The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[JrRacinFan]

Try a small bump in CPU-NB volts.

 

[Irony]

I go by the motto, "If all else fails, raise the voltage." And when I get that screen, I usually just raise either CPU or NB volts like Jr said.

 

[catnipkiller]

Just ordered a new mobo and ddr3 ram will post screen shots when stable. Hoping for 3+GHZ nb oc.

 

[Irony]

Whats your new mobo gonna be?

 

[JrRacinFan]

I saw your new board & I have to say. Thats some killer 'ware you're getting catnip! You will be much pleased with the results of doing the switch to ddr3. Remember 1600 cl6 is your ultimate goal, if your ram wont like cl6 much try to get between 1600 & 1800 dram speeds with nb as fast as you can get it.

@Irony

Pretty sure IIRC 990fx ud5 & 2x4gb Patriot gamers. Get your second card yet bro?

 

[Irony]

Nice board.

Yeah, I've got my card, but briliantly, 6770s don't come with crossfire bridges. The motherboard came with an SLI bridge, but no CFX bridge. so I bought one on ebay for 3 bucks with free shipping. it should be here before next year, lol.

 

[JrRacinFan]

Should have asked. I got an extra one.

 

[Irony]

oh well

 

[MGF Derp]

Nice board.

Yeah, I've got my card, but briliantly, 6770s don't come with crossfire bridges. The motherboard came with an SLI bridge, but no CFX bridge. so I bought one on ebay for 3 bucks with free shipping. it should be here before next year, lol.

Yeah AMD really has to start doing something about that. As isnt the old statement is that it is supposed to be with the card but the non highend gets left out. Should just come with the board like sli.

 

[de.das.dude]

arent SLI bridges the same as cfx ones ??

 

[JrRacinFan]

Nope they arent D.

SLI

Cfire

 

[Irony]

arent SLI bridges the same as cfx ones ??

Nope, they're solid and about 1/4 inch narrower. The CFX bridges are flexible so that they can fit on cards that are close or far apart.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

arent SLI bridges the same as cfx ones ??

ive one of each here and the sli sockets are slightly smaller and pre spaced but in general no their different

has anyone on here got or messed with a crosshair V yet?

ive mine built on a box whilst i mod the case a bit but im glad as ive had a few issues

ive been under the impression that ddr3 usually runs 1T timings but this mobo picks 2T and whacky timings on auto and 1333 , even the mems XMP profile dosnt quite work right and this stupid mobos (obv not my fault) has put crazy volts on stuff in auto mode after ocin like 1.5-1.7 on the cpu

i had to manually set a few volts so they ran normal ish and with defaults loaded ecc was switched on on my mem plus some godam unganged mode(though not sure which is best ganged or unganged)

 

[JrRacinFan]

Most of the 9 series does auto to 2t. Just have to manually set it. Doesnt make much of a difference on performance.

 

[de.das.dude]

asrock y u no sell 9series in India?? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

 

[Irony]

asrock y u no sell 9series in India?? ლ(ಠ益ಠლ)

Really? Thats odd.

 

[de.das.dude]

atleast i couldnt find it and none of the online stores keep it!

i want that 125$ board!

 

[Irony]

My CF bridge came today, whoo hoo!! It doubled my 3DMark 11 score, now I'm at 5095. This is fun.

Although, now I'm a little worried that maybe my power supply wont be able to handle it. does anyone know if its sufficient?

 

[JrRacinFan]

You're fine dude. They would peak at about 225W, comparitively a gtx570.

 

[claylomax]

My CF bridge came today, whoo hoo!! It doubled my 3DMark 11 score, now I'm at 5095. This is fun.

Although, now I'm a little worried that maybe my power supply wont be able to handle it. does anyone know if its sufficient?

Which is your cpu load/idle voltage? I'm at 4.0Ghz at the moment; I've run benchmarks at 4.1 4.2 and 4.3, at 4.4Ghz it will boot but won't run anything.

 

[Irony]

Which is your cpu load/idle voltage? I'm at 4.0Ghz at the moment; I've run benchmarks at 4.1 4.2 and 4.3, at 4.4Ghz it will boot but won't run anything.

For 4.0, I only 1.40v. but for 4.2, I have to have 1.525v. I'm currently running it at 4.140 with voltage at 1.5, and CnQ on so it cuts speed and voltage at idle.

4.2 is also as high as I can go. I can't get it stable at 4.3, and I can't even get it to boot at 4.4.

 

[de.das.dude]

ima do some OC tomorrow!

 

[JrRacinFan]

That's quite high, cut it back to 3.8Ghz and enjoy the lower temps with the lower core volts.

 

[TheoneandonlyMrK]

well ive had a tinker and with a stock hsf ive got mine running at 3.6 with turbo still on and set to 4 and my memory at 1800, but im especially pleased by 2700 NB and HT speed cant wait to get the mobo and cpu water blocks on ,should be ok for a bit ie whats the most volts you would put on a zosma /thuban Q4 that wont unlock and the NB volts max im at 1.48 on cpu and 1.32 on NB?

 

[scaminatrix]

well ive had a tinker and with a stock hsf ive got mine running at 3.6 with turbo still on and set to 4 and my memory at 1800, but im especially pleased by 2700 NB and HT speed cant wait to get the mobo and cpu water blocks on ,should be ok for a bit ie whats the most volts you would put on a zosma /thuban Q4 that wont unlock and the NB volts max im at 1.48 on cpu and 1.32 on NB?

Don't know about voltages, but I would recommend to stick your RAM at 1600 and lower the latency. AMD prefers lower latency rather than high speeds so go for that.
Aim for 1600 7-7-7 1T, worst case scenario 8-8-8