Soldato
You really struck lucky with that CPU, it's a beauty!
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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread
- Thread starter Big.Wayne
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Looks like my suspicions of my dying 965BE are proving to be ever more true. At first it decided it was upstable with CnQ, fine, I'll run it with it turned off, and it's been fine for the last month, until now. I recently overclocked to 3.7ghz and it was stable for over 12 hours of prime, then the other day is crashed. I put it back to stock and it's just crashed again. Now running underclocked at 3.2ghz at stock volts.
Has anyone ever had a 7F BSOD for any other reason other than an unstable CPU?
Has anyone ever had a 7F BSOD for any other reason other than an unstable CPU?
Soldato
Yeah I think, sort of... Perfectly healthy Athlon X2 that was overheating due to a broken lug on the heatsink mount on an am2 board.
How are your temps?
How are your temps?
Soldato
Memtest coming up clean?
Soldato
I would generally leave it on for a Black Edition overclocked via multiplier, as the CPU P-states run at stock. Some motherboards automatically disable it when overclocking though.
For bus overclocking CnQ is usually a nightmare as every p-state is overclocked and you have very little control over it.
For bus overclocking CnQ is usually a nightmare as every p-state is overclocked and you have very little control over it.
Been dabbling in OC
current setup is;
AMD Phenom II x4 965BE C3 125w
Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
Patrtiot G Series Sector 5 4GB DDR3 2000MHz (PGV34G2000ELK)
XFX ATi 5790
Been fiddling while reading the AMD Overdrive Manual.
CURRENT SETTINGS
CPU FID: 17x
CPU VID: 1.40v
CPU Actual: 3.40 Ghz
CPU NB FID: 2400Mhz
CPU NB VID: 1.150v
MEM FID: 1600Mhz
MEM VID: 1.65v
MEM TIMINGS: 9-9-9-24 T1
COOLING: Stock Cooler
TEMPS IDLE: 40c
TEMPS LOAD: 50c
I'll be pushing for a higher multiplier tonight, i managed a good result using FSB instead, which was rock solid.
FSB TEST SETTINGS
(NOT CURRENTLY IN USE)
CPU FID: 17x
CPU VID: 1.45v
CPU Actual: 3.91 Ghz
FSB: 230Mhz
CPU NB FID: 2301Mhz
CPU NB VID: 1.150v
MEM FID: 1534Mhz
MEM VID: 1.65v
MEM TIMINGS: 9-9-9-24 T2
COOLING: Stock Cooler
TEMPS IDLE: 42c
TEMPS LOAD: 55c
can anyone shed any light on what is the best OC whether the multiplier or FSB is best i imagine Multiplier?
It's my preferred option as i want to get the most out of the RAM, thus increasing the CPU NB Mhz, as i don't want to run the whole computer out of spec, just to get the High speed RAM working and maybe squeeze a bit more out the CPU. bearing in mind it's pretty fast anyways.
current setup is;
AMD Phenom II x4 965BE C3 125w
Gigabyte GA-790FXTA-UD5
Patrtiot G Series Sector 5 4GB DDR3 2000MHz (PGV34G2000ELK)
XFX ATi 5790
Been fiddling while reading the AMD Overdrive Manual.
CURRENT SETTINGS
CPU FID: 17x
CPU VID: 1.40v
CPU Actual: 3.40 Ghz
CPU NB FID: 2400Mhz
CPU NB VID: 1.150v
MEM FID: 1600Mhz
MEM VID: 1.65v
MEM TIMINGS: 9-9-9-24 T1
COOLING: Stock Cooler
TEMPS IDLE: 40c
TEMPS LOAD: 50c
I'll be pushing for a higher multiplier tonight, i managed a good result using FSB instead, which was rock solid.
FSB TEST SETTINGS
(NOT CURRENTLY IN USE)
CPU FID: 17x
CPU VID: 1.45v
CPU Actual: 3.91 Ghz
FSB: 230Mhz
CPU NB FID: 2301Mhz
CPU NB VID: 1.150v
MEM FID: 1534Mhz
MEM VID: 1.65v
MEM TIMINGS: 9-9-9-24 T2
COOLING: Stock Cooler
TEMPS IDLE: 42c
TEMPS LOAD: 55c
can anyone shed any light on what is the best OC whether the multiplier or FSB is best i imagine Multiplier?
It's my preferred option as i want to get the most out of the RAM, thus increasing the CPU NB Mhz, as i don't want to run the whole computer out of spec, just to get the High speed RAM working and maybe squeeze a bit more out the CPU. bearing in mind it's pretty fast anyways.
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Soldato
Use the multi, you can work out your max core and cpu-nb independently then. While keeping the rest of your PC in spec.
Set your CPU-NB to 2000, and work on getting your max CPU Core clock with a combination of multi and core voltage.
Once you have that, leave it overclocked and work on brining your CPU-NB clock multi up (adding voltage when needed) until you have maxed that out as well.
Job's a good'un.
Do make sure you turn off Cool and Quiet as well!
LinX/IBT is a good test of stability, 20 loops at 2048MB, all the results should be the same, and the time taken and GFlops should be very close to each other. The full 20 loops will take about 40mins or so.
Good luck!
Set your CPU-NB to 2000, and work on getting your max CPU Core clock with a combination of multi and core voltage.
Once you have that, leave it overclocked and work on brining your CPU-NB clock multi up (adding voltage when needed) until you have maxed that out as well.
Job's a good'un.
Do make sure you turn off Cool and Quiet as well!
LinX/IBT is a good test of stability, 20 loops at 2048MB, all the results should be the same, and the time taken and GFlops should be very close to each other. The full 20 loops will take about 40mins or so.
Good luck!
hey all i have a 1090T
and a asus pro/usb3/sata 6gb/s MOBO i forgot its name but it has the OC button and core unlocker thingy
750 W power
6870
2 sticks of 4 gb platnium ocz mem 1600mhz but runs at liek 1333mhz sum reason
wondering if anyone can give me a good setting on a OC
normally now i get 27c and maybe 50 max... ever got it once
would be great if anyone help me achieve 3.8 ghz or even 4ghz
without it crashing or anything :/
also is it safer to jsut use multiplyer or
change the mhz on cpu to?
and a asus pro/usb3/sata 6gb/s MOBO i forgot its name but it has the OC button and core unlocker thingy
750 W power
6870
2 sticks of 4 gb platnium ocz mem 1600mhz but runs at liek 1333mhz sum reason
wondering if anyone can give me a good setting on a OC
normally now i get 27c and maybe 50 max... ever got it once
would be great if anyone help me achieve 3.8 ghz or even 4ghz
without it crashing or anything :/
also is it safer to jsut use multiplyer or
change the mhz on cpu to?
Hi guys,
Not had an AMD since a Athlon64 X2, so please bare with me. I just finished a build for the kitchen PC. Consisting of Phenom II X2 555 BE and Asus M4A88T-M mATX.
My question is about the behaviour of a failed core unlock.
After activating ACC, the bios does recognises a Phenom II X4 B55 (and says it is a successful unlock) but it does not boot into windows. Does this mean it would not unlock or should I bother messing around with Vcore etc.
What are the values if i was to attempt to unlock each individually. On the top of my head there was -2%, 0 and something else.
Not had an AMD since a Athlon64 X2, so please bare with me. I just finished a build for the kitchen PC. Consisting of Phenom II X2 555 BE and Asus M4A88T-M mATX.
My question is about the behaviour of a failed core unlock.
After activating ACC, the bios does recognises a Phenom II X4 B55 (and says it is a successful unlock) but it does not boot into windows. Does this mean it would not unlock or should I bother messing around with Vcore etc.
What are the values if i was to attempt to unlock each individually. On the top of my head there was -2%, 0 and something else.
Soldato
I thought my Athlon X2 5000+ to Phenom FX-5000 unlock was never going to make it into Windows but it was eventually managing 8 hour Prime blends with a 50% overclock (even though it had faulty cache on one core - gave it enough vCore and it eventually decided to play ball). Get rid of C1E and Cool n Quiet for starters.
Consider bumping up the CPU-NB voltage and VCore, as per the guidelines here: http://sites.amd.com/us/Documents/AMD_Dragon_AM3_AM2_Performance_Tuning_Guide.pdfon page 18. Keep checking temps too.
Given that you have an Asus Board, you should be able to experiment with shutting down different cores individually. If it can't make it as a quad - it may be fine as a Tri.
Consider bumping up the CPU-NB voltage and VCore, as per the guidelines here: http://sites.amd.com/us/Documents/AMD_Dragon_AM3_AM2_Performance_Tuning_Guide.pdfon page 18. Keep checking temps too.
Given that you have an Asus Board, you should be able to experiment with shutting down different cores individually. If it can't make it as a quad - it may be fine as a Tri.
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Ok so i've decided to try and clock my phenom II.
Last thing i clocked was on the 939 platform so need a little point in the right direction.
Currently running prime with above settings, only been a few mins tho
Ok so i had it at 4ghz, booted into windows and ran super pi no problem but would not run prime at all, just BSOD. This was the same with volts changes even upto 1.5v so i'm guessing something else is maybe stopping it as up'ing the volts didnt make a difference?
Any pointers ?
Last thing i clocked was on the 939 platform so need a little point in the right direction.
Currently running prime with above settings, only been a few mins tho
Ok so i had it at 4ghz, booted into windows and ran super pi no problem but would not run prime at all, just BSOD. This was the same with volts changes even upto 1.5v so i'm guessing something else is maybe stopping it as up'ing the volts didnt make a difference?
Any pointers ?
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