Yet another D14 thread!

[I Hunta x]

After buying my E8600 off of Tom over a year back (might be nearly 2 years now??

) ive been itching to take it high, the cooler i had at the time was an Artic cooling - Freezer 7 pro that was ok but no were near good, i could get around 3.75 at safe temps.

After digging around my parts cupboard i found my old Zerotherm nirvana 120 that i had from an old AMD 6000+ machine and stuck that on, its managed to take me to 4.25 at around 63-65c load when my room is fairly cool and 68-70c when its up to the 35C mark in here (thanks to my snakes

) and i was happy with that till recently.

Now to fend off the upgrade bug for another few months ive decided its time to put a PROPPER cooler on it and give it the treatment it deserves, im also going to add either a GTX560 or GTX570 depending how the 560 performs once its out, plus it saves me buying a new cooler when i get round to upgrading

.

I ordered the D14 friday evening and its due for delivery on monday, my goal is to get around 4.75 out of it if possable but i know ill have a few questions squeezing the most out of it as i realy havent been reading up on overclocking recently and have actualy forgot most of the bits and bobs i did know due to only adding mild overclocks for friends (2.4-3.2 on a Q6600, 2.0-3.0 on a e2180 and some other little bits).

Im making the thread now just so i can double check some of the essentials before i start/need help, Sorry about the lengthy read till now btw.

The machine spec is E8600, Asus P5k Prem', 2x2gb G.Skill Ripjaw 1000mhz 5-5-5-15

Im sure ill find some other bits and bobs to ask when i get stuck into it so for now a few pictures, and ill add some of the D14 once its in.

Oh and yes i know the cables arent the best but this OCZ has pretty poo cable lenghs, so i did my best.

 

[I Hunta x]

Got the D14 on yesterday afternoon and it dropped the temps of my 4.25ghz clock down 15c idle and 20c load giving 38 idle 48 4 hours p95 load load so it was a nice drop for that, room ambient temp rarely drops below 26C its usualy 28-30C

I was playing with it last night and got 4.75ghz not very stable at 1.4275v and 4.9ghz no were near stable at 1.45v got a bsod loading cpuz so couldnt get a validation for that one, got one for 4.75 tho.



Trying to find a new max safe clock i started playing at around 4.5ghz and found 1.385v was needed to get it stable so ive left it there for now

kinda a shame as it only needs 1.2875v for 4.25ghz.

I left most things at stock to get it stable at 4.5ghz, soooo is there anything i can try tweaking to try get it stable at slightly lower volts? or mabey slighty faster at these volts?



63-65C 8 hour p95 large FFT, ambient across the night was 29C min 31C max

 

[tinytomlogan]

Once you get to a point the gaps between clocks and volts will widen rapidly, just the way it is matey. Id deffo try manually setting most of the volts, the P5k Prem does need a lot of NB volts for big clocks but its been so long I cant bloody remember what they are. Just remember that your NB sink has a tiny cooler on itand it so keep an eye on the temps for that. Other than that its just the FSB volts you really need to concentrate on.

 

[I Hunta x]

aye, i had a feeling i was going to need to bump the NB volts up from stock sooner or later, if it starts getting a bit warm i could order some upgraded HS and pop the stock ones off.

If i rememeber right i have a nexus copper NB cooler kicking around somewere, mabey also a enzotech cnb s1 or something along thoes lines, ill have a look tomorow if i gave them away or not.

Any preference on a program to monitor the NB temps, and what should i keep it under?