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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread

I have too :D Only a couple times though.

Anyway I came home to find some goodies! :D Thanks Wayne!!!!!! Also my new x2 555 :D Which I have @ 4GHz 1.552V unlocked to 4 cores. Not done any stability testing yet as I only booted twice. Will do some more testing and try to lower the voltage a bit.

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@gurusan

Pfff, you should buy i7 instead because 555 unlocked to quad is slow, at least that's what one infamous guy here says ; ).

Might not be fully stable at this high, think max I had 6-8hr prime+ was around 3.92 mark but I have crappy cooling and those are very temp sensitive so you might do better.

Goodluck with your new toy ! : )

PS. I didn't see the umbrellas !? Dammit ! : O
 
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Hey all, trying to get all the bits n bobs sent out although I can only carry so much to work every day! :D . . . thanks for the photo gurusan as I didn't get too see how the brolly looked when open, not too shabby! :)

Just gonna get that LLC article read and have some dinner I think . . . . PhoenixUK I'm not sure what's irking you so much but you sound a bit riled to me? :D . . . don't worry about it . . . . I'm hoping we can keep this thread as chilled as possible although I'm aware we all have a bad day! ;) . . . anyway lets increase the peace and happy clocking all!

@ All, please feel free to direct any new thread members to the "Welcome" post . . . I'll just highlight one bit again as I feel quite strongly about this . . .

"I would just like to inform you there is every possibility that this thread will be viewed by a lot of people around the world including maybe representatives from AMD® etc . . . I am hoping we can demonstrate what fantastic, friendly and capable bunch of overclockers the crew @ OcUK are"

Basically all contributers to this thread are representing OcUK forums to the World so lets try out best to have as much "unity" as possible :cool:
 
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Hey all, trying to get all the bits n bobs sent out although I can only carry so much to work every day! :D . . . thanks for the photo gurusan as I didn't get too see how the brolly looked when open, not too shabby! :)
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I'm still going to laugh at him if I ever see him using that in public :)
 
It's awesome. It's really well made and light and even says that it was tested so that it withstands winds with a force of up to 9.8kg before the umbrella flips the other way. awesomeness
 
Well, I hate to say it but I'm taking my clock down for a while. Those bootup BSODs are keep playing on my mind, althogh they're of little inconvenience they do seem to have become more frequent of late.

Have backed off the 300FSB for a bit so I can see how things are with RAM at stock voltages.

So I'll be starting by trundling along at a mere 282x11 for 3.1GHz for now.
 
Hey Gareth, nice to see your still sane after the past few days of troubleshooting you been going through! :p . . . I'm very excited at the prospect of you getting that chip up to 4GHz, I know you been edging towards it the past month or two! :) . . . I wish I could help you with getting the DDR3 tweaked but I'm still on AM2+/DDR2 so anything beyond DDR2-1200 is beyond my comprehension at this time! :o

I've been having some similar weird BSODs to yourself where one time Prime Blend works fine and the next run it's blue-screen-city (at the same voltage), basically inconsistent results with no "obvious" reasons why? :confused:

Is this the same BSOD as you have been getting?

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A few questions for you:

  1. Which O/S have these BSODs been occuring in? (both Win xp & Win 7 64bit or?)
  2. Have you manually done anything with the AMD® processor drivers?
  3. Were you running "HWMonitor_114" during testing when the BSOD occured?
 
I've mainly been getting 0x0000007e BSODs, never while running stability tests only while booting up, on W7 x64.

Gone back to testing by deliberately restarting multiple times. A drop in clock speed and boost to vCore seems to have helped.

Big Wayne - Have you had a look in Event Viewer recently? I've found it pretty handy while tracking what problems are. Machine Check Exceptions are often preceded by warnings before you get an actual STOP error.
 
Hmm odd. At 3.3GHz I got 5.7 w7 CPU score (which I'd realised was on the low side). At 3.1GHz it's 7.3. Clearly something wasn't happy.
 
Gareth, I am wondering if its possible for you to do some testing *without* running hwmonitor? . . . I'm only working on a hunch but I am suspicious that it is causing a problem? . . . do you have an item in device Manager (system devices) named ATK0110 ACPI UTILITY? . . . I think it may be an ASUS only thing but would be handy if you could check please! :)

Also one last question, is your PC connected directly to the wall socket or do you have some kinda surge-protector/multi-pug thingamajig? :D

Uriel, yeah I check Event Viewer a lot although I don't see any nasties in there. What is it you are seeing in there? yellow or red warning type things or?

I'm on tenderhooks at the moment, been running a blend since 2:00am last night, just passed the point where it rebooted before (20 hours), now 22 hours! . . . really hoping this passes, only thing I changed since the last run was a slight increase in vCore and didn't use hwmonitor (just core temp) . . .

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In event viewer I sometimes get Corrected Machine Check Warnings pior to a Prime Error or BSOD.

Difficult to spot with my dodgy unlocked CPU though. It throws up 3 warnings a minute unlocked :rolleyes:. Not a sausage when locked though, even at higher clock speeds.
 
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