AMD FX OC'ers Club

Random Murderer · May 16, 2014

m0nt3 said:
no, not really any room with the Heatsink, it takes up all the room around the CPU.

Well there's your problem. You mentioned LLC has a direct effect on your socket temps, well, higher LLC puts a higher strain on the VRMs. These FX-8xxx really put one hell of a load on the power delivery section of any board. Do whatever you can to at least get some airflow over those VRMs.

suraswami · May 16, 2014

or you can use Antec spot cool.

Norton · May 16, 2014

suraswami said:
or you can use Antec spot cool.

I like my method!!!

suraswami · May 16, 2014

LOL, that's what I did too but a smaller fan ha ha. He has big ass air cooler and he said there is not enough room to stick a fan.

m0nt3 · May 16, 2014

Mr.Scott · May 16, 2014

I can run this all day long. CPU is delidded and on high end water.

Johan45 · May 17, 2014

m0nt3 said:
I believe the temps are accurate, LLC is just murdering the temp. I did try openhwmon and temps reported the same. The slightest voltage adjustment just has a dramatic effect on temp. The socket temp seems to have a direct correlation to the VRM temp. Half tempted to put in my Phenom II X6 and see if the temp would still read as high at the same given voltage.

The phenom won't draw on your board anything like the FX. One thing that helped me alot on my M5A was a small fan on the back of the mobo like this

suraswami · May 17, 2014

m0nt3 said:
View attachment 56733

Holy crap, how did you manage to put that monster on that board!!

Ok may be can you put the CPU to the settings I have and post your temps?

CPU - 4.2Ghz @ 1.3v with very high LLC, HT @ 2.4 and NB at 2.2.

With that settings while gaming the CPU core maintains a steady 38C and spikes occasionally to 41C.

Random Murderer · May 19, 2014

Alright, I come to you AMD guys with a question.
A buddy has this board. He's currently on an Athlon II X2 240. He does not have the money to build a new system, and the rest of his system is pretty decent (4GB of DDR2 1066, Radeon 5950). What would be a good, affordable upgrade for his CPU? He'd like at least a quad-core.
Originally he told me it was an AM3/AM3+ board, so my immediate thought was to just pick up an FX-4300, but that obviously won't work in this board

Thanks in advance, guys.

suraswami · May 19, 2014

Random Murderer said:
Alright, I come to you AMD guys with a question.
A buddy has this board. He's currently on an Athlon II X2 240. He does not have the money to build a new system, and the rest of his system is pretty decent (4GB of DDR2 1066, Radeon 5950). What would be a good, affordable upgrade for his CPU? He'd like at least a quad-core.
Originally he told me it was an AM3/AM3+ board, so my immediate thought was to just pick up an FX-4300, but that obviously won't work in this board
Thanks in advance, guys.

That link to the gigabyte site seems to be broken. Can you post the model of the board?

Random Murderer · May 19, 2014

suraswami said:
That link to the gigabyte site seems to be broken. Can you post the model of the board?

It's a GA-MA78LM-S2. Not sure of revision just yet.

suraswami · May 19, 2014

Random Murderer said:
It's a GA-MA78LM-S2. Not sure of revision just yet.

I had that board for a brief period, It unlocked my Phenom II X2 555 to X4 and clocked it to 4 Ghz. Since it doesn't have VRM sinks I would say best bet for long term stability is to get a 95w PII X4 (AM3). If you can find a 960T would be better (has turbo if the user cares for it).

Random Murderer · May 19, 2014

suraswami said:
unlocked my Phenom II X2 555 to X4

Ha, I had forgotten this was even a thing. Alright, we'll try unlocking his X2 first, then look into getting an AM3 PII X4. Thanks.

suraswami · May 19, 2014

Random Murderer said:
Ha, I had forgotten this was even a thing. Alright, we'll try unlocking his X2 first, then look into getting an AM3 PII X4. Thanks.

Athlon II X2 240 - this cpu is most probably not based of Deneb core. I have that chip and it should have 2 x 1MB L2 cache, if so you cannot unlock it to a quad. Though I have seen few people unlock these to a Opteron with unlocked multiplier!!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...II-X2-240-Unlock-to-Opteron-1300-Multiple-25X

Random Murderer · May 19, 2014

suraswami said:
Athlon II X2 240 - this cpu is most probably not based of Deneb core. I have that chip and it should have 2 x 1MB L2 cache, if so you cannot unlock it to a quad. Though I have seen few people unlock these to a Opteron with unlocked multiplier!!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...II-X2-240-Unlock-to-Opteron-1300-Multiple-25X

You're right, it's a Regor core. Still worth a shot, free performance for a starving student if it works.

Johan45 · May 20, 2014

suraswami said:
Athlon II X2 240 - this cpu is most probably not based of Deneb core. I have that chip and it should have 2 x 1MB L2 cache, if so you cannot unlock it to a quad. Though I have seen few people unlock these to a Opteron with unlocked multiplier!!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...II-X2-240-Unlock-to-Opteron-1300-Multiple-25X

Random Murderer said:
You're right, it's a Regor core. Still worth a shot, free performance for a starving student if it works.

You're right Swami, I have an AII 250 and it's a native dual core. I checked that thread and it looks as if it only worked on ECS boards. It also didn't look very reliable/stable. That Giga board doesn't have much of a power section so I wouldn't try to run an X6 on it but if he could find a decent PII 955, that would work. Many of them that I have seen will hit 4.0G with 1.4-1.45v. Their nice little CPUs

m0nt3 · May 20, 2014

Johan45 said:
The phenom won't draw on your board anything like the FX. One thing that helped me alot on my M5A was a small fan on the back of the mobo like this

View attachment 56735

I just did something similar. I swapped the side panels around on my Corsair 400R which puts a 120mm fan also right on the the mounting backplate, certainly helped improved socket temp. at 4.44Ghz 1.325 in BIOS (very high LLC) 1.344V socket temp peak 61C and core temp peak 55 under Prime95 30min so far.

Johan45 · May 20, 2014

m0nt3 said:
I just did something similar. I swapped the side panels around on my Corsair 400R which puts a 120mm fan also right on the the mounting backplate, certainly helped improved socket temp. at 4.44Ghz 1.325 in BIOS (very high LLC) 1.344V socket temp peak 61C and core temp peak 55 under Prime95 30min so far.

That worked out pretty handy now didn't it.

m0nt3 · May 20, 2014

Indeed it did, even lowered VRM temp as well.

Johan45 · May 20, 2014

m0nt3 said:
Indeed it did, even lowered VRM temp as well.

You've just given yourself another 10c to play with which is great results. Those 8 core FX really work a boards power system.

suraswami · May 20, 2014

m0nt3 said:
I just did something similar. I swapped the side panels around on my Corsair 400R which puts a 120mm fan also right on the the mounting backplate, certainly helped improved socket temp. at 4.44Ghz 1.325 in BIOS (very high LLC) 1.344V socket temp peak 61C and core temp peak 55 under Prime95 30min so far.

I still don't understand why the temps are so high, my 8320 when I was pumping more volts (1.4) and at 4.2 with air cooling and IBT 10 run loop never went over 48C core and VRM around 60C, gaming will increase the temps because of video card, core temps went to 52C. Now that I have AIO water cooling and lowered the volts, my core temp never goes more than 40C even while gaming.

Johan45 · May 20, 2014

suraswami said:
I still don't understand why the temps are so high, my 8320 when I was pumping more volts (1.4) and at 4.2 with air cooling and IBT 10 run loop never went over 48C core and VRM around 60C, gaming will increase the temps because of video card, core temps went to 52C. Now that I have AIO water cooling and lowered the volts, my core temp never goes more than 40C even while gaming.

Maybe it's P95 that's causing the added heat. I noticed that with IBT unless you run it on very high ram count the cores don't get as hot as they do with P95.

m0nt3 · May 20, 2014

I don't think prime plays well with the FX architecture. I have ran it for 10hours+ same config may not last 10min sometimes. Its certainly odd, might be related to ASUS TurbeV Evo software, instead of rebooting I tried adjusting Vcore through the software and cores 1 and/or 2 will fail in a matter of minutes. Runs fine after a reboot and setting voltage via BIOS. Starting to take prime fx results with a spoon full of salt.

suraswami · May 20, 2014

Johan45 said:
Maybe it's P95 that's causing the added heat. I noticed that with IBT unless you run it on very high ram count the cores don't get as hot as they do with P95.

But he did post his 10 loop run with IBT and the socket temp still went to 61C. So somewhere something is reporting wrong.

Durvelle27 · May 20, 2014

Norton said:
I like my method!!!

lol

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AMD FX OC'ers Club

Random Murderer

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suraswami

Norton

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suraswami

m0nt3

Mr.Scott

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suraswami

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

suraswami

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

suraswami

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

suraswami

Random Murderer

The Anti-Midas

Johan45

m0nt3

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m0nt3

Johan45

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