Overclocking Phenom 9850 BE with Asus M3N-HT deluxe mb.

[jkatt12]

I have been running my 9850 @ 2.7 on 1.20 vcore with not a problem. Played some games and ran Prime95 for 3 hours.

I have also ran it at 3.1 ghz on 1.42 vcore. But anything above 2.8 ghz I need to OC each core in AMD Overdrive.

My Core1 OC's the best at 3.3 ghz.

apparently after the memory upgrade and the new bios to 804 i cant seem to overclock it like i used to (wont post with the same settings i used before), will start over adjusting the settings again. lol my best oc was 2.944 i believe, got it to 3ghz but it didnt post. we both have different boards as well, maybe i got a reject batch of the 9850's? lol

 

[jkatt12]

i am never going to own a g*d d*mn Asus board again, fuq this POS!!!
the supposedly new 804 bios will not allow you to overclock, even trying causes
the reboot problem 702 had (only reboots once tho and after that it defaults ALL
settings such as memory - which if you are using 1066 you have to go back in to
set it for ddr2 1066 or it will boot as ddr2 800) even setting everything on auto and
setting the FSB just up to 201 from 200 it will not boot, it is not the mb, cpu, psu, memory, etc.. it IS definitely the BIOS AGAIN!!! im going to
go back to bios 603 since it was more stable, fuq these Asus a$$h0les!

 

[hat]

wtf? you sure you didn't miss some kind of setting somewhere? I doubt ASUS would disable OCing in a BIOS update...

 

[jkatt12]

yes im sure, other ppl are having the same problem, GEEZ!! ill go back to rev. 603 when i get home in the morning.

check out this forum :

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx...=1&model=M3N-HT+DELUXE&page=1&SLanguage=en-us

 

[jkatt12]

it wont let me post the full URL :

http://vip.asus.com/forum/topic.aspx?board_id=1&model=M3N-HT+DELUXE&SLanguage=en-us

 

[jkatt12]

here's the post from the asus forums. definitely another issue again!

I was wondering if anyone has had any luck overclocking this board with the phenom 9850be. For some reason whenever I touch the multiplier, even if only increasing it by .5 the system becomes incredibly unstable and 90% of the time it wont even get past post. Has anyone else had luck with this combo?


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Posted:5/24/2008 11:00:00 PM
Me too I have Phenom 9850 just can't overclock I thing is the 804 Bio


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Posted:5/27/2008 4:59:00 AM
Is anyone know how to OC the Phenom 9850 on this MB can't even increas 5% help help help !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Posted:5/27/2008 7:05:00 AM
I'm having the same problem with the 9500 with the M3N HT. I know the 9500 was never a good overclocker, however, I had the 9500 (stock 2.2) stable at 2.5 with the M2N SLI deluxe with setting: FSB to 230 and CPU voltage to 1.3125. Thats it. Any other mix of settings would crash the system. So this was the magic number I found but nothing past 2.5

With the M3N HT, I can't get anywhere with respect to overclocking without the BSOD.

However, i did try the ASUS AI suite which gives you the option to overclock by 3%, 5%, 8% or 10%. To my surprise all settings ran stable. So I max out at 10% (because it doesn't go higher) and I am stable at 2.4 from 2.2.

I tried tweaking after this and bam BSOD. I am not sure what the AI suite does to overclock but it worked for me.

Hope this helps, and I hope someone can tell me what the AI suite is tweaking.

Cheers

 

[KiLLRiDE]

I have been running my 9850 @ 2.7 on 1.20 vcore with not a problem. Played some games and ran Prime95 for 3 hours.

I have also ran it at 3.1 ghz on 1.42 vcore. But anything above 2.8 ghz I need to OC each core in AMD Overdrive.

My Core1 OC's the best at 3.3 ghz.

I cant seem to get AMD Overdrive to work on my setup? comes up with cant find a 7 series chipset, Is this just me or has others had this problem aswell?

 

[jkatt12]

here's the link, copy or unzip this file into your installed amd overdrive directory, overwriting it, this might work for you ( i tried it but it still didnt work) i did have a problem with it stating that file was in use even though stopping/disabling it in task manager, so just rename the file, then unzip this to the directory.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1028/.html

or this : http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/844/mirrors.php

just installed it, still getting no cpu detected again. hope it works for you, we do have the same cpu/mb though so i doubt it.

 

[KiLLRiDE]

here's the link, copy or unzip this file into your installed amd overdrive directory, overwriting it, this might work for you ( i tried it but it still didnt work) i did have a problem with it stating that file was in use even though stopping/disabling it in task manager, so just rename the file, then unzip this to the directory.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/1028/.html

or this : http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/844/mirrors.php

just installed it, still getting no cpu detected again. hope it works for you, we do have the same cpu/mb though so i doubt it.

Yeah when I first installed Overdrive a few months back I got the "no cpu detect" so I installed that file fix but thats when the "series 7 chips" error popped up at me. I thought that as the m3n-ht mobo was the only mobo that i know of with both sli and amd 720a support it could be todo with this.

 

[jkatt12]

i was able to set my FSB to 204 and cpu multi to 'auto' 12.5x and it booted, cant get any further than that as to overclocking w/ this new bios 804. it sucks!!!

 

[jkatt12]

advising to not update to bios 804 if you want to overclock.

its a nightmare, if you want to overclock stay with rev. 603!!!!

 

[CF]

Hey jkatt12 Did you tried to send email to asus tech support directly about OC problem after updating to 0804?

And No. Posting only on Asus forum will not solve it becouse tech support does not post there not to mention if they look at posts at all.

 

[Bytor]

its a nightmare, if you want to overclock stay with rev. 603!!!!

Have you tried AMD Overdrive to OC your 9850?

Reset the Bios to stock setting and give AMD Overdrive a chance. I don't OC mine in Bios and have had a lot better luck in AOD.

 

[CF]

Hey Bytor If you have'nt noticed then you have M3A mobo

AMDOverdrive works with AMD 7X0 chips not NForce mobos. This topic is about M3N


A - ATI chip
N - Nforce

 

[jkatt12]

overclocking results with bios 804 so far....

auto v = 1.30 (all thru testing w/out changing)
mem volts = 2.20 (memory ratings on chip shows 2.35 - 2.5v recommended)
cpu multi = 12.5x
fsb = 204
POSTED/STABLE

was able to go up to :
cpu multi = 14x
fsb = 200 (changing this whatsoever will not post even at 13.5x)
POSTED/STABLE @ 2.8ghz

went to cpu multi = 14.5/fsb = 200, will not boot/post, bsod. will try to set higher voltages to see.

 

[jkatt12]

ok, not sure why i cant get it to post @ 14.5 w/ volts up to 1.45v.
also not sure why if you set the FSB above 202 or something it will error out
with windows file corruptions errors (sometimes bsod also) WEIRD.
will keep testing later, now have to get ready for work.

maybe increasing the FSB voltage? not sure if the setting is cpu-nb voltage though and
not sure what the stock voltage is suppose to be either?

my memory voltage is at 2.20 the geil ddr2 1066 shows on the chip as 2.35 - 2.5v???
does anyone know if i set it to max 2.5 maybe it will post when i increase the FSB?

 

[suraswami]

Nice thread. I managed to OC stable my 9500 to 2.5G @ 1.26V on a ECS mobo. But then I found this Abit AN-M2 board for peanut price and couldn't resist. This sucker doesn't go past 203 HTT with latest Phenom support bios.

Keep this thread going. Good info for Ocing that 9850BE.

 

[jkatt12]

Hey jkatt12 Did you tried to send email to asus tech support directly about OC problem after updating to 0804?

And No. Posting only on Asus forum will not solve it becouse tech support does not post there not to mention if they look at posts at all.

havnt sent an email to asus tech support YET, still, found a way to overclock it now so i'll be doing more testing.

side note: i was able to get my memory timings set at 5 5 5 15 2T 25 clocks. running stable. (defaults have these set high)

would be nice to be able to break 3ghz and fsb @ 2600/5200mt/s!

 

[Bytor]

Hey Bytor If you have'nt noticed then you have M3A mobo

AMDOverdrive works with AMD 7X0 chips not NForce mobos. This topic is about M3N


A - ATI chip
N - Nforce

Thanks for the info...

Ahhh didn't know that it does not work with nforce MB's. To bad... good luck..

Buy a M3A

Mines been running at 3.0 ghz all day with no problems from OCing with AOD.

 

[jkatt12]

i would buy an m3a but have an evga geforce gx2 ssc edition, your m3 is an ati chipset, not nvidia, not sure how well they would do together.

 

[Bytor]

It should run fine as a single card. May have troubles SLIing a pair..

 

[jkatt12]

what type psu u have bytor? mine is pc power & cooling silencer 750w quad

 

[jkatt12]

anyone out there flashed w/ the new 804 bios and possibly getting the same issues im having? when adjusting the FSB above 202 i get windows file corruption errors. putting it back down to 200 it boots up fine. i can go up to 14x on cpu multi leaving the fsb @ 200 and its fine also.

 

[Bytor]

what type psu u have bytor? mine is pc power & cooling silencer 750w quad

Xclio 700 watt. Have not had one problem from this PSU and have thrown alot at it.

Its powering along with the normal motherboard connectors:

2- Raptor's
2- Visiontek 3870 video cards
1- DVD/CD rom drive
1- Swiftech MCP350 pump
1- Swiftech MCP355 pump
1- Asus P1 PhysX card
2- 80mm low CFM case fans (top of case)
1- 90mm Mid. CFM case fan
5- 120 mm high 141 CFM delta fans (on 2 rads)
1- 120mm mid. CFM Delta fan
4- Cold Cathode UV lights

And still has room for more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189009

Couple of pic's..

 

[jkatt12]

Xclio 700 watt. Have not had one problem from this PSU and have thrown alot at it.

Its powering along with the normal motherboard connectors:

2- Raptor's
2- Visiontek 3870 video cards
1- DVD/CD rom drive
1- Swiftech MCP350 pump
1- Swiftech MCP355 pump
1- Asus P1 PhysX card
2- 80mm low CFM case fans (top of case)
1- 90mm Mid. CFM case fan
5- 120 mm high 141 CFM delta fans (on 2 rads)
1- 120mm mid. CFM Delta fan
4- Cold Cathode UV lights

And still has room for more.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817189009

Couple of pic's..

WOW!!