The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Velvet Wafer]

10+2?

IDK... just read "10 Phases" in an Article, and assumed, that would be the total count, especially, because i found another page, claiming "8+2"
I never owned one

While my 890GX Gigabyte board doesn't work, for a 4+1 board that mother is one heavy sob. Heavier then even a MSI 980a (which is 8+2) or my beloved Asus P6T6 Intel board. I about dropped it when I first took it out of the board because I wasn't expecting the weight.

While it maybe 4+1, it sure is not like the MSI 890GX 4+1. I'd trust that Gigabyte board long before any MSI board.

that for sure is a sign that it can withstand leakage and thermals better... but a blewn fet, is a blewn fet...

 

[damric]

Gigabyte has had some rather stout VRM's since the going to the extra copper with the 785G motherboards. I beat on a 4+1 US2H relentlessly, pushing a Phenom II 955 to 4130MHZ @ 1.51v (see cpu validation in sig) under linx and prime95 with one of those cheapo corsair H50's.

 

[El_Mayo]

4+1 phases means 4 voltage regulator packs for the CPU, and one for the memory
as i said, use stock clocks, and try to undervolt, step by step, until it gets instable... from the last point where its FULLY stable, you can start to clock up/volt up then

plan!
undervolting just the CPU I assume?
I'll do that when I get in later

 

[Velvet Wafer]

plan!
undervolting just the CPU I assume?
I'll do that when I get in later

yeah, you can leave the rest on auto, if the board does not set the volts too high by itself

 

[boise49ers]

Gigabyte has had some rather stout VRM's since the going to the extra copper with the 785G motherboards. I beat on a 4+1 US2H relentlessly, pushing a Phenom II 955 to 4130MHZ @ 1.51v (see cpu validation in sig) under linx and prime95 with one of those cheapo corsair H50's.

Yep ! I have the GIGABYTE GA-880GM-D2H AM3 AMD 880G and clocked my 1090T to 3.5 GHz and it run cool to the touch. Now this might not sound like much of an overclock, but I don't have any fans in the case and it is a small case. I'm just running a Thermaltake Frio cooler. I am pretty sure the extra copper has a lot to do with it. I'm curious what I can do once I get a good airflow in a better case and what I can run it at with out to much of jump in temp.

 

[El_Mayo]

changed voltage to 1.3V in the bios now (comes up as 1.12V in CPU-z... odd)
running small FFTs in prime95 now

 

[Velvet Wafer]

changed voltage to 1.3V in the bios now (comes up as 1.12V in CPU-z... odd)
running small FFTs in prime95 now

can be that your board undervolts severely... does the Vcore droop much, under load?
how are the temps compared to setting 1.35... severely lower?

 

[YautjaLord]

I can say few things : 1) buried by neck in [X]HTML5/CSS3/etc.... website designing/building, don't think the situation will change anytime soon; 2) Phenom II 965BE @ 4.0GHz is ace & to approve this i run AvP3 TDM without almost any hickup, aside from when the server drops (which was since AvP3 demo, so no OC is responsible for such f***-ups @ all); 3) i will wait to purchase Indigo Extreme when FX-8130P arrives, prefferably one called Indigo Extreme for AM3/AM3+; 4) maybe by end of May (1 more week from now) i'll do 100mins LinX run with this clock to see if this OC is stable under such run.

Thanx for all the help, really appreciated it entirely, see you all in FX-8130P/'Dozer OC'ing Club if such thread will appear once this CPU is out.

 

[El_Mayo]

can be that your board undervolts severely... does the Vcore droop much, under load?
how are the temps compared to setting 1.35... severely lower?

Between 5-7 degrees cooler
I'm running prime now and it's 1.12V
When prime isn't running it's down to 1.04 (at 800mhz)

been running prime95 for 3 hours now (1.275V in the bios) and it's stable!
might try and undervolt further tomorrow

 

[mastrdrver]

that for sure is a sign that it can withstand leakage and thermals better... but a blewn fet, is a blewn fet...

True enough.

But when was the last time you heard people killing a 890GX Gigabyte board while overclocking their X6?

Seems to be quite regular for the MSI board that there is even a thread on XS about the board and it's ability to burn down board parts when overclocking an X6.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

Between 5-7 degrees cooler
I'm running prime now and it's 1.12V
When prime isn't running it's down to 1.04 (at 800mhz)

been running prime95 for 3 hours now (1.275V in the bios) and it's stable!
might try and undervolt further tomorrow

is that on stock clocks?

True enough.

But when was the last time you heard people killing a 890GX Gigabyte board while overclocking their X6?

Seems to be quite regular for the MSI board that there is even a thread on XS about the board and it's ability to burn down board parts when overclocking an X6.

never, i admit... i guess, when it comes to lowend parts, the gigabyte parts are better then most of the other,similar priced boards. But on High-End boards,
no matter what manufacturer
(except Biostar and ASRock... these can be good, but sometimes there is a lemon between them, or they are just flakey)
there is rarely a case of one burning out

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

ive just been playing around with my Phenom II x2 555BE so far i manged to archive 331 HTT or what i call it as Fsb. now get this with Asus Turbov while in window's i got up to 375 HTT, now i need to know do i have a impressive cpu or good motherboard? to get that high

 

[erocker]

ive just been playing around with my Phenom II x2 555BE so far i manged to archive 331 HTT or what i call it as Fsb. now get this with Asus Turbov while in window's i got up to 375 HTT, now i need to know do i have a impressive cpu or good motherboard? to get that high

What are you setting for voltages? If things are set on AUTO, what kind of voltages are you getting at those clocks?

*Screenshots of your achievments help.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

ive just been playing around with my Phenom II x2 555BE so far i manged to archive 331 HTT or what i call it as Fsb. now get this with Asus Turbov while in window's i got up to 375 HTT, now i need to know do i have a impressive cpu or good motherboard? to get that high

both, such High HTTs are not possible with ordinary procs and boards... you got a good sample of both (similar board then me, just with USB3 added)

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

never done any stress tests but been online with flash games for a few hours, now for Asus Turbov i will post up 375HTT on this reboot

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

pinch me lol , even better results, again this is not with asus turbov which i can gain higher

 

[Darkrix]

AMD PHENOM II X4 975 BE this is what i tryed so far
NEW MB NEW CPU NEW MEM
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1818905
maby this is the best that air can do but ill try to go even further in the future when the room temp is lower..

 

[catnipkiller]

A co-worker told me no ddr2 system can hold anything over 3.6ghz 100% stable. is this true due to the slower ram?

 

[Darkrix]

A co-worker told me no ddr2 system can hold anything over 3.6ghz 100% stable. is this true due to the slower ram?

where did he get that idea..
ram dont mind how fast youre CPU runs. u just keeps the ram settings in normal speed,
it dosent matter are u running 6,0 ghz and ram 800mhz or 3,0ghz ram 800mhz
what is the diffrence. there aint exept the CPU/mem factory but i havent ever heard that there is some limit what it can handle...

some one prove me wrong if i am..

 

[damric]

A co-worker told me no ddr2 system can hold anything over 3.6ghz 100% stable. is this true due to the slower ram?

Click validation in my signature. 100% stable.

 

[erocker]

A co-worker told me no ddr2 system can hold anything over 3.6ghz 100% stable. is this true due to the slower ram?

There's some truth to it. DDR2 doesn't stress the internal memory controller as much. Since the memory controller is on the CPU die it can make a difference, especially when overclocking via the ht bus. As far as exact frequencies go, it varies between CPU's.

 

[catnipkiller]

Everyone seems to have a 955 or better so i think that is my problem.

mine is the am2+ 940 not ddr3 so i think im at my wall untill the cold of winter is back then im gonna rape my pc with volts.

no joke

 

[YautjaLord]

People, i did it. Same clock, same settings in BIOS (will list 'em right after the pic) - LinX 4.0GHz 75mins run (sorry that not 100mins run, though), fully & f***in' utterly complete. The pic:

BIOS settings (same as always):

CPU freq=200MHz;
CPU ratio (multi)=20.0x;
CPU voltage=1.4500v;
CPU/NB freq=2400MHz;
HT freq=2000MHz;
RAM freq/timings=1333MHz/7-7-7-20-1T;
CPU/NB voltage=1.25v;
VDDA voltage=2.7000v;
RAM voltage=1.66v;
NB voltage=1.26v;
HT voltage=1.20v;
nf200 voltage=Auto.

1h 15mins stable, 4.0GHz under VenomousX/AS5 in such test is golden & that is air cooling; if i had LCS or on contrary this Indigo Extreme ETI with VenomousX i could even do 4.1GHz under same test. 4.0GHz golden; say what you think. Promised i'll conduct this test by this weekend - delivered.

 

[claylomax]

People, i did it. Same clock, same settings in BIOS (will list 'em right after the pic) - LinX 4.0GHz 75mins run (sorry that not 100mins run, though), fully & f***in' utterly complete. The pic:

http://img.techpowerup.org/110528/Phenom II 965BE @ 4.0GHz LinX 75mins run complete.jpg

BIOS settings (same as always):

CPU freq=200MHz;
CPU ratio (multi)=20.0x;
CPU voltage=1.4500v;
CPU/NB freq=2400MHz;
HT freq=2000MHz;
RAM freq/timings=1333MHz/7-7-7-20-1T;
CPU/NB voltage=1.25v;
VDDA voltage=2.7000v;
RAM voltage=1.66v;
NB voltage=1.26v;
HT voltage=1.20v;
nf200 voltage=Auto.

1h 15mins stable, 4.0GHz under VenomousX/AS5 in such test is golden & that is air cooling; if i had LCS or on contrary this Indigo Extreme ETI with VenomousX i could even do 4.1GHz under same test. 4.0GHz golden; say what you think. Promised i'll conduct this test by this weekend - delivered.

You know you can go higher.

 

[YautjaLord]

Higher for OC, or higher for LinX run? Thanx nevertheless, mate. But i'll be happy camper with what i got now & real fun will start once i got hold of C5F & AMD's FX-8130P & once any of you will start "'Dozer/FX-4/6/8xxx OC'ing Club" thread. 4.0GHz is ace; i did it & i love it!!!!

P.S. Crysis's CPU_benchmark 1 - 30-50+fps VeryHigh 1920x1200; 3DMark11 PT & CT total scores (P preset) - 4000+ Marks; on 4.0GHz obviously. Hope the score will rise significantly higher with C5F & FX-8130P but that's another story. Maybe, just maybe, prior to installing C5F, Indigo Extreme ETI & FX-8130P i'll run same 75mins test on 200MHzx20.2 clock; if i will - not before the end of June. But don't trust me on this one just yet.