Phenom 9850BE low voltage overclocking results!

[eidairaman1]

is that default voltage?

 

[AphexDreamer]

No. Here is what Kei requested, default everything with 8x Multi and 5x NB and HT. My max seems to be 280FSB with this Phenom, while with my old 6400+ I had gone as high as 317FSB.

 

[Viscarious]

update!

Im bored. I've got my watercooling rig just about ready. I just need to wait for my waterblock to get lapped and then go over to a friends and pick up an extra rad and pump. Im still not sure if it would even be worth it or not. Or if it will even fit...

One downfall to going water, will be that my PC will be far harder to move around and take to LANs and whatnot.

Upsides are, maybe better cooling, maybe more quite, looks kinda cool. Also might make the PC bulkier and ... iunno.

What do you guys think? Give it a shot?

 

[eidairaman1]

well if your worried about taking the unit to lan parties you have options

1 Pack the unit in a secure box

2 haul it on a dolly

3 Build a Lan Party Box.

4 Have the Lan Party at your Place


Trust me bro when i was in High School, lan parties were fun, as you could hear your buddy cussing in the next area when you fragged them

 

[Viscarious]

lol yea, thats the whole point, we usually get 4-6 ppl and all play COD4 and lan CNC3 while BBQing and havin a few brewskies.

 

[Kei]

No. Here is what Kei requested, default everything with 8x Multi and 5x NB and HT. My max seems to be 280FSB with this Phenom, while with my old 6400+ I had gone as high as 317FSB.

Interesting indeed...did you make sure that your bios was reset to factory defaults before applying the settings I asked for, it appears your voltage is lower than stock so you might have more left in it? Also what bios are you on right now?

It seems you can go quite a bit further on the HT Bus than I can with my Phenom (266Mhz). My 'old' Phenom 9500 would go to 283Mhz max though I used 273Mhz for my stable setting (273*9.5x).

Since you can go to a much higher HT Bus than me overall...how far can you take the multiplier with your max bus speed? I was able to boot and run just fine all the way up to 11.5x with my max 266 Bus speed. I can get 12 and 12.5 to post but they lock before going into windows.

Sweet result btw...very sweet! When I first did this test I was pretty surprised that I couldn't go any further than 266Mhz though that is quite far anyway. Then again this chip will clock significantly further than my old 9500 chip would go (2.7xGhz) so it's a good trade off. My X2 4800+ used to do 306Mhz max but that was on a 790X board (MSI) so I imagine it would have went quite a bit further on my 790FX board.

I suppose my next quest is to see how low on the voltage I can go with the max HT Bus setting.

K

Btw...V, never give up the lan parties

 

[AphexDreamer]

Interesting indeed...did you make sure that your bios was reset to factory defaults before applying the settings I asked for, it appears your voltage is lower than stock so you might have more left in it? Also what bios are you on right now?

It seems you can go quite a bit further on the HT Bus than I can with my Phenom (266Mhz). My 'old' Phenom 9500 would go to 283Mhz max though I used 273Mhz for my stable setting (273*9.5x).

Since you can go to a much higher HT Bus than me overall...how far can you take the multiplier with your max bus speed? I was able to boot and run just fine all the way up to 11.5x with my max 266 Bus speed. I can get 12 and 12.5 to post but they lock before going into windows.

Sweet result btw...very sweet! When I first did this test I was pretty surprised that I couldn't go any further than 266Mhz though that is quite far anyway. Then again this chip will clock significantly further than my old 9500 chip would go (2.7xGhz) so it's a good trade off. My X2 4800+ used to do 306Mhz max but that was on a 790X board (MSI) so I imagine it would have went quite a bit further on my 790FX board.

I suppose my next quest is to see how low on the voltage I can go with the max HT Bus setting.

K

Btw...V, never give up the lan parties

Hey thanks. Everythings stock. I think there might be an issue with voltage flux on my board cause I specifed for it to be on 1.300 volts and it uses less. Same thing with any other volt I tell it to use, if I put 1.41 it will be 1.4.

I'll try and see how high I can get my Multi to go, but I drought much. Its late now, so I'll post more results tomorrow. Goodnight yall.

 

[Kei]

Good night as well and thanks.

sleep well all,

K

 

[kenkickr]

Good morning y'all. I've been messing with lowering the volts and 1.246v @ 2.8Ghz is what I have so far. I'm pushing to lower but want to make sure system is GRID and MVP 05(07 mod) stable.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Hey Kei, I got my multi to 10 so far with 1.300 Vots, but I have a question. Did you want me to see how high of multi I can get with just stock volts or if I need to can I increase my volts?

 

[Kei]

Hey Kei, I got my multi to 10 so far with 1.300 Vots, but I have a question. Did you want me to see how high of multi I can get with just stock volts or if I need to can I increase my volts?

Keep the volts still at stock 1.30v as I want to see what everyone can do on the stock volts only for this test. After you find that feel free to go up on the voltage to see if you can go any further though!

K

 

[Kei]

Good morning y'all. I've been messing with lowering the volts and 1.246v @ 2.8Ghz is what I have so far. I'm pushing to lower but want to make sure system is GRID and MVP 05(07 mod) stable.

Sweet deal Ken, I use 1.25v for my high power setting as well though I'm using 2.9Ghz on all four cores. I figure that's more than enough speed for anything especially with four cores, and 3.1Ghz isn't really that much faster than 2.9Ghz but needs more volts and has more heat so I just stick with 2.9Ghz instead except for benching.

2.8Ghz is a damn good speed though as well, is it an even 2.8Ghz or can you eek a little more out of it w/o raising the voltage? And while we're at it I recommend using Everest stability test AND memtest (at the same time) to test if it's all stable. That's pretty much what I do now as it gets things cooking better than Prime95 alone and you get a log of temps and results when you use Everest. For my testing I use Everest Stability test (cpu, fpu, and cache test options only), two instances of Memtest to split the ram evenly, and Cinebench R9.5 multi cpu test just for kicks. I let them all run all night and if they make it then it's stable...as long as when I try to use it right after the test (don't reset the pc) it doesn't freeze after 30-60 minutes of use.

Of course you don't have to go that far, Everest and Memtest would be good enough to tell you it'll be stable through anything.

K

 

[AphexDreamer]

Yeah this is my max. Surprisingly stable though considering the volts I am on. I had to use 1.41 volts just to get my other configuration stable at 2.8Ghz.

Only problem though is that I couldn't get my comp to boot with higher clocked RAM?

 

[Kei]

Thanks Aphex, are you able to go up any higher if you add just 1 tick of voltage to your setting? Maybe that'll let you get 10.5x...

That's still a damn good result especially for 280Mhz HT Bus speed!

K

 

[SirKeldon]

Hey Aphex!!! Great that you're back, good clocking for that low volts!!!! Keep it up!

 

[AphexDreamer]

Thanks guys. Unfortunately after that no matter what volts I give it, it won't boot at 10.5... but then again I have everything else on auto, so I should probably change those settings as well.

 

[Viscarious]

Yea, try boosting the rest of your volts a tad to see if that will help.

BTW, do you have any everest cpu and mem benchmarks?

 

[AphexDreamer]

Yea, try boosting the rest of your volts a tad to see if that will help.

BTW, do you have any everest cpu and mem benchmarks?

Nope, sorry, Never got that app.

 

[cdawall]

my new toy showed up

 

[Kei]

my new toy showed up

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

 

[cdawall]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay!

lol time to plug it in with my corsair XMS2 ram

 

[AphexDreamer]

Hey is the part number on that chip the same for all Phenom 9850s? It would save me time and effort form having to remove mine out.

 

[Kei]

Nope...speaking of serial numbers wall...is that a 9500? That number looks really familiar but I can't find my snap of my 9850 and 9500 serials.

Did you indeed pick up a 9500 Phenom?

K

 

[Kei]

Nevermind, I figured it out (Aphex that's a 9500 not a 9850)...how much did you score that for?

If you need any help with setups for that I've got that too as I still have pretty much all of my old Phenom 9500 setup data on my harddrive.

K

 

[servermonkey]

wow go on vacation for 4 days and look at all i missed!!!

Hey is the part number on that chip the same for all Phenom 9850s? It would save me time and effort form having to remove mine out.

I think that second line is the batch number....
allegedly some batches oc better than others.....