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*** Official Opteron 170 Ocing Thread ***

I run my Opteron @ 2.85GHz with 1.4v to be honest I'd rather lose 100-150MHz and use low volts, the FX55 scenario really put me off high voltage I never put more than 1.5v even when just trying for the highest clock, it's a sickening feeling when you have killed a chip. Don't the FX 60's run @1.4v std? If they do I'd probably go up to 1.55v max on that.
 
There are still plenty of people who are not tempted to the 'dark side' for one reason or another (usually money) so I don't think AMD will be dead here...at least I hope not. Conroe is most deffinately the 'in thing' and I hate to admit it but AMD simply cannot compete atm but tbh it wont be long before conroe is superceded by quad core etc. I wouldn't worry too much as there is plenty of life left in AMD based systems. Yes, I would like a conroe system as I'm sure most of us would but am I still happy with my opty based system as it dosn't suddenly show signs of struggling in any application just because conroe is released. Jealous of people with conroe? hell yeah...Justifiable upgrade?,not so sure.

BOT...nice clock CS||nuts..stepping?
 
Stick some volts into it. 1.33 is very low and you will be fine with 1.45v in it on good air. I kept upping volts till i reached "chip limit" where i needed big volts for small clocks and that was 3.1ghz at 1.536v - was also allowing my 2gb set to run 1:1 at 238 2,3,2,5 1t
 
I'd be like CS||nuTs VERY happy that it does 2.8GHz on such low volts, that is one cream of the crop chip, I'm a coward so I wouldn't go over 1.45v-1.475v would be the absolute maximum I would put through it, I can tell you from my experience it's better (for me that is) to just accept less unless you have a stop watch on it you wouldn't tell anyway, the pain of losing such a chip out weighs any 100-200MHz gain, but then it's hard for people to understand unless they've had the pain of losing a £400 CPU.
 
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