Overclocking the NP5796

I recently began my attempts for overclocking the NP5796 and was pleased to get a basic overclock out of it quickly, from 2.5 -> 2.7 GHz. SetFSB does not support the PM45 chipset yet, but I was able to somehow get it to bump it to 2.7ghz. It randomly does it. I will experiment more tomorrow when I get to work and report more on the settings for setFSB and getting it to work.

Boosted my 3DMark 06 score by a substantial amount.

 

nice I have the same proc so I'm interested to see what you've done and what you come up with

 

Well I'm still not sure how its doing what its doing, but here's what I've done:

On SetFSB, I've selected the last Clock Generator and turned Ultra on. I click Get FSB and a window comes up saying something about PLLs. I select the clock generator above that and keep repeating the step until the app hangs for about 30 seconds. When it becomes responsive again, viola! 2.729GHz. Not too bad. No way to go above it though. At least not yet.

Does anybody know the clock generator for the PM45 chipset or how to find it? Trying to submit to Audigy for inclusion in the next revision. I also noticed while browsing the BIOS inside the Pheonix BIOS editor, there is an option to turn on overclocking for all processors. I might experiment with creating a custom bios later.

 

So does anyone know if this is possible to do with 2.8ghz? would I be able to OC that...I got your PM mike (I dont get my system till tuesday) but I don't want to screw anything up. Want to make sure I can OC to 3.0ghz or so before I attempt.

 

As of right now, you cannot OC to 3 GHz. SetFSB will only take it up to 2.7. However, Killer Notebooks app (I want it so bad!) will take it to 2.9GHz with no problems.

 

Hey, guys!

I just wanted to mention that I changed the setting in my Montebello M570TU's BIOS for CPU Overclock from Disabled to Over 2x. Intel® Processor Identification Utility 4.1 reports my processor as overclocked to 2.9GHz. I have not done any performance testing though.

Did anyone try these settings?

 

Jakeypal do you have the QX9300 or the X9100?

If you do, BIOS allows to overclock these processors. I've clocked my QX9300 to 2,93GHZ.

 

All Extreme model cpus support overclocking in the BIOS. But only 2x on the multiplier. I'm still upset at clevo for locking this down so much. My X9100 maxes at 65C under stress. I want more power!

 

Thermal contraints aside, the motherboard and the power supply simply cannot supply that much power to a further overclocked X9100. I dare you to run OCCT power supply test and watch your system crawl to it's knees.

It was a logical decision for Clevo to restrict the higher multipliers on Extreme CPU's.

 

So we would need a bigger power supply to OC processors further? Or does the M570TU only support 120W max for power supplies?

 

MY PSU is 130w. The mobo/chipset can stand more power running through it. It is built on the P45 chipset afterall. OCCT doesn't really get the system that hot. Core Damage makes the chip hotter than any other stress app.

 

130W, are you sure? The standard ones are Li Shin model 0227A20120 20V 6.0A = 120W (also hence the model number 20120 - 20V 120W)

 

If your motherboard can truly stand more power running through it like you claim, then run OCCT power supply test for atleast five minutes.

 

Hey, man! I have a QX9300 and I am upset that BIOS only allows to overclock 2 of the 4 cores at a time. Eurocom support told me I can overclock the 1st 2 cores selecting "Over 1x" option in BIOS, or the 2nd 2 cores with "Over 2x".

Too bad, you can't have both. Eurocom also said they won't distribute Intel's XTU - extreme tuning utility, which is supposed to overclock QX9300. I am checking the reasons for it now. The search for XTU download produced 0 results.

 

Can't you do some undervolting to save power? I am going to try it on my system and see if it's table enough and performs the same.

 

Do you actually have this unit, as I'm pretty sure that info is wrong. Over 1x ups the multiplier by 1x for the whole chip, and over 2x ups the multi by 2x...

 

what does overclocking mean

 

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@ Theriko - Positive of 130w. At least thats what the label says. Its a brand new one.

@ Soviet Sunrise - I'm not sure what you want me to see. I've run the PS test in OCCT for 10 minutes. It got hot, but nothing out of the ordinary for a stress test. You have to remember too that it is very rare to stress every single component to 100% its capacity all at the same time. Usually only see this in synth benchmarks. I want more CPU overclock for power apps, not so much gaming. So the GPU will be mostly idling anyways. Thats 75w I won't be using.

@ Jakeypal - I've spent a whole year now searching for that utility. Its not on the interweb. At all. Sad, sad day.

 

True, while OCCT is a brutal test on a system's hardware, it isn't in anyway near normal everyday use for most users.

Still, I use it to make sure my systems can withstand any onslaught and to see how efficient the systems cooling is.

 

Hey, man! That's a very interesting thought that you offered. In fact, when I say that only 2 cores of 4 are overclocked I rely on readings from RightMark CPU Clock Utility (RMClock), which shows 2 cores at 2.93GHz and the other 2 at 2.53GHz. However, Intel's CPU ID utility reports all 4 cores as overclocked.
Which app should I trust?

What you say makes more sense ! The technical support at Eurocom simply couldn't explain it to me properly.

Thanks for the tip!

 

Guys, another question for you!

I originally had Micron's DDR3 4Gb kit with timings 7-7-7-21 installed. I got hooked on Kinston's HyperX DDR3 4Gb kit since it promised tighter timings of 5-5-5-15. As bad luck would have it, when I installed Kingston DDR3 the system slowed it down to 7-7-7-21 :-(.

Then I used MemSet 4 to get the timings smaller to 7-5-5-15. I run my notebook at these timings every day. It rarely crashes BUT it does not pass MemTest 3.8 torture. I even tried timings 7-5-4-15, 7-5-5-14, 7-5-5-16, 7-5-5-17 neither of them passes the MemTest 3.8.

How reliable and relevant is MemTest as a stress testing software? I have played Wheelman 2009 and NFS Underground 2 under 5-5-5-15 and it seemed all right. There was only 1 BSOD but these things happen.

 

One more thing... You haven't done so yet please do. Yesterday I updated to new NVIDIA's drivers for Vista x64. First, to 186.03 and then to the newest 190.38 released yesterday.

All things being equal, before the update my windows performance index was 5.6 b/c of RAM all else was 5.9 or 5.8.

After the update, my windows performance index is up 5.8 because of gaming graphics but my RAM is now 5.9! Everything is now 5.9 but for gaming graphics. The system seems snappier.

Has anyone tested it yet? The reports are that performance in Crysis should up by 20%.

Cheers!

 

I'm using 190.38 WHQL as my primary. They're pretty good.