AMD FX OC'ers Club

[Johan45]

Geez I should've waited till today. -16°c this morning. Man that was a cold walk into work. Finally got the CHV-z and set it up late yesterday. All I know at this point is that it works. But looking forward to playing with it.

 

[d1nky]

nice! I haven't had time to play lately! kind of sorting life out lol

seen they've updated my mobo, and they've changed the power connector...

im wondering if the original was screwy!

http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Fatal1tyKiller/

 

[Durvelle27]

I'm back guys

 

[Johan45]

nice! I haven't had time to play lately! kind of sorting life out lol

seen they've updated my mobo, and they've changed the power connector...

im wondering if the original was screwy!

http://www.asrock.com/microsite/Fatal1tyKiller/

That should help power flow, maybe that's why I'm always beating you.

I'm back guys

Did you "go" somewhere. ?? You've been missing all the fun Durvelle. I just broke 5.8G on SuperPi 1M yesterday.

 

[Irony]

I didn't think they would ever make an update to it, thats kindof awesome tho.

 

[Durvelle27]

That should help power flow, maybe that's why I'm always beating you.




Did you "go" somewhere. ?? You've been missing all the fun Durvelle. I just broke 5.8G on SuperPi 1M yesterday.

its about -10 here so i'll get to benching today

 

[Johan45]

I didn't think they would ever make an update to it, thats kindof awesome tho.

AMD isn't officially done with AM3+ yet according to some articles I've read so this is actually promising!
@Durvelle27 Good luck buddy!!

 

[d1nky]

I cant wait for some cold weather! I want to hit that 5.8ghz as well!

need clean installs first tho!

 

[Johan45]

I cant wait for some cold weather! I want to hit that 5.8ghz as well!

need clean installs first tho!

Put your HDDs in the dishwasher , Ive heard that'll clean Windows too.

 

[d1nky]

I don't know how dirty your installs are but I bet the dishwasher wouldn't cut it, maybe some bleach lol

ive noticed the temps early in the morning are lowest, so im going to plan some benching!

 

[Irony]

AMD isn't officially done with AM3+ yet according to some articles I've read so this is actually promising!
@Durvelle27 Good luck buddy!!

That would be great if they stuck with it another generation.

 

[Random Murderer]

That would be great if they stuck with it another generation.

I just saw a slide recently that showed AM3+ being the "current gen" through 2014, so you're good there.
What's not good is that AM3+ is the final non-APU line.

 

[Johan45]

I just saw a slide recently that showed AM3+ being the "current gen" through 2014, so you're good there.
What's not good is that AM3+ is the final non-APU line.

True but another FX releas would run this socket for a couple more + years which is alright by me. One more upgrade, man I really wish they could pull something out of their hats that could give Intel a bit of a scare. Like the good ole days!!

 

[giacomo160790]

.5v is quite a bit and based on that overclock, its a lot!

I would try the least voltage possible!

.5v is quite a bit and based on that overclock, its a lot!

I would try the least voltage possible!

Hello, I checked the APM was disabled

I set on medium LLC, the voltage at idle is between 1,456 and 1,477, with a normal usage rises to 1,488 and 1,504 in prime95 stable after 1 hour

I lowered the Vcore of -0.025 ever LLC mediums, but at idle is at 1,440 to 1,470 with prime95, by mistake immediately ...

 

[Durvelle27]

Guys I sold my R9 290 as it was a pretty crappy clocker so gonna either get a 780 or 780 Ti

 

[Irony]

Hello, I checked the APM was disabled

I set on medium LLC, the voltage at idle is between 1,456 and 1,477, with a normal usage rises to 1,488 and 1,504 in prime95 stable after 1 hour

I lowered the Vcore of -0.025 ever LLC mediums, but at idle is at 1,440 to 1,470 with prime95, by mistake immediately ...

And you're at 4.6Ghz? The voltage is a little bit higher than I would think it would need. Every cpu is different tho, that might just be what it takes

 

[giacomo160790]

And you're at 4.6Ghz? The voltage is a little bit higher than I would think it would need. Every cpu is different tho, that might just be what it takes

I have seen the best results of my ...

Maybe the motherboard? Maybe moving to a 990FX might have a better result?

 

[Irony]

If you're happy with the speed you're at and the temps are ok I wouldn't worry about it. I think that board is fine, unless you were wanting to OC alot higher then you might need a different board

 

[giacomo160790]

I have seen the best results of my ...

Maybe the motherboard? Maybe moving to a 990FX might have a better result?

Recommended to keep on mediuom LLC, with voltage between 1,456 and 1,477 at idle, normal use 1,488 and 1,504 with prime95

Or is it better high, voltage 1,477 and 1,488 normal use, with prime95 1,504 and only after 10-11 minutes of the first shooting at 1,520 ...

Which of these two?



Another thing, now I tried to increase the frequency of pcie 101 to 110, some pointed to a performance increase and better c ...

Currently with high LLC on I tried to increase the fsb by 1 point then 22Hz ... Just for now ... But before with the same configuration for both mediums LLC, both gave high prime95 error after 3-4 test ... Now with pcie 101 to 110-22 test has not yet mistakes ... Possible? Maybe I can raise the fsb 1-2 ... Risky keep pcie at 110?

 

[Irony]

Its best to go with the lowest stable voltage possible. Helps to keep heat down a bit in vrms and stuff too.

Personally I've never messed with PCI frequency, so I don't have any advice for that.

 

[giacomo160790]

Updating ... I managed with the pcie at 110 to increase and be stable after 1 hour at 4.64 GHz .. I've done several tests, 4.66 prime95 gave error after about 7-8 minutes

However, there is an improvement in performance, with 3Dmark I got my best result ... 6296 taking into FireStrike 4.64 GHz and video cards in 1200/6880 and 110 pcie

Before taking 4.62 GHz and graphics cards in overvolt from 1,186 -> 1,219 frequencies 1280/6940 my best result was in 6277 FireStrike

However, while I found a small improvement in overclocking the CPU with the pcie 110, vga seems to get worse with a little 'stability in overclocking ... Before I could not overvolt to go to 1220/6900 ... I had to turn it down a bit 'because 3Dmark crashed and gave error in the drivers ...

Even with the overvolt I can not keep the same frequencies as before ... in 1280/2900 @ 1,219 I could not finish all the test 3Dmark ...

 

[Johan45]

Updating ... I managed with the pcie at 110 to increase and be stable after 1 hour at 4.64 GHz .. I've done several tests, 4.66 prime95 gave error after about 7-8 minutes

However, there is an improvement in performance, with 3Dmark I got my best result ... 6296 taking into FireStrike 4.64 GHz and video cards in 1200/6880 and 110 pcie

Before taking 4.62 GHz and graphics cards in overvolt from 1,186 -> 1,219 frequencies 1280/6940 my best result was in 6277 FireStrike

However, while I found a small improvement in overclocking the CPU with the pcie 110, vga seems to get worse with a little 'stability in overclocking ... Before I could not overvolt to go to 1220/6900 ... I had to turn it down a bit 'because 3Dmark crashed and gave error in the drivers ...

Even with the overvolt I can not keep the same frequencies as before ... in 1280/2900 @ 1,219 I could not finish all the test 3Dmark ...

If I were you I would just leave the PCI frequency on auto. But I definately wouldn't go any higher than 110. Your HDD/SSD's also use this bus which has a controller connected. You could corrupt you SSD/HDD. Most controllers can tolerate some increase in speed but if this is your day to day OS I wouldn't mess with it.
Secondly if P95 is failing then your OC isn't stable. You'll get better scores in your benches with a stable CPU than an unstable one. Also those scores od 6296/6277 really don't show much of anything. You'll get a different score everytime you run the bench the scores you show aren't even a half % different.

When you are OC'ing you also need to monitor your temps, I haven't seen you mention temps lately but I have seen 1.5v+ which is hard for most coolers to handle. So it's hard to say at this point if your OC is unstable because of a lack of voltage or too much heat.
If you could Run P95 with HWmonitor(free) open and take a screen shot. Post it up here so we can have a look see as to what is going on under your hood. Also CPU-z main SPD and memory tab.

 

[Irony]

Crosshair came monday, installed it, works beautifully. It's so pretty. Plus I can get a block for it if I ever want to. It has so many options for power that weren't in the fatal1ty. Like the Digi+ in the bios, can set overcurrent percentage for CPU and CPU/NB, Theres adjustmens for VRM frequency and response and power phase, all kinds of awesome stuff like that. And the LLC seems to bahave normally. I managed to get 5ghz resonably stable which was never possible before. Can't wait to get it in the cold, CPU isn't much stable once it gets in the 50's. I'm kindof in the process of moving now tho so I might not have a chance to do that for a while.

 

[giacomo160790]

If I were you I would just leave the PCI frequency on auto. But I definately wouldn't go any higher than 110. Your HDD/SSD's also use this bus which has a controller connected. You could corrupt you SSD/HDD. Most controllers can tolerate some increase in speed but if this is your day to day OS I wouldn't mess with it.
Secondly if P95 is failing then your OC isn't stable. You'll get better scores in your benches with a stable CPU than an unstable one. Also those scores od 6296/6277 really don't show much of anything. You'll get a different score everytime you run the bench the scores you show aren't even a half % different.

When you are OC'ing you also need to monitor your temps, I haven't seen you mention temps lately but I have seen 1.5v+ which is hard for most coolers to handle. So it's hard to say at this point if your OC is unstable because of a lack of voltage or too much heat.
If you could Run P95 with HWmonitor(free) open and take a screen shot. Post it up here so we can have a look see as to what is going on under your hood. Also CPU-z main SPD and memory tab.

PCI I gave up, instability generated at random ... Once I completed a one hour test with no problems, the next time after 5 minutes gave error ...

For screen here it is

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ikh9w6rwlz7glkp/4,62.jpg

 

[futureniar]

Hello, guys. surry for my poor english and low OC exp, but read my stroy? OK xD
Now my pc ruinnig the vishera cpu 8320 3.5 ghz over the Sabertooth R 2.0 990 motherboard.
First of all i took this tutorial

and put all settimg just the same as on video, so the system works stable at 4.5 ghz and 1.356 core voltage, I suppose cpu can be OCed even more, but it seems to run extremly hot: stress test shows 85 centigrades og cpu sensor, and than I stop it. I got simple Termaltake tower cooler with dual fans, idle temp is around 53, games running around 70 centigrades. Is it okay?
What, guys, shall i try with my system? what settings to change? I know, I need water cooling, but I have no such money at the moment xD