The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[eidairaman1]

Direct CU is a good idea but I think a flat plate with the pipes sonic fused to the plate would be ideal.

 

[MilkyWay]

I get the feeling that less is better.

 

[mastrdrver]

@mastrdrver

It's not your ram causing instability.
CPU NB is just like clocking CPU cores. Try bumping CPU NB volts up about 0.1v, unless you're at max (1.5v), then unfortunately you will need to bring down NB multi 1 notch.

edit: May have been wrong.

 

[brandonwh64]

YAY!!! Im back in the club!!! got a X3 720BE from cadaveca that unlocks to a quad!!! PHENOM II CLUB HERE I COME!

 

[cdawall]

so hows the club going? been kind of ignorant of it for a bit...got some clocking done today results are in the thuban thread in my sig overall not bad got 4.4ghz running stable@1.525v on air so gotta love these chips and the CH3

 

[Wile E]

so hows the club going? been kind of ignorant of it for a bit...got some clocking done today results are in the thuban thread in my sig overall not bad got 4.4ghz running stable@1.525v on air so gotta love these chips and the CH3

Get it on water and you'll be able to lower the voltage, or clock higher. Hwbot did an article on it, and these chips do benefit from the additional cooling, especially above 1.5v. Great read.

http://hwbot.org/article/news/hwbot_research_lab_amd_thuban_voltage_and_temperature_scaling

And the update with a different chip (full retail): http://hwbot.org/article/news/update_amd_thuban_voltage_and_temperature_scaling

 

[brandonwh64]

Has any tech sites did an article on how these chips work on a DDR2 board and post some OCing results for DDR2?

 

[Wile E]

Has any tech sites did an article on how these chips work on a DDR2 board and post some OCing results for DDR2?

I haven't seen any. Although, digging around on various forums, if you have a DDR2 board with a decent Thuban bios, the OCing doesn't seem to be much different. Haven't checked to see how it impacted performance tho.

 

[brandonwh64]

Nice! yea i think the only impact you would have im preformance would be the lower DDR2 clock?

 

[cdawall]

Get it on water and you'll be able to lower the voltage, or clock higher. Hwbot did an article on it, and these chips do benefit from the additional cooling, especially above 1.5v. Great read.

http://hwbot.org/article/news/hwbot_research_lab_amd_thuban_voltage_and_temperature_scaling

And the update with a different chip (full retail): http://hwbot.org/article/news/update_amd_thuban_voltage_and_temperature_scaling

yea they do i want to go TEC chilled water working on putting some cash away for it right now.

something similar to this but using some cheaper parts ie xig coolers

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4214167&postcount=164

Has any tech sites did an article on how these chips work on a DDR2 board and post some OCing results for DDR2?

i played some on my CH2 and some DDR2 1300 didn't clock better or worse than a C3 chip

 

[mastrdrver]

Has any tech sites did an article on how these chips work on a DDR2 board and post some OCing results for DDR2?

Go talk to Mailman.

 

[brandonwh64]

Go talk to Mailman.

I have but i wanted to see more people with DDR2 boards to see some more wide variety of OCs

 

[mastrdrver]

There is a thread over on XS with at least one person pissed at Asus and their lack of x6 support for their M3 boards. FWIW, he admitted that they at leasted functioned correctly but couldn't overclock if any at all.

I don't know about you but I'd take basic functionality over anything else if that's what it came down to for me.

 

[brandonwh64]

There is a thread over on XS with at least one person pissed at Asus and their lack of x6 support for their M3 boards. FWIW, he admitted that they at leasted functioned correctly but couldn't overclock if any at all.

I don't know about you but I'd take basic functionality over anything else if that's what it came down to for me.

i herd that 6core support is like a lottery. even tho pretty much ever AM2+/AM3 board can most likely run a 6 core, they draw boards at random to do bios tests and release bioses for the 6 core.

 

[mastrdrver]

That makes sense. Between all of the AM2+ and AM3 boards out there that have the capability to run a Phenom X6, bios testing would have started long ago. From what I read over on XS, AMD kind of dump a last minute thing on the board makers. Supposedly that is causing all the problems. I mean Gigabyte had something like 70+ boards listed according to Anandtech that night of the launch of Thuban. That's a lot of boards to test just for Gigabyte.

Is Llano suppose to fit in AM3 boards too or is it just a laptop chip?

If its desktop, then I'm sure all board makers are busy trying to get Thuban working basically so they can dedicate more resources to Llano. That's going to be a whole new can of worms.

Also, anyone know if any crossfire capable board other than CH4 is doing well? Its all I can find any info about when it comes to the newer 800 boards. I seen Chew started working one of the Asus 890GX. Most other things are sparse.

 

[mastrdrver]

Open to suggestion on how I can get more out of this rig. Clock the ram up more?

http://img.techpowerup.org/100518/Capture036.jpg

Not sure how far it can go but I am almost at my max on cpu 24.7.

What bios are you on? I can't find where you state it or give a pic.

 

[trt740]

so hows the club going? been kind of ignorant of it for a bit...got some clocking done today results are in the thuban thread in my sig overall not bad got 4.4ghz running stable@1.525v on air so gotta love these chips and the CH3

very nice

 

[johnnyfiive]

I'm going to be back in the AMD club soon. I'm trying to decide on a board and if I want the BE or not. Here I come hexcore.

 

[JrRacinFan]

What bios are you on? I can't find where you state it or give a pic.

Latest beta F8H. Seems to run REALLY REALLY good.

@johnny

Want a Giga 790FX if you decide on the 1055T?

 

[johnnyfiive]

I'm planning to go 890fx jr, thanks though.

 

[Deleted member 74752]

On cascade atm...getting it primed for LN2 this w-end.

 

[fullinfusion]

On cascade atm...getting it primed for LN2 this w-end.

That's sick Rick!!!! Be sure to post some pix of all the hardware or better yet a videooooo lol..

How mush LN2 you order?

 

[johnnyfiive]

Question for you guys. Aside from the CHIV, what 890fx boards produce nice HT results? Reason I'm asking is because I may just go with the 1055T since it's $100 less than the 1090T.

 

[fullinfusion]

Question for you guys. Aside from the CHIV, what 890fx boards produce nice HT results? Reason I'm asking is because I may just go with the 1055T since it's $100 less than the 1090T.

As they say boyz n there toyz, Spend the one extra bill and get a black chip J5, you cant go wrong

CH4 is my choice but the GyB 890fx is another good choice but either way you cant go wrong

 

[Chicken Patty]

As they say boyz n there toyz, Spend the one extra bill and get a black chip J5, you cant go wrong

CH4 is my choice but the GyB 890fx is another good choice but either way you cant go wrong

I haven't looked into any GB 890FX boards, but they are really solid X58 boards. I say X58 because it's the only platform I have experience overclocking a GB board with. I know it can vary a lot, but the reputation and quality is known all around in every platform. Like full said, just can't go wrong with either or.