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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread

Cheers Pneumonic! :D . . . now just gotta figure out whats going on with gareth's DDR3 (his second set) and zoomee's DDR3 (first set) . . .

All I can think of at this moment is to test the system with one stick at a time? . . . also is 1t standard issue on AMD/DDR3? :confused:
 
technically, where (On AM3) is the added strain placed when changing the memory from 2t to 1t? . . . is that the IMC or DIMMs? (or both) :confused:

First I've heard of B.E.M.P (Black Edition Memory Profile) :D

p.s: Gurusan did a quick core test with Battlefield BC2, nice! :)

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zoomee: you gonna have to dig deep I think, your board is "utterly" brand new and as such will almost certainly require some fine-tuning . . . . I do believe there is an ASUS engineer out there right now working late Friday night getting some updated BIOS code going! :D

Obviously I'm not saying your hardware problem is down to a early BIOS but having used a few "release" boards in the past I can attest that a lot of teething problems appear to get sorted quite quickly! :cool:
 
Hang in there Gareth, your showing tremendous "resolve" . . . if you don't get a fix soon I don't see any other way forward except for swapping out the ram? :( . . . do you know anyone who could loan you a set of DDR3 for testing purposes, that would help avoid paying out money for something you don't actually need (if the problem lay elsewhere?) . . .

Pneumonic: thanks for the 1t/2t info! :)

zoomee: You still had no joy?
 
@ Everyone else who isn't trouble-shooting, I would be ever so grateful if a few of you could download and run OCCT 3.1.0 for me (as shown in post #622), I want to view your vCore graphs and see how smooth/wobbly your CPU voltages are! :)
 
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I'd appreciate a few results by the end of the weekend but I think you have enough on your plate! . . . It sounds like you have some really weird thing going on?, stable, not stable, stable etc :confused: . . . Did you unplug the audio cable from the back of the PC?
 
Nice one gareth! :) . . . I think in your boots (for troubleshooting purposes) I wouldn't change one setting for a day or so and chill out with some gaming etc, I'll get your medal in the post! :D
 
Gareth: I was wondering about your OCCT vCore ripple results, is that the same figure you see in CPU-z? . . . does the vCore "fluctuate" at all? . . . I ask because I've not ever seen 0% ripple and I am wondering if perhaps the wrong sensor is selected in OCCT?

gurusan: Did you just suggest an oscilloscope for accurate vCore readings! :D . . . nice results and screenie, you forget to include your name! :)

eddyc: Thanks a lot for that Loadline info, it basically reduced the vDrop (nice!) and the vDroop (nice!) but the Ripple was unaffected (boo!), it's not really causing me a problem but I prefere flatlines heh . . . re the Adaptive Anti-Aliasing thing, I've never touched a setting in the catalyst control centre apart from OverDrive! (is there any good stuff in there?) :D

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Just to mention again, if anyone has any spare "testing" time I'd be grateful if a couple more people could run the OCCT test and lemme see the vCore chart please! :)

OCCT 3.1.0 here

My results here

As has been mentioned by gurusan these results may not be accurate but I still wouldn't mind getting some comparisons, only seens Gareths so far . .
 
Lol! Pneumonic :D . . . Is this "rig in pieces" overclocking related? . . . I am reminded of the scene at the end of the Blue's Brothers where the car just falls apart after being pushed to the brink! :p
 
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liamcrane: Hello and welcome to the thread! :) . . . looks like you have some nice hardware there so you come to the right place . . . It is generally expected that people just joining a thread read it first so that's what you should do (post #1 here). . . please make sure you read the "Welcome Post" here and there is a really basic starter guide here . . . It should take you one to two hours to catch up . . . if we don't do it this way then the same info gets repeated again and again . . . good luck! :cool:
 
Hello liamcrane, glad you found some of the info helpful, I agree the lads have knocked out some good results! :) . . . I'd leave the ram at the default 800MHz setting and slowly change the Ht Ref. Clock in BIOS up from [200] to [266], this will get the memory up to DDR2-1066 speeds. Before you adjust the Ht Ref. Clock change the CPU-NB multi, HT Multi and CPU multi *down* a few notches unless other wise they will all be overclocked . . better to take it in smaller steps . . . p.s: I'm not sure how you missed it but I am trying to avoid excessive quoting in this one specific thread (as mentioned in the welcome post) can you please edit post #824 to not include an excessive quote please ;)
 
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