Official Socket 939 Club

[erocker]

Dude, how do you get it to display those rock-solid numbers? My motherboard is all over the place. Right now I have it set for 218FSB, but it is 218.5, and the HT link and core speed flucutates.

Is your pci frequency locked at 100? /or Is your memory that bad?

 

[hat]

1. No, PCI frequency is locked at 33 :lol:
PCI-E is locked at 100

2. memory is a factor?? It's crucial memory, but it's niether ballistix, tracer, or lanfest.

 

[erocker]

Hat, where are your system specs? Too embarrassed?

 

[hat]

No, I'm just sick of changing them every time my overclock changes. I am changing shit constantly.

 

[erocker]

Just don't post your overclock then. I have no idea why your overclocks suck if I can't see your hardware. SHOW ME!!!

 

[hat]

The OC's don't suck, they just fluctuate. Yours stays at whatever you have it set it and it doesn't move, right?

 

[erocker]

That is your PSU my friend. I didn't realize the effect a good PSU can have untill I got my 750 Quad Silencer.

 

[hat]

Check my specs. We shall see what it does on 12/25

 

[Woah Mama!]

You can find used Opty's all over the place, here and on the [H].

I try to avoid second hand CPUs. Hell, I try to avoid buying second hand computer hardware as much as possible. Knowing that the majority of Opterons have faced extreme overclocking for their lifespan with the previous owner makes me wary.

What is the good Opteron core/stepping to look for anyway?

 

[hat]

That is your PSU my friend. I didn't realize the effect a good PSU can have untill I got my 750 Quad Silencer.

Oh, and I wholeheartedly agree. This PSU sucks to the bone. I know my CPU will be stable at 2750MHz, and DAMN if ANY RAM, even if it's only DDR2 400 won't run DDR550 4-4-4-12-2T at 2V, and this board is supposed to love high HT speeds (mine was only 1100), yet, when I ran a Orthos stability test while I was away for a few hours, I came back to find my rig off. A lot of times it does that, just turns off if overclocked too far. According to everest, the +12v rail is only 10.6

 

[Batou1986]

well im through with this damned abit AV8 finally gona switch to pci-e due to the fact that these agp 939 boards suck at oc-ing non working clock locks ect.

anyway i just bid 25 bucks for one of those dfi ut ultra-d's how are they treating your
opterons guys

 

[Woah Mama!]

Batou - I don't have an Opty, I don't even have my DFI going (No videocard yet) but I can tell you from having read basically every review available on the board, the Ultra-D is awesome. The only thing the Ultra-D lacks from the SLI that would actually be handy to have is the extra SATA ports and the extra diagnostic LED lights. So I think you'll be more then happy with it, especially for $25! I paid a lot more then that for mine.

It's been said here before, DFI sure did make the best 939 boards.

 

[sneekypeet]

well im through with this damned abit AV8 finally gona switch to pci-e due to the fact that these agp 939 boards suck at oc-ing non working clock locks ect.

anyway i just bid 25 bucks for one of those dfi ut ultra-d's how are they treating your
opterons guys

Something that you need to take into concideration is with 939 the mobo will only take the chip where the CPU will let it. If the CPU is a bad clocker, a different mobo will not allow it to clock completely different.

Altho with a DFI your options are endless to get every last drop out of that opty. I could get my Opty 170 into windows and testing at 3150MHz but no matter what I couldnt get more out of her!

Also google something Called Tmod's Bios Medic....Has every DFI 939 bios all on one disc>>>>>burn it to CD and flash away it does all the work for ya. Just make sure the Bios is correct for your mobo. You will find on this disc are Bios' specific to types of ram and the like. I forund that the 4.6.06 was about the best, but I did find differences in results with each BIOS.

 

[Batou1986]

its not the chip as it runs very cool at 2.4 with stock volts its just the mobo pci clock wont lock and its not stable after 260fsb even with super low multi and other dividers.

it will boot fine pass memtest and even run prime 95 and windows fine then after about 5 mins the monitor will go to stand by and i have to reset it regardless if im just siting at desktop or running prime 95

my plan is to use my cpu and ram and an 8800gt or 38xx till we see some new amd cpu's thats worth switching my cpu and ram for
price/performance/power consumption worth buying

great to hear that for once i will get a mobo which will allow me to enact some swift control over everything and not just running it by the skin of its teeth

 

[sneekypeet]

its not the chip as it runs very cool at 2.4 with stock volts its just the mobo pci clock wont lock and its not stable after 260fsb even with super low multi and other dividers.

it will boot fine pass memtest and even run prime 95 and windows fine then after about 5 mins the monitor will go to stand by and i have to reset it regardless if im just siting at desktop or running prime 95

my plan is to use my cpu and ram and an 8800gt or 38xx till we see some new amd cpu's thats worth switching my cpu and ram for
price/performance/power consumption worth buying

I just sent LiNKiN my old Opty165 and he got his DFI from Ebay....The chip I sent to him was very capable of 2.85 @ 1.4ish Volts. Just take your time with the DFI as there are going to be settings galore. Also my experience with my old ultra-d was that I couldnt change alot of settings in BIOS at one time or it wouldnt boot. Had to stay with 2-3 changes at a time to ensure boot ability. I really only see one issue....your RAM...VS corsair would BSOD on mine if clocked just the littlest bit!

 

[hbkl]

I have a Athlon 3500+ 2.2ghz 939 cpu O.c to 2.49ghz with 249 of Bus with the ht on 996 1Gb ddr400 (200mhz o.c to 227 mhz) Corssair

 

[Widjaja]

well im through with this damned abit AV8 finally gona switch to pci-e due to the fact that these agp 939 boards suck at oc-ing non working clock locks ect.

anyway i just bid 25 bucks for one of those dfi ut ultra-d's how are they treating your
opterons guys

I'm pretty sure these mother boards are tough to OC with.
Besides the fact my CPU is also.

I have the 3rd-eye AV8 model which came with a clock which tells me the temps, voltages etc.

Only things, the only incorrect temp on the clock is the CPU and it's 10deg off at times.

I'm still looking at getting a ASUS A8N SLi Deluxe motherboard so I can use a PCI-E card.

 

[Batou1986]

surprisingly ive managed to push this corsair vs to 220 mhz its crazy i know but its the one thing ive never had an issue with which is why i don't want to ditch the cpu and ram for a new socket ive had this ram since my old p4 dell and it has never failed me

 

[FatForester]

I've had a 3500+ with an ASUS A8V Deluxe for 3 years. Well, 3 years until last night. Last night I built my new Intel system... yea, I crossed over lol. As far as max overclock goes, @ 1.45 volts it would go to 2.55ghz, but anything beyond that it took a lot of volts. It took 1.55 volts to get to 2.6ghz, and then 2.75ghz took 1.65 volts. I'll post pics whenever I have time.

To compare... the new e2180 I got does 2.8ghz on stock volts... and that's before I've tweaked anything. It's pretty ridiculous.

 

[hat]

I'm thinking of buying this chip for my rig, depending on how much $$ I have left over from christmas, just to overclock the snot out of it, maybe even find a fun way to kill it (doubt it though)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103197

Now my big secret's been exposed, I'm AM2 <:-O

 

[Widjaja]

its not the chip as it runs very cool at 2.4 with stock volts its just the mobo pci clock wont lock and its not stable after 260fsb even with super low multi and other dividers.

Strange.
The BIOS on my AV8 can lock the PCI clock.
I'm using BIOS v28.

 

[CrAsHnBuRnXp]

I just sent LiNKiN my old Opty165 and he got his DFI from Ebay....The chip I sent to him was very capable of 2.85 @ 1.4ish Volts. Just take your time with the DFI as there are going to be settings galore. Also my experience with my old ultra-d was that I couldnt change alot of settings in BIOS at one time or it wouldnt boot. Had to stay with 2-3 changes at a time to ensure boot ability. I really only see one issue....your RAM...VS corsair would BSOD on mine if clocked just the littlest bit!

I coudlnt get mine past 2.75GHz on air. How did you manage to get more at around the same Vcore as me?

My old setup:

Opty 165, 2GB DDR400, DFI LP UT nF4 Ultra-D, 600W OCZ PSU. I think that is it for main specs other than video card. Im drawing a blank for some reason.

Im hoping to give this setup to my dad for Christmas given I can get a nice video card for him. I know anything over a G71 and HD2xxx series card will bottleneck teh CPU. But hell, I ran my above spec'd rig with an 8800GTS overclocked.

 

[sneekypeet]

Could have been the RAM and just could have been a better stepping CPU...Unsure of the stepping tho as the CPU is no longer mine!

Ran Kingston HyperX 2GB kit that is runnin on my lady's PC they clocked to about 280ish....then there is the 1GB kit that is for sale that clocked to 312 1:1 ( gotta love that ballistix D-9)

 

[rodneyhchef]

surprisingly ive managed to push this corsair vs to 220 mhz its crazy i know but its the one thing ive never had an issue with which is why i don't want to ditch the cpu and ram for a new socket ive had this ram since my old p4 dell and it has never failed me

I've had my 512mb cas2.5 value select up to 240MHz stable on my old nforce2 chipset. I found a review on this ram on the net saying that it was capable of this as well (although right now I can't find it!) I guess it varies stick to stick but it could also be your board?

I'm stuck at 225MHz at the minute as bad things happen above this. Even now my floppy disk drive doesnt work cause the PCI bus is at 37.5MHz.

its not the chip as it runs very cool at 2.4 with stock volts its just the mobo pci clock wont lock and its not stable after 260fsb even with super low multi and other dividers.

260 is loads without PCI lock (43.3MHz) I'm suprised you got anywhere near this!