A64 X2 6000+ and Rainbow Six: Vegas, $195 shipped

[Wile E]

Well, BIOS set to 1.625v and I'm posting this @ 3.5Ghz

What's the recommend max temps?

EDIT: Might try for 3.6 on 1.65V

 

[WarEagleAU]

sweet deal Wil E thanks for the heads up. Yeah I see its uber cheap now <G>. Also, nice benchies up there.

 

[trt740]

Well, BIOS set to 1.625v and I'm posting this @ 3.5Ghz

What's the recommend max temps?

EDIT: Might try for 3.6 on 1.65V

I think it's 65c to 70c will kill the chip. Try to keep it under load between 50c and 60c or lower. That should be do able on air mine maxed at 55c to 58c and your on water. I was using a Scythe Infinity.

 

[Wile E]

Can't seem to get any higher, even if I up the volts. Might try a higher multi, to take board instability out of the equation. Also, did you have to up the HTT Volts at all, trt? I can use the default 1.2 or 1.35. I wonder if that would help?

 

[trt740]

Yes I did but I cannot remember to what they were set at. I think I dropped the HTT multiplier to x3 on my on all my settings. Wile 3.5ghz is very good most will only do 3.3. If you get 3.6 that super rare but it has been done. I had the record on Hotbot at one time.

here is a review that might help you http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?...s&file=index&req=viewarticle&artid=284&page=1

Here is another one from my old list. http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=132306

 

[trt740]

The HTT on that chip can be stable up to 1300 I believe and it does make a performance difference. It does depend on your motherboard my old one was geared for AM2 plus so It had a super high HTT , but most newer AM2 board can take higher HTT unlike the 939 boards. In one of my screen shots my chip was at 1172 HTT and I know I went higher than that. That might help you.

 

[Wile E]

Meh, 3.5Ghz is my wall, wont go a bit higher, regardless of voltage and multi settings. But hey, a 3.5GHz X2 is no slouch. lol. Ram @ 1000 4-4-4-12. Final screenies.

 

[trt740]

Meh, 3.5Ghz is my wall, wont go a bit higher, regardless of voltage and multi settings. But hey, a 3.5GHz X2 is no slouch. lol. Ram @ 1000 4-4-4-12. Final screenies.

Read those forums they confirm on water and good air cooling those voltages are safe, high but safe. What are your temps? your on par and in somethings you will exceed a e6600 even at the same or higher clock speeds look at my science mark 2.0 score i'm way up there beating some e6700 at 3.6 and higher.That bench doesn't just test the chips raw power but how it manages memory(on chip memory controller) and that where the 6000+ shines. Plus that chip is better at handleing 64 bit operations vista multitasking (due to it's instruction set) and mp3 encoding, video encoding aswell. In floating point it kills a core 2 duo. It loses badly in integer calculations to a C2D but in games and in certain other functions it's fast fast.

I think 20 is pretty good for 5 year old tech. Ahh that was a great chip until I went to the darkside oh well good luck Wile!!!!!

1.) dominick32 = 2386 (Intel Core2Duo E6700@4410mhz)

2.) giorgos th. = 2289.37 (Intel Core2Duo E6700@4110mhz)

3.) s1rrah = 2288.30 (Intel Core2Duo E6400@4166mhz)[/b]

4.) trt740 = 2262.21 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@4050mhz)

5.) giorgos th. = 2229.87 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3900mhz)

6.) alpha0ne = 2223.24 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3900mhz)

7.) Boneface = 2196.50 (INTEL CORE2DUO E6400 @3991mhz)

8.) DaEnigma = 2184.4 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3733mhz)

9.) Devious = 2181.97 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3942mhz)

10.) OneCool = 2165.41 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3900mhz)
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TOP 10 AVERAGE RESULT =
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SCIENCEMARK 2.0 RESULTS 08/25/2006 (ALL outside TOP 10):
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11.) DOM_ATI_X800XL_PCI-E = 2157.40 (Intel Core 2 duo e6400@3824.5mhz)

--.) ace80 = 2157.31 (Intel Core2Duo E6420@3840mhz)

--.) tigger69 = 2151.58 (Intel Core2Duo E6300@3851.4mhz)

--.) Infrared = 2143.33 (Intel Core2Duo E6400@3700mhz)

--.) Ketxxx = 2140.40 (Intel Core2Duo E4400@3780.1mhz)

--.) IluvIntel = 2133.59 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3595.5mhz)

--.) HeavyH20 = 2122.43 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3600mhz)

--.) s1rrah = 2055.70 (Intel Core2Duo E6400@3750mhz)

--.) Tatty_One = 2036.17 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3644mhz)

20.) trt740 = 1992.86 (AMD athlon x2 6000+@3515.2mhz)

--.) VOCCH = 1971.06 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3500mhz)

--.) new_rez = 1968.61 (Intel Core2Duo E6300@3500.2mhz)

--.) Bonerheimer_c = 1961.86 (Intel Core2Duo E6400@3600mhz)

--.) g R 3 i F = 1944.00 (Intel Core2Duo E6600@3402mhz)

--.) HeUeR = 1943.1 (Intel Core2Duo E6400@3600mhz)

--.) SilentAces = 1935.52 (Intel Core2Duo E4300@3600mhz)

--.) MikeLopez = 1934.6 (Intel Core2Duo E6300@3290mhz)

--.) jjnissanpatfan = 1917.45 (Intel Core2Duo E6300@3429mhz)

 

[Sovereign]

Nice, Willie! I'm even more tempted to buy one now that Newegg has dropped the price down to $170 USD shipped!!!

What I don't get is, why do they currently have an OEM model for $50 more!?! You'd think the retail would cost more but this OEM costs more than retail and not by just a little bit either!

 

[Wile E]

Yeah, I don't get it either, Sovereign.

@trt - Under Orthos, small fft, it hits 49c after an hour, with uncured AS5.

 

[DOM]

On the OC

So when is the benching going to start

 

[Wile E]

On the OC

So when is the benching going to start

As soon as I figure out why my computer randomly shuts off under load now. No BSOD, no freezing, no crashes, no warning - just instant off.

My psu should be more than happy to run this load, besides my 2900 wasn't even being loaded.

Never had this happen before, so I don't really know what it could be.

 

[DOM]

That sucks, are you giving the NB sum more volts ??

 

[Wile E]

That sucks, are you giving the NB sum more volts ??

Yeah. I even tried slowing down and loosening the ram, and raising the multi while lowering the FSB. It even does it at 3.4GHz. I'm not at home right now, but when I get home, I'm gonna go even lower, to see if that helps. I might even try a different HD, as I heard mine make some weird noises that I haven't heard before. (A really faint sound, almost squeal-like)

Everything is still under warranty, and I have a ton of back-up parts, so an RMA won't be a big deal. It's just a matter of finding the culprit.

 

[trt740]

Yeah. I even tried slowing down and loosening the ram, and raising the multi while lowering the FSB. It even does it at 3.4GHz. I'm not at home right now, but when I get home, I'm gonna go even lower, to see if that helps. I might even try a different HD, as I heard mine make some weird noises that I haven't heard before. (A really faint sound, almost squeal-like)

Everything is still under warranty, and I have a ton of back-up parts, so an RMA won't be a big deal. It's just a matter of finding the culprit.

Some of those board have a fail safe you have to turn off in the bios after a certain voltage I've seen that problem before on Gigabyte and Biostar boards but cannot remember what to do to correct it try using ntune to overclock it in windows if that works then email DFI it the fail safe issue.

 

[newconroer]

That's a bloody good point TRT. What would something like that be listed as if not something obvious?

I'm really curious if EVGA boards do that.

Think I'll go jack the voltage up really high.

 

[Wile E]

Well, this thing is shutting down at stock speeds and voltages now. I tried making an overclocking run on my 2900XT, and CCC reset my card to 2d speeds, because it says there wasn't enough power. Funny thing is, under cpu load, the psu is barely warming up. It's only blowing out warm air, and is just warm to the touch. Nowhere near hot. I would think a Corsair HX620 is up to the task.

I'm gonna test my ram first, tho. I have a spare set of 4-4-3-5 800 G.Skills that I'm gonna throw in if the Crucials fail memtest.

Also have a spare psu. Only a 550w Sunbeam Nuuo tho. So, if the psu is bad, the 1800XT might have to go back in if I plan to game. Man, what a PITA this is becoming.

Anyway you look at it, I'm pretty sure something is fried.

 

[Wile E]

UPDATE: I think I figured out the problem. It's actually a software issue. It seems Coretemp causes the issue. I found this thread on the AMD forums.

http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=61305

After I quit running Coretemp, the problem disappeared. Still not stable at 3.5 tho. Trying to get it at least bench stable at that speed. Probably just gonna run at 3.2 for 24/7 use.


EDIT:Woot! With cpu @ 3415 - Gained almost 700pts in 3dMark06. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=391865&postcount=1404

 

[nflesher87]

UPDATE: I think I figured out the problem. It's actually a software issue. It seems Coretemp causes the issue. I found this thread on the AMD forums.

http://forums.amd.com/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=22&threadid=61305

After I quit running Coretemp, the problem disappeared. Still not stable at 3.5 tho. Trying to get it at least bench stable at that speed. Probably just gonna run at 3.2 for 24/7 use.


EDIT:Woot! With cpu @ 3415 - Gained almost 700pts in 3dMark06. http://forums.techpowerup.com/showpost.php?p=391865&postcount=1404

good to hear such a gain with 415mhz OC
hey I have a 3800+ (65W) that I could trade + cash or w/e for your brisbane, the 3800 would be more than enough for your HTPC pm me if you want, we wouldn't even have to ship