***official amd 83x0 overclocking thread***

[farmerboy-86]

What are you using to monitor temps with?

I have inline temp sensors for coolant temps and I use a fan controller wiith temp sensors and speedfan hw mmonitor there all within a degree of each other

Edit I also have a 120 fan mounted in side panel blowing on rear of mobo socket and fans over nb and vrms and my dining room is also cool

 

[farmerboy-86]

This has taken me all day!!!

18 month old baby girl taken up segments of time, I have a sheet wifi connection, robbed the PSU out of old system which took ages to unclip, unwrap, de-dust etc.

No cd drive so things I forgot have to be downloaded to laptop transfer USB yadda yadda haha!!

Anyway almost there now so will update some pics for ya!

Got ya new bits then m8 working away atm only pop on now and then on phone. The joyous task of building new rig lol what cpu did you get after?

 

[farmerboy-86]

Hi all

This thread was awesome so I upgraded from my cheapo 4+1 970 board to a Sabertooth as well as a noctua nh-u14s. Hugely impressed with both! The noctua is a huge improvement over my old titan fenrir.

I am currently at 4.5ghz @ 1.404 VCore - stable after 3 hours of AIDA64. Playing BF3 this is about as fast as my (dead) 2500k at around 4ghz. Even the pathetically single threaded NS2 feels pretty good.

Until I got to this level, I was running p95, but my temps quickly ramped up to the point I think I am at the at-risk point in terms on temps while running prime. I was getting 60/61 on the cores, even at 1.392 vcore (which crashed after 1 hour of prime), so I have switched to AIDA64 as I pump in a few more volts. Is that normal?

In contrast, AIDA64 CPU stability test maxed out at around 48C @ 1.404 VCore.

Are the volts typical for these chips? They feel low to me as I keep seeing people saying 1.45 and above?

I had great difficulty attaining any form of stability at 4.6ghz, I went up a good few notches of vcore (to about 1.42) and crashed after a few minutes of AIDA. What should I be expecting?

The main issue is thinking of AIDA vs prime. I am concerned that the lower temps in AIDA are suspicious and it is not putting enough stress on the chip. A few hours of gaming and I reached temps not far off AIDA. Does that mean I may still be unstable after doing ok in AIDA?

I have so far kept the CPU/NB voltage at 1.200V. Does this need to be increased as I increase the bus freq?

Any tips for getting up to maybe 4.8ghz without setting the house on fire?

For reference, my current settings are:

- Usual power savings disabled.
- 20x CPU mult.
- 225 bus.
- DDR running at 1499mhz effective (I can't POST at the next notch up with default timings).
- Very high CPU LLP.
- High CPU/NB LLP.

Some stats on my OC results below:

Thanks everybody!

First welcome to the nut house
Prime will always push the cpu hard these temps are normal especially for air m8 small fft are a killer

Lower volts are good all chips are different lower gives you more head room to clock dont complain lol

Aida doesnt push cpu as hard as prime unless u just run ftu or fut alone which will toast your chip.

Yes up the cpu/nb as you up fsb a lot of people have found a mixture of multi vs fsb are good for these chips for example I have 21.5 multi and 215 fsb at 1.44v

To go for 4.8 high end air is able even at 5 but for good temps h100 or custom water loop is recommended

Aida temps are more real world temps I.e what your gonna see gaming so there fine also up the vdda voltage which I found helped with stability a lot think im running 2.65v its 2.5 standard

 

[farmerboy-86]

Yeah the AIOs tend to work better than air coolers. I think I know why, too. The contact plate on a Noctua NHD-14 is smaller than the surface of the 83x0 and the die itself is loaded with a dual core module in each corner.

Even the H60 couldn't hold a 4.2ghz overclock Prime stable for me.

+1 to this if its air you want I had a aksas venom medusa its contact plate was bigger than cpu and was capable of 4.8 ghz with good temps I only went water as it looks awesome and the noise factor

 

[farmerboy-86]

A good template from a Sabertooth user would be handy so I can catch up and start benching.

What you guys using to monitor temps?

Hw monitor and aida 64 has temps Which are closer to my inline sensors so I use that on stability test there is a statistics tab with temps fan speeds and voltages

 

[farmerboy-86]

Also burntproc with air cooling is so important to have good case air flow I found more so than with water

What case and fans you got?

 

[farmerboy-86]

I love it when I have time, but when wifes on warpath and youngster running around with case pieces and sharp objects I start stressing and getting frustrated.

I got:

8320 - £111
H100 - £38
Sabertooth - £133
SSD - £38
RAM - £67
Case - £113
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Re-used: PSU, 2x7770 GPU's

Tell me bout it m8 little one had tim in her mouth other day and also found out that gentle typhoons hurt when there spinning at 1850 rpm fingers and fans are a no no

Good going there m8 tidy setup let the benching begin!

 

[farmerboy-86]

hey guys back home at last, thread is looking great you guys have been busy loving all the build pics guys

th0nt what number do you enter for folding @ home team number for overclockers?

gonna give it a shot tonight been working in your native land with the race cars

also what settings should i use?

 

[farmerboy-86]

I got back a couple of hours ago too. I missed the whirry hum my desktop makes

Off to bed soon as I'm kernackered but will be tweaking tomorrow

same here but couldn't resist a little dabble first lol gonna leave folding on over night


i will finish first page tomorrow with rest of our rigs! will get as much info as i can from your sigs guys so make sure there up to date please

 

[farmerboy-86]

Wb Rich!

F@H team no is 10 I think.

Must admit, I dropped the multi to 20, upped the FSB by 10 (4.6Ghz) so not much overall core speed lower and the BIOS tweaks seem to be coping fine with the 8 cores crunching at 90% usage (medium).

Browsing, streaming whilst this is going on should generate a more realistic benchmark than other tests. It seems to weed out the faults better, and if I can leave it overnight or a couple of days and it's still running I am more than happy.

Socket temp is 48c and package is 40c, this is with the fans on normal i.e. not cranked up.

cheers dude just set it to run at max or full and im at 43 socket 37 core/package remember im on water so temps are gonna be good even at full and my wind tunnel case

been reading back through and you been making good progress so far! how you liking amd?

im still stable @ 4.8 managed to up fsb and cpu/nb to 2640 mhz and multi to 22 and fsb 220 completely stable well i think lol

this folding should tell me if i am or not

i found also upping the vdda voltage stops the core voltage from jumping around and helped me get completely stable worth a look , mines a 2.69v im still @ 1.44v vcore

think this is my everyday clock 4.9 ghz gave hardly any better results so why push cpu i say?

 

[farmerboy-86]

th0nt i am at full with the temps i posted above as well seeeeeeet! lol

just jumped couple of degrees but no panic for my uber watercooled death machine, so far i will add! lmao

time will tell?

yeah vdda really help get this puppy stable also read a lot of places thats how they stopped vcore bouncing around, i can confirm it works and with it brings stability

gonna put my gpu water block on tomorrow then im fully under water gonna hit benching on head for a while (will still post here, mean im not gonna spend night after night playing with settings) i have so many games i have brought and not played, happy with 4.8ghz for now

 

[farmerboy-86]

Will will get pics up for you soon, out atm but couldn't resist a cheeky look on here while the fiancé and kids blow my money lol

The onboard of my m5a99x evo r2 are really good I have a logitech surround sound hooked up through the and it handles it fine sounds wicked I believe the sabertooth uses same audio hardware if this helps.

Great pics andy fan will help no end also try adding one behind socket on rear of mobo. Dropped my socket temps a lot

Once kids are in bed will post rig pics the to hit splinter cell cant wait any longer lol, if anyone has it post your ubisoft name and we can have a rass

 

[farmerboy-86]

Also th0nt tried the steam sig maker wont let me log in to make a sig how did you go about it?

 

[farmerboy-86]

If you know your id name you can just link to that, otherwise you create an account where you accept the link to steam.



Looking forward to it - not the wife blowing your money though! blowsm what internal case temps you got? I didnt think you would need direct small fans on the mobo if you have good air flow..

Neither did I lol want a second monitor but may be out question after there littke spree lol

Um case temps are low 20's I idle around 26/27 socket and 25 mobo

The fans help when system goes under load ie benching, @ idle temps are same with or without fanson mobo within a couple degdegree's but @ load found fans did make a difference to temps. Because all things on mobo ie vrm's, north bridge all join together at socket so more air you can get to that the better the overall temps will be. Have spent a lot of time eith fans blowing, sucking with and without and can say without a doubt the more air i got onto socket and vtm's it defo helped temps at load

Also there is a article on Web about water cooling saying because water block doesn't have a fan like air cooling temps will suffer so to counteract this fans are needed. Because a standard cpu air cooler that blows down does blow some air towards vrm's, so adding fans does help

Hope that makes sense you guys that use air shouldn't need them or notice much difference but with water blocks or closed loop coolers people deem to say they help

 

[farmerboy-86]

my rig guys and th0nt will post bios next no probs

my little setup

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my watercooling dont look at mess of cables lol

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pic showing vrm fan (ghetto style) cables are a right mess need to sort them, but atm still moving things around

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as you can see i like green lol, hard to get a good pic with lights on but wanted to show how it looked with them on

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will post bios pics now

only had phone to take pics sorry guys camera is full from all my pics of race cars while working away

 

[farmerboy-86]

Hey guys been busy this weekend will post bios pics tomorrow and get to finish main page on rigs

GinG I see your using same ram as me any luck overclocking them I cant post if I try uping them with 1.65v and loose timings any tips for them

 

[farmerboy-86]

th0nt bios pics as promised

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dont be scared to add voltage guys im on water so i can cope with extra heat but i can say im prime stable, i've folded over night at full load, intel burn test and gamed for hours and she aint even flinched hope this help as a base for you guys to build off

 

[farmerboy-86]

TIP
When in the BIOS press F12.
You can then save screen shots to a usb stick.

cheers dude

 

[farmerboy-86]

Get a 7990. Epic power, one PCB.

My 2 7970 outperformed 7990

In my opinion get 2 7970 asus direct top 2 or asus matrix there cheap now and will out perform 7990
My friend has 7990 and my 7970's beat it

 

[farmerboy-86]

Excellent - two wee budding AMD brothers joining us - welcome and enjoy!

Thanks for the screenies Rich!

No worries m8 did get ya message on steam but missus wanted me off got p whipped lol

She is running sweet getting my new ram thursday avexir green 2133mhz fully stable @ 4.8ghz gonna leave it at that for now and get back to gaming have loads new games I aint touched yet