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

[alex_123_fra]

Yeah she gets the Alienware Area 51 ALX so she should be

She games on her laptop but some of the games she's bought lately are running like crap (Burnout Paradise and Anna) so I'll hook it into the 50" TV and give her my small wireless KBM

Area 51, very nice. What specs?

My wife games on an M17x R3. Still surprises me how well GTX560M keeps up.

I have an M18x R2 which I hardly ever use but still performs pretty stellar. i7 2920XM and twin 6990s in X-fire. So nice when away in hotels and can run games so well but I don't travel as much now.

 

[gpuerrilla]

GinG wrap that pic in spoiler tags.

 

[ALXAndy]

Area 51, very nice. What specs?

My wife games on an M17x R3. Still surprises me how well GTX560M keeps up.

I have an M18x R2 which I hardly ever use but still performs pretty stellar. i7 2920XM and twin 6990s in X-fire. So nice when away in hotels and can run games so well but I don't travel as much now.

It'll be as follows hopefully..

AMD FX 8320 @ 4-4.2ghz
Asrock 990FX Extreme 3 (got but needs RMA.. It's all set up so I should get another next week)
Sapphire 4890 Vapor X 1GB
? ram. Still need some and it's being gouged like chuff atm. I just need some one kind to pass some onto me for the pre inflated prices.
Scythe Ninja cooler (they're good on AMD IIRC)
Intel 320 80gb SSD
300-500gb storage for Steam (got one but can't remember the size now)
1200w PSU (stock Alienware, built like a tank but needs testing)
Pioneer DVDRW.

Ooo, and a Soundblaster Fatal1ty FPS (with front box) and maybe my Killer 2100 PCIE NIC

So it should work out to be a pretty capable rig really. It'll certainly make mincemeat of her Intel GMA laptop

 

[gpuerrilla]

Nice Wife spec that Andy!

Newer memory settings adjusted as recommended:

Spoiler

 

[alex_123_fra]

It'll be as follows hopefully..

AMD FX 8320 @ 4-4.2ghz
Asrock 990FX Extreme 3 (got but needs RMA.. It's all set up so I should get another next week)
Sapphire 4890 Vapor X 1GB
? ram. Still need some and it's being gouged like chuff atm. I just need some one kind to pass some onto me for the pre inflated prices.
Scythe Ninja cooler (they're good on AMD IIRC)
Intel 320 80gb SSD
300-500gb storage for Steam (got one but can't remember the size now)
1200w PSU (stock Alienware, built like a tank but needs testing)
Pioneer DVDRW.

Ooo, and a Soundblaster Fatal1ty FPS (with front box) and maybe my Killer 2100 PCIE NIC

So it should work out to be a pretty capable rig really. It'll certainly make mincemeat of her Intel GMA laptop

Very nice. Hope she enjoys

Nice Wife spec that Andy!

Newer memory settings adjusted as recommended:

Spoiler

Nice going Thont mate. Looks like a nice 1866MHz with decent clocks.

As an experiment, I put 2 sticks of my X79 G-skill Trident X 2666MHz (CAS 11) memory in my 8320 system and thought I'd run it at 2400MHz at the same timings I use on my 3930k (10-12-11-30).

Here are the Cinebench results at 5.15 GHz. Score of 829. As we can see, the memory bump does have a small role to play in increasing the score as my score with the exact same OC but with 2133MHz G-skill Ripjaws Z at 10-11-10-30 was 816. Haswell IMC is much stronger and would allow DIMMs to reach 2800+MHz.

I'm no whiz at tuning memory but I don't think a score of around 850ish on cinebench R15 at 5 GHz on the 8320 is beyond possibility if one can be bothered to tune the memory with FSB to reach 2666MHz +. Not too shabby.

Here's a pic:

 

[Hagar]

829 now that is epic. It will be a challenge for anyone to beat.

Wish I had the water set up now instead of next week.

 

[gpuerrilla]

Great hit there alex! Doneth Tip thy hat.

I Memtested again then went into profile and set up a new balanced one consisting of FSB, aggressive memory and a standard CPU overclock to yield this:

Spoiler

 

[Cool Breeze]

829 cracking score that, and give the 4770K a bloody nose to boot!!

 

[alex_123_fra]

Great hit there alex! Doneth Tip thy hat.

I Memtested again then went into profile and set up a new balanced one consisting of FSB, aggressive memory and a standard CPU overclock to yield this:

Spoiler

Nice Thont, looks good. Using these exact settings, have you tried notching up the multi by 0.5 at a time (keep FSB the same). Set at the same voltage to see what you can achieve at 1.476V. Would be good to see you at 4.8GHz at that voltage.

 

[ALXAndy]

Man. It's days like this that remind me why I hate humanity.

Trying to find an un gouged ram kit is proving close to impossible Lady's rig could take a while at this rate. Just had some dufus try and convince me that his 4gb kit is worth £30 when he just paid £40 for an 8gb kit.

Greed, it never fails to digust me

 

[gpuerrilla]

I would just like to say I am so glad about this thread and the posters in it and would like to thank everyone when I was looking into upgrading to choose a system based on the components we all have.

Let's keep this moving and helping one another along as although it can be daunting or frustrating at times (sick of the damn rebooting and removing splash screen, testing etc) but extracting the best out of our machines is quite satisfying and enjoyable when the plan comes together!

 

[ALXAndy]

I would just like to say I am so glad about this thread and the posters in it and would like to thank everyone when I was looking into upgrading to choose a system based on the components we all have.

Let's keep this moving and helping one another along as although it can be daunting or frustrating at times (sick of the damn rebooting and removing splash screen, testing etc) but extracting the best out of our machines is quite satisfying and enjoyable when the plan comes together!

hehe

My board is quirky. It doesn't seem to like my Revodrive very much (I think it struggles for IRQs) and thus most of the time it goes into bios grr. I have to then do a boot over ride.. Good thing the board has it really or I'd be a bit screwed

 

[gpuerrilla]

Oh and before I forget.. what is the thermal sweet spot to not exceed when pushing the chip?

I know it suffers from throttling so when looking at the 'CPU' 'Mainboard' and 'Package' temperatures what do I not want to get near?

On another tangent the H100 from what I am listening to in the room does not seem to wind up full speed according to heat. The fans are plugged into the heatsink, but the only time they rev up loud is on boot, then fall back.

How do you control them, am I either missing something obvious or not pushing the chip hot enough for it to kick in?

 

[ALXAndy]

Only cheap boards will throttle. With the CHVFZ you can set the brakes if you wish, otherwise it's pretty much how far you want to go before making something go pop

 

[Hagar]

I use fanexpert from the AIsuite, only part of it I do install and use, set a user fan profile for the CPU fan

 

[ALXAndy]

Man that Asus thing drove me nuts

Kept warning me that fans I didn't have connected weren't doing 1504 RPM FFS. I think it lasted for about five boots before I removed it

 

[alex_123_fra]

I would just like to say I am so glad about this thread and the posters in it and would like to thank everyone when I was looking into upgrading to choose a system based on the components we all have.

Let's keep this moving and helping one another along as although it can be daunting or frustrating at times (sick of the damn rebooting and removing splash screen, testing etc) but extracting the best out of our machines is quite satisfying and enjoyable when the plan comes together!

Me too. I have realised how fun it is to OC FX83 chips through this thread. Hoping we can keep refining things and pushing some boundaries.

Oh and before I forget.. what is the thermal sweet spot to not exceed when pushing the chip?

I know it suffers from throttling so when looking at the 'CPU' 'Mainboard' and 'Package' temperatures what do I not want to get near?

On another tangent the H100 from what I am listening to in the room does not seem to wind up full speed according to heat. The fans are plugged into the heatsink, but the only time they rev up loud is on boot, then fall back.

How do you control them, am I either missing something obvious or not pushing the chip hot enough for it to kick in?

As Andy says, I don't think your Sabertooth will throttle the CPU as the VRM and NB heatsinks are meaty although if going well above 5 GHz it may happen.

My temp monitoring software is AIDA64 and it shows individual core temps, total CPU temp, mainboard temp. I've been told to stay below 62C on the CPU but others seem to have been going higher with no issues. I haven't attached sensors to the board heatsinks this time but the CHVFZ doesn't seem to be throttling the CPU even at 5.2 GHz.

In terms of the H100 (and all my fans now), I have always used my own fan controllers and always manually set the fans to max when I am testing overclocks. I never use the motherboard fan sockets any longer. On my X79, I run 11 x 120mm SP120s. At full blast, it sounds like a jet but it keeps seriously cool for big overclocks. The rest of the time, e.g. when gaming etc. I just turn them to <50% and it is very quiet.

Sounds stupid, but have you upped the H100 setting itself to max?

 

[Martini1991]

Socket temperatures can cause throttling too (If you experience throttling, one of the things we used to do back in the day was using a 12cm fan near the VRM's, or even the near the socket)

On Asus boards, that's what the "CPU Temp" sensor is.
Some boards have this as TMPIN1 or TMPIN0

The "core" temperatures for AMD aren't the actual core temperature readings (Hence why they all display the same figure) it's more of an offset.

I'd worry about it at about 65c, though depending on how offset it is, you could see it throttling at 62c etc.

 

[Hagar]

I use fanexpert from the AIsuite, only part of it I do install and use, set a user fan profile for the CPU fan

Works quite well with my phanteks, when I get the vario fitted, I wont need it but will get a controller for the case and rad fans

Edit quoted myself there, but you know who I mean, getting late.

 

[Orch]

My M5A97 throttles when the socket goes past 82c. I keep core temps to 62 and under most of the time when testing.