The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[1Kurgan1]

Well 1.120v seems to be the magic number, gonna hit up some gamign with it, then leave Prime 95 on when I head to work. See how much of an improvement I see vs my old 5000+

 

[Chicken Patty]

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.



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?

which option is the one that says C1?


The stepping for PH II is P3

 

[1Kurgan1]

It's for NV VID or something to NB vid. And when I open it I can set the value, it says min = 0000 and max = 007F.

P3 huh? Well Guess I'm gonna restart and see if I can fire up that 4th core.

 

[1Kurgan1]

Stepping didn't seem to work, comp still booted fine and ran stress tests fine. Would that NB setting change anything? It's looking slim here.

 

[Master}{]

Master i have 2x HIS iceQ 4850's - the standard editions not turbo - they dont seem to overclock for shit lol...but that could just be a crossfire thing?

My corsair xms2 doesn't seem to wanna move over stock speed at 4-4-4-12@2.1V either which i find quite weird...im running it unganged - would ganged be better?

yes, ganged i think will make instability at higher clocks more frequent, but i have found that it does seem to make the memory perform better clock for clock. it added about 300 points to my 3dmark06 runs. but it is more prone to finding instability.

i have a M3N HT Deluxe (BIOS 1701) paired with a AMD P2 940 BE overclocking at 3.7ghz Being cooled by a Thermaltake SpinQ

Anyone with anymore knowledge on this motherboard can share with how to see a bigger increase on cpu speed and a more stable overclock? everything ive tried over any of these settings have resulted in a BSOD unfortunately

Match CPU-NB voltage to cpu Vcore up to 1.5V i dont recommend moving the NB Voltage any higher than that but keep it syncronized to the Vcore, or as close as possible without crossing 1.5

Turn off ganged mode while your moving clocks, but try turning it back on after you have your stable overclocks, ganged will make instability more frequent but it boosts memory performance.

 

[eidairaman1]

Sort of like Dual Channel vs Single Channel on Early DDR Motherboards.

yes, ganged i think will make instability at higher clocks more frequent, but i have found that it does seem to make the memory perform better clock for clock. it added about 300 points to my 3dmark06 runs. but it is more prone to finding instability.



Match CPU-NB voltage to cpu Vcore up to 1.5V i dont recommend moving the NB Voltage any higher than that but keep it syncronized to the Vcore, or as close as possible without crossing 1.5

Turn off ganged mode while your moving clocks, but try turning it back on after you have your stable overclocks, ganged will make instability more frequent but it boosts memory performance.

 

[Master}{]

NOWHERE, can i find an official definition of VDDA Voltage!!!!

anyone here know for sure wtf it is!

 

[Supreme0verlord]

I have no idea what it is either, all I found was this thread on it.(Go to the last post on the page)

 

[Master}{]

i have now seen several explanations for what it is, all different!!!!

 

[DV8tion]

I don't think there is any definition anywhere MarsterX. All I know is in my trial and error I found out it works for stability. Maybe someone with connections at AMD could find out the real deal on it.

 

[Master}{]

ok heres the definition!

IDK WTF it does exactly, but it does seem to increase stability BIG f***ing time!

i just tried it out for the first time. i went to VDDA 2.7x volts on the Asus M3N-HT motherboard!

i used cpumark to max out the cpu usage after upping my clocks to 3860!

CPU = 3860
HTT = 215 (214.5)
Vcore = 1.45
CPUNB = 1.45
CPUNB multi = 12
NB speed = 2570.x
ganged mode
Memory = 428.6 (857.2) 2.0v Corsair XMS2 4x2gb 5-5-5-18 2t

all stable unlike before it was only mostly stable. maxxed the cpu usage and all is still well.

Last time i made 3800 was with 1.5 V now im .5 lower. with faster ram, NB, HT, etc...

I am attaching the stress tool i have used since my 3000+ sckt 754 machine, and a screenshot of my progress


on cpumark99 it is single threaded, just run 4 instances for quad cores, or for a basic test to see if its even mostly stable a single instance run will discover most instabilities.

 

[Supreme0verlord]

Well I wish I had this option in my bios

 

[Master}{]

editted previous post with Screenshot and utility

 

[Master}{]

Im gonna go as far as i can stable and try to get a 3dmark06 validation and cpuz validation out of it.

 

[DV8tion]

It should be there somewhere Overlord ....I have never used a Gigabyte MB though.

I was really shocked when I found out it worked so well for stabilizing a clock MasterX. Glad it worked for you too. I didn't notice any adverse temp effects from turning it up. Did you?

Edited to add this. Now AOD is completely freaking me out.

 

[Master}{]

nada, but i just made 3966 just upping multipliers with k10stat, im posting from 3966, and it passed cpumark99 flawlessly at this speed!

Temps jumped to 115^ F durring max cpu usage tho... still @ 1.45 V

gonna attempt 3dmark 06 wish me lucks

 

[Supreme0verlord]

It should be there somewhere Overlord ....I have never used a Gigabyte MB though.

I've looked through my bios setting may times but I don't think this MB has it, I even updated the bios to the newest one and it still isn't there

 

[Devtech]

ok heres the definition!

IDK WTF it does exactly, but it does seem to increase stability BIG f***ing time!

i just tried it out for the first time. i went to VDDA 2.7x volts on the Asus M3N-HT motherboard!

i used cpumark to max out the cpu usage after upping my clocks to 3860!

CPU = 3860
HTT = 215 (214.5)
Vcore = 1.45
CPUNB = 1.45
CPUNB multi = 12
NB speed = 2570.x
ganged mode
Memory = 428.6 (857.2) 2.0v Corsair XMS2 4x2gb 5-5-5-18 2t

all stable unlike before it was only mostly stable. maxxed the cpu usage and all is still well.

Last time i made 3800 was with 1.5 V now im .5 lower. with faster ram, NB, HT, etc...

I am attaching the stress tool i have used since my 3000+ sckt 754 machine, and a screenshot of my progress


on cpumark99 it is single threaded, just run 4 instances for quad cores, or for a basic test to see if its even mostly stable a single instance run will discover most instabilities.

hmm i must be doing something wrong in the bios i can set everything as you have it listed but i cannot for the love of me boot into vista with the HTT set at 215 and the multi at 18 that and i cant find this ganged setting in the Jumper Free Config window in the bios

 

[Master}{]

hmm i must be doing something wrong in the bios i can set everything as you have it listed but i cannot for the love of me boot into vista with the HTT set at 215 and the multi at 18 that and i cant find this ganged setting in the Jumper Free Config window in the bios

thats because ganged is a RAM setting, lol



3dmark06, it was on its way to a new record for me, i just know it, and wtf ever reason IDK, it crashed on deep freeze half way through! the last fckin test!!!!

the system didnt crash, just 3dmark06, it just dissappeared and dropped to desktop, wtfwtfwtfwtf

 

[Master}{]

i just tested deep freeze on 3dmark06 and it works fine, must have just been a fluke, i have temps and cpu usages on the second monitor on coretemp, nothing was bad.

cpu usage was 100% core 0 and 50% core 2 0% on core 1 and 3. when it crashed.

and it survived max all cores on the cpu tests. wierd?!?!?!


Retesting

 

[DV8tion]

I have had problems with cores 1 and 2 dropping out on me. Not since I did the VDDA change but it has happened. Not sure if maybe I cooked this thing in my trials or what. . The proc never was stable for OCCT not even right out of the box at stock settings. I dunno. Starting to think I got a crap proc.

 

[Master}{]

it just dun it again....

does anyone know what the warning temperature is on phenom II, when you should worry.

i bounced off 125^ F durring the cpu tests but i dont think thats really concerning....

 

[Supreme0verlord]

I think it's somewhere around 55c.

 

[DV8tion]

According to AMD 60^c is the big red STOP temp. So i would think 55 would be the smart place to turn it down.

 

[DaMulta]

55c is top out on amd for me and 75 for intel