So lately, I’ve been busy tweaking other people’s computers. My friends’ computers have been conking out on them one after another so I’ve been the one asked to help them out with their plight.
I’ve had the pleasure of overclocking and benchmarking my friend Gab’s computer.
Here are his specs:
Intel E7500 Core2Duo 2.93ghz Processor
Asus P5QL-Pro
HEC Raptor 500watts PSU
Team Elite DDR2 800 2x2gb Ram
Coolermaster Elite 330 Case
Inno3d 9800gt Green Edition 1GB
WD Caviar Blue 320gb HDD
Viewsonic 22″ LCD
24x LG DVDRW with Lightscribe
A decent computer that actually pleasantly amazes me.
So anyway…. here’s what I did:
We really didn’t have much time to do much of anything since we did it pretty late at his house. I pretty much just set the FSB to 310, (1240 FSB, effectively). Left the Multiplier alone @ 11. Getting it up to 3.42ghz. Left the voltage to stock settings which was 1.2625 VID according to CPU-Z. Then I set the memory to 777mhz to keep it cool, 5-5-5-18 latency. I also left all the voltages to stock. Then I turned off the Speedstep and C1E stuff. Then we booted it. I was surprised that it booted nicely the Vista 64 OS I installed. Then we proceeded in testing the processors stability with OCCT 3.1.0, waited for an hour, and WHAM. It was stable as a rock. ON STOCK COOLING no less. Idle temps were just a degree higher than it was on stock 2.93ghz. Highest Temp was 57C @ load, this was at 28C ambients. I would overclock it a tad more IMHO but my friend Gabby was fine with the mild overclock we did.
I then overclocked his 9800GT to 600mhz to catch up to the non-green editions out there. Also was stable as a rock. I didn’t tinker around with the shader or the memory of the card as it would just entail more load on the PCI-E slot’s provision for power. As it can only give out a max of 75watts of power for the 9800GT according to PCI-E 2.0 Specs. We already researched a little on what the green edition cards can do overclocked, and we could only see a max of 614mhz for it. Which is already way more than my friend needs. We tested it and found that 600mhz was fine and stable also on OCCT 3.1.0 GPU mode.
I was pleasantly amazed at the fact that his little computer could overclock that much on stock voltage and that his GREEN edition card could actually push out enough frames to run 1680×1050 resolutions on the games he plays. The 1GB DDR3 memory of his videocard does help quite a bit with high resolution textures and anti-aliasing. Man, was I jealous of that processor. My old Q6600 couldn’t even pump out 3.42ghz on stock even if I wanted to. Gabby was so happy with what we were able to accomplish that night. LOL.
We tested it on COD4 ver. 1.7 single player mode to see the gaming performance. It was just lovely. To think a 26k computer would be able to games at this resolution just almost astounds me. It just goes to show that computers have gotten cheap enough to run even hardware demanding games out there now.
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