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AMD Phennon II X6

I loved my 1090t rig with my GTX470 - those were the days :D If I hadn't have stopped PC gaming I would probably still have my 1090t, though probably would have changed GPU by now.
 
I've bought my PII 960T out of retirement for my second PC. Unfortunately, the board is a bit naff and won't unlock the extra cores. It tries but just hangs.

It's overclocking very well though, ~4.2 ghz on the core, 3000 NB and it's running 8gb 1866 in dual channel @ CL9. Very quiet too under a Be quiet shadow rock 2 cooler.

I'm going to pair it with 2 x 7870s in crossfire that are going very cheap second hand.
 
I've had a good overclocking session over the weekend with a new M5A99X EVO motherboard from the MM.

960T @ 6 cores: 4.2 ghz, 2800NB
1866 ram @ 9-9-9-27-30

A constant >60fps on all of the games tried so far at highest settings. It works best when the game makes use of all the cores, like tomb raider. Grid Autosport was cpu bottlenecked with ~65% usage on each card. It didn't matter though as the fps was ~90 on a 60hz screen.
 
jbh110tdi said:
sweet. Im needing to have a go at overclocking mine. did you need to increase the voltage any?
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Yeah, I need ~1.55v for 4.2. That's using an offset of about +0.268 and using normal llc.

CPU-NB is using offset +0.2

The ram is team group vengeance 2133 running at 1866 with a voltage bump to 1.6 in order to do CL9.

It's passed 30 mins of OCCT large data set.

I used 280 bus.

If you need any help, let me know.
 
I had a wee play earlier and I got the 1090t running 3.6ghz on 6 cores. ive not done any bench tests or burn tests yet. will try this later but have noticed it responding faster than normal. not sure how far I can push it till I need to up the volts.
 
I've always run my 1090t at 3.6 - that is as far as it goes on stock voltage. I'm happy with the performance, don't need anything more.
 
Sounds about right, mine ran at 3.7GHz at stock volts.

Edit: It's still going strong now in my Dad's PC, but as he's only using the stock cooler it's back at stock.
 
yea thinking mine will sit at 3.6 at the moment until I upgrade.

Ive been running the 1090t since my 8350 died.
still tempted by getting an 9590 to put into my board but also been looking at an i5 4690k bundle.
just ive got a gigabyte 990xa ud3 board sitting that was going to get built with the 1090t before the 8350 died on me hence im running it in my sabertooth board now.
 
jbh110tdi said:
yea thinking mine will sit at 3.6 at the moment until I upgrade.

Ive been running the 1090t since my 8350 died.
still tempted by getting an 9590 to put into my board but also been looking at an i5 4690k bundle.
just ive got a gigabyte 990xa ud3 board sitting that was going to get built with the 1090t before the 8350 died on me hence im running it in my sabertooth board now.
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Don't bother wasting your money on an fx9590 unless you are getting it cheap and know how to tune them, get yourself a 2014/15 -fx8320/fx8320e and clock it with ease saving yourself money.
 
LOL @ 9590

I just done that stupid idea too!

got the CPU, it was hot, got a better cooler, it was too heavy, got a bigger case, it was too big, realised I was 500 worse off for a CPU that was only going to run at the speed I have my 8350 at anyway.

Decided to just get a refund for all my bits

Maybe I might consider the 9590 one day, if Liquid nitrogen is the normal stock cooler, but until then, I went that route and learned the hard way,
 
I had an 8350 for a couple of years in my main rig. To get the most out of it you do need to spend a lot on cooling and you need active cooling on the vrms.

I had mine at 5.1 under water with a sabertooth board.
 
pandem0nium said:
I had an 8350 for a couple of years in my main rig. To get the most out of it you do need to spend a lot on cooling and you need active cooling on the vrms.

I had mine at 5.1 under water with a sabertooth board.
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Im using the corsair H80i and being honest I never had any temperature issues with the 8350. again im using the sabertooth R2.0 board and haven't had any temp problems. I wouldn't say Ive ever had my system running at max load unless I done a bench test but even at that I didint do that often.
I had the 8350 running at 4.2 most of the time and was happy with how my system ran.
 
RETIRED. After years of good service my Phenom II X6 1090T has been retired and is now taking a good earned rest sitting on my shelf - until I sell it on ebay.

I replaced it with a brand new FX 8350 for £120. There are a few new games coming out soon that I want to enjoy to the max e.g. Fall Out 4 and Rebel Galaxy.

I seem to have it running stable at 4.7GHz @ 1.47V on a corsair H110 cooler. Pleased with that :)
 
I have my 8350 at 5.0GHZ 24/7 on the same cooler, never goes over 52C after a few hours of gaming

Just have to keep an eye on the VRM temps as they get hot when stress testing but for every day use they don't get as hot
 
JonFlower said:
RETIRED. After years of good service my Phenom II X6 1090T has been retired and is now taking a good earned rest sitting on my shelf - until I sell it on ebay.
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hopefully if my 8350 gets replaced my old 1090t will get put into another motherboard ive got sitting. if this happens im going to build another machine from it for my mate.

having a look on eBay there's only 2 1090t's on there and both are buy it now's and priced around the £90 mark..
 
I'm currently assembling a Skylake build, but typing this on my Faithful Phenom II x4 965 build. Served me excellently, still holding up well, but obviously showing its age.

It won't get the honourable discharge it deserves, I shall press it into service as a Media server in junction with 2gb 7850.
 
Ive just found a fx 6100 in my box of bits. but it has a pin missing. I might try it in a board though to see if it runs.
if it does I might just keep my old 1090t and get another board to put it in for doing media as well.
 
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