AMD FX OC'ers Club

[Ravenas]

Will dig it tomorrow more thoroughly, just came back from work 20 mins ago. Thanx man.

*EDIT*

Just recalled - RAM reads 1610MHz & CPU reads 4831MHz stead of 4816MHz cause of that CPU/NB's 1.2250 voltage, here's CPU-Z pic:

Upped CPU's frequency as well, i think i gonna leave it @ that (1.2250v), cause i'll be adding another G.Skill's 2x4GB RipjawsX kit in few more months. I'll also look for better TIM, any recommendations?

I'm sorry but I'm finding it hard to believe you will be stable under OCCT tests at that "1.2250v" voltage. Please post findings.

 

[YautjaLord]

No OCCT, Prime95 & that is it. 1 hour run of either Blend or Small FFTs test - later is best in worst case scenario: heats up CPU beyond recognition. Carmageddon Max Pack & Carmageddon: Reincarnation don't even stand a chance against it. If this clock passes the Small FFTs P95's torture i call it C:R ready CPU. Thanx man, but don't ever suggest this app to me again, Ravenas. Keep headbangin.

 

[eidairaman1]

Im in Process of building mine,

All thats left is- Video Card (Sapphire 290 Vapor-X)
Pioneer BDXL Burners
UPS(Protect the investment)
Mousepad (unsure if i should go with a soft pad or something firm from Roccat or another maker
Tall back Office Chair (Game In Comfort)

 

[YautjaLord]

Forgot to ask: all that time HT Link speed was 2200MHz, raise it or leave it @ that? Funny thing - it was 2600MHz when it was @ Auto, but once i'd OC this thing would jump back to 2200MHz for no apparent reason so i thought i'd set it to that 2200MHz value. Wrong move or not? Thanx.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

2600 is fine usually

 

[cdawall]

Mine is only at 2460 for day to day use.

 

[eidairaman1]

Man ill have questions when i start mine up the first time

 

[YautjaLord]

Room temp varies, but usually it's 25 degrees C & up. Thanx a lot guys, i'll change it to that frequency once i'll get back from town, also need to add some AS5 i think i didn't applied enough of it on CPU. Taking all these conditions into account - 4.9 or even 5.0GHz doable or not? Thanx.

*EDIT*

Just did it, reads 4815.xxMHz stead of 4816.xxMHz for CPU frequency + lowered temps a bit. 2600MHz is 24/7 HT Link frequency than:

P.S. H110's rad heated up during the WEI CPU assessment, but went back to cool real quick. POS app that WEI in general, but atleast it's doing it's job testing stuff. lol

 

[Johan45]

@YautjaLord
You really should do a proper stability test. Less likely to have random irritating issues.

 

[YautjaLord]

This Friday, if i get up early in a morning, early like 9-10am & that's a large if. If it freezes after 5 mins run - f*ck it. Seriously. I can run C:R, AvP3 & Serious Sam HD for hours on end without it. Hell, Carma1 & Splat Pack run no prob & both came out in '97 - '98 respectively. Prime95 1h run, this Friday. At that (4.8GHz) frequency. Besides, you telling me to do that so you could put me into F@H TPU team, or just to test this OC for stability?

 

[Random Murderer]

Room temp varies, but usually it's 25 degrees C & up. Thanx a lot guys, i'll change it to that frequency once i'll get back from town, also need to add some AS5 i think i didn't applied enough of it on CPU. Taking all these conditions into account - 4.9 or even 5.0GHz doable or not? Thanx.

*EDIT*

Just did it, reads 4815.xxMHz stead of 4816.xxMHz for CPU frequency + lowered temps a bit. 2600MHz is 24/7 HT Link frequency than:

P.S. H110's rad heated up during the WEI CPU assessment, but went back to cool real quick. POS app that WEI in general, but atleast it's doing it's job testing stuff. lol

A little late to the party on this one, but I must admit simply upping the HT from 2200 to 2600 here made an actual, noticeable difference. Things seem a bit snappier and Windows loads a little faster. Beyond that, not really sure. Didn't build this PC with benching in mind

 

[cdawall]

@YautjaLord
You really should do a proper stability test. Less likely to have random irritating issues.

I refuse to do stability testing. If I can play games it's good enough for me always has been.

 

[Rannick1982]

I'm still having a heck of a time of getting my temps below 40C at idle with my H80i at 4.4 on my 8350. Might just have to save up to get some different fans. Granted this is at the "low" preset, "medium" is a little cooler, and "high" is just annoying for such a small gain...

 

[fullinfusion]

Im in Process of building mine,

All thats left is- Video Card (Sapphire 290 Vapor-X)
Pioneer BDXL Burners
UPS(Protect the investment)
Mousepad (unsure if i should go with a soft pad or something firm from Roccat or another maker
Tall back Office Chair (Game In Comfort)

you need a 290x msi lightning,
BD burners as said
My msi Gaming full size soft pad with the dragon on it,
And a low boy lazy boy chair
LOL ya gota sit in comfort bro!

I refuse to do stability testing. If I can play games it's good enough for me always has been.

Your just a say its stable.... Bahh CD bench the shit outta it and post it's stable amd not I think it's stable lol

Mine is only at 2460 for day to day use.

Really thats it? my 8530 did better

 

[eidairaman1]

Lazyboy wont be tall enough for my desk lol.

you need a 290x msi lightning,
BD burners as said
My msi Gaming full size soft pad with the dragon on it,
And a low boy lazy boy chair
LOL ya gota sit in comfort bro!


Your just a say its stable.... Bahh CD bench the shit outta it and post it's stable amd not I think it's stable lol


Really thats it? my 8530 did better

 

[YautjaLord]

I refuse to do stability testing. If I can play games it's good enough for me always has been.

C:R. Acronim for Carmageddon: ReinCARnation. Is Pre-Alpha. Is Early Access. Everything @ High (AA off though), all post process, as well as skid marks, AO, as well as Headlight Shadows - E V E R Y T H I N G @ High & turned on!!!! Runs 30+ fps solid. My words exactly cda. Since OC'ing this particular batch & acquiring ASUS's GTX 760 DCII OC this Pre-Alpha brilliance runs like a f*ckin dream. I only encountered 2 crashes to desktop on this particular setup (Pre-Alpha, lol). Stability test? Run & after it finishes - forget. I'd test for stability just for a sake of it & cause Johan45 wouldn't suggest something bad. Atleast i hope he isn't.

 

[Johan45]

The reason I suggest stability testing is so that you have some "stable" clock to fall back on if things start to get buggy. I honestly don't care what people do with their machines, it's their money and time. If you're happy the way it is then by all means go ahead and use it.
There's a reason though that they suggest you don't install Windows on an Overclocked machine. Small calculation errors may not be apparent untill something just doesn't work correctly in a month or so. The next driver you install may not turn out so well etc.. etc.. now it's six months or a year later and you're reinstalling Windows. Just make sure you keep backups.

 

[YautjaLord]

When i installed Win 7 2nd time in a row (after my prev Force GS died on me & i switched to the same but newly purchased) it was installed when 8350 was @ default clock, or atleast i hope it was. As for backups - 70 or even 80GB worth of a backup on my storage drive (WD Elements 500GB).
And as for stability test - this Friday. If it runs not so well i.e. freezes & such, f*ck it, seriously. Hope it won't though. Cheers, keep headbangin.

 

[cdawall]

Your just a say its stable.... Bahh CD bench the shit outta it and post it's stable amd not I think it's stable lol


Really thats it? my 8530 did better

Mine clocks substantially higher than that and is stable higher. I have just gotten tired of replacing cpu's that have had the shit overvolted out of them and no longer hold their clocks. 4.7 is stable and plenty quick for a day to day clock especially in the summer.

 

[YautjaLord]

And it died @ 7th thread @ testing 7816K or something iteration: 7th core is at the fault? F*ck it, for real. Went for Small FFTs test - 1 sec BANG! dead! Blend test - 1 sec run BANG!!!! dead! Prime95's benchmark tool - 1st thread, no probs, 2nd thread - no probs, 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6t threads - no f*ckin' probs what-so-ever, 7th thread - hits this 7xxxK iteration, i check it's "pulse" (move the mouse cursor) - DEAD! Seventh core @ the fault? Not when i run anything else: i'll soon go for Wolfenstein: The New Order & Serious Sam 3 BFE, these 2 more fun than raping CPU's clock any given day. And don't forget AvP3, C:R, Carma Max Pack & Serious Sam HD 1st & 2nd Encounters. Cheers, keep headbangin'!!!!!

Results of this P95 benchmark:

 

[Johan45]

That's what I expected for your clock and voltage, 1.44v for a 4.8 clock isn't unheard of but is also not the norm. On average that's 1.48-1.5v range. If you run fine gaming by all means go for it but just realize your machine isn't stable and my have issues from time to time.

 

[YautjaLord]

Not really, atleast not now: the biggest issue, if you can even call it that, is heat from rad when gaming or YT HD video loading, or Carma TV Twitch @ HD. lol 1.48v for CPU = omlet, this thing couldn't tolerate 1.45v (value i set in BIOS few days ago) + i also have above 25 degrees C room temp, probably 30 & up at day, 28 & bit lower - night. Israel is hot & humid sometimes even in December. Aside from C:R which is Pre-Alpha everything works as charm, no instabilities to report from me. Thanx regardless man. Keep headbangin'.

 

[suraswami]

When I run IBT, max CPU temp jumps to 51C, kept the volts at 1.35 (dropping to 1.33 during load). While gaming, occasional jump to 46C, but mostly around 39C. So far stable @ 4.4, last 3 days, sleep/wake up works too.

While its fun to see moar Ghz, but I don't see any benefit in gaming, 4/4.2/4.4Ghz, may be couple of FPS more (at least in BF4 MP).

I am back to ground 'zero'. Thought I had my setup stable at 4.4, I was wrong. It started to randomly either not wake up from sleep or do a 'black screen' crash at idle. I am not sure what causes this. Lowered back to 4.2 and after few cycles of sleep and wake I randomly get 'black screen' crash. Read few threads saying it might be because of ATI video drivers. So did all the cleaning based on Erocker's guide, left the video card overclock as it was and reset the CPU clocks to all default - 4 ghz with 4.2 Ghz turbo, volts hovering from 1.4v to 1.45v. So now while gaming avg temps are in mid 40s instead of high 30's. Sleep and wake up seems to be working fine for some time now.

I am lost with this stupid gigabyte board. They are stable but I never had luck with any of the gigabyte boards I have for stable OC for days. Damn my ECS 8200 AM2+ board maintains my PII 810 at 2.8 Ghz from 2.6 Ghz for more than 3 yrs now, many many many wake and sleep cycles, very occasional restarts to flush memory. Even my $15 ECS 970 board keeps my FX 4130 @ 4.6 Ghz for many months now.

When I disable turbo the CPU volts is set at 1.325 for stock 4 ghz, but when turbo is enabled the volts is set to 1.4 for 4 and 1.45 for 4.2.

So without turbo and manually set to 4.2, what volts should I start with? 1.4v?

Oh btw, cpu is FX 8350 and board is Gigabyte 990fx ud3 rev 4.0.

Sorry for the long ranting!!

 

[Johan45]

That's a bummer swami, I test many CPUs and my method for stability and voltage is simple. I start at stock, shut off turbo C1E,C6, EPU, APM and enable HPC. Then I add to the multi and test with P95 while having HWMonitor free open in the background. If it's stable for 10-20 minutes I raise the multi and try again still leaving the voltage on auto. By using HWMonitor while P95 is running you can see the voltage the CPU is using under load so when it does crash and it will you start with the max voltage you saw in HWMonitor switch to manual in bios and work up from there until stable, this also shows your temps so you have all bases covered.

 

[suraswami]

In that case when I left the cpu @ stock, the max volts went up to 1.48 for a sec while running IBT. That means this sucker needs 1.48 to be completely stable at 4.2 ghz? that sucks.

May be I will start with 1.4, set at 4.2, turbo off and see how it goes.