CPU-Z ver 1.40 reports:
Core Speed: 1799.9 MHz
Bus Speed: 300.0 MHz
Rated FSB: 1200.0 MHz
And SiSoft Sandra Lite ver 2007.4.11.22reports:
CPU core speed: 2.7 GHz BUT the benchmarks are similar to those with the
CPU core speed at 1.8 GHz.
Dynamic BIOS Access shows an FSB of 1800 MHz and a multiplier of 6 x.
nMonitor reports:
CPU Core: 1800.000 MHz
FSB: 1200 (QDR) MHz
And finally (if I can trust the BIOS setting pages), the values in the BIOS
for this farrago are
CPU Multiplier: 9 X
FSB: 1800 MHz.
I am going to just stick with an FSB of 1200 MHz, a multiplier of 9 X, a
Memory Bus of 1200 MHz (1:2), and a CPU core voltage of 1.250 v until
SOMEBODY comes out with a reliable method of finding out what the
overclocking parameters really are. Until then I am going to work on a
water cooling system.
Correction:
The CPU multiplier line in the last report
| And finally (if I can trust the BIOS setting pages), the values in the
BIOS
| for this farrago are
| CPU Multiplier: 9 X
| FSB: 1800 MHz.
Should read
CPU multiplier: 6 X
Phil Weldon
"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
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| Great success! At least according to 'nVidia Control Panel' (ver
| 1.4.100.40 -> 'View System Information' for my E4300 / EVGA 680i system.
|
| The report:
| Reference clock (FSB): 613.181 MHz
| FSB Frequency: 2452.723 (QDR) MHz
| CPU multiplier: 6.0 x
| CPU core frequency: 3679.084 MHz
| Memory bus frequency: 2452: 2452.723 (DDR2) MHz
| PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHz
| PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
|
| Honest to god! That's what it reports.
|
| Oops!
| Now it reports:
| Reference clock (FSB) 450.103 MHz
| FSB frequency: 1800.412 (QDR) MHz
| CPU core frequency: 2700.618 MHz
| Memory bus frequency: 1800.412 (DDR2) MHz
| PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHJz
| PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
|
| Oops!
| 'Adjust Motherboard Settings' reports:
| Reference clock (FSB): 300 MHz
| FSB Frequency: 1200 (QDR) MHz
| CPU core frequency: 1800 MHz
| Memory bus frequency: 1200 (DDR2) MHz
| PCI-E: 2500 MHz
|
| CPU-Z ver 1.40 reports:
| Core Speed: 1799.9 MHz
| Bus Speed: 300.0 MHz
| Rated FSB: 1200.0 MHz
|
| And SiSoft Sandra Lite ver 2007.4.11.22reports:
| CPU core speed: 2.7 GHz BUT the benchmarks are similar to those with the
| CPU core speed at 1.8 GHz.
|
| Dynamic BIOS Access shows an FSB of 1800 MHz and a multiplier of 6 x.
|
| nMonitor reports:
| CPU Core: 1800.000 MHz
| FSB: 1200 (QDR) MHz
|
| And finally (if I can trust the BIOS setting pages), the values in the
BIOS
| for this farrago are
| CPU Multiplier: 9 X
| FSB: 1800 MHz.
|
| I am going to just stick with an FSB of 1200 MHz, a multiplier of 9 X, a
| Memory Bus of 1200 MHz (1:2), and a CPU core voltage of 1.250 v until
| SOMEBODY comes out with a reliable method of finding out what the
| overclocking parameters really are. Until then I am going to work on a
| water cooling system.
|
| Phili Weldon
|
|
|
|
"Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
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> Great success! At least according to 'nVidia Control Panel' (ver
> 1.4.100.40 -> 'View System Information' for my E4300 / EVGA 680i system.
>
> The report:
> Reference clock (FSB): 613.181 MHz
> FSB Frequency: 2452.723 (QDR) MHz
> CPU multiplier: 6.0 x
> CPU core frequency: 3679.084 MHz
> Memory bus frequency: 2452: 2452.723 (DDR2) MHz
> PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHz
> PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
>
> Honest to god! That's what it reports.
>
> Oops!
> Now it reports:
> Reference clock (FSB) 450.103 MHz
> FSB frequency: 1800.412 (QDR) MHz
> CPU core frequency: 2700.618 MHz
> Memory bus frequency: 1800.412 (DDR2) MHz
> PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHJz
> PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
>
> Oops!
> 'Adjust Motherboard Settings' reports:
> Reference clock (FSB): 300 MHz
> FSB Frequency: 1200 (QDR) MHz
> CPU core frequency: 1800 MHz
> Memory bus frequency: 1200 (DDR2) MHz
> PCI-E: 2500 MHz
>
> CPU-Z ver 1.40 reports:
> Core Speed: 1799.9 MHz
> Bus Speed: 300.0 MHz
> Rated FSB: 1200.0 MHz
>
> And SiSoft Sandra Lite ver 2007.4.11.22reports:
> CPU core speed: 2.7 GHz BUT the benchmarks are similar to those with the
> CPU core speed at 1.8 GHz.
>
> Dynamic BIOS Access shows an FSB of 1800 MHz and a multiplier of 6 x.
>
> nMonitor reports:
> CPU Core: 1800.000 MHz
> FSB: 1200 (QDR) MHz
>
> And finally (if I can trust the BIOS setting pages), the values in the
> BIOS
> for this farrago are
> CPU Multiplier: 9 X
> FSB: 1800 MHz.
>
> I am going to just stick with an FSB of 1200 MHz, a multiplier of 9 X, a
> Memory Bus of 1200 MHz (1:2), and a CPU core voltage of 1.250 v until
> SOMEBODY comes out with a reliable method of finding out what the
> overclocking parameters really are. Until then I am going to work on a
> water cooling system.
>
> Phili Weldon
>
I have had nothing but problems with NTune myself. Between incorrect
readings, lockups and just a lot of other issues I think I will remove it
and just use some other program to monitor and do everything in bios. The
only thing I KNOW it is reporting correctly are my memory timings. I had a
stable OC at 3.0ghz but now after installing the newest version of NV
Control Panel I can't get past about 2.8ghz without issues.
Another issue I am having with the i680 board is that I have a "Safely
Remove Hardware" icon in my systray for all four HDDs. Not a big thing, but
I just wonder why it is there. I am also going to have to remove my water
block and clean and reapply thermal compound. I had great temps for a few
days but now I am seeing idle temps up in the 40s. I used some Artic Silver
that I had sitting around but the block came with some white stuff......I
think it is Artic Ceramique or something like that. I may have overdone the
original application just a bit anyway. Load temps are getting into the mid
50s so I need to do something because that is a good 10-15c above what I had
originally. Just for grins I ran 3D Mark 06 (free version) and got a score
of just under 14000 which ranked about 35th for C2Ds (including some QXxx
chips) which kind of surprized me since I was only running about a 2.8ghz
overclock. Must be those two 8800 GTXs.......:-).
"Ed Medlin" <edmedlin@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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>
> "Phil Weldon" <not.disclosed@example.com> wrote in message
> news:qDK%h.8856$j63.1163@newsread2.news.pas.earthl ink.net...
>> Great success! At least according to 'nVidia Control Panel' (ver
>> 1.4.100.40 -> 'View System Information' for my E4300 / EVGA 680i system.
>>
>> The report:
>> Reference clock (FSB): 613.181 MHz
>> FSB Frequency: 2452.723 (QDR) MHz
>> CPU multiplier: 6.0 x
>> CPU core frequency: 3679.084 MHz
>> Memory bus frequency: 2452: 2452.723 (DDR2) MHz
>> PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHz
>> PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
>>
>> Honest to god! That's what it reports.
>>
>> Oops!
>> Now it reports:
>> Reference clock (FSB) 450.103 MHz
>> FSB frequency: 1800.412 (QDR) MHz
>> CPU core frequency: 2700.618 MHz
>> Memory bus frequency: 1800.412 (DDR2) MHz
>> PCI-E bus: 2500.000 MHJz
>> PCI bus: 33.00 MHz
>>
>> Oops!
>> 'Adjust Motherboard Settings' reports:
>> Reference clock (FSB): 300 MHz
>> FSB Frequency: 1200 (QDR) MHz
>> CPU core frequency: 1800 MHz
>> Memory bus frequency: 1200 (DDR2) MHz
>> PCI-E: 2500 MHz
>>
>> CPU-Z ver 1.40 reports:
>> Core Speed: 1799.9 MHz
>> Bus Speed: 300.0 MHz
>> Rated FSB: 1200.0 MHz
>>
>> And SiSoft Sandra Lite ver 2007.4.11.22reports:
>> CPU core speed: 2.7 GHz BUT the benchmarks are similar to those with the
>> CPU core speed at 1.8 GHz.
>>
>> Dynamic BIOS Access shows an FSB of 1800 MHz and a multiplier of 6 x.
>>
>> nMonitor reports:
>> CPU Core: 1800.000 MHz
>> FSB: 1200 (QDR) MHz
>>
>> And finally (if I can trust the BIOS setting pages), the values in the
>> BIOS
>> for this farrago are
>> CPU Multiplier: 9 X
>> FSB: 1800 MHz.
>>
>> I am going to just stick with an FSB of 1200 MHz, a multiplier of 9 X, a
>> Memory Bus of 1200 MHz (1:2), and a CPU core voltage of 1.250 v until
>> SOMEBODY comes out with a reliable method of finding out what the
>> overclocking parameters really are. Until then I am going to work on a
>> water cooling system.
>>
>> Phili Weldon
>>
> I have had nothing but problems with NTune myself. Between incorrect
> readings, lockups and just a lot of other issues I think I will remove it
> and just use some other program to monitor and do everything in bios. The
> only thing I KNOW it is reporting correctly are my memory timings. I had a
> stable OC at 3.0ghz but now after installing the newest version of NV
> Control Panel I can't get past about 2.8ghz without issues.
> Another issue I am having with the i680 board is that I have a "Safely
> Remove Hardware" icon in my systray for all four HDDs. Not a big thing,
> but I just wonder why it is there. I am also going to have to remove my
> water block and clean and reapply thermal compound. I had great temps for
> a few days but now I am seeing idle temps up in the 40s. I used some Artic
> Silver that I had sitting around but the block came with some white
> stuff......I think it is Artic Ceramique or something like that. I may
> have overdone the original application just a bit anyway. Load temps are
> getting into the mid 50s so I need to do something because that is a good
> 10-15c above what I had originally. Just for grins I ran 3D Mark 06 (free
> version) and got a score of just under 14000 which ranked about 35th for
> C2Ds (including some QXxx chips) which kind of surprized me since I was
> only running about a 2.8ghz overclock. Must be those two 8800
> GTXs.......:-).
>
> Ed
>>
>>I have the EVGA 680i SLI board in a new build (mouse and keyboard freeze
>>at least once a day) and noticed that "safely remove hardware" icon in the
>>systray too. I was wondering where I picked up that useless thing. It only
>>lists my hard drive. OK .... remove hard drive while it's running
>>... yeah ...... I'm sure I want to do that.
>>
>
>
680i; who is telling the truth? 
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