Granite Bay for Xtreme Overclocking?

[MrGamer7934]

Here is my situation that requires attention from fellow overclockers. Immediately I've decided to play hardball with a P4 3.06 and the Prometeia (vapor cooling). I'm looking for a future with this motherboard, year or 2. Also it needs to handle extremely high FSB speeds very well. (160+ stable!) The abit IT7-max2 has proven itself but would you choose it over the GB line of boards? If granite bay is the winner, Asus P4G8X or Gigabyte 8INXP? I'm new to this arena and dont exactly know what to look for, especially bios o/cing options.

Thanks for help!

 

[MrGamer7934]

help please

 

[First]

Yes, if you're willing to spend the bucks right now, then Granite Bay is your only choice. You'll be able to hit 160+ FSB with ease with any board (besides most SiS boards), but you'll get more performance from a Granite Bay board. Personally, I like the Gigabyte 8INXP.

 

[TheCoz]

My Asus P4G8X Deluxe goes as high as my CPU lets it - 180MHz FSB. Here are some benchmark numbers in case you're interested..............

GB180 Benchmark Results

Asus P4G8X Deluxe, 180MHz FSB (720FSB), Pentium 4 2.26B @ 3.06GHz (1.65v), Kingmax PC2700 DDR SDRAM @ DCDDR360 (CAS2/2/2/5 Turbo, 2.7v).
Leadtek GeForce4 Ti4600. NVIDIA 41.09 Det. Default Speed - 300/650. Overclocked Speed - 315/735.
Windows XP Pro SP1

Benchmark Programs
ScienceMark beta 2.0 - Run standard memory benchmark. DL - link
3DMark2001SE Build.300 - Run with standard settings. DL - link
PCMark2002 - Run with standard settings. DL - link
POV-Ray v3.5 - Run built-in benchmark program POVBENCH. DL - link
Prime95 v22.12.1 - Run built-in benchmark. DL - link
Super PI v1.1 - Calculate 1M places. DL - link
Stream Memory Bench. DL - link
Unreal Tournament 2003 Demo - Run benchmark.exe with Anand's MaxDetail settings applied to all batch files.


Results


ScienceMark

Bandwidth
L1 Cache - 15,662.28 MB/s
L2 Cache - 18,972.11MB/s
Memory - 3777.63MB/s

Latency
L1 Cache - 2 cycles
L2 Cache - 2/10/20/24/27 cycles
Memory - 4/15/56/217/224 cycles


3DMark2001SE

GF Default Speed - 14,619 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 15,028 3DMarks
GF @ 315/735 OC - 18,755 3DMarks (640x480x16, Z16, low D3D detail)


PCMark2002

CPU Score - 7528
Mem Score - 8522
HDD Score - 1637


POV-Ray v3.5

Render Averaged 80.96 PPS over 147456 pixels
Total Time: 0 hours 30 minutes 29.0 seconds (1829 seconds)


Prime95

Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.26GHz
CPU speed: 3060.14 MHz
CPU features: RDTSC, CMOV, PREFETCH, MMX, SSE, SSE2
L1 cache size: 8 KB
L2 cache size: 512 KB
L1 cache line size: 64 bytes
L2 cache line size: 64 bytes
TLBS: 64
Prime95 version 22.12, RdtscTiming=1
Best time for 256K FFT length: 7.835 ms.
Best time for 320K FFT length: 10.400 ms.
Best time for 384K FFT length: 12.573 ms.
Best time for 448K FFT length: 15.107 ms.
Best time for 512K FFT length: 17.059 ms.
Best time for 640K FFT length: 22.111 ms.
Best time for 768K FFT length: 26.859 ms.
Best time for 896K FFT length: 33.161 ms.
Best time for 1024K FFT length: 35.822 ms.
Best time for 1280K FFT length: 50.975 ms.
Best time for 1536K FFT length: 62.751 ms.
Best time for 1792K FFT length: 77.967 ms.


Super PI

1 Million places in 57 seconds


Stream

Copy: 2087.19 MB/s
Scale: 2003.45 MB/s
Add: 2106.13 MB/s
Triad: 2108.01 MB/s


UT2K3 Demo

GF @ Stock
640x480 - Flyby = 233.40, Botmatch = 79.95
800x600 - Flyby = 225.55, Botmatch = 80.07
1024x768- Flyby = 181.05, Botmatch = 78.11

GF @ 315/735
640x480 - Flyby = 1854.17*, Botmatch = 80.26
800x600 - Flyby = 229.90, Botmatch = 80.24
1024x768- Flyby = 191.67, Botmatch = 79.11

* Obviously wrong, I should have re-tested a few times.

 

[MrGamer7934]

great info, thanks to you both for making my decision easier! Granite Bay it is! I've seen a couple other great benchmarks for the ASUS P4G8X. I know I will be torn between these two boards

 

[THUGSROOK]

only 180? :Q

no, please dont tell me that

PJ only got to 175fsb on his 8inxp, another

 

[TheCoz]

Originally posted by: THUGSROOK
only 180? :Q

I'm CPU-limited though, PJ seems to have an issue with the P4-M and 8INXP which limits his OC. I bet if my CPU was up to it I could hit 190-195MHz without a problem. I should be able to get my mitts on some 2.26 C1's in a few weeks and hopefully I'll get an even better 2.26 than the one I have now!!

 

[THUGSROOK]

well if i can get my hands on a p4g8x ill be trying for 225+fsb.
if it dont go, ill at the least map out the boards maximum capabilities and then toss my 2.26b on it.

ive got a bad feeling tho that intel made sure these boards cant do 200fsb....