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AMD 5000+ Black Edition Overclocking Results

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Just have a play at the moment, currently working on volts and multiplier only - no FSB!

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I'll keep adding images as I improve.
 
randal24 said:
Why no FSB out of interest?
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I just wanted to see what the max multi was, seems to be x17 (which is very high), running 1.47v.

Extra volts wont allow 18x, I even tried a suicide 1.62v run but wouldn't boot.

This system is on AIR though.
 
Last night I tried a few quick attempts with a raised divider and bumping the FSB, the system wouldn't hit windows though.

I'd be surprised if 3.4 was the limit especially as it's rock solid prime stable at that speed.

Tonight I'll have a play with a lower multi and high fsb, also juggling volts to find a sweet spot.

To be honest with a nice fsb jump from 400 - 500MHz stable at 3.5GHz I'd be happy! :)

Oddly, my £35 ASRock mobo allowed HT dividers so you could run HT on the CPU faster or slower, in fact on my old Opty I ran 1250Mhz HT, however the very expensive 'overclockers' MSI 790FX board doesn't seem to have the option in the bios!
 
You sure? That's pretty rubbish! Was it not usually in the advanced chipset options or similar?
Maybe it's because it's an AM2 CPU in an AM2+ board?
 
3.46GHz, still under 1.5v this time with some FSB.

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I'll see how far the FSB will go on this multi, when it struggles I'll drop the multi and then see how far the ram goes. ;)
 
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Thats overclocking very well. What motherboard/RAM do you have? - ignore, seen your signature.
Hope the Phenoms overclock so readily.
 
I bought one of these and it arrived today. I simply set the multiplier to 15x and I got 3.0Ghz right away. If i change the FSB any higher it wont boot furhter than post. Is this because the voltage is too low?

Btw <3ing the speed
 
Well my overclocking was thwarted last night because my Windows key decided it wasn't valid... very confused as to why?! Got an old retail box using a new sp2 disc might be the problem so I'm getting an old sp1 or original release from work for a re-run tonight. :)

I ran Everest Ultimate at my rig hammers everything (top Xeon and top Quad on the list) on memory performance, not really a big user of Everest but I assume that's pretty good! :D
 
love that overclock with the 5000 black, I cant wait to get my swiftech compact kit on my 6000 cause temps are annoyingly stoping me at 3.26ghz so i hope that will gives some extra headroom. Out of intrest how is the new msi board performing cause i have its younger brother the k9a platinum (am2) and it pretty good, was thinking of getting the new mobo like yours and see what the phenom cpus end up doing, is that the general feeling around here too...? although I have seen the overdive performance on the new 9500 phenom and 3ghz is easily completed in a few mins, so i might be investing when bios issues are sorted, but cant decide weather to bother with a new mobo too...?
 
Well the upgrade was simple for me as I was languishing on a single core opteron s939!

The dual core system is streaks ahead, literally, I can install several apps/drivers/games at once whilst still working and browsing on other items - 'true' multi-tasking indeed.

Performance wise Everest tells me my memory is running faster than anything out there, which I find hard to believe - I'll post up the results later (graphs).

There are TWO main issues I have with the MSI board so far, one is the fact I have no control (in the bios) of HyperTransport or PCI-E speeds. I need to be able to divide the HT speed (1GHz to 800Mhz for example) to allow for a higher overclock, the PCI-E on the other hand needs bumping from 100 to 112-120MHz.

These options could easily follow in a bios release, this board is brand new and running on v1.0 bios so plenty of time to mature.
 
I completely forgot about AMD OverDrive! That will allow me to modify HT speeds indepentantly of everything else. :)

Also, found a modified bios on the msi forums that will allow the same through the bios - tested working.

If I can keep HT down to 1GHz I think I'll open up the top end potential of this cpu by as much as 100-200Mhz.
 
I found that was a problem on my board but now am running the 1.5 bios version so now the ht option is avlible too me :0 i find that if i drop the HTT speed to 800 mhz during clocking it allows my fsb to go higher, as all over the web i here of people hitting a barrier of around 220 fsb with the 6000 and windows wont boot then but lowering the HTT and the multiplier a little lower has let me reach 3.26 already as i said previously.

So all am waiting for is my replacement rad from swiftech :) and it should open up a few more options , as am currently w/c with a reserator 2 but its all on a loop with xfire x1950xtx and x1900xt. so am splitting it to help aid the temps :) and juice the volts up too if necessary, will post results :D.

Glad too here your msi board is good :0, but bios will get better they always do my first watercooled rig and in a nine hundred , lol its good but not cool enough
Edleake is your rig watercooled?
 
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