After dropping my Opty 165

[Sparky]

Well to cut a long story short i was tidying up my PC and removed the 165,then disaster,somehow i managed to drop it onto the floor [laminate] and snapped off 4 pins

As a replacement ive got a Venice 3000 from OCUK.Whats a safe voltage to give these on air cooling?

 

[Sparky]

1.4v and 2.6ghz its idling at 33c.Warm here though so might wait until it cools down later tonight to see what it can take.

 

[Sparky]

Thanks for that well thought out post mate.TBH the CPU has to laast me about 2 weeks until the Insurance stump up for a new CPU.

Problem is they use "A Certain company that is known WORLDwide" shall we say!Chances of them having a Opteron 165 is Slim at best.

 

[Sparky]

I wouldnt go above 1.6v on air. Is your opty fixable you think? paperclips and sellotape maybe?

LOL no mate its dead as a dodo! 4 pins gone completly and there are about 15 bent at 90 degrees.

 

[Sparky]

the chip could be repaired, i deal with surface mount soldering and have often repaired pins on intel chips by soldering them back into place, course its fragile but it can be done

Yeh my mate is a supervisor at Meridian[Boothroyd Stewart] he said it can be fixed using there flow solder machine.But Insurance are going to pay for it.It's just they use that "well known PC Planet"place.

 

[Sparky]

1.6v on air will be fine, depends what your motherboard is really giving the cpu, I know mine overvolts by 0.1v others may do the same, multimeter is more accurate than the mobo sensors

Well i upped the volts to 1.450 and hit 2.7ghz but i crashed out.RAM was probably scaling to high at the timings it was on.

 

[Sparky]

1 thing ive noticed,2.6ghz on a Venice compared to 2.6ghz on my Opty the framerate difference is HHHHHuge.Im putting that down to the extra cache on the Opty.