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***official amd 83x0 overclocking thread***

farmerboy-86 said:
I would agree your board maybe reaching vrm thermal limits orch 990 motherboard good investment.
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Not such a good investment when I've only just bought this bloody 970 :D

I still think I can squeeze more out of it though. That's on hold for now though whilst I sort out this display driver crash and most importantly, work on my case cooling. When I get a chance today I'm gunna do some research on quiet/silent case fans to increase the airflow, been trying to get away not a lot at the moment due to the noise of the corsair fans.

I'm going to get some Noctua fans for the H80 rad so I can hopefully run that full pelt without disturbing the neighbours.

Unfortunately not much I can do with the VRM cooling at the moment, will keep thinking about that though.
 
Nah not yet mate, I'm gunna use the two corsair fans I take off the H80 as case fans instead, one on the side vent blowing over the GPU, and one on the roof as an exhaust, hopefully that will remove some of the hot air away from the rad. Then control them via the Asus fan xpert so I can set them on a low speed when watching films, browsing etc, but ramp them up whilst gaming.

I'll see how I get on doing that first I think.

I'm struggling my order though, I've got the two noctuas sat in my basket but I'm struggling to press the button on nearly £40 for two fans after all I've spent recently . . hmm :D

Tonight I'm going try out this fan xpert with my two existing case fans and see what's what before ordering I think. I dunno, I may end up just pressing buy before the days up though
 
Use speed fan tricky to set up but better asus fan xpert is rubbish ask anyone on here I uninstalled it does its own thing grrr.
Either speed fan or buy a fan controller dude. Its an expensive hobby but when its all going well best gaming platform by far
 
farmerboy-86 said:
Th0nt components update friend is on hols tried to contact weekend he's back friday so will get him to talk to you.
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Excellent - thanks mate!

farmerboy-86 said:
My own progress rock solid at 4.8 ghz temps are good hit 47 socket 36 core after hours of bf3 prime stable the fan over vrm on mobo a big help and push pull on rad with 4 typhoons keeping everything cool
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Really happy for you, I would be well chuffed with that setup - a solid performer.
 
Th0nt said:
Excellent - thanks mate!



Really happy for you, I would be well chuffed with that setup - a solid performer.
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Cheers m8 yeah cuffed a couple months ago i couldn't get padt 4.5 on air, now under water prime and intek burn test stable at 4.8. Gonna jot down all settings and push for 5ghz now just to see if I can.

Considering im so low on temps and 1.44v I think I can hit 5 no sweat just worried board may not cope that high :s
 
Hmm have you got the northbridge under water?

I'm gonna have to order a case that would accommodate the H100 (2x120mm fans).
 
farmerboy-86 said:
Cheers m8 yeah cuffed a couple months ago i couldn't get padt 4.5 on air, now under water prime and intek burn test stable at 4.8. Gonna jot down all settings and push for 5ghz now just to see if I can.

Considering im so low on temps and 1.44v I think I can hit 5 no sweat just worried board may not cope that high :s
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rather than note down seetings, why not just save a profile in the bios?

and i thought the same thing about hitting 5ghz. im only 100mhz away and iv not found any way of getting past 4.9ghz.. VERY frustrating! :D

iv even thought about putting a bag of frozen peas on my rad lol
 
mx0range said:
and i thought the same thing about hitting 5ghz. im only 100mhz away and iv not found any way of getting past 4.9ghz.. VERY frustrating! :D

iv even thought about putting a bag of frozen peas on my rad lol
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Is it CPU temps that's the problem? I'd expect your VRMs are struggling - a spot fan on the VRM heatsink might help if so.
 
mx0range said:
rather than note down seetings, why not just save a profile in the bios?

and i thought the same thing about hitting 5ghz. im only 100mhz away and iv not found any way of getting past 4.9ghz.. VERY frustrating! :D

iv even thought about putting a bag of frozen peas on my rad lol
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What settings are trying? temps? cooling?

All: glad to see everyone's had good progress with the clocks! :)

I'm happy running 5ghz all the time now. Need to look up how to best tune the ram though.
 
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There will be more no doubt.
 
pandem0nium said:
All: glad to see everyone's had good progress with the clocks! :)

I'm happy running 5ghz all the time now. Need to look up how to best tune the ram though.
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I'm glad this thread has got people tweaking! It seems loads of people were running under 4.5GHz before, maybe assuming it couldn't go higher.
 
GinG said:
Sorry didn't get chance to post setting last night, was on playing bf3! All settings on Ultra depending on maps I was getting around 60 - 90fps.

CPU still at 4.9ghz managed to play for a good hour and half no problem.

I guess next to overclock is the 7850...currently running max settings ATI overdrive will let me.
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yeah, should be capable of a lot more!

I had a reference 7850, slapped on a gellid icy vision 2 for about £30 and flashed the bios to the best asus one for more volts. I got about 1240/5600 out of mine. I need to get around to selling the thing.
 
evening all so got home at 5 trying for 5ghz got 4.9 ghz prime stable 1hr stable no voltage increase from 4.8ghz @ 1.44v and look at these temps :eek:

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1 hr stable so far cool and not so quiet lol i think i have a rare gem in this chip will continue to test but making progress

before you say that aida64 aint been running 1 hr i ran prime first went 1 hr, mor than enough people say 24 ect but if prime is gonna fail it will take less than 24hrs im now running aida64 just to see.
i will run as many tests as possible
 
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Them HW monitor temps how did you get them to say CPU, Monitor etc? Mines just says TMPIN 1, 2 etc and which is which? :)
 
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