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birelwf said:
Ok will maybe try the stock cooler first and see what I can get before putting in the Zalman. The other stepping is 0704XPMW so is this one of the 'better' ones? ;)
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how are you getting on wiith the overclock?
thinking of squeezing a bit more life out of my 939 set up with one of these
 
El Jimben said:
Who in this thread said they were going from single core to single core? Yeh sure I could upgrade for very little outlay but my system still cuts the mustard at the moment so I'm in no hurry to jump on the Conroe bandwagon just yet :p
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Im just saying, for the same money, wouldnt you want to future proof the system instead of putting the same amount of money into a socket 939 :p
 
a £70 opty 170 negates the need for a new mobo also
may not outperform a core set up but with the new cpu's on the way from both camps not a bad upgrade to see what the new ones perform like imo
 
haven't put it in yet as I have been busy but hope to get it done tomorrow so will post what I get, going with the stock cooler first as my mobo Abit AN8-sli is a pig :mad: to get out/in from the P180 case to put in the new cage for the Zalman cooler. I thought for £75 inc p&P it was a good deal to keep my setup going for a while longer. Didn't see the point of jumping until I saw what the next offerings were and doing this buys some time
 
hi all, just put 170 in and running at 2.5ghz with 1.375V as is stock with mobo.

can anyone tell me what tests, apart from prime95 I should run to check it out before I start upping the clock, running stock cooler but changed thermal to arctic silver 5
 
birelwf said:
hi all, just put 170 in and running at 2.5ghz with 1.375V as is stock with mobo.

can anyone tell me what tests, apart from prime95 I should run to check it out before I start upping the clock, running stock cooler but changed thermal to arctic silver 5
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Prime and Orthos are generally considered the best ones to use for stability testing. I'm sure the stock voltage for these chips is 1.35v by the way, that's what I'm running mine at anyway.
 
not a good start both core temps rise quickly, core 1 from 32 to 51, core 2 45 to 59, as read from Coretemp when running prime. also can you tell me if Vid is relevant as it reads 1.100V but bios is set to default, perhaps thermal paste isn't correct? or would the cooler impact it and I should go and fit the Zalman
 
Crowze said:
Opty 1-series are effectively exactly the same, however they tend to clock much better. My 185 runs nicely at 3GHz, and I'm sure I could up it to 3.2 given some tweaking.
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the highest i can get this 4400 with the standard fan etc is a meesly 2.59 ghz :(
 
dumb question admittedly, but would I see much difference with an opty 170 from my current amd 3700 san diego (s939)? I mostly use my comp for gaming and I read somewhere that I wouldnt see much difference with a dual core for that. I wouldnt mind the ability to assign various progs like guncam and Teamspeak to a different core but other than that would i see a boost? Graphics card is a x1950xt.
 
I did find that my average FPS in a few games seemed to be higher with a dual core CPU but I think the main benefit is when you're running multi apps in windows. I don't think you'd need to set the cores to do certain tasks, I think the load balancing is done automatically.
 
is this too hot?

trying my first o/c and have my Opty running at 2.2Ghz as a first bash at overclocking but wondered if these temps are too high

CPU 64C
Core 1 73C
Core 2 62C
SYS 41C
PWM 84C
Core 63C

M/B is Abit AN8-Sli Fataility

This is also when running Orthos Small FTTs - stress CPU test
 
If it's the one with the heatpipes then probably not, I only saw a 1-2C difference going to a Freezer 64 Pro, and to be honest it's not worth spending £30+ on a high-end cooler just to get another 100MHz. What thermal compound did you use - the stock one isn't the best in the world and AS5 properly applied should improve things a fair bit.
 
I am using Arctic 5 as the paste but had to clear off the exisiting paste off
the cooler with the heatpipes but I may need to remove and clean as I have read that you need to use a particular cleaner to ensure the surfaces are free of all garbage before applying the AF5, is this correct and would that make a difference?
 
guys, one other thing if there is too much paste applied i.e. about 1 inch down the centre of the CPU would that affect the temp performance. I have read various articles that state you should only apply about a grain of rice size at the centre of the CPU, if that is the case would my 'size' impact the temp performance
 
birelwf said:
trying my first o/c and have my Opty running at 2.2Ghz as a first bash at overclocking but wondered if these temps are too high

CPU 64C
Core 1 73C
Core 2 62C
SYS 41C
PWM 84C
Core 63C

M/B is Abit AN8-Sli Fataility

This is also when running Orthos Small FTTs - stress CPU test
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could be bad ihs contact, when i got my opteron i had high ish temps and then removed the ihs and saw a small drop in temps, in the 3-5c region.
as for the 2 temps being different its odd since the dual core implementation is a native one as in when u take the heat spreadder off you see one big massive core and not 2 smaller cores like the pentium D's had. so i can;t see why the temps of the 2 cores shoul dbe different.
 
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