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AM1 5370 OC'D

Davedree

Davedree

Davedree

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Hello I have been using a 5150 since Christmas and have been holding out for the 5370 since Jan. With the 5150 it runs at 1.6ghz and I was able to overclock it to a stable 2.05ghz, and for fun 2.3ghz.
With a x16 multi the 5150 is great value for clocking upto and beyond the stock 5350. However I wanted to see if I could hit 3ghz for some fun and the 5370 helped me achieve this with a 22x multi.

Here is the scaling of the 5370 from stock to 3ghz.





Power consumption at stock is 15w idle and 25-30w load.
At 3ghz the consumption is 35w idle and 70-75w load.
 
I use the am1 system as a htpc an so the stock cooler was used to it's limit at 2.8ghz at 1.450v temps were 55-58c on cinebench, temps are lower in normal usage but the little cooler wouldn't be ideal.

It was the last 200mhz that were hard work until I slapped a titan fenrir on it to keep temps below 50c. I just wanted to see if 3ghz was possible.
 
Gze said:
Any point in overclocking these apart from the fun?
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I did it for fun and also to compare clock scaling and power consumption. I'd say if you have a 5150 then clocking to 2.05-2.10ghz with the memory oc'd is definetely recommended you can feel the difference over the 1.6ghz
The difference with the 5370 from 2.2 to 3ghz i 'd say is not worth it but 2.5-2.6ghz can easily be achieved with modest voltage and lowish temps.
I'd like to do some gpu scaling with a r7 360 or 750ti as i'd like to see if the overclock would help to feed the gpu next.
 
What board do you have? Did you have to make any compromises like setting sata to ide mode?

I've just bought a 5350 and mitx asus board from the mm. Looking forward to some fun clocking it.
 
pandem0nium said:
What board do you have? Did you have to make any compromises like setting sata to ide mode?

I've just bought a 5350 and mitx asus board from the mm. Looking forward to some fun clocking it.
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Nice board same as mine :)
You are correct you set sata to ide instead of ahci and in doing so your usb3 ports will turn into usb2.0. You can get by with any ram as you have 4 memory mulitpliers but as you raise the ht ref over 137 you might start to lose igp stability. Make sure the power settings in windows are set right in balanced or you might not idle or see full performance.
Other than the power consumption can be excessive when over 2.5ghz make sure to have fun.
 
I have a 5150 and i think its a cool little chip, sadly i have it in the only board that doesnt allow for OC.. some silly Asrock board. Bought it as part of a whole machine with SSD, tiny case+power brick and 4gigs of ram for 65 pounds.

So while im stuck at 1,6ghz for now im certainly still enjoying it for the FTP and storage services it provided me and also the occasional game server up to 10 people depending though on the server.
 
Phixsator said:
I have a 5150 and i think its a cool little chip, sadly i have it in the only board that doesnt allow for OC.. some silly Asrock board. Bought it as part of a whole machine with SSD, tiny case+power brick and 4gigs of ram for 65 pounds.

So while im stuck at 1,6ghz for now im certainly still enjoying it for the FTP and storage services it provided me and also the occasional game server up to 10 people depending though on the server.
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I also Have the Asrock because of the 4 sata and usb 3.0 connector and power brick connector but also i have the asus that allows overclocking but then no usb 3.0 and only 2 sata so its win and loose.
Not sure if to upgrade my 5350 to the 5370 it only provides the extra 200mhz clock speed.
 
Davedree said:
Nice board same as mine :)
You are correct you set sata to ide instead of ahci and in doing so your usb3 ports will turn into usb2.0. You can get by with any ram as you have 4 memory mulitpliers but as you raise the ht ref over 137 you might start to lose igp stability. Make sure the power settings in windows are set right in balanced or you might not idle or see full performance.
Other than the power consumption can be excessive when over 2.5ghz make sure to have fun.
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Brill, thanks for the info. I'll have a go when I get it and update here with the results.
 
chippy08 said:
I also Have the Asrock because of the 4 sata and usb 3.0 connector and power brick connector but also i have the asus that allows overclocking but then no usb 3.0 and only 2 sata so its win and loose.
Not sure if to upgrade my 5350 to the 5370 it only provides the extra 200mhz clock speed.
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I wouldn't spend money on a 5370 as your 5350 is more than capable. I like that asrock board with the onboard powersupply it's clever engineering.
They should have stuck a 25x multi on the 5370 really, it's so easy to achieve that.
 
So far so good! 150 bus is ace able using discrete graphics.

2.7 is 5 mins occt stable, but it won't boot at 2.85.

Tryin to see if I can edit it in windows. Amd afterburner doesn't work with it and asus Ai site fails to install on windows 10.
 
2.735 ghz @ 144 bus with ~ 2000mhz ram is probably the best it's going to get.
Happy with the results.

The northbridge setting acts like a multiplier to the ram and only certain nb setting work at certain ram speeds. There may be a little more to squeeze out of the ram with 80nb and lowering the bus a bit.

I'm pretty sure the CPU could go a bit further with a decent cooler and more volts.

Cinebench R15 results:
213 multi threaded and 58 single.

 
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Well done that's a fine result from the 5350.
What was the package temps getting to towards the end there?
These chips seem to hit a brick wall at 2.75-2.8ghz and seem to need big voltage to get past it. Did you lower the cpu multi to get your memory speed up?
 
Davedree said:
Well done that's a fine result from the 5350.
What was the package temps getting to towards the end there?
These chips seem to hit a brick wall at 2.75-2.8ghz and seem to need big voltage to get past it. Did you lower the cpu multi to get your memory speed up?
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Thanks pal. I'm happy with the results and it was fun.

Temps were up to about 58 during stress tests with the fan profile on turbo.

Bus at 130 allowed slightly higher ram speed with 80 nb. The cine bench score was one point lower though.
 
Can anyone tell me where to get a 5370 from? I have a 5350 which I have overclocked to 2.4ghz. This has made a massive difference in gaming and actually removed the bottleneck which was a stock 5350. I say removes, reduces a huge amount but I know it's still there a bit so an PC 5370 would interest me.
 
Brazo said:
Can anyone tell me where to get a 5370 from? I have a 5350 which I have overclocked to 2.4ghz. This has made a massive difference in gaming and actually removed the bottleneck which was a stock 5350. I say removes, reduces a huge amount but I know it's still there a bit so an PC 5370 would interest me.
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We can't talk about competitors to the shop, but maybe searching for the part number might help. AMD AD5370JAHMBOX
 
Many thanks.

Oh and to all those with the Asrock H board with the Dec power connector, update your bios and you have full overclocking options. Ok not as full as the asus board bit you can overclock using the bclk strap to as high as your ram will allow. I say ram as given its pcie based overclocking it's all linked.
 
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