overclocking the phenom II 940

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

akash said:
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

few people have already done it on air.

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

Chicken Patty said:
few people have already done it on air.

are they stable?

merkk · Jan 18, 2009

CP
Grats on your new hight score ! Back when i started the hold crossfire thing ( 3 cpus,3 mother boards 4 video cards) later the idea i had was to build a cpu & video card combow that work good as a team together.When using a AMD cpu back then the nvidia 8800gt didn't scale all that well with the sec. card when using a AMDx2 and the frist round of phenom cpu were not that good .So i was looking for a video card than enought pop for some FPS but not over power the cpu .That how i came up with using the 3850s and when AMD came out with the 4 slot PCIe slot mother board it let me as my cpu power when up scale the video card power with it.I tested this last night if i pull card 4 out and drop down to just 3 i drop 20 FPS off my canyon flight score (test of crossfire/SLI)and a 1000 points . Back with the 9850 when clocking 3.1-3.3 i saw the canyon fight score top out with the 3 card set-up .Then move up to 4 card set-up but the scaling was ok at 3.1-3.3 (about a 300 points and 10 fps pick up in canyon flight) .Now with the PH 940 it has the power to realy drive that 4 card .Back when i first started i just had a idea about CPU vs GPU i had no idea it trun this good .

PaulieG · Jan 18, 2009

merkk said:
CP
Grats on your new hight score ! Back when i started the hold crossfire thing ( 3 cpus,3 mother boards 4 video cards) later the idea i had was to build a cpu & video card combow that work good as a team together.When using a AMD cpu back then the nvidia 8800gt didn't scale all that well with the sec. card when using a AMDx2 and the frist round of phenom cpu were not that good .So i was looking for a video card than enought pop for some FPS but not over power the cpu .That how i came up with using the 3850s and when AMD came out with the 4 slot PCIe slot mother board it let me as my cpu power when up scale the video card power with it.I tested this last night if i pull card 4 out and drop down to just 3 i drop 20 FPS off my canyon flight score (test of crossfire/SLI)and a 1000 points . Back with the 9850 when clocking 3.1-3.3 i saw the canyon fight score top out with the 3 card set-up .Then move up to 4 card set-up but the scaling was ok at 3.1-3.3 (about a 300 points and 10 fps pick up in canyon flight) .Now with the PH 940 it has the power to realy drive that 4 card .Back when i first started i just had a idea about CPU vs GPU i had no idea it trun this good .

Screenshots?

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

merkk said:
CP
Grats on your new hight score ! Back when i started the hold crossfire thing ( 3 cpus,3 mother boards 4 video cards) later the idea i had was to build a cpu & video card combow that work good as a team together.When using a AMD cpu back then the nvidia 8800gt didn't scale all that well with the sec. card when using a AMDx2 and the frist round of phenom cpu were not that good .So i was looking for a video card than enought pop for some FPS but not over power the cpu .That how i came up with using the 3850s and when AMD came out with the 4 slot PCIe slot mother board it let me as my cpu power when up scale the video card power with it.I tested this last night if i pull card 4 out and drop down to just 3 i drop 20 FPS off my canyon flight score (test of crossfire/SLI)and a 1000 points . Back with the 9850 when clocking 3.1-3.3 i saw the canyon fight score top out with the 3 card set-up .Then move up to 4 card set-up but the scaling was ok at 3.1-3.3 (about a 300 points and 10 fps pick up in canyon flight) .Now with the PH 940 it has the power to realy drive that 4 card .Back when i first started i just had a idea about CPU vs GPU i had no idea it trun this good .

yeah man, its incredible what a CPU can do. Notice that my highest with the Phenom in 3dmark with the same 4870 clocked the same was 15,400 3dmarks. I put the core i7 i now have a highest of 18095, thats 2695 3dmarks with just a cpu change. I say core i7 because it is what i Have running at the moment, but from what i'm seeing the Phenom II are unlocking games very similar. So both should have very similar results.

merkk · Jan 18, 2009

Paulieg
Post #42 has my screenshot and compair link for my 21,317 point run in 3dmark-06 run .

J-Man · Jan 18, 2009

Still Intel > AMD.

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

J-Man said:
Still Intel > AMD.

wtf???

servermonkey · Jan 18, 2009

J-Man said:
Still Intel > AMD.

Chicken Patty said:
wtf???

i unno
:shadedshu

Drizzt5 · Jan 18, 2009

J-Man said:
Still Intel > AMD.

Troll

Kei · Jan 18, 2009

J-Man said:
Still Intel > AMD.

:shadedshu

On another note I just installed my Xigmatek last night and it of course runs cooler even on silent mode. I'll get some numbers up for you guys soon.

Kei

merkk · Jan 18, 2009

Well the lest he could do is post his 3dmark-06 link to show us how uber his rig is .

Chicken Patty · Jan 18, 2009

Kei said:
:shadedshu

On another note I just installed my Xigmatek last night and it of course runs cooler even on silent mode. I'll get some numbers up for you guys soon.

Kei

keep us posted bro, i'm sure temps will be great :toast:

servermonkey · Jan 19, 2009

276x14.5=4002

1Kurgan1 · Jan 19, 2009

Very nice, what was the voltage at, and was that just a validation or is it stable?

servermonkey · Jan 19, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
Very nice, what was the voltage at, and was that just a validation or is it stable?

that was validation and no prolly should not be mentioned in the same sentence as stable..
the cpu-vcore was 1.536 (bios)

1Kurgan1 · Jan 19, 2009

Still nice to see over 4ghz, makes me so anxious to get a 945 or maybe the newly announced 950 (should be 955 :/ )

servermonkey · Jan 19, 2009

fsb ftw

288x12.5@1.456=3.6ghz

276x14.5@1.536=4.0ghz

servermonkey · Jan 19, 2009

servermonkey said:
that was validation and no prolly should not be mentioned in the same sentence as stable..
the cpu-vcore was 1.536 (bios)

This orginally was a suicide run, but now it is pretty stable......

1Kurgan1 · Jan 19, 2009

Nice, was it that extra .23v that made it stable? Or did you tinker with other things?

PaulieG · Jan 19, 2009

servermonkey said:
288x12.5@1.456=3.6ghz

276x14.5@1.536=4.0ghz

Very nice, but I'd love to see some benches.

servermonkey · Jan 19, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
Nice, was it that extra .23v that made it stable? Or did you tinker with other things?

there was a bunch of tinkering w/ the htt, nb, and timings. still need to run it thru prime. I hope my cooling can handle it.....

servermonkey · Jan 20, 2009

Paulieg said:
Very nice, but I'd love to see some benches.

will do...right after this occt run finishes......

servermonkey · Jan 20, 2009

288x12.5@1.456=3600

superPi 19.250

1Kurgan1 · Jan 20, 2009

Must not have been stable at 4ghz?

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