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my phenom940 benchies

Good stuff. Very eager to see some actual forum member results.

I assume you aren't just going to do multi-clocking like the 'tarded review sites?
 
once you get to overclocking I'd suggest checking out some threads on XS as to what you want to be doing to get it to scale well, in short, northbridge clocks. You can clock the core to 5Ghz, but if you don't up the northy from 1.8Ghz it won't scale that well, even at stock 1.8Ghz is a tad low.

What we'll have to see is how the retail chips clock on the northy as if they mostly can do 2.4Ghz on air we'll see some good numbers.

Shame you got a sucky board though :p , only joking, kinda, been getting increasingly frustrated with Gigabyte boards in the past couple years. Don't suppose it has the sb750 chipset does it?
 
ill probably try that first but ill just jump at start at like 3.8 ahaha..

but na ill be doing it properly :-P
 
bought the board cus it was cheap to keep me going until am3 is ready...

got a crosshair atm and i cant use a 940- with that i dont believe, and its the older chipset :-(
 
As mentioned above, dont try clocking it with just the multiplier. That might clock well but results might end up running slower then using northbridge thing.

Find out how high you can get it with just stock volts please :)
 
I'm horrified with the motherboard choice, cool those mosfets or face the burning evil of failure! :eek:

Scare stories aside...
Will the CPU be immediately recognised by the board?
 
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cheap board to keep me goin as said, i shall be cooling them...
ill be trying a few different methods tonite wen i finish work and get fresh o/s installed.
 
I have no idea if mine is coming, got it somewhere cheaper, but missed the cut off apparently, though it ended up getting sent on 1-3 day delivery, no tracking e-mail and no idea if its coming today :(

Only going to try on air to start, my watercooling which I disconnected ages ago has been sat with its manky water still in it for ages, thinking that will take quite some cleaning/flushing out before I can use it :p


Will be interesting to see what results you get, want to see if theres much difference between batch numbers, let us know what yours is and I'll whack mine up when I can.
 
Guys you don't need a brand new SB750 to overclock the Phenom II, the PII has the ACC updates and tweaks built-in!

The older SB600 790FX boards, such as mine, will be just as good - XS members and others alike are already proving this. :)
 
If starting from scratch sure, but if you already have a 790FX there's little point throwing money at a new revision.

Equally a GS over a FX is now in question as the GS runs on a lower fab 55nm versus the 65 of the FX. However in the FX's favour they have an extra PCB layer and hardened power relaying.
 
the SB600 is fine for the old phenom aswell, plenty of people got same/similar clocks on both boards. The SB750 was easier to clock, however the power circuitry seems to be much better on the newer boards than on the SB600 based boards, well lots of them, having very hot mosfets under heavy quad load.

You in no way need a SB750, the GX/FX question may or may not be valid. The general concensus always fall down on smaller = better which is the main basis for the question of which is better. Smaller doesn't always mean better though. Older 90nm ath x2's tended to overclock much better than the new 65nm ones. The 65-55nm is also a much smaller drop its a half node rather than full node drop and its new for those chipsets at least and a smaller die is often harder to cool.

I've seen good clocks from both chips though, they seem pretty much as good as each other to be honest. the fact is that, the chipset doesn't even play a hugely vital role, as you can see by the sb600 clocking well, its mostly the chips themselves, the power supply and the cooling.
 
ive had the flash the bios with a smepron i had lying around from f4 to f6....

Emlyn_Dewar, i have got a asus chipset cooler on the mosfets that get hot. i left it idling in bios with sempron and u can tell which ones get hot.... only 2 of them, so got a chipset cooler on them ones and its nice and cool now, think ill leave it on them cooling then while i play :-)

also got a antec 900 so plenty of case flow and my room is air conditioned so shud be ok, fingers crossed!

ill post up results tonite!

if anyone wants to add me to msn PM me :-)
 
Take a look at this:

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This German site actually found the OLD SB600 to clock the best, very interesting.
 
well my old sb600 motherboard didn't clock my 9850 very well and in 64bit os was a no go at 3ghz even at high voltage, but on my sb750 motherboard my 9850 clocks easy, 3ghz with only 1.35v even in 64bit os
 
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