The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[cdawall]

looking at the AI Suite Temps and coretemp + hwmonitor they all differ maybe 2-3c

[url]http://img7.imageshack.us/img7/4539/tempsd.jpg[/URL]

maybe they corrected it....my 945ES and 720BE were both duds as far as temp monitors go both reported ~20C which was below room temp PC Probe showed 46C which was what a temp probe showed so i was happy

 

[ShadowFold]

No I got it off of someone. It's an older batch, 0851. I hope it unlocks..

 

[Devtech]

ya i dont know ive always had luck on the right temps as far as coretemp went. now to figure out how to push for a bit more juice >.< been trying same numbers from people off the thread that have my same board but ive had 0 luck so far so i dont know what im doing wrong.

 

[cdawall]

No I got it off of someone. It's an older batch, 0851. I hope it unlocks..

damn maybe i just had bum chips


but then again my 945 was like 0825 or some shit like that but my 720 was one of those 904's that did unlock to bad i killed it

 

[ShadowFold]

Mine is older right? I think it's one of the original batches.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Cd, did your mobo that you ran the 720 just have ACC on/off or did it go in depth to +/- per core and different steppings?

 

[3dsage]

Well my 720 came in and guess what, here's the good news!

http://www1.picturepush.com/photo/a/1551714/1024/Computer/PII-720-BE-0904-batch.jpg

Then here's one of the heatsink and CPU, good thing I won't be using that weak heatsink.

http://www2.picturepush.com/photo/a/1551715/1024/Computer/PII-and-Heatsink.jpg

And the new RAM, I was running DDR2 800 before, see how screaming fast I can get this stuff, if I can get my 4th core up and running looks like this setup will be sticking around for a while.

http://www3.picturepush.com/photo/a/1551711/1024/Computer/Kingston-HyperX-DDR2-1066.jpg

Right now I am updating my bios to the oldest versio nthat supports PII's then gonna give the 4th core a run, hopefully it fires up. There are so many options ofr ACC in this bios. I can select how muhc + or - I want to give each core, and steppings P0, P1, P2, and P3. So I'm kinda lost atm.

Looks like you got a winning stepping

I know erocker explained what those P0,P1,P2,P3 settings where for somewhere in this bigass Thread.

 

[ShadowFold]

Set ACC to auto


It goes Off, Manual(+2, +4, +8 etc) which I have no idea what those do and auto. Auto is what unlocks it.

 

[1Kurgan1]

I set it to auto the first time I dropped it in, saved the bios and it turned off after that (not reset), but the comp says unrecognized proc right now, I'm making a boot stick as we speak, then hopefully unlock this bad boy.

 

[ShadowFold]

How many threads/cores does it say? It will say Phenom II X4 20 I think

 

[1Kurgan1]

I wasn't able to boot with it on auto before, my bios isn't up to date, doesn't recognize a PII. So I'm updating it to the oldest bios that will recognize a PII and giving that a shot. Will say results soon USB stick is half way through formatting with bootfiles atm.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Ok this is strange.... I set my bios to default because I was trying to get the 4th core to boot up. I just got the newest CPU-Z and my 720 is running at 3ghz on a 15x multi when I touched nothing....

 

[ShadowFold]

On the non-PII bios? That's to be expected, it probably sees it as a 945

 

[1Kurgan1]

Ok, got it on the new bios, running it right now on auto, it isn't showing the 4th core. I don't want to really look through 59 pages for Po, P1, P2, P3. Anyone know what this should be on?

 

[ShadowFold]

Some boards just don't do it. DFI is top quality stuff, they probably fixed it with the first release

 

[3dsage]

Ok, got it on the new bios, running it right now on auto, it isn't showing the 4th core. I don't want to really look through 59 pages for Po, P1, P2, P3. Anyone know what this should be on?

PM CP, he should know also.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Maybe, either way if someone does know what these steppings do let me know. For now I'm gonna go drop the voltage as low as I can and get ready to condition this chip. If it only runs on 3 cores thats fine with me, puts me in a better upgrade path, then I can move up to AM3, then later pass this chip to my GF and get a quad, and so on.

Where as if this unlocks I'm kinda stuck and have to move this whole mobo/ram/proc to her then buy a bunch at once for myself.

Also what about the old PI B2 TLB fix, I disabled that, don't think that would have any effect though.

PM CP, he should know also.

Who is CP?

 

[3dsage]

Chicken Patty!

 

[1Kurgan1]

lol

 

[cdawall]

Cd, did your mobo that you ran the 720 just have ACC on/off or did it go in depth to +/- per core and different steppings?

my 720 was on a 780A not AMD based

 

[ShadowFold]

GRRR I hate spring. I get like 30-40c temps now instead of 11-20c

 

[1Kurgan1]

Well got it stress testing on 1.152v as we speak, gonna let that run for a bit then see how much lower I can go.

Anyone happen to know a vista gadget that shows 3 core procs usage? I always used one that said Dual and Quad, and it won't show the tri, can't seem to find another that does either.

 

[ShadowFold]

Hit CTRL+SHIFT+ESC

 

[Chicken Patty]

Chicken Patty!

yes? did I miss something?

 

[1Kurgan1]

Oh I know you can see it by having the device manager up, but it's just nice to have a gadget right there that tells me mem/cpu usage instead of having to open another window. I'm thinking there might not be a gadget that will show that 3rd core though

BTW now running at 1.120v, I can't go lower than this, I tried the notch under and it locked up right after getting into windows.

yes? did I miss something?

Yep, what are the steppings for in ACC, P0, P1, P2, P3 also theres another option in there C1, then if I hit that it asks me to enter a value. What does what and what and does any of this need to be touched for attempt to wake up my 4th core on my 720 BE?