I would like to see on this site a graphical summary of what kind of systems people have (eg, how many people have 3800+'s, P4 3.2's, Core2's, etc as well as video cards and whatever other hardware). I would also like to see how much they were able overclock these devices. For instance, I have a P4 2.8E. I would like to see a chart of how many other people own it and what they were able to Overclock it to. Then I would like to see what kind of memory and cooling they have with it. I was able to get my 2.8 to 3.1 with stock heatsink and fan. This baby runs hot (it idles in the 40s). Naturally, Prescott cores run hotter than the Northwood cores so I wasn't expecting a big increase, but 300MHz is decent. My memory was 3-3-3-8-T1 some sort of Kingston DDR400 ValueRam. I was able to get the timings down to 2.5-2-3-5-T1, which I'm somewhat impressed with. This is because I was able to tighten the timings and increase the FSB from 200 to 221MHz - I know there's not a big difference between DDR442 and DDR400, but those timings made a definite improvement.
an excellent idea vol. i wud personally lov 2 see sumthing like dat aswell. it can give everine an idea of how good a component is rather than everyone asking, how far wud this overclock, which is better etc
Nice idea, Some simple bar charts would fit the bill here though I reckon. Maybe we could try and get them into Sandra somehow becuase I reckon the results to compare with in that are wrong. My P4a 2ghz @ 2.5ghz 512kb cache performs slower than sandras results for a 2ghz P4 256kb cache. It doesnt seem right. Maybe a HWF list of results would be better. I get an extra 200mb/s bandwidth from bumping my Kingston ddr400 value to 416mhz. It goes from 2.4gb/s to 2.6gb/s. Ive only ever tried it at cas2.5 @400mhz and that gives an extra 200mb/s, so ddr442 might be better than you think. Overclockers.com used to have a decent list of overclocks but I think they started it again or something because loads have disappeared, including mine.
Izzy, that's kinda what I was thinking. I'm building a site now that will be able to handle it. Hopefully HwForums will work in conjucture with it, otherwise I guess I'm gonna have to stop posting here and just be competition -- BTW if you have an AM2 socket, you're not realizing your computer's full potential with just 512 MB ram. You should have at least 1GB and get some fast ram (DDR2 800+) Zeus, DDR-400 actually runs at 200MHz, but it transfers data twice on each clock cycle, which is why it is rated at 400 (a theoretical value). After tweaking my timing and bumping the FSB up, it has had an inverse effect on my memory. I am currently undergoing testing to figure out where the problem lies. But my new Conroe system will be here by the end of the week so I'm not going to fret on it too much. Just getting ready to hand over this system to my brother so that we can both enjoy the same online games together.
yeh i know that ddr400 runs at 300mhz and all that and i know im not gonna get the full performance with 512mb ram, i just bought it so that i cud get the system up and running, hopefully i will get sum when i have sum more money.
That's totally understandable. Everyone has a budget and a plan. The cool thing about computers is there's always something better around the corner. Things become dated pretty fast.
