Latest Opteron Clock

Hyper · 21 Feb 2006 at 17:51

Yes, i can get into windows with lower volts but it goes funny when i restart.

farooqm · 21 Feb 2006 at 19:00

Hmm.. I'll check mine in the next few days.. using [email protected] and see what I get.

sepulchre · 21 Feb 2006 at 19:17

I've had mine running at this for the last few weeks.

Prime stable. Great chips these 0540 FPAW's!

Dreadi · 21 Feb 2006 at 19:34

Agent WD40 said:
Yup, you want to set it to a blent test (lots of RAM tested) and then leave it for 24 hours and if its survived, your rock stable...

Agent

i did just over 15 hours sp2004, all test at once, is this good enough, will run SnM tomorrow.

farooqm · 21 Feb 2006 at 22:02

sepulchre said:
I've had mine running at this for the last few weeks.

Prime stable. Great chips these 0540 FPAW's!

Nice one... I'd sort of settled with my 24/7 set and stopped messing

, maybe I should start again....what volts does your chip take to get to 3ghz?

sepulchre · 21 Feb 2006 at 22:16

farooqm said:
what volts does your chip take to get to 3ghz?

I bumped it up to 1.45v for 3Ghz, which I was amazed at, given 1.5v+ seems to be the requirement.

I don't run it at 3Ghz though because to do this I had to add another 120mm fan in to the side of the case to increase air flow. tbh I hacked a hole in to a spare side panel and added a fan pretty quick just to see if it would work, whilst 3Ghz was fine there was a nasty vibration on the fan so I took it out.

2.9Ghz will do me

(Until I can be bothered to do the side panel properly)

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 03:23

nice clocking

wish i had that stepping.
i just got a 146 - CACJE 0604CPAW . tryed searching for any 1 who as 1 with same code but no luck. as its so new.

im new to overclocking , i just wanted to know what settings i need to play with to get it clocked to 2.5 & 2.6

thx for any help

farooqm · 22 Feb 2006 at 08:21

sepulchre said:
I bumped it up to 1.45v for 3Ghz, which I was amazed at, given 1.5v+ seems to be the requirement.

I don't run it at 3Ghz though because to do this I had to add another 120mm fan in to the side of the case to increase air flow. tbh I hacked a hole in to a spare side panel and added a fan pretty quick just to see if it would work, whilst 3Ghz was fine there was a nasty vibration on the fan so I took it out.

2.9Ghz will do me (Until I can be bothered to do the side panel properly)

Funny mine took the same to get to 3Ghz (did try with 1.425, it did boot and I was able to use normal windows stuff but was not OCCT or Prime Stable

In the end I though I'd start running it a little lower 2760mhz and leave a little in reserve for when games started to feel slow... Think I might be waiting a while

as everything is silky smoooooootth at the moment... hehehe.

farooqm · 22 Feb 2006 at 08:27

Tosk said:
nice clocking wish i had that stepping.
i just got a 146 - CACJE 0604CPAW . tryed searching for any 1 who as 1 with same code but no luck. as its so new.

im new to overclocking , i just wanted to know what settings i need to play with to get it clocked to 2.5 & 2.6

thx for any help

Depeneds on your board, memory, cooling.
You need to go through the guide and check what you can clock each componant..... Board>Memory>CPU.

Try these guides:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=138583

and if you get bored... here is one monster of a guide... explains everything very nicely.

http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

IF after reading that you still can't overclock then I would stick to your processor defaults... Auto eveything

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 16:57

im thinking of geting a

Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe or a
DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT

but aint sure whats the best to go for. 1 is better for clocking other as 2x16 sli which i proby never use lol

as for the memory ive got 70 quid for that i was thinking of get GeIL 1GB (2x512MB) PC3200 Value duel kit, but dunno if that will be any good for clocking me opty 146. what do u think ? farooqm

btw thx for the links on clocking

oh yea for the cooling i was thinking of geting a Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro

ajgoodfellow · 22 Feb 2006 at 17:01

Go for the Asus board. This is a decent clocker

The Geil Value is good for £70. As for overclocking, you'll need to put the ram on a divider as it won't clock much about about 220Mhz.

I'd consider going for the ASUS A8N-SLI Premium as it is a rather nice board and cheaper and putting the extra towards 2GB of ram - the OCUK Value stuff is well priced.

Again, you'll need to clock this on a divider but this doesn't really hurt the performance of your PC

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 18:19

maybe i should pay abit more in go for the Crucial 1GB (2x512MB) DDR PC4000 Ballistix Dual Channel Kit ?

if it helps? i dont mind paying abit more

thx for the help ajgoodfellow

ajgoodfellow · 22 Feb 2006 at 18:26

That will allow you to run the memory 1:1 with the CPU up to at least 250MHz - you won't have to use dividers then

Dividers don't really hurt performance though and I honestly think that you'll get a larger boost in performance by running 2GB of cheap memory on a divider than 1GB of expensive memory 1:1 with the CPU.

The 2GB kit of Crucial Ballistix memory has suffered a lot of premature failures recently. I don't know if the 1GB kit suffers from it but I'd still be wary about purchasing it. If you want some nice PC4000 memory I'd look at Corsair

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 18:55

hmm what Corsair model should i go for? never used Corsair befor

ajgoodfellow · 22 Feb 2006 at 19:02

I'd go for the XMS4000 memory but I've yet to find it for a good price. OCUK have the XMS4400 memory but it's only a few pounds cheaper than the 2GB kit of PC4000 memory, making it too expensive!

I had a look at OCZ, Mushkin and G Skill but they don't have a reasonably priced PC4000 1GB kit.

I'd personally look at the OcUK Value 2GB (2x1GB) PC3200 184pin DDR Memory Dual Channel Kit (MY-006-OK) for £5 more than the Crucial Ballistix and run it on a divider

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 19:07

ok thx ajgoodfellow, i got the money now for me mobo, just need to save up for the memory now

Mikey1280 · 22 Feb 2006 at 19:38

In terms of the motherboard the Asus is usually very stable but DFIs are great boards for overclocking, I dont think that X16 ports are fully utilised yet and will you be running two graphics cards?
I suppose that the Geil value memory is the best for the money and you can run it on a divider anyway.
The Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro is a brilliant cooler and I would definitely recommend it.

sepulchre · 22 Feb 2006 at 20:11

Freezer 64 Pro is doing the job here, bought for 10 quid from OCUK when they were on special, I find it very quiet especially when left controlled by smart guardian on my DFI board.

As for the memory I'll echo what others have said and say go for a 2Gb cheap kit rather than 1GB expensive stuff. I went for a 1GB kit and now wish I had bought a value 2Gb kit as I only run my memory on a divider at just over 200Mhz (cant recall what it actually is and for some reason CPU-Z has stopped telling me since updating to v1.32 :confused:

). The gods over at DFI-street have done loads of work on proving when it comes to A64 that its raw CPU cycles thats important and dividers dont do any harm - I'll take their word!

Tosk · 22 Feb 2006 at 21:59

thx Mikey1280 & sepulchre i might go for the extra mem then, still unsure of what mobo go for

the only other thing is ive got a Ultra X-Connect 500W but i was told that they aint that good when ruing on the DFI LanParty NF4 SLI-DR EXPERT, ive seen info saying they r ok and ohers sayint there not , i do have a Ultra X-Connect 24pin cable so it should work ok shouldnt it? the rails seem to be ok to

ajgoodfellow · 22 Feb 2006 at 22:03

It'll probably be OK but it's not a native 24-pin PSU which can cause problems with the DFI board. The DFI board also has an EPS 12V connector (8-pin) whereas your PSU has the standard 4 pin connector

Unless you're aiming for huge overclocks (ie phase) I'd stick with the ASUS board