overclocking the phenom II 940

servermonkey · Jan 17, 2009

Kei said:
Either way I'd say that 3.7Ghz is pretty freaking great for a stock heatsink/fan combo!

Kei

servermonkey · Jan 17, 2009

J-Man said:
I didn't realise these Phenoms would overclock so high. On par with Intels Nahalem. The previous Phenoms didn't overclock well right?

the phenom I (or at least mine) did not o/c close to this..... I think the 45nm vs 65 nm is key....

all these clocks were w/o the help of acc....

LittleLizard · Jan 17, 2009

put a little more voltage to get it stable. damn 4 ghz. some one can make me a birthday present of a phenom 2

servermonkey · Jan 17, 2009

LittleLizard said:
put a little more voltage to get it stable. damn 4 ghz. some one can make me a birthday present of a phenom 2

went up to 1.55v.... but prime95 cause an immediate reboot.....
gonna run the 3.9 as my 24/7 for now...

servermonkey · Jan 17, 2009

atm i am teetering close to 1.6v......If 3.9 is stable at 1.5250~ and 4.0 is not stable at 1.58-1.60v, is it really worth the .8v+?

my temps....

spearman914 · Jan 17, 2009

servermonkey said:
260x15=3.9

Holy SHIT!! That's one sick clocker!!

WarEagleAU · Jan 17, 2009

Wow very impressive. I wonder how well they do on Air and water though. Your Boreas is an MTEC and the thing cools like no other. How loud is the fan now that you have it at 100%?

servermonkey · Jan 17, 2009

WarEagleAU said:
Wow very impressive. I wonder how well they do on Air and water though. Your Boreas is an MTEC and the thing cools like no other. How loud is the fan now that you have it at 100%?

it has 2 of these 3,000rpm 45.90dBA 133.60CFM. the boreas itself get pretty loud....

Wartz · Jan 18, 2009

how does one tell if a CPU is damaged? does it go completely dead or is it possible to still post with it?

Because...
I think I just popped my 940 :eek:

I I tried a to increase to 265*15, 1.5v and it would not post. o I reset the BIOS and tried to boot up from defaults. Now i'm getting somewhat random BSOD error messages the moment I try to boot an OS.

Usually its either a page_fault_in_unpaged_area one or others relating to corrupted drivers. Ive also gotten one that says the bootsector is corrupted.

I'm going to try swapping in various parts(ram/x2 4400+) tomorrow after work, but I am not too hopeful.

I'm going to try a linux live CD too

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

superpi 1m

has anyone tried to set their cpu vcore to 1.6 on an asus m3a79t-dlx? i get this "cpu overvolt error"

JC316 · Jan 18, 2009

I wouldn't put the stress on the CPU with the .08V just to get another 100MHZ. I had the saem dilemma with my E5200, run at 4.0 1.575V, or 3.8@1.45.

Drizzt5 · Jan 18, 2009

Looks like these phenomsII's almost match my q6600 with 1.225vid for Voltage vs Clocks, I think it takes me a little bit more voltage to get to 4ghz though. These are really impressive.

Kei · Jan 18, 2009

servermonkey said:
all these clocks were w/o the help of acc....

Phenom II chips have ACC built into the processor so you don't need ACC on the board in order to use it. Also it will not work if you try to enable it in the bios because of that.

spearman914 said:
Holy SHIT!! That's one sick clocker!!

I bet he's got more to go since I've seen Phenom II 920's (the multiplier is locked) hit 4Ghz on the stock heatsink/fan combo.

WarEagleAU said:
Wow very impressive. I wonder how well they do on Air and water though.

All my clocks are on air cooling as I don't own any water cooling or any other type of setup. Right now the 3.71Ghz clock I posted earlier is still on the STOCK heatsink/fan combo as I haven't installed my Xigmatek cooler on this processor yet because I wanted to see how cool it ran with the stock heatsink. Crazy enough I've even thought about just sticking with the stock setup because it runs so cool. I'm not going to though because I want to get the voltage down really low stable so I want it super chilled.

Drizzt5 said:
Looks like these phenomsII's almost match my q6600 with 1.225vid for Voltage vs Clocks, I think it takes me a little bit more voltage to get to 4ghz though. These are really impressive.

What kinda clock are you running now and at what voltage?

I'm really thinking hard about picking up another AM2+ board so that I can increase my HT Bus speed limitation which is the only thing stopping me from going further with my current processor. The highest bus speed my board can do (with all the processors I've tried) is 266Mhz and that's it. It just so happens that 265Mhz is 3.71Ghz so the only option I have left is to call it a day or get a new board so that I can go higher on the bus speed. Then again 266Mhz really isn't a bad thing I'm just curious to see how high this processor could actually go is all.

Kei

spearman914 · Jan 18, 2009

Just noticed it was on TEC.

thought it hit 4GHz air.

PaulieG · Jan 18, 2009

spearman914 said:
Just noticed it was on TEC. thought it hit 4GHz air.

If you look at his vcore, it really does not matter that he's on TEC. Really good air should be fine on 1.55v.

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

I believe Kei was getting under 30ºc idle on the stock cooler at 3.7 Ghz or something like that, which meaning full load should be somewhere in the 50ºc's maybe? Thats not bad at all.

merkk · Jan 18, 2009

CP
What you been up to ? Have you got your 79-t back yet ? Well i got my Ph 940 rember when i told you i be in the 20000+ mark with my 3850 video cards when i got the Phenom II cpu here my link and screen shot the only think hold me back right now i need to change over to vista-32 bit see if i can get my over clock highter. Take care bud .http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9678006

Drizzt5 · Jan 18, 2009

Kei said:
What kinda clock are you running now and at what voltage?

This is what I use for gaming usually, it's pretty close to your 3.9ghz run.

For benchmarks mostly, here is my 4ghz. I never stress tested it but it went through a bunch of benchmarks without bsoding on me.
http://tinypic.com/usermedia.php?uo=7ZNJUrtxtmpULvjvblQaSw==

I'm impressed by these new PhenomsII's, hopefully people go for them instead of the i7's to save some money and then we can have a price war on our hands.

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

merkk said:
CP
What you been up to ? Have you got your 79-t back yet ? Well i got my Ph 940 rember when i told you i be in the 20000+ mark with my 3850 video cards when i got the Phenom II cpu here my link and screen shot the only think hold me back right now i need to change over to vista-32 bit see if i can get my over clock highter. Take care bud .http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9678006

nice nb!!!!

:respect:

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

Kei said:
Phenom II chips have ACC built into the processor so you don't need ACC on the board in order to use it. Also it will not work if you try to enable it in the bios because of that.

Kei

yea i noticed that when i enabled in the bios, it wouldnt post. That option is also still available in that god awful program aOd. I wonder what happens when enabled thru there......

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

merkk said:
CP
What you been up to ? Have you got your 79-t back yet ? Well i got my Ph 940 rember when i told you i be in the 20000+ mark with my 3850 video cards when i got the Phenom II cpu here my link and screen shot the only think hold me back right now i need to change over to vista-32 bit see if i can get my over clock highter. Take care bud .http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=9678006

hey bro wassup, bro the damn store hasnt even shipped the board, I thought it was oiut, i almost burned that place down when I found out, anyhow, they already shipped it out Friday though, they said to allow a week. So lets see what happens. When I do get it back I will play with my 9950 for a bit until I get the Phenom II. Should be somewhere around the next month or two.

As far as your score, its amazing how far those cards have gone, amazing!!!

I finally hit the 18k mark with my single 4870

810/1100 are the clocks.

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

Drizzt5 said:
I'm impressed by these new PhenomsII's, hopefully people go for them instead of the i7's to save some money and then we can have a price war on our hands.

what if you get both, the i7 and the Phenom II

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

Chicken Patty said:
hey bro wassup, bro the damn store hasnt even shipped the board, I thought it was oiut, i almost burned that place down when I found out, anyhow, they already shipped it out Friday though, they said to allow a week. So lets see what happens. When I do get it back I will play with my 9950 for a bit until I get the Phenom II. Should be somewhere around the next month or two.

As far as your score, its amazing how far those cards have gone, amazing!!!

I finally hit the 18k mark with my single 4870 810/1100 are the clocks.

did u get a new mobo?

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

servermonkey said:
did u get a new mobo?

no, but im assuming they will have to send a new one, don't think the one I sent out can be replaced.

akash · Jan 18, 2009

have picked up over

it looks like you have picked up over 400mhz on stock voltages. Can't wait to get mine, hopefully I can crack 4ghz since I got water

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Case	silverstone tj07
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Processor	amd phenom II 940 @ 3842
Motherboard	asus m3a79-T dlx
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Memory	2x2gb corsair xms
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Processor	amd phenom II 940 @ 3842
Motherboard	asus m3a79-T dlx
Cooling	coolit boreas
Memory	2x2gb corsair xms
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Storage	wdc 150gb raptor
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Power Supply	coolmax 1100w + visiontek 450w (for the boreas)
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