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AMD Dual-Core Opteron 165

ugly ferret said:
To the guy who was asking about the 170, don't bother as they cost much more and are the same except for the multi. 165's are much cheaper and as long as you have a motherboard capable of a high fsb, you won't need the 10x multi. It would make things easier but it's not worth the extra money. Plus make sure the stepping is CCBBE or CCB1E as the CCBWE's are the same as regular athlon x2 1mb cache cpu's, which don't clock very well.

Hope it helps.
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Yeah Ive got a DFI SLI-DR so high FSB should be fine :), will have to put my mem on a divider no doubt though - fingers crossed regards the stepping then...

ps3ud0 :cool:
 
ugly ferret: any screenshots for us? Im about to slap the exact same processor into my rig... Ill be back in a few hours to tell you how I get on :>
 
ps3ud0 said:
Yeah Ive got a DFI SLI-DR so high FSB should be fine :), will have to put my mem on a divider no doubt though - fingers crossed regards the stepping then...

ps3ud0 :cool:
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Well my inferior dfi ultra d seems happy to do 334mhz, so you should be fine. A word of warning tho, it failed to boot into windows on the 180 mhz divider at any speed, voltages etc. I dunno if it's a general fualt, or just with my board but a heads up just in case you run into the same problem.

I'll try to get some screenshots if someone tells me how to take a screenshot of my desktop, prnt screen doesn't seem to work for me. :confused:
 
Well this is an amazing CPU. 3ghz just wouldnt go for me, would blue screen on windows boot no matter what voltages I tried. Running @ 2.9ghz now on 1.4v. Core1 temp doesnt exceed 50C at load and Core2 is 45C. More tweaking to do but so very happy!
 
Did you try for the 3ghz? I couldnt get it with my 148 either, always had to settle for 2.9! More than happy tho :>

Can anyone try CoreTemp and tell me the differences in temps between your two cores? Min is 5-6C diff between core1 and core2, core2 being the cooler core.
 
Great job guys with the info.

Yup if you get a similar stepping to the one I posted and for those of you with dfi mboards, then my conclusion is that that memory is the failing factor and not the chip.

I can quite easily boot up at 2.8 on stock vcore but super pi and aqua both bomb out.(and thats at default vcore. I have tried increasing vcore but doesn't do much except increase temps)

I have been checking other forums who have posted results with the same steppings or similar and have found all ocing to 3ghz+ on air on just over 1.35 volts.

The major difference between them and me is the ram. I got Geil One TCCD samsung chips DDR400MHz CAS 1.5-2-2-5 and DDR 600MHz CAS 2.5-4-4-7.
Those guys running are mainly running ocz and Mushkin ram and are either 2 x 1G sticks or 2x 512MB sticks.

I will play round more with my ram and see how far I can go but looks like a ram upgrade to make use of this amazing chip.

Beats the hell out my x2 3800.

Will also get some screen shot for next post hopefully.

Ubernoob - what stepping did you get please?

Ugly ferret - what kinda of stepping are you using I.e ram, mboard etc. if using DFI what mem settings you using please?

Booner - what stepping please?
 
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ganstakillerz said:
Booner - what stepping please?
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I am new to overclocking with AMD and havnt really pushed anythign before, im on good water cooling (koolance exos 2) and i have some decent kit to overclock with, any suggestions? voltage is at 1.45v at mo my 2.9ghz isnt very stable so i knocked it back to 2.6ghz

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Booner,

CCBWE's are generally not very god overclockers and that 2.6ghz for that chip is about right from what I've seen so far with people having that stepping.

Because you have water cooling its helping you to achieve 2.6ghz. I've seen worst clocks than that with some just about getting stable at 2.4-2.5Ghz.

That stepping isn't great mainly for two reasons heat and the memory controller.
 
its sitting quite nicely at 2662.6 right now stable on 1.45v and 295FSB at 35*C , memory @ 1T - 2,3,3,6.

I feel robbed, i was told by the asgard on here that it was a good clocker and easily reached 2.8-2.9 :mad: ,however i did know the stepping beforehand and i spose i was a noob to the whole stepping issues and paid the £195 for it only a week or so ago. oh well, it performs very nicely, im sure with some help i could achieve a better clock, like i havnt touched some of the settings yet (pci-e ratio/clock speed? memory speeds etc)
 
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Priming failed overnight @ 2h 45m so I upped the vcore a little. Anyone recommend any programs that can stress a cpu something chronic and detect any errors within say 30mins instead of a couple hours? I tried OCCT 30min test but it doesnt seem to be dual core capable. Trying S&M now on the long/full load test. seems to be doing its job, CPU has hit its all time high at 53C :P
 
Been playing with my new Opteron 165 (CCBBE 0615EPMW) for the past couple of days but I can't get it prime stable above 2.43GHz. :(

This is meant to be a good stepping so I guess my motherboard is letting me down. I think the cause is a combination low volts (max 1.4) and unstable FSB.

Perhaps I should have gone for a 170 instead.
 
As you said it may be your board or ram, I am running my CCCBE 0610 @ 2.8ghz on 1.41 volts. I really dont think goin for the 170 would have given you more overclock, it just would have taken more of your money away.
 
ganstakillerz said:
Ugly ferret - what kinda of stepping are you using I.e ram, mboard etc. if using DFI what mem settings you using please?
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CPU - CCBBE 0610DPMW, 3.0ghz, 1.488v, 32 degrees idle, 49 degrees load both cores

Mobo - dfi lanparty ultra D, 334mhz fsb, chipset volts 1.6v (or whatever one notch above normal is)

Ram - G.skill HZ PC4000 @250mhz on 150mhz divider, 1T-3-4-4-7

Might be able to squeeze a bit more from the memory, I know it's good for 260mhz. The cpu might go further too, still plenty of voltage and temp headroom, but I'll leave it for the mo. :D

What's usually the max fsb DFI ultra d's are capable of?
 
ubern00b said:
As you said it may be your board or ram, I am running my CCCBE 0610 @ 2.8ghz on 1.41 volts. I really dont think goin for the 170 would have given you more overclock, it just would have taken more of your money away.
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I'm testing with my RAM on a real low divider so hopefully that is out of the question.

I have just done the volt mod on my board and even pumping 1.5v through the 165 won't make it stable any higher than 2.43GHz. So either I have got the worst CCBBE in existence or my mobo is FSB limited.

If I had gone for a 170 then it would have taken some of the pressure off my FSB.
 
have you tried turing down the cpu multi to see if the boards fsb is the problem. By my calculations your running an fsb of 260, which is pretty high for such a budget board. These low multi cpu's really need a high end motherboard to reach their full potential.
 
I am running an FSB of 270.

I tested high FSB with low multi (x5). Windows would not boot at 310, at 300 it would boot but was not stable. Some people have reported an FSB of 350 on this board, I guess just not me. Next time I'll buy a better board.
 
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