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AMD® Athlon™ II Overclocking Thread
- Thread starter Big.Wayne
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Hello bakes0310,
I suggest once your hardware arrives if you can't find a suitable thread then get it started yourself!
Sadly as much as I would like to accommodate AMD® Phenom™ II owners this thread will be complex enough with just AMD® Athlon™ II series which itself is already spread across two seperate pieces of silicon . . . although they have enough in common with each other to merit sharing a single thread . . .
To anybody else that is reading . . . this thread is intended to be an educational resource where we can as as group learn & document how to overclock/tweak these chips to their maximum potential. I will be happy to provide what little knowledge I posses to help each and every one of you get the best from your Athlon™ II system . . .
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Hey Cat,
thanks for the link, still early days there on Chews* system but the new baby dual core does look very promising indeed! . . . I personally looking forward to seeing any of the AMD® Athlon™ II series overclocked and proven stable at 4GHz +
Hi PhoenixUK,
oops sorry I neglected to mention that!
The system is based around an ASUS M4A785D-M PRO which is an affordable (AM2+) AMD® 785G chipset that uses DDR2 memory . . . for the money I'm really suprised how nice it handles . . .
Ah ok cool
. . . I have not that much experience of AMD® chipsets and therefore don't really know how they stack-up/compare with each other, I basically just bought what I thought was a reasonably priced board and went with ASUS because they have always worked well for me personally!
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I'm at about 1.50vCore with 3.6GHz so didn't push it any further yet, may do soon though, the above clock is "home environment conditions" air cooled with a ThermoLab Baram . . . about 36°C - 37°C full load so no probs there! . . . not sure how much pure CPU clocking my board can handle as it says 125W TDP suppport?
Anything with Level-3 cache belongs in the Phenom™ II thread!
Hello Hamoodii,
just to let you know your posting your results in the wrong thread, this is the AMD® Athlon™ II results only!
Would you be so kind to copy your results post over to the Phenom™ II thread and then edit/delete your posts in this one down to a smile please, thanks in advance for your co-operation!
just to let you know your posting your results in the wrong thread, this is the AMD® Athlon™ II results only!
- Sargas
- Regor
- Rana
- Propus
Would you be so kind to copy your results post over to the Phenom™ II thread and then edit/delete your posts in this one down to a smile please, thanks in advance for your co-operation!
Ahhh happy days!
After I composed a few "pleading" emails AMD® have kindly sent me a Propus 630 for "review" purposes!
Hoping to get it installed later on after real-life chores are completed (priorities don't ya know!)
It will be interesting to see how this chip compares to it's contemporaries (Phenom™ II, Core™ i3 etc) and also how well it overclocks! . . . . My testbed is based on the AM2+ ASUS M4A785D-M PRO and 4GB(2x2GB) of Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 . . . . As far as I know the testbed is good up to a HT Ref. of 266MHz/267MHz so along with the 14x multi of the Propus 630 that should get the processing frequency up to about 3724MHz- 3738MHz . . . at least if the chip is willing!
Unpacking pics to share the *buzz*
After I composed a few "pleading"
emails AMD® have kindly sent me a Propus 630 for "review" purposes!Hoping to get it installed later on after real-life chores are completed (priorities don't ya know!)
It will be interesting to see how this chip compares to it's contemporaries (Phenom™ II, Core™ i3 etc) and also how well it overclocks! . . . . My testbed is based on the AM2+ ASUS M4A785D-M PRO and 4GB(2x2GB) of Kingston HyperX DDR2-1066 . . . . As far as I know the testbed is good up to a HT Ref. of 266MHz/267MHz so along with the 14x multi of the Propus 630 that should get the processing frequency up to about 3724MHz- 3738MHz . . . at least if the chip is willing!
Unpacking pics to share the *buzz*
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Lol good one El Jimben!I didn't know that you were a singer Wayne
. . . I make no secret of my poor spelling and even running my posts through a spell-check cannot save me sometimes! . . . . fixed! Re: the Propus 630 I'm looking forward to seeing how it handles also, pretty decent quad core and priced very reasonably too! . . . . sadly I am GPU-less at present so I will just be concentrating on clocking/stability and synthetic benchmarks but hopefully the results will prove useful!
AMD® Athlon™ II X4 630
£83.99 inc
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Hi Pendu, I wasn't aware that AMD® Athlon™ II had a C3 stepping? . . . I know the AMD® Phenom™ II have that?
Just getting a few beers down me and running a few benchies with the Rana b4 ripping my machine part for the swap out . . . sorry for the delay guys I'm not the most speedy overclocker but I'll do my best to get some results (benches/stability tests) up soon!
Just getting a few beers down me and running a few benchies with the Rana b4 ripping my machine part for the swap out . . . sorry for the delay guys I'm not the most speedy overclocker but I'll do my best to get some results (benches/stability tests) up soon!
Hi drogon, I've not had much experience of unlocking but from what I have read in some cases a core/or cache can unlock but not work correctly no matter what you do? . . . . and in other cases the flakey core/ or cache works fine once you boost the relevant voltages!
Not much more I can add really apart from have you tried starting off using your AMD® Athlon™ II X3 435 as a triple core and overclocking that before dabbling in ye mystical unlock?
Not much more I can add really apart from have you tried starting off using your AMD® Athlon™ II X3 435 as a triple core and overclocking that before dabbling in ye mystical unlock?
Hi Guys! . . . thanks for your comments!
In case I didn't make it "abundantly" obvious already I'll just state again that I am a slow overclocker . . using affordable equipment (inc quiet air cooling) and I'm only submitting "proven" stable results! . . . anything I post up in this thread will be realistic for 24/7 usage by any other "mortals" at home
I can say that MHz numbers can be quite misleading and even running at a "humble" speed of 3.5GHz the Propus quad-core is "computationally" the fastest 24/7 computer I've ever used!
There is still more headroom in the chip for extra speed but it's taking me a while to "validate" the stability . . . there will be no ragged-edge suicide results here, just solid, realistic 24/7 clocks that can be reproduced by anyone at home who is also using affordable kit alongside quiet aircooling . . . . . stay tuned!
In case I didn't make it "abundantly" obvious already I'll just state again that I am a slow overclocker . . using affordable equipment (inc quiet air cooling) and I'm only submitting "proven" stable results! . . . anything I post up in this thread will be realistic for 24/7 usage by any other "mortals" at home
I can say that MHz numbers can be quite misleading and even running at a "humble" speed of 3.5GHz the Propus quad-core is "computationally" the fastest 24/7 computer I've ever used!
There is still more headroom in the chip for extra speed but it's taking me a while to "validate" the stability . . . there will be no ragged-edge suicide results here, just solid, realistic 24/7 clocks that can be reproduced by anyone at home who is also using affordable kit alongside quiet aircooling . . . . . stay tuned!
Hehe Trunks9486!
. . . I'm so sorry I am the tortoise of the overclocking world! . . . I don't know how to whack a new processor in and achieve it's max stable overclock quickly . . . also having been on LGA775 for three years it's taking me a while to get a good feel for AM2+ clocking, three/four months with it and I am still fairly nOObie heh! . . . Apart from the Prime Blending I am using the machine as my workstation and giving it plenty of real-world usage, just in case there are some little "gremlins" that I'm not picking up with the Blending/OCCT/IBT/LinX'ing! . . . . I gotta be sure the clocks/info I share is good and robust! Anyway thanks for the kick up the butt, I'll try and get this testing done as quickly as I can, apart from the stability testing there is also the benching, it's more time consuming than it looks!
. . . . here's a little Fritz to "nibble" on . . .
Cheek! . . . my board cost £57.99 I'll have you know!
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Just another stability shot of the above clock, at this speed the machine is very stable indeed! . . . had a teething problem once I started working on the CPU-NB/HT Link speeds so am having to knock out 24 hour Blends to flush out the rogue setting . . . still a bit more to come I hope!
- 3724/2128/2128/1064 (24 hour Blend/OCCT/LinX/Folding 3 days, yada yada . . . stable basically!)
- 3724/2394/2128/1064 (12 hour Blend passed, now retesting for 24 hours)
- 3724/2394/2394/1064 (Rebooted after 20 hours Blend)
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