overclocking amd 6400+ black

[fullinfusion]

na the local shop here in town ordered it in for me.

 

[fullinfusion]

From watching this site
http://www.yougamers.com/benchmarkticker/
The Intel Q6600 is way behind the amd quad... Not bad for the Price to performance ratio hey.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Well I just purchased my Phenom 9850 Black from this dude used for $160!! The thing is, he practicly didn't even use it, he got it and becuase his MB was crap or AM2 or something like that he "wasn't using it to its full potential" so he decided to stick to what he was using before. Got lucky I guess.

Anyways, how are your clocks proggressing, is the M3a32-MVP BIOS screwing up the clocks? Also During installation should I remove the 6400 Drivers first or what?

Man Im so excited, can't wait to get it.

 

[fullinfusion]

Sweet man! i didnt remove the drivers... vista loaded the drivers automaticlly... and yeah the clocks sitting at
and be sure to get the latest 1002 bios and set your cpu-nb ht link from auto and set it to 1.8ghz that gives the memory lots of bandwidth and keeps the ht link close to 2007mhz and you wont get any crashes... its a funny chip but getting the hang of it... Sweet chip

 

[fullinfusion]

if you don't use the 1002 bios amd od wont work and im happy for ya finding a great chip...
I backed away from the 3.1GHz setting because temps were getting to high and untill i get H2O cooled i'll be sitting rite where I'm at... I know this chip will run fine at 3.5-3.6GHz using water but I'm looking into a cooling system that yields the best cooling for my system
Good luck and try my settings and let me know how they work.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Yeah thanks man. I'll try it out. I already have the 1002 BIOS so I should be ok. Is it true that the M3A32-MVP will not allow the Chip to go higher than 3.0Ghz?

 

[fullinfusion]

no ive had it at 3.1ghz

 

[MKmods]

whats the max voltage for the 6400 Black? I just started to OC and got mine to 3.6, the temps seem ok.
I took out the DFI 590 and am using the Biostar 570 (10X easier to OC for me)

One other thing there dosent seem to be any prob running the 9600GTs on 8X PCI-E slots.

 

[Wile E]

I wouldn't recommend anything above 1.5V for 24/7 use. Maybe 1.55V if you wanna push it a little.

 

[MKmods]

if the temps are low is it ok? I think I am at the limit of my poor AC freezer, lol...

 

[Wile E]

Even if the temps are low, at those voltages, current leakage still occurs in the cpu's transistors, degrading them over time.

 

[MKmods]

thanks Wile E (I figured I would back it down when I smelled smoke)

Il keep it at 1.5

 

[TieT]

Here is a pic of my stable config

 

[eyetac]

Hi guys

hope you are all having a rad weekend

just a little question quickly

im currenty running at 3400mhz
FSB at 272, multi at 12.5
Mem timings are at 4.4.4.10.22
vcore at stock and ram voltage at 2.0v
system is runinng fine and stable.. but my avg fps is lower than when i run everything stock?!?
in amd overdrive, the benchmark utility gives me an overall 400 more points than stock, but the memory speed drops from +-2000, to 1500..

why would the system run slower when overclocked?
my mem is ddr2800 running at 1088mhz... surely thats a huge increase?

hope someone can enlighten me?!

thanks

 

[Wile E]

Hi guys

hope you are all having a rad weekend

just a little question quickly

im currenty running at 3400mhz
FSB at 272, multi at 12.5
Mem timings are at 4.4.4.10.22
vcore at stock and ram voltage at 2.0v
system is runinng fine and stable.. but my avg fps is lower than when i run everything stock?!?
in amd overdrive, the benchmark utility gives me an overall 400 more points than stock, but the memory speed drops from +-2000, to 1500..

why would the system run slower when overclocked?
my mem is ddr2800 running at 1088mhz... surely thats a huge increase?

hope someone can enlighten me?!

thanks

1088MHz 4-4-4-12 ram? Your ram probably needs more voltage. I bet they're not actually stable at those speeds and timings.

 

[TieT]

when u run @ FSB 272 youre ram timings are 1008 not 1088

besides ddr2 800 cant be oc'd so far with stock voltage
ddr 2 1066 runs @ 2.3V

 

[Wile E]

when u run @ FSB 272 youre ram timings are 1008 not 1088

besides ddr2 800 cant be oc'd so far with stock voltage
ddr 2 1066 runs @ 2.3V

Not all 1066Mhz ram runs at 2.3V. Mine runs 1066 at 2.1V. 1200Mhz at 2.2V

 

[TieT]

Not all 1066Mhz ram runs at 2.3V. Mine runs 1066 at 2.1V. 1200Mhz at 2.2V

my bad CORSAIR runs @ 2.3

 

[eyetac]

hey guys

here is what im running at...
seems stable so far... but like i said.. my AMD overdrive memory score has dropped even tho the memory is running faster and 3dm06 score drops +-800 pts

any ideas as to why?

according to my bios, the mem is at 1088.. is it actually at 970?
485 x 2?

sorry, im kinda new to modern overclocking..
the last pc i overclocked were there amazing xp1700's that could clock to xp2600 speeds

any guidance would be appreciate..

just wanna say thanks to fullinfusion for helping me out and starting this thread

 

[TieT]

hey guys

here is what im running at...
seems stable so far... but like i said.. my AMD overdrive memory score has dropped even tho the memory is running faster and 3dm06 score drops +-800 pts

any ideas as to why?

according to my bios, the mem is at 1088.. is it actually at 970?
485 x 2?

sorry, im kinda new to modern overclocking..
the last pc i overclocked were there amazing xp1700's that could clock to xp2600 speeds

any guidance would be appreciate..

just wanna say thanks to fullinfusion for helping me out and starting this thread

yea i see youre ram is running @ 485.8
485.8 x 2 = 971.6

what kind of mobo do you use ?

 

[eyetac]

aah ok my bad, sorry dude


its an msi k9a2 platinum (bios 1.4 - latest)

 

[eyetac]

is running 272 fsb in any way bad for my ram?

should i perhaps drop fsb and up multi?

 

[TieT]

hmm

One question ,what ram do you use ? ocz , corsair,...

I would drop the fsb to 260 and up the multi to 13
also up the ram voltage a little not more then 0.20
maybe also the vcore, you need to do some tests first to see if its necessary


and see where it goes from there

i have a stable oc of 270fsb with 1.5V Vcore
but i use corsair dd2 1066Mhz @ 2.3V
greetz

 

[eidairaman1]

depends on the clock speed, timings, and voltage of the ram.

 

[SirKeldon]

3,54Ghz 100% stable @ 1.49V

After two weeks testing my rig at a lower voltage since the summer is next to come (i downgraded from 1.52) ... i found stability at 1.47V during one week doing all but failed with the F@H SMP client (100% cpu) & Counter Strike Source at the same time, i upgraded a notch till 1.49 and it's 100% stable again.

Stability tests done (295x12 - HTT Link 4x - Ram divisor of 6 ~ 3540Mhz - 1180Mhz - 1180Mhz)

- 8 Hours AMD Overdrive Stability Test (with Calculation Test enabled)
- All night 3DMark 06 in loop test
- Gaming for several hours (with video cards overclocked)
- wPrime 1024M 1.62 + wPrime 1024M 1.55
- F@H SMP Client for several hours
- F@H SMP Client + Counter Strike Source (with video cards overclocked)
- 24/7 use succesfully for more than a week w/o troubles, freezes or BSOD's

Voltages used:

- CPU Voltage: 1.488V
- RAM Voltage: 2.30V
- RAM Timings: 5-5-5-15-20-2T
- HyperThreading Voltage (NB-SB): 1.40V
- Core/PCI-e Voltage (Northbridge): 1.18V (but was stable at 1.16V)
- NB PCIE PLL Voltage: 2.1V

I'm adding a screenshot of a hot day (26-27ºC of ambient temperature) when i was testing the F@H + CSS, i folded for 3 hours and then started the monitor to check the max temperature for the fold+gaming, global CPU socket never went over 44ºC ... though i think my mobo still runs hot sometimes, i was used to 24-27ºC not 33ºC, anyway, it's a good result:

Idle temps on cores use to be 31-35ºC/25-30ºC depending on the ambient temperature that can vary from 22 to 26ºC

Hope this help to anothers, good luck with the OC