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Yeah thats not to bad for that board, you could probly go higher. What cooler do you have or is it stock?
 
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right now stock im at 3.5GHz right now
 
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Nice, what are your temps?
That was the max my friend could get his stable at.
 
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im still trying to oc idk what im doing lol
 
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well got 3640Mhz ran the everest stability test got 60 cores 51 cpu max temps at 1.44v
 
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I built a build with the 4850e at christmas time. I used a foxx board, but overall I have been pretty please. A MUCH better upgrade over the 1.8 P4 Dell piece they had before.

If you do build for parents, remember to that things like massive coolers and performance RAM do not matter.

Don't be afraid to get 2gb of RAM if its parents too. What the most they will do, 5 windows in IE....er....hopefully Firefox.

Just my 2 cents.
 
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Darn thats pretty good for that little mobo good job :rockout:
 
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how come amd Q are cooler then intel :( its cooler then mine at a higher volt and lil higher oc :p
 
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DOM said:
how come amd Q are cooler then intel :( its cooler then mine at a higher volt and lil higher oc :p
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intel havent quite got there with the quads. IMO, intel quads havent been as good since the Q6600 came out - they got harder to OC, and they just werent getting colder as fast as their dual cores.
 
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well my Q is hotter but it can get to 4GHz on P45


im still trying to get this rig stable at 3640
 
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but for a $20 case not bad dont you think

 
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looks like the clips not in for the first stick of memory.
 
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lol fixed it right now while it was on

it was reading all 4GB but good eye
 
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Yeah great eye I didn't even notice that :p




Edit: so whats your final speed so far?
 
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Nice little rig there DOM. Im sure your mom will be pleased.. and not bad for a stock cooler.. I didnt know AMD stock coolers came with heatpipes! Maybe Intel could learn a thing or two from AMD from time to time.. Over all.. nice clean rig that seems to be performing quite well .. and very tidy with the wires.. Great job DOM! Can we see some benches now? hehe :D
 
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boomstik360 said:
Yeah great eye I didn't even notice that :p




Edit: so whats your final speed so far?
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still working on it trying to figure out what im doing first time ocing a amd, does it matter how high the HT is ?

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Nice little rig there DOM. Im sure your mom will be pleased.. and not bad for a stock cooler.. I didnt know AMD stock coolers came with heatpipes! Maybe Intel could learn a thing or two from AMD from time to time.. Over all.. nice clean rig that seems to be performing quite well .. and very tidy with the wires.. Great job DOM! Can we see some benches now? hehe :D
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thanks, well what bench marks its got onboard vid lol
 
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testing 3.5 at 1.4 right now seems good for 24/7 right ?
 
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yeah thats good. My friend had to pump 1.5v to get 3.5 out of his 920.
 
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well tryed that amd overdrive stabilty test on all for one hr at 3640 1.458V passed

but was going to try occt
 
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nice, good stuff dude :rockout:
 
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