Overclocking Genie<\/title>\n\t<\/HEAD>\n\t<BODY bgcolor=\"FFFFFF\" text=\"FF00FF\" link=\"FF00FF\" alink=\"FF0000\" vlink=\"800080\">\n\n\nOverclocking Genie<\/font><\/b> \n Starting Configuration<\/b><\/font> \n\nFirst I ran the PC on its standard clocked configuration, namely:-\n<ul>\n<li>multiplier: 7x<\/li>\n<li>FSB: 100 Mhz<\/li>\n<li>Voltage: 1.65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBeing an intel CPU, the processor is locked to the 7x multiplier and the only scope for overclocking\ncome from increasing the FSB beyond spec. The results obtained for this (SiSoft Sandra 2001) were \n1877 (MIPS) and 942 (MFLOPS). MIPS are Millions of Instructions Per Second (an integer unit test) \nand MFLOPS are Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second (a test of the Floating point unit).\n<\/b><\/font>\n\n Overclocking<\/b><\/font> \n\nThe first setup tried was:\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 105 Mhz, Voltage 1.65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOn these settings the PC successfully passed POST (Power On Self-Test) but windows would not boot.\n The Voltage (CPU core Voltage) was increased to 1.70V. This principle was followed to its limit with\nanother 0.05V increase when needed for successful booting. The following configurations were succesful:-\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 105 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 110 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 115 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 120 Mhz, Voltage 1.75 – Unstable!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/b><\/font>\n\nResults<\/b><\/font>\n \nThe following table shows the benchmark results for the different speeds:-\n \n\n<center>\n<table BORDER=2>\n<TR><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Speed<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Multiplier<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>FSB<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Voltage<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>MIPS<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>MFLOPS<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Difference<\/b><\/font><\/TH> <\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>700<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>100<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.65V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1877<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>942<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>0%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/tr>\n<TR><TD align=right>735<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>105<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1979<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>994<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>5%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>770<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>110<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2059<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1044<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>10%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>805<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>115<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2143<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1086<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>14%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>840<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>120<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.75V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2326<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1179<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>23%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<\/table>\n<\/center> \nAs can be seen, there is a great increase in CPU performance, culminating on the high results for \n the overclock at 840MHz. Whilst this setting is not fully stable it is likely a fast stable result\n can be found between an FSB of 115 and 120 to yield a CPU speed increase of approximately 15-20%. \nThis is an impressive result considering the only cooling being applied to the CPU is standard \nIntel Heatsink and fan supplied with the processor. \n<\/font>\n\n\n\n\n 10\/9\/01<\/b> <\/font> \n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overclocking Genie Overclocking Genie Starting Configuration First I ran the PC on its standard clocked configuration, namely:- multiplier: 7x FSB: 100 Mhz Voltage: 1.65 Being an intel CPU, the processor is locked to the 7x multiplier and the only scope for overclocking come from increasing the FSB beyond spec. The results obtained for this (SiSoft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}

{"id":205,"date":"2024-11-01T16:00:09","date_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/divergentfocus.co.uk\/?page_id=205"},"modified":"2024-11-01T16:00:09","modified_gmt":"2024-11-01T16:00:09","slug":"genie-oc-10-9-01","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/?page_id=205","title":{"rendered":"Genie OC 10\/9\/01"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n\t\n\tOverclocking Genie<\/title>\n\t<\/HEAD>\n\t<BODY bgcolor=\"FFFFFF\" text=\"FF00FF\" link=\"FF00FF\" alink=\"FF0000\" vlink=\"800080\">\n\n\nOverclocking Genie<\/font><\/b> \n Starting Configuration<\/b><\/font> \n\nFirst I ran the PC on its standard clocked configuration, namely:-\n<ul>\n<li>multiplier: 7x<\/li>\n<li>FSB: 100 Mhz<\/li>\n<li>Voltage: 1.65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBeing an intel CPU, the processor is locked to the 7x multiplier and the only scope for overclocking\ncome from increasing the FSB beyond spec. The results obtained for this (SiSoft Sandra 2001) were \n1877 (MIPS) and 942 (MFLOPS). MIPS are Millions of Instructions Per Second (an integer unit test) \nand MFLOPS are Millions of Floating Point Operations Per Second (a test of the Floating point unit).\n<\/b><\/font>\n\n Overclocking<\/b><\/font> \n\nThe first setup tried was:\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 105 Mhz, Voltage 1.65<\/li>\n<\/ul>\nOn these settings the PC successfully passed POST (Power On Self-Test) but windows would not boot.\n The Voltage (CPU core Voltage) was increased to 1.70V. This principle was followed to its limit with\nanother 0.05V increase when needed for successful booting. The following configurations were succesful:-\n<ul>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 105 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 110 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 115 Mhz, Voltage 1.70<\/li>\n<li>Multiplier: 7x, FSB 120 Mhz, Voltage 1.75 – Unstable!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/b><\/font>\n\nResults<\/b><\/font>\n \nThe following table shows the benchmark results for the different speeds:-\n \n\n<center>\n<table BORDER=2>\n<TR><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Speed<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Multiplier<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>FSB<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Voltage<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>MIPS<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>MFLOPS<\/b><\/font><\/TH><TH ALIGN=CENTER>Difference<\/b><\/font><\/TH> <\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>700<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>100<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.65V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1877<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>942<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>0%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/tr>\n<TR><TD align=right>735<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>105<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1979<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>994<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>5%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>770<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>110<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2059<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1044<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>10%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>805<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>115<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.70V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2143<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1086<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>14%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<TR><TD align=right>840<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>x7<\/b><\/font><\/TD> <TD align=right>120<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1.75V<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>2326<\/b><\/font><\/TD><TD align=right>1179<\/b><\/font><\/TD><td align=right>23%<\/b><\/font><\/td><\/TR>\n<\/table>\n<\/center> \nAs can be seen, there is a great increase in CPU performance, culminating on the high results for \n the overclock at 840MHz. Whilst this setting is not fully stable it is likely a fast stable result\n can be found between an FSB of 115 and 120 to yield a CPU speed increase of approximately 15-20%. \nThis is an impressive result considering the only cooling being applied to the CPU is standard \nIntel Heatsink and fan supplied with the processor. \n<\/font>\n\n\n\n\n 10\/9\/01<\/b> <\/font> \n<\/body>\n<\/html>\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Overclocking Genie Overclocking Genie Starting Configuration First I ran the PC on its standard clocked configuration, namely:- multiplier: 7x FSB: 100 Mhz Voltage: 1.65 Being an intel CPU, the processor is locked to the 7x multiplier and the only scope for overclocking come from increasing the FSB beyond spec. The results obtained for this (SiSoft […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-205","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.divergentfocus.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}