux router.
 
I remember my NF7-S 2.0 and 1700+ TBred-B combo. I scored big time on that CPU, it ran 24/7 at 2.2GHz, I got it into Windows at 2.6GHz, and I got it to POST at 2.73GHz (!!!!!) which was insane for those chips. When I got an Athlon 64 X2 I sold the 1700+ to a friend, who for all I know is still using it at 2.2GHz as a Linux router.

I ran two 1700+ Tbreds and two 2500+ bartons on that board, and maybe even a 2100+.

I had very little luck with the 1700+s and moderte success with the bartons.

When I moved to A64, I gave my stuff to my brother, lucky git
 
Two 5345s on there way to me.

Maybe I can stop now lol The 5355s and 5365s are way out of my range and the 54xx wont work in the default xw6400 board.

Now if only I could find way to overclock this thing
 
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