Overclocking geekyness

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:17 pm

So I upgraded to an ASUS P5Q motherboard from a P5K over the weekend. I know it's old tech but it's still quick enough for office and HTPC duties for me

On my old P5K I could get a max of 3.0GHz out of my Intel Q6600 Core 2 Quad (2.4GHz standard).

P5Q stable: 400 x 9 = 3.6GHz @ 1.38v on AIR and with a phat cooler and a silent 1200RPM CPU fan! Was well pleased... 50+GFlops

Had to throttle it back to 3.5GHz @ 1.34v tho - temps got a bit silly under full load stress testing. Could probably get 4GHz out of that chip with watercooling and maybe a P5Q Deluxe.

Since the P5Q comes with Intel RAID on board I thought it would be rude not to... 2 SSD's... RAID0... Any guesses which SSD's (hint - old tech as well)?

Maxed out SATAII!

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:20 pm

Post by **rob quilter** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:22 pm

Should be posted here:

http://www.ludegeneration.co.uk/post49140.html#p49140

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:23 pm

Oops now I've got Phil to deal with

Post by **Vtecmec** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:24 pm

Post by **Kawa** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 9:49 pm

Even I have no idea what your talking about

Post by **Ammo** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:42 pm

My Games PC is a intel i3 3.2ghz overclocked to 4.2ghz

But i'm lost on the rest

Bio · Post by **Bio** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 10:59 pm

Wondering what the RAID0 will do for the longiveity of the SSD's though?
I'm currently running an i5 2500K @4.3Ghz on air with < stock voltage. Those old Q6600's were pretty good back in the day though and the O/C should net you maybe another 6 months - a year depending on your usage model before it starts to feel quite slow

Post by **RattyMcClelland** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:02 pm

My PS3 is sitting ontop of a clock. I that overclocked?

judderod · Post by **judderod** » Mon Jul 09, 2012 11:28 pm

Bio wrote:Wondering what the RAID0 will do for the longiveity of the SSD's though?
I'm currently running an i5 2500K @4.3Ghz on air with < stock voltage. Those old Q6600's were pretty good back in the day though and the O/C should net you maybe another 6 months - a year depending on your usage model before it starts to feel quite slow

I got some cheapo used X25-E's. SSDLife software says they should last about 20 years! Nice overclock on the i5 and on the i3 ammo

I'm glad someone knows what I'm on about I was about to go and talk to myself in the corner.

RattyMcClelland wrote:My PS3 is sitting ontop of a clock. I that overclocked?

That's something even better. You're uberclocked.