Intel Shows D975XBX2 BIOS and QX6700 Overclocking

[Apoptosis]

Intel Shows D975XBX2 BIOS and QX6700 Overclocking

Intel showed off their Intel D975XBX2 'Bad Axe 2' motherboard BIOS and did some overlocking with the upcoming Intel Core 2 Quad QX6700 processor here at IDF and Legit Reviews was on hand taking the exclusive shots of the presentation while it happened. If you know that Bad Axe is the code name for Intel's enthusiast motherboard then this article is a must read.



Article Title: Intel Shows D975XBX2 BIOS and QX6700 Overclocking
Article URL: http://legitreviews.com/article/395/1/

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[hainer36]

MUST RESIST KENTSFIELD

MUST WAIT TIL 45NM

MUST RESIST!!!

[pwinzor]

yea thats so true hainer the 45 nm series are gonna merk the kensfeild chipsets im having trouble waiting too but itll be worth it if u can hold out!

[Chris Taylor]

I read the above article with interest.

I have recently built the following system based on the D97XBX2 and QX6700:


4GB Crucial 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-5300C3 667MHz Tenth Anniversary Dual Channel Kit (TY2KIT12864AA663)
Seasonic S12 600W Silent ATX2.0 Power Supply 1
Coolermaster Mystique 631 Black (No PSU) 1
Asus GeForce EN7300GS-HTD 256MB DDR2 TV-Out/DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail 1
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 320GB ST3320620AS SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM 1
NEC AD5170 18x18 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM 1
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) 1


Swiftech H20-220 Apex Ultra+ Watercooling Kit (Socket 462/478/LGA775/754/939/940)

My question is if I want to try to achieve the overclock mentioned in this article I am not sure what was done regarding the memory. Can somebody explain to me how I should set up my memory in Bios to achieve this.

Thanks!

[Apoptosis]

Chris,

Welcome to the forums and looks like you got a great setup that can easily hit the results shown in the article. For starters I suggest manually setting the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and increasing the voltage up to 2.0-2.1V in the BIOS for the memory. You will have to increase the voltage a bunch to hit over 3.7GHz... I had to max all the voltages out on the board to hit 3.7GHz with stability.

Once you find the max on the processor you can start to lower memory timings to say 4-4-4-12 from 5-5-5-15 and see if it's still stable. It will take a few hours to do if you've done this before... Just remember to take baby steps.. Go for 3GHz first then ~3.2Ghz then ~3.4GHz and inch your way up and you'll do fine. If you go balls to the wall and crank everything up from the start then you won't have a good time. Pick a benchmark too like Cinebench 9.5 and run the multi-cpu test and watch the scores improve as the overclock gets higher.

[Chris Taylor]

Chris,

Welcome to the forums and looks like you got a great setup that can easily hit the results shown in the article. For starters I suggest manually setting the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and increasing the voltage up to 2.0-2.1V in the BIOS for the memory. You will have to increase the voltage a bunch to hit over 3.7GHz... I had to max all the voltages out on the board to hit 3.7GHz with stability.

Once you find the max on the processor you can start to lower memory timings to say 4-4-4-12 from 5-5-5-15 and see if it's still stable. It will take a few hours to do if you've done this before... Just remember to take baby steps.. Go for 3GHz first then ~3.2Ghz then ~3.4GHz and inch your way up and you'll do fine. If you go balls to the wall and crank everything up from the start then you won't have a good time. Pick a benchmark too like Cinebench 9.5 and run the multi-cpu test and watch the scores improve as the overclock gets higher.

Thanks for your quick reply. The spec of the memory I bought is:

- Package: Tenth Anniversary 240-pin DIMM
- Feature: DDR2 PC2-5300
- Configuration: 128Meg x 64
- DIMM Type: UNBUFFERED
- Error Checking: NON-ECC
- Speed: DDR2-667
- Voltage: 2.2V
- Memory Timings: 3-3-3-12
- Specs: DDR2 PC2-5300 • 3-3-3-12 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-667 • 2.2V • - 128Meg x 64

Looks like it already runs at 2.2v and the default timings are 3-3-3-12

so what would you do with this?

[Apoptosis]

Chris,

Welcome to the forums and looks like you got a great setup that can easily hit the results shown in the article. For starters I suggest manually setting the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and increasing the voltage up to 2.0-2.1V in the BIOS for the memory. You will have to increase the voltage a bunch to hit over 3.7GHz... I had to max all the voltages out on the board to hit 3.7GHz with stability.

Once you find the max on the processor you can start to lower memory timings to say 4-4-4-12 from 5-5-5-15 and see if it's still stable. It will take a few hours to do if you've done this before... Just remember to take baby steps.. Go for 3GHz first then ~3.2Ghz then ~3.4GHz and inch your way up and you'll do fine. If you go balls to the wall and crank everything up from the start then you won't have a good time. Pick a benchmark too like Cinebench 9.5 and run the multi-cpu test and watch the scores improve as the overclock gets higher.

Thanks for your quick reply. The spec of the memory I bought is:

- Package: Tenth Anniversary 240-pin DIMM
- Feature: DDR2 PC2-5300
- Configuration: 128Meg x 64
- DIMM Type: UNBUFFERED
- Error Checking: NON-ECC
- Speed: DDR2-667
- Voltage: 2.2V
- Memory Timings: 3-3-3-12
- Specs: DDR2 PC2-5300 • 3-3-3-12 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-667 • 2.2V • - 128Meg x 64

Looks like it already runs at 2.2v and the default timings are 3-3-3-12

so what would you do with this?

It will run at 667MHz at 3-3-3-12 @ 2.2V, which is fine and all but when you overclock you will have the memory pushing close to 1000MHz depending on what divider you use. I'd relax the timings to 5-5-5-15 at say 2.2V and then find the max of the CPU. If you overclock at 3-3-3-12 you'll find the max of the memory before you do the processor.

If you leave the front side bus alone and raise the multiplier up to 13 or 14 then you won't have to worry about the timings as you wont be overclocking the memory at all. It just depends on how you try to overclock it.

[Chris Taylor]

Chris,

Welcome to the forums and looks like you got a great setup that can easily hit the results shown in the article. For starters I suggest manually setting the memory timings to 5-5-5-15 and increasing the voltage up to 2.0-2.1V in the BIOS for the memory. You will have to increase the voltage a bunch to hit over 3.7GHz... I had to max all the voltages out on the board to hit 3.7GHz with stability.

Once you find the max on the processor you can start to lower memory timings to say 4-4-4-12 from 5-5-5-15 and see if it's still stable. It will take a few hours to do if you've done this before... Just remember to take baby steps.. Go for 3GHz first then ~3.2Ghz then ~3.4GHz and inch your way up and you'll do fine. If you go balls to the wall and crank everything up from the start then you won't have a good time. Pick a benchmark too like Cinebench 9.5 and run the multi-cpu test and watch the scores improve as the overclock gets higher.

Thanks for your quick reply. The spec of the memory I bought is:

- Package: Tenth Anniversary 240-pin DIMM
- Feature: DDR2 PC2-5300
- Configuration: 128Meg x 64
- DIMM Type: UNBUFFERED
- Error Checking: NON-ECC
- Speed: DDR2-667
- Voltage: 2.2V
- Memory Timings: 3-3-3-12
- Specs: DDR2 PC2-5300 • 3-3-3-12 • UNBUFFERED • NON-ECC • DDR2-667 • 2.2V • - 128Meg x 64

Looks like it already runs at 2.2v and the default timings are 3-3-3-12

so what would you do with this?

It will run at 667MHz at 3-3-3-12 @ 2.2V, which is fine and all but when you overclock you will have the memory pushing close to 1000MHz depending on what divider you use. I'd relax the timings to 5-5-5-15 at say 2.2V and then find the max of the CPU. If you overclock at 3-3-3-12 you'll find the max of the memory before you do the processor.

If you leave the front side bus alone and raise the multiplier up to 13 or 14 then you won't have to worry about the timings as you wont be overclocking the memory at all. It just depends on how you try to overclock it.

I guess with default timings you can push fsb as far as 333 then play with the muliplier so 333x11 = 3663?

[Chris Taylor]

Thanks for all the previous help. I have achieved a stable overclock at 3.4ghz
285x12 upping the voltage to 1.45. Memory is running at 3-3-3-12 and seems ok. One thing i dont understand in the Bios is the parameter memory reference Frequency which is set to default - any idea what this is?

In CPU-Z my memory is reported as 4:5 3-3-3-12 356.5 mhz.

Thanks!

[Hiciano]

Does anyone know the name of the app showing the clock speed on the floating window?

Thanks.