do all opty 146's clock?

[eljaes]

hello, just wondering if all opty 146's clock as i have two (panic bought when they were running out whilst drunk!) unfortunately, i dont have a rig set up to test them but my mate does. However, he was going to take my spare one off my hands & decided to test them both but has told me neither of them will go above 2.4 no matter what voltages they have. One is a CABNE 0545 & the other is a CAB2E 0545. Is this likely to be true? The board they are being tested on is a DFI Lan party (top of the range) which i have purchased from him so i did expect to get somewhere near 2.8 on at least one. The only poor quality componant in the set up they were tested on is the PSU which is only 400watts. He is pretty good at clocking & sugests that the PSU may be the problem but i am starting to think maybe i have two CPU's that dont want to clock. Any replies would be helpfull

 

[eljaes]

I agree, there are some poor CAB2E 0545s about, but not that bad!

The CABNE 0545s are supposed to be less variable and better than CAB2E 0545s.

I run mine on a 425W PSU.

what stepping do you have & what is it running at on that PSU?

 

[eljaes]

I would quite happily take the opteron and test it for you make sure it isnt the ram/psu/mobo etc *





*You may get my 3200+ in return (does 2.5ghz anyway lol)

Nice try, but i am now starting tio think that maybe i should be testing both these for myself

 

[eljaes]

Doesnt that tell you something ? if both cpu's with DIFFERENT steppings perform in exactly the same manner, it means its his system thats at fault. Elementary.

yeah, good point - must admit i hadn't really thought about it like that, but i suppose that makes perfect sense. just have to get the rest of my kit now to be able to test them myself. All i need now is a PSU, Graphics card, Sata drive, better memory......... oh the list goes on & on