The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Kei]

did i already posted this?
this this the results of yesterday... it sadly needs about 1.235, to be stable at stock:shadedshu. 3ghz at 1.1v sounds very reasonable to me, even though i will naturally prefer to run it HIGHER

Tested 3Ghz last night at 1.1v and it passed like a champ.

I'll see if I can get it a tick lower if possible, but that's a might sweet daily setting I'd say.

3Ghz @ 1.1v > 3.2Ghz @ 1.20v

Kei

 

[erocker]

My soon machine

(Case= Hard Decision, needs atleast 8.5" Width to support massive Air Coolers)
http://www.directron.com/rc932kkn1gp.html

http://www.directron.com/rv01bw.html

http://www.directron.com/twelvehundred.html

http://www.directron.com/erv1050ewt00.html

http://www.directron.com/hdz965fbgmbox.html

http://www.directron.com/gama790fxtud5p.html

(Ram= Hard Decision)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145268

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820144364

(Cooler=Hard Decision)
http://www.directron.com/ths126384.html

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B001PTLGIA/?tag=tec06d-20

Radeon 5870 (3rd party designs)

HT Omega Claro HALO XT

http://www.directron.com/st3500418as.html

http://www.directron.com/st31000528as.html

Samsung Optical Drives x2

Wierd none of the links are clickable.

I would go with the Geil RAM. It's cheaper and Geil + AMD = WIN!
If you are going with a 5870, the Sapphire Toxic/VaporX version is great. Honestly though, fi you are concerned about noise, the stock coolers (finally) keep the cards cool with default fan settings and they are quiet.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

Tested 3Ghz last night at 1.1v and it passed like a champ.

I'll see if I can get it a tick lower if possible, but that's a might sweet daily setting I'd say.

3Ghz @ 1.1v > 3.2Ghz @ 1.20v

Kei

i need at least 1.220 for beeing stable on 3.2... so the first setting would be even worthfuller for me... sadly the phenom is severly overclocked

 

[erocker]

Just installed the Heatkiller block and wow! 5c drop idle and load over a Dtek fuzion v2!

 

[Chicken Patty]

Just installed the Heatkiller block and wow! 5c drop idle and load over a Dtek fuzion v2!

HEATKILLER =

That's all I gotta say

 

[erocker]

Here's a pic:

 

[Chicken Patty]

Here's a pic:

http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp112/erocker414/DSCN1769.jpg

"JIZZ"

 

[eidairaman1]

Fixed!

Wierd none of the links are clickable.

I would go with the Geil RAM. It's cheaper and Geil + AMD = WIN!
If you are going with a 5870, the Sapphire Toxic/VaporX version is great. Honestly though, fi you are concerned about noise, the stock coolers (finally) keep the cards cool with default fan settings and they are quiet.

noise really never bothered me, i just want a true 3rd party designed product (aka non reference PCB Components and Cooling)

PS Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows XP MCE 2005 SP3 will be on this machine in Dual boot (Separate HDs) Mainly XP will be for 16bit games and will use the latest stable driver.

PS the reason the links are not clickable is due to link parsing being unchecked (ruins links when you try to copy and paste them onto other sites due to rest of the link being replaced by an ellipsis)[...]

Btw any concerns about the rest of the setup???

 

[erocker]

Fixed!



noise really never bothered me, i just want a true 3rd party designed product (aka non reference PCB Components and Cooling)

PS Windows 7 Ultimate and Windows XP MCE 2005 SP3 will be on this machine in Dual boot (Separate HDs) Mainly XP will be for 16bit games and will use the latest stable driver.

PS the reason the links are not clickable is due to link parsing being unchecked (ruins links when you try to copy and paste them onto other sites due to rest of the link being replaced by an ellipsis)[...]

Btw any concerns about the rest of the setup???

Cases are such a personal thing, and they'll all fit what you need. Idk, I like the HAF.

PSU is superb

I am partial to Asus when it comes to AMD motherboards so I would recommend the M4A79T, but people who are using that Gigabyte have 0 complaints.

The True Copper is just georgeous.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

Just installed the Heatkiller block and wow! 5c drop idle and load over a Dtek fuzion v2!

*cough*
german engineering
*cough*

 

[eidairaman1]

ya my only thing is i want to use all the slots, aka 8 GB, but ya that geil would kick some ass especially since its low voltage.,

 

[FlanK3r]

1.475V 3970 MHz + 2647 MHz NB


next step
1.488V: 3990 MHz + 2659 MHz NB :up1:

idle

next step
1.5V, 4009MHz 2672MHz NB

maybe a limit my C3 stability (tomorow il try it with 2800MHz NB) ALL is aircooling with normal ambients about 20 C
4032 MHz a 2620MHz NB 1.52V

 

[mime_fx]

here is my with new motherboard M4A79D HT and NB 2925!

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=862368

 

[eidairaman1]

FlanK3r

whats the cooler you are using to get your Good clock speeds?


btw to everyone else

CM HAF 932 and Geil Evo 1 Ram I will be using for the machine, everything else will remain the same.

Reason I am going for the board I am is because of great reviews and plus Ive had one too many Asus Fail on me whether it was my own or customer machines.

 

[Kei]

here is my with new motherboard M4A79D HT and NB 2925!

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=862368

Nice clock man

now then......WHY are you running the HT Link so high?!?!?!? Turn that thing down it's not giving you anything extra as at stock (or lower) it's already far past enough. Knock it down and you might be able to get a little higher on your clock or maybe use a little less voltage. Either way 2.9Ghz HT Link is WAAAAAAY too much.

Kei

 

[Kei]

Got curious....then vomitted

I was bored and couldn't think of anything to tinker on at the time (and finally stopped play Street Fighter with my brother lol) so....I decided to see if I could knock out 3.8Ghz @ 1.456v which was the highest voltage I used with my PII 920 processor.

On the PII 920 that voltage gave me 3.5Ghz which was pretty sweet (coming up from 2.8Ghz) so no complaints there. Anyway I decided to do give it a go with the 955 and I KNEW I shouldn't look at the wattage meter, but I couldn't keep myself under control.

Anyway I was almost sick when I saw the LinX test power draw number at.....316W. I only did a 10 minute test with 90% of the ram so it was still the max beating I could put on the system. It passed without any hiccups which was nice. I also tried out 2.6Ghz northbridge at the same time.

I raaaan back to the 3.2Ghz @ 1.20v setting to check the load numbers again and it was only 205W in comparison which made me feel much better lol. The 2.8Ghz @ 1.088v setting was super awesome at only 172W during the same test.

So yea you all know I love me some speed and have to know the relative top speed limits of my stuff....but you also all KNOW there is not a chance in hell I'd run that daily. (I run the 3.0Ghz @ 1.104v daily best of both worlds)


Load consumption results from LinX torture testing

3.8Ghz @ 1.456 = 316W (up ~ 18.8% cpu speed up ~ 54% power consumption)

3.2Ghz @ 1.344 = 244W (stock cpu speed & voltage)

3.2Ghz @ 1.200 = 205W (stock cpu speed down ~ 19% power consumption)

3.0Ghz @ 1.104 = 180W (down ~ 6% cpu speed ~ 36% power consumption)

2.8Ghz @ 1.088 = 172W (down ~ 12.5% cpu speed ~ 42% power consumption)

And just because it's funny to see....

Phenom II 955 with two cores shut down (didn't test to see if the voltage could be lowered)

3.0Ghz @ 1.088 = 146W (down ~ 6% cpu speed ~ 67.5% power consumption)


Kei

 

[Exeodus]

Mine you guys have some nice chips. Definitely better than the PII's I have had. I am just curious, I see that some of you have been using LinX and it passed, but will OCCT pass for you as well? I ask because when I was overclocking my Q9550 (I know it's not a AMD), it would pass Linx, but would fail OCCT in about 10 minutes. I backed up those results with Prime95, so after that, I stopped using LinX.

 

[RX-7]

FlanK3r

whats the cooler you are using to get your Good clock speeds?

that is a Cooler Master Hyper 212

I have one on my Q6600
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835103040

 

[Kei]

Mine you guys have some nice chips. Definitely better than the PII's I have had. I am just curious, I see that some of you have been using LinX and it passed, but will OCCT pass for you as well? I ask because when I was overclocking my Q9550 (I know it's not a AMD), it would pass Linx, but would fail OCCT in about 10 minutes. I backed up those results with Prime95, so after that, I stopped using LinX.

Glad you decided to take a peek Exeodus

I've been a die hard OCCT and Everest Ultimate stress tester for the longest time so I test in those two first. I only recently (as in days ago) started using LinX to test my system and only because according to the meter it appears to be running harder because it uses significantly more watts than any of the other methods of testing I use.

I've yet to have a clock pass LinX and fails in OCCT or gives me any problems while running hour after hour. I wonder what the issue was with your processor(s) that made that happen? Oh well you've got another monster to play with anyway lol.

Kei

 

[fullinfusion]

Nice clock man

now then......WHY are you running the HT Link so high?!?!?!? Turn that thing down it's not giving you anything extra as at stock (or lower) it's already far past enough. Knock it down and you might be able to get a little higher on your clock or maybe use a little less voltage. Either way 2.9Ghz HT Link is WAAAAAAY too much.

Kei

I run mine at lets say 2000mhz, but when clocking at anything over 3.9ghz seems to help with stability...... I know ppl are going to disagree but all I know is my 955 loves it higher specially when the nb is up around 3000mhz....I back it down and it bsod's me.... I bump it back up and no problems

 

[Kei]

Hey, if your processor digs it....give her what she wants!

Kei

 

[fullinfusion]

Hey, if your processor digs it....give her what she wants!

Kei

I hear ya...
It sure reacts different over the 940 I had
And what Erocker was saying about his chip hates higher nb voltages..... mine too.... that was *ucking with me for hours till I dropped it and things started to come around

 

[kevpc]

advice needed for x4 955 overclock, please

hi all. been suggested to continue my post here from Overclocking and Cooling section (other comments there). first attempt at this, so gently, please, ha ha. re-added machine specs to save going back and forth. they are below:

my machine specs are:
asus M4A78 Pro mobo, Bios Rev: 1501
OCZ 700watt Fatal1ty psu
AMD phenom ll x4 955 cpu
2x2gig 800 mhz DDR2 Crucial 1.8volt Ram, 6.6.6.18
Zotac 9600 GSO 512meg Graphics card
used Arctic Silver paste on stock heatsink and fan, so air cooled

would like to get cpu to 3.8gig but have only managed to get to 3.6 (x18 multiplier with 1.450 volts). all other settings tried resulted in bsod in occt. only using stock h/s atm. any advice offered will be great.

sorry if i should have posted differently.

TIA

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

thats why stock heatsink and fan is NOT enough to properly cool that chip end of discussion on that one

i expect the stock heatsink to only be usable when staying at default voltage

 

[kevpc]

as the temp didn't go above 63 degrees, i didn't realise that was why the bsod. thought it was because the voltage was wrong (too low?). remember, this is all new to me. what is the acceptable running temp and max temp to expect then?