The Crappy Overclockers Club

[DOM]

my oc sucks can i join

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1177329

 

[Athlon2K15]

my oc sucks can i join

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1177329

Nice OC Dom

 

[erocker]

that is partially true,but all of those experiences put me where im at today, pwning any AMD system you throw at me

Well, those times when you are unstable due to a inferior chipset and you have downtime, my perfectly stable AMD system surpasses your communist, war mongering, baby killing, freedom hating Intel system by a ratio of 1,000,000,000 to 1. You can't argue with factual statistics. Move along.

 

[DOM]

Nice OC Dom

Core i7 980X rank: 108th out of 150 on hwbot wish i had a pot and some ln2 lol

 

[erocker]

Inferior system? run 2000mhz cas 7 erocker,oh sorry you cant...run 4.2ghz with no added cpu voltage? sorry once again you cant Inferior...:shadedshu

To what means and for what reason? Let's be honest here. You run nothing that requires these overclocks. I can understand that running these clocks may make up for other shortcomings in your life but by no means does it add to your computing experience in any way... you see I'm comfortable with the size of my genetalia. I also own stock in amd and is be a fool to buy Intel. Now run along and play with your benchmarks and virtual epeenis. It's Saturday and I have drinking to do and women to play with... did I mention I'm on a boat? Yeah... I am.

 

[3volvedcombat]

Your only a BAD OVERCLOCKER- if you dont meet your OWN EXPECTATIONS with perfect hardware.

So lets say I go buy a rog board- i7 d0 - d9 micron ram and its been proven this setup has been epic at overclocking.

and I cant even get to 3.8Ghz without it being unstable at any voltage and my goal is 4.0 with low voltage but I just am not doing anything right..

Then basically you suck at even adjusting bios settings.

But if you have the DRIVE and the ambition to actually achieve that clock- then start perfecting it going to 4.1-4.2-4.3 Ghz on that i7 on low voltage 24/7 then that shows you that your a proven clocker when you have ambition.

But some people dont put time into that stuff- Simple conclusion they suck at over-clocking.

And SOME PEOPLE just fail at getting the right parts- which show even MORE they suck at over clocking- unless they have fund problems, then its understandable.

For kicks- I tested all voltages and clocks on stability from 3.0Ghz 3.1-3.2-3.3...... alll the way to 4.35Ghz.

Because I wanted to overclock and test voltage scaling.

I had ambition- I did the research- I managed to get silly clocks with the perfect hardware.

 

[twilyth]

I suck at least as bad a MM but with an Asus xhair 4 and Phenom 1090t, I have a stable oc of 4008.5mhz - 235 nb, 17x, 1.38125 cpu volts, 1.340625 cpu/nb volts.

I could push it higher since core temps under load are 40-42C (higher with linpack of course). But I am running this machine 24/7 for WCG and I would have to push the paramaters a lot more to get a small increase in speed, so it's not worth it.

Socket temp is 55C under load - which baffles me since the core temps are so much lower. But as long as the core temps are good, I'm not going to worry - right?

 

[Formula350]

Enlight of Halloween ... MICRO THREADROMANCY/NECROPOST!

I suck just simply because I went from S939 to AM3 and none of my OC knowledge carries over due to everything having changed :\ I got a 555BE for cdawall that was supposed to do 4.2GHz partial stable with 1.55v and 4GHz stable and I've have to look at what voltage he said (which all seemed typical of the C3 chips). I can't even get 3.7GHz stable I've given it 1.55v, tried the CPU-NB up there fairly high... I can get 3.9GHz to get past the 7 Boot screen but BSOD soon after.

Gets better, I can't get CPU-NB to get stable over 2400MHz, HT is iffy at even 2200MHz...

My OCZ Reaper HPC which I believe to have 1.9v Micron D9s I'm incapable of getting happy over 1700MHz (I haven't even tested it thoroughly at that speed). The best I've been able to get out of it was 6-6-6 1T with 2.053v.

I mean I know "YMMV" between everyone's system, but I can't find any sort of GOOD source general tips for Phenom II, and DDR3 overclocking either general or PhII specifically. Everything is Intel related which just doesn't help. Hell, now I'm even having issues getting 6-6-6 stable again after trying for 1775MHz on the memory (9-9-9 wouldn't even do it.

*sigh* There are just so many variables now that I don't know what to set. All the command strength multipliers, different DDR3 IC types (most seeming to be the lower 1.65v) and most being higher C9 or C8 timings, all coming back to no one wanting to offer info because everyone is so worried their competition secrets will get out and their world will come crashing down -_-

So in the end I'm just at a loss. I love OCing, and when I started out with AM3 earlier this year I had a Athlon II X2 250u that was for the neighbor's build, but since I didn't have a CPU yet I used it for a little over a month. I was able to get that 1.6GHz up to 2.9GHz on the CPU, NB & HT! HTT was at like 363MHz since those CPUs are locked at like 8x heh I had a ton of fun with that thing, but this Phenom II is really raining on the Fun Parade >_>

 

[cadaveca]

Nice necro. lol. Again, as I posted earlier in this thread way back when, ram is holding you back. AM3 doesn't really like D9's.

 

[Formula350]

Nice necro. lol. Again, as I posted earlier in this thread way back when, ram is holding you back. AM3 doesn't really like D9's.

Seems I have the same issue as MailMan then, buying quality stuff but stuff that just doesn't like to jive with each other

WTT Micron D9 OCZ Reaper HPC for newer Reaper HPCs!

 

[Formula350]

K, it's official on a personal level (not that I didn't believe anyone). Those Micron D9s are NOT a Phenom II's friend >_>

I got 4 1GB sticks of Nanya ECC some months ago off eBay for cheap, and figured I'd keep them as spares. Well, I sold 2 to the neighbor for his new PC since he was upgrading from S754 and kept 2. Read this thread and noticed the CL10 sticks that cdawall used are almost identical to mine in model number, and my assumption is his are simply non-ECC. Other than that mine are a month newer...

So I chucked them in, put everything on Auto and went for the gold at 1333... POSTed to my surprise, and so I nabbed Memtest and tossed it on a USB drive... Passed >_> At 8-9-9 2T 1.65v (default voltage) up only from 7-7-7 2T. Alright went for the gusto of 1600MHz which kept the same voltage and CL but upped to 11-11, ERROR FEST! Upped the voltage to 1.72 and same. Changed CAS to 9... Memtest is 67% thus far and no error lol How seriously sad is that? I'm not even done yet, I'll try higher as well, then back at 1600 and work on tighter timings!

EDIT: This is with ECC off btw.

 

[erocker]

Athlon X2 is going as a troll for haloween. I'm surprised he hasn't shown up yet!

Kidding..


@Formula, I'm using Micron D9 RAM in my rig. 6 6-6-18 1T 1450mhz, 8gb's.

 

[Formula350]

Athlon X2 is going as a troll for haloween. I'm surprised he hasn't shown up yet!

Kidding..


@Formula, I'm using Micron D9 RAM in my rig. 6 6-6-18 1T 1450mhz, 8gb's.

Well I got mine doing 6-6-6-23 1T 1600 again, but I've yet to see exactly how stable it is. I just can't really got any higher overclock-wise with out issues, at default 7-7-7-30 timings or above. I admit I haven't tried running "Auto" on the timings though, as I didn't know how well it'd work heh

Nanya 1066 @ 1600 passed Memtest... Running @ 1680 now and has yet to error at 42%, which since it hasn't (as it did before the move to CL9) I'm doubting it will.

EDIT: 1680 passed. 1720 running now. 14% and I'm getting the same feeling already as above

 

[cadaveca]

@Formula, I'm using Micron D9 RAM in my rig. 6 6-6-18 1T 1450mhz, 8gb's.

Low CAS and low speed though. He was trying to push CAS6 over 1600. That needs Hypers.

 

[Formula350]

Low CAS and low speed though. He was trying to push CAS6 over 1600. That needs Hypers.

*shrug* Apparently not? Like I said, I haven't tested stability... It's stable as far as general windows tinkering goes though >_>

Once the computer reboots (hucking the OCZ back in too) I'll edit with a MaxxMem screenshot I took earlier. I just got through a 32m SuperPi with the Nanya DDR3-1066 @ 1780... went to load another instance of CPUz and THEN it crashes

EDIT: Alright, I just did a SuperPi 1M run quick just to make sure it's more stable than just "barely hanging on". Did it in 19.240s not that it's impressive or much of a verification lol

Screens are of 1600 and 1640, but I think 1640 might have been pushing it, I don't remember heh Then 1366 at 5-5-5, but it WAS barely hanging in there. Anything over SuperPi 1M resulted in a "Not Round" error right away. And feel free to say "I don't believe you" because of just having images of the program window, I only saved the images for my own reference lol The CPUz is just a courtesy

EDIT2: Another courtesy since it was easy
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1457161

 

[cadaveca]

Low NB. Try 2600 or so.

See, thing is, that's alot of current for the AM3 IMC to eat, from 1.8 or 1.9, down to it's natural voltage, whatever you set, but 1.1v stock. In early AMD IMC's, that ratio being to far off would kill the cpu...

Hypers, on the other hand, can do that @ 1.65v...much easier on the IMC. A good set of hypers will run 1800 6-6-6, really good, 6-6-5...

Once you start either getting over 1600(usually around 1670 or so ,from my own testing), or you bump the NB, you'll have issues. Hyper's aren't the end-all, be all, in the memory world, but in many instances they'll go that bit further others will not.

 

[Formula350]

Low NB. Try 2600 or so.

See, thing is, that's alot of current for the AM3 IMC to eat, from 1.8 or 1.9, down to it's natural voltage, whatever you set, but 1.1v stock. In early AMD IMC's, that ratio being to far off would kill the cpu...

Hypers, on the other hand, can do that @ 1.65v...much easier on the IMC. A good set of hypers will run 1800 6-6-6, really good, 6-6-5...

Once you start either getting over 1600(usually around 1670 or so ,from my own testing), or you bump the NB, you'll have issues. Hyper's aren't the end-all, be all, in the memory world, but in many instances they'll go that bit further others will not.

My CPU already sucks, high memory voltage or not Stock is 1.175v too, GOSH!

It's nothing I'd run at since I doubt there is any real performance benefit over 7-7-7 anyhow.

As for the CPU-NB, I'd love to! But I can't because as I said, this CPU sucks :\ See my initial post in this thread (just a few up) and I outline it's suckage.

EDIT: Oh, and I've got a great CPU cooler if the reason for voltages is just because of temps. If not though, which I'm sure is the case, then it's a moot point

Because I forgot to set it back to 2.05v (was still at 1.9v) I crashed when trying to play a flash game, so I figured I'll just drop it to 1333 and 1.77v (same timings). We'll see how it does.

BTW I'd happily trade this CPU for an Athlon II X3 or X4 I don't care about L3 and I had a lot of fun overclocking old school with that 250u I had :\

 

[Deleted member 74752]

Beat this if you can... http://hwbot.org/community/submission/996715_rickss69_3dmark_vantage___performance_gma_hd_11_marks (Btw, this is the lowest Vantage score on the planet)

 

[Formula350]

Beat this if you can... http://hwbot.org/community/submission/996715_rickss69_3dmark_vantage___performance_gma_hd_11_marks (Btw, this is the lowest Vantage score on the planet)

rofl I accept that challenge!

I've got a Pentium Dual Core T3400 (C2D T7400 minus some cache is all) with a GMA4500, and 4gigz of DDR2 (but 32bit OS atm)

 

[Bo$$]

mmm, my atom could be slower than that, if it didnt have a ION LE attached still 11 marks is really good

 

[Formula350]

mmm, my atom could be slower than that, if it didnt have a ION LE attached still 11 marks is really good

Ya know... when you clearly don't have the best system around, or rather even if you do have a badass rig but no chance in being any competition for "Professional Overclockers"... Going the opposite end of the spectrum is always fun too!

Like I know my 555 can't clock for shat, and I noticed this ASRock 890FX board has A) the ability to clock below 200MHz HTT & B) CPU multipliers all the way down to 0.5x lol SOOOO I slapped 1.5v on the CPU (required? likely not, but wanted to ensure stability) and dropped it to that 0.5x multi for a SMOKING end result of a Phenom II X2 555BE @ 100MHz First attempt I had the memory, CPU-NB and memory speed set pretty low. After an hour or two of the Win7 boot screen not changing, I went back and upped those three to normal speeds and tried again. This time worked and let me tell you, Win7 takes just a wee bit of time to load at 100MHz lol Don't think I stopped there though! I utilized that sub-200MHz HTT ability and brought the CPU down to 75MHz before the system hung I was in the middle of a CPUz screenshot when it happened, but I believe I managed one of 85MHz. However, I think that was on my other drive where I had a bit of a HDD hiccup, so it's likely lost I tried recovering my Oblivion saves and they were corrupt, only my save folder copy wasn't and I got set back 20hrs of game play

Rambling aside... Overclocking is fun, but can get frustrating when you know what you have should easily surpass what it's achieving, so going the opposite way can be just as fun since it can sometimes still pose as a challenge Even if it's leaving things stock and trying to get a pathetic benchmark score BTW If it's fair game, I'll downclock the hell out of this T3400 in the laptop and run Vantage haha I already know it's stable at default clocks with 1.0375v (from 1.275, which helped temps obviously, thank you ThrottleStop!), and I know it happily bounces between full speed (2.16GHz) and 6x Multi (997MHz), so I could try and run Vantage at 6x

 

[Bo$$]

Ya know... when you clearly don't have the best system around, or rather even if you do have a badass rig but no chance in being any competition for "Professional Overclockers"... Going the opposite end of the spectrum is always fun too!

Like I know my 555 can't clock for shat, and I noticed this ASRock 890FX board has A) the ability to clock below 200MHz HTT & B) CPU multipliers all the way down to 0.5x lol SOOOO I slapped 1.5v on the CPU (required? likely not, but wanted to ensure stability) and dropped it to that 0.5x multi for a SMOKING end result of a Phenom II X2 555BE @ 100MHz First attempt I had the memory, CPU-NB and memory speed set pretty low. After an hour or two of the Win7 boot screen not changing, I went back and upped those three to normal speeds and tried again. This time worked and let me tell you, Win7 takes just a wee bit of time to load at 100MHz lol Don't think I stopped there though! I utilized that sub-200MHz HTT ability and brought the CPU down to 75MHz before the system hung I was in the middle of a CPUz screenshot when it happened, but I believe I managed one of 85MHz. However, I think that was on my other drive where I had a bit of a HDD hiccup, so it's likely lost I tried recovering my Oblivion saves and they were corrupt, only my save folder copy wasn't and I got set back 20hrs of game play

Rambling aside... Overclocking is fun, but can get frustrating when you know what you have should easily surpass what it's achieving, so going the opposite way can be just as fun since it can sometimes still pose as a challenge Even if it's leaving things stock and trying to get a pathetic benchmark score BTW If it's fair game, I'll downclock the hell out of this T3400 in the laptop and run Vantage haha I already know it's stable at default clocks with 1.0375v (from 1.275, which helped temps obviously, thank you ThrottleStop!), and I know it happily bounces between full speed (2.16GHz) and 6x Multi (997MHz), so I could try and run Vantage at 6x

i know! i was used to have a ASrock motherboard that couldnt even run a supported P4 at stock speed, but i bought another model (same brand) and it went on to get an amazing 4+GHZ

awesome thread guys

 

[TheMailMan78]

I have completely given up on OC until I get a better mobo.

 

[Formula350]

i know! i was used to have a ASrock motherboard that couldnt even run a supported P4 at stock speed, but i bought another model (same brand) and it went on to get an amazing 4+GHZ

awesome thread guys

Sadly, it's not the board I had a Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H before this and it clocked the exact same

 

[Bo$$]

Sadly, it's not the board I had a Gigabyte 890GPA-UD3H before this and it clocked the exact same

in the old days ASROCK boards were shit, now they are very good for the price