The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Johan45]

@suraswami
Looks like you've just reached your max clock with your cooling, since you still have room with the FSB

 

[suraswami]

@suraswami
Looks like you've just reached your max clock with your cooling, since you still have room with the FSB

cpu temp is still at 23C going max to 25C. This cpu runs really cool.

Swapped to 720BE, will post results soon.

720 unlocks, but will not load windows properly. Gave voltage bump too.

@ 3.2 now with 3 cores.

so far max is 3.6 Ghz with 1.4v. I pumped 1.5v for 3.8 but windows freezes.

Should I go more? Want to get to 4 Ghz. CPU is C2 stepping and runs a bit hot.

 

[cdawall]

Doubtful you will have a stable c2 4ghz chip on a 790fx.

The 220 is probably memory limited. Same issue I had back in the day. They are more stable with certain memory buses than others.

 

[suraswami]

Doubtful you will have a stable c2 4ghz chip on a 790fx.

The 220 is probably memory limited. Same issue I had back in the day. They are more stable with certain memory buses than others.

That 720BE, I bought it from you long time ago!!

 

[cdawall]

That 720BE, I bought it from you long time ago!!

Rofl there are chips I sold that are still living?

 

[suraswami]

Rofl there are chips I sold that are still living?

Lol, the X2 5000 BE that you sold me is still kicking in my bro's machine in India!!

 

[de.das.dude]

AMD chips barely die. an athlon 3500+ i sold to a guy is still working.

also... even though i am now on an fx 8320,
i did see that phenoms overclocked higher when paired with DDR2 memory than DDR3.

 

[cdawall]

Lol, the X2 5000 BE that you sold me is still kicking in my bro's machine in India!!

Thats good shit lol and here I am with like 3 amd chips that barely hold stock clocks now.

Oh and ddd all of the world records are held on ddr3 with phenom chips.

 

[suraswami]

Thats good shit lol and here I am with like 3 amd chips that barely hold stock clocks now.

Oh and ddd all of the world records are held on ddr3 with phenom chips.

That 720BE is a pig, no matter how much voltage I pump, its not stable more than 3.5Ghz, but I got its NB clocked to 2500 Mhz. Machine seems nice and snappy. MSI 790FX is kind of tricky on voltage settings.

Do you by any chance have a screenshot on how far u took it?

 

[cdawall]

I don't see one on my hwbot. I would assume its buried in this thread sosomewhere.

 

[cdawall]

lol its getting kinda boring all of these chips clock the same....i need to get phase then i can tweak some. on air it doesn't matter the chip it will do 4ghz @40C idle


my findings

720BE 0904CPBW 4.06ghz@1.55v ~38C load temps water cooled->crosshair II

720BE 0904EPMW 4.02ghz@1.5v ~46C load temps air cooled->M4A78T-E

945ES 0825---- 4.22ghz@1.65v ~45C load temps water cooled->crosshair II

945ES 0825---- 4.22ghz@1.7v ~45C load temps water cooler->crosshair II//M4A78T-E

955BE 0907---- 4.2ghz@1.45v ~55C load temps air cooler->M4A78T-E


only thing to change is the voltage needed to clock

Here you go found this in here.

 

[Steevo]

So anyone have any experience on using 4 sticks of RAM with a 1100T? I am thinking about adding 4GB more RAM as I found a matching set on fleabay for a really good price, but if the benefit of the extra RAM VS a necessary slowdown causes a wash in performance......

Right now

3.7 Ghz-4.3Ghz boost on stock voltage.

5.5.5.15 2T DDR2 1200Mhz with overclock, stock voltage.

In order to get more speed from the CPU I have to use AOD since the board doesn't support disabling turbo mode, and I have had some cores as high as 4.5ghz on stock voltage. Not really concerned with CPU speed, just losing really good timings.

 

[suraswami]

Adding 4GB will actually benefit, during game/app loading. Even if you loose bit on timings you won't see a difference unless you bench it.

BTW are you push the HTT speed or just changing multi? or combination? Sometimes HTT doesn't play well when having 4 sticks.

 

[Steevo]

 

[suraswami]

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I don't see a problem going from 2 to 4 sticks with your setup.

 

[OneMoar]

he would be better served getting a ddr3 board

 

[Steevo]

$75 for more RAM, or $250 for a new board and RAM, and how much improvement is it going to gain me?


There seems to be a lot of people asking the same question out there, searching google that is, what if any performance benefit is there from going from high end DDR2 to DDR3.

I really have no issues with my board, CPU, or system other than one day I need to put in my second 5870 and redo my liquid setup. I want more for GTA5, but my video editing and pictures are CPU bound to all the cores or they use the GPU. My SSD and RAID array is still plenty fast to keep up, and 4Gb is and has been enough for almost everything.

 

[OneMoar]

$75 for more RAM, or $250 for a new board and RAM, and how much improvement is it going to gain me?


There seems to be a lot of people asking the same question out there, searching google that is, what if any performance benefit is there from going from high end DDR2 to DDR3.

I really have no issues with my board, CPU, or system other than one day I need to put in my second 5870 and redo my liquid setup. I want more for GTA5, but my video editing and pictures are CPU bound to all the cores or they use the GPU. My SSD and RAID array is still plenty fast to keep up, and 4Gb is and has been enough for almost everything.

not much its time for a full system upgrade man old system is old

 

[suraswami]

not much its time for a full system upgrade man old system is old

Correction - the system is getting wiser

 

[Steevo]

LOL, it is old, been through two GPU's, on my third CPU, second set of drives.


But after using and building newer systems the CPU is still up to par, and the GPU is the only thing really holding me back, and if the 285 hadn't been such a complete piece of crap I may have bought one. But then again I have another 5870 with a block on it ready to go when I get motivated. Or just put a 280X in and be done with it.

 

[cdawall]

not much its time for a full system upgrade man old system is old

The only thing it would need to be perfectly capable in the latest greatest games is a video card. There is no reason why 8gb of ddr2 can't hold the system up just fine. If anything I would say swapping to a DDR3 board is a complete and utter waste of money.

 

[Viem]

I want to get more computing power out of my Phenom II x6. What should I watch for?

Mine's being cooled by a CM Hyper 212 Evo and runs great on a Asus Crosshair V Formula despite it being an AM3 CPU on an AM3+ motherboard. Also I know that my case, CM's Silencio sucks for keeping components cool but I want to render videos a bit faster and get the best possible frames in games like Battlefield. I 've read it's possible to OC this CPU without burnning it out, but i'm a complete newbie in overclocking and my bios looks to me like it's written for extremely advanced overclockers when I look at all these options, which are avaliable for tweaking there.

So, what should I do first to OC my Phenom II? In what clock frequecy should I try to set it first? Do I have to go up with the voltages for this, if yes how high ? Also, what would be an acceptable temperature for the CPU after the OC is done, based on an air-cooling option?

Anything else worth mentioning? please post

Thanks in advance.

 

[eidairaman1]

You need to provide complete system specs. Also your profile is not accessible.

I want to get more computing power out of my Phenom II x6. What should I watch for?

Mine's being cooled by a CM Hyper 212 Evo and runs great on a Asus Crosshair V Formula despite it being an AM3 CPU on an AM3+ motherboard. Also I know that my case, CM's Silencio sucks for keeping components cool but I want to render videos a bit faster and get the best possible frames in games like Battlefield. I 've read it's possible to OC this CPU without burnning it out, but i'm a complete newbie in overclocking and my bios looks to me like it's written for extremely advanced overclockers when I look at all these options, which are avaliable for tweaking there.

So, what should I do first to OC my Phenom II? In what clock frequecy should I try to set it first? Do I have to go up with the voltages for this, if yes how high ? Also, what would be an acceptable temperature for the CPU after the OC is done, bases on an air-cooling option?

Anything else worth mentioning? please post

Thanks in advance.

 

[Viem]

You need to provide complete system specs. Also your profile is not accessible.

Processor:

Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.2 Ghz (Black Edition)
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula BIOS v1703
Cooling: CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO
Memory: Corsair XMS3 2x4 GB @ 1600Mhz
Video Card(s): Sapphire Radeon HD 7970 Ghz Edition Vapor-X 3GB
Hard Disk(s): Samsung SSD EVO 250 GB, Seagate FreeAgent GoFlex 1.5 TB
Optical Drive: Sony Optiarc Optical Drive
LCD/CRT Model: BenQ XL2420Z, Philips 32PFL9705/12H
Case: CoolerMaster Silencio 550 (Piano Black)
Sound Card: SupremeFX X-Fi 2 (on motherboard audio)
Power Supply: CoolerMaster Real Power M620
Software: Windows 7 Ultimate 64Bit

Here's my system, don't know why it can't be shown. Thanks

 

[OneMoar]

raise the multi to 19.5 and set the voltage to 1.40 and see if it boots
if it doesn't boot at that try lowering the multi to 18
also try overclocking the nb to 2600Mhz
you really need better cooling to push a x6 they do get quite toasty