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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread

Hey gareth170, cool man then you should just take some time out and relax as much as possible as that was a horrid bit of trouble-shooting you had to go through last week! . . . I am interested which setting you changed on your GF so that you feel better after talking to her? . . . I dunno if I am doing something wrong but every time I talk to my GF she makes me feel worse lol! . . . is it a BIOS setting or do I need to improve my cooling? :D

gurusan: thanks for that, I was thinking about the power regulators and stuff . . . your into all that right? . . . can you tell by the "bitz" that are soldered around the CPU socket how good they are i.e are you down with your power components? . . . I'm not sure how to determine from looking at a boards specs & photos how good the PWM/MOSFETS/Power-Regulators are? . . . I'm thinking it should be possible to know which board will calmly deliver a stable 1.6vCore + and which one will blow up etc? . . . any tips? :D
 
Martini1991. for mine its tmpin1 = cpu, tmpin0 = motherboard, tmpin2 = maybe cpu-nb (not sure)



i think yours is tmpin1 also..

Big.Wayne. all i can say is shes a hot dancer , maybe u need to change some settings or even buy her a gift that always works, lol
 
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Wayne: TBH all that I've said is pretty much the extent of my knowledge on this topic....but in general, fewer power phases means that there will be more current going through each phase, and they'll start to heat up which will obviously reduce lifespan and AFAIK also reduce the quality of the power delivered to the CPU. This is why some of the higher end boards have so many phases, so that the load is spread across more components.

I'm sure that if you were interested you could look on the top of the mosfet and find out the part number...then look up its absolute maximum specs.

Also you'll notice that the blown pics were only from motherboards with no cooling on the mosfets. Since they should all have over-current protection I think the only thing that really affects the longevity of these components is temperature.
 
Prime with a game splits the load... I.E, the CPU had less load, and it only happened when playing Mass effect.
I'll just put it on at 12, and check in the morning when I go to sleep lol =/.
 
I'll not come to any conclusions until I do a test tonight to morninh.
I.E, uninterrupted.

If that fails, then it's back to the drawing board XD.
 
It GSOD.
GSOD is a bug with the 5XXX series.

I'm not even saying I'm stable lol, I'm simply saying, I'll do a test 12-8, if that fails, I'll go back to the drawing board.
 
Guys remember Martini1991 is the youngest member of the team so it's expected he will have his own ideas about certain things, handle with care! :)

Spread the love! :D
 
For clarification, I'm not deeming it's stable..
GSOD appeared on my 5770 crossfire at stock setting's.

If it crashes tonight, then I'll happily say I'm an idiot and it's not stable ;).
 
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gareth170 & Martini1991: Would it be possible for the pair of you to get along a bit better, you both upset each other even before you entered this thread! :p . . . enoughs enough now, your both great and both respectable types so can you please both just say sorry and shake hands . . . . please! :)
 
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