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*** Official Opteron 170 Ocing Thread ***

easyrider said:
i'm not knocking you :)

good luck with the 3ghz

im passed worrying about temps my pc hasn't crashed ever at 2.8ghz 50-55c underload at points depending on ambient temps etc....

so its fine. :D
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Thanks Easyrider. I hope I get it. Or i'll be re-ordering the FX60 from out beloved OcUK...

Are you using the stock HSF for your opty? And I agree, 50-55c is absoutly fine mate.

Agent.
 
Quick update for you lot.

I'm at 2.9ghz with 1.44v, be it 290*10 or 306*9.5.

I cannot get 3ghz stable atm. Webbo, any suggestions?

And I'm loving this board!! She can do over 330HTT and be 100% rock steady.

Ah, thankyou DFI!!

Agent.
 
teggs said:
have you tried different BIOSes Agent?
how are you testing? i presume you have you ram on a divider rather than running at 290mhz?
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Hi Teggs, thanks for the swift reply.

I'm running the latest bios (29/3 I think) and the RAM is on a 166 divider, but for time time being its on a 9/10 'cos i'm testing my ram... :D

Apart from upping the Vcore, any other voltages I should think about bumping?

Agent :cool:
 
W3bbo - I now know about the .5 multis. My memory has been running about 10Mhz less than it should be on the dividers so atleast I know why now... I'll up the FSB again and go down to a 9x multi.
As for temps. I'm at about 44 - 46C load at 2.9ghz with 1.44v. It tends to fail prime close to 50C.

Teggs - I'll try upping the voltage on the LTD and chipset. But as for cooling i'm using a Thermaltake Typhoon with an uprated 125CFM fan on it. I'll probably take the fan off it, hoover out the fins and then put some more fans around the RAM and the Passive coolers on the mobo...

Thanks again guys. But if you have any more flashes of inspiration it would be much appreciated.

Agent.
 
teggs said:
Ok ta, i ordered a Thermaltake Typhoon before the weekend as my Gigabyte G-power has started whining at me. Once i've got everything sorted i may be brave and pop the lid off my CPU.
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Aaaahhh, more fodder for the machine...

Anyways. I'll do the Big Typhoon "mod" tonight if my bike doesn't sidetrack me (gotta change the gearing 'cos i'm running single speed blah blah blah, off topic maybe?)

But yes. I'll stick some more "random" fans about the place on my mobo and we shall see what happens. Also, I think i'll move my HDDs about too so they are at the top of the case so the fresh air that comes in is fresh and not pre warmed by the Harddrives.

TBH, I don't think the Thermaltake Kandalf cases have very good cooling. :(

Agent.
 
Easy clint / Easyrider I don't want you two kicking off again!! ;)

I want this thread to be just about clocking opty 170s. And you are both right. Some fail closer to 60C others fail cloder to 50C. Its really down to the chips.

But hay, if you wanna have a bu* fight about temps. Start a different thread... :p

Agent. :D
 
Hesky82 said:
hi guy's its been a while! .. heres where im at...



...nothin seems straight forward with this chip!!
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Hesky, what cooling are you using mate? And have you taken the IHS off?

I'm blatently going to try dropping the volts later, possibly down to 1.32v.

I'd laugh so hard if it works! ;)

With this logic, maybe it will do 4 ghz with .7v? :confused:

Agent.
 
turbotoaster said:
thats really interesting to know, trying out a few things with my fx60 now, on a fzr64 so still gets very hot

trying 1.328v at the moment and slowly increasing fsb, though its 46c dual prime at the moment though LOL
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Take the side of your case off and get some fans blowing all around the CPU cooler. That should lower your temps if nothing else...

Agent.

P.S. Turbo, whats the stepping on your FX 60? I've got one at home still in its box and I don't know if I should open it or send it back...
 
w3bbo said:
Testing 2.9 not stable though...reckon its ram tbh.
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Hmmm.. Whats you max stable clock with a naked 170 Webbo?

I'm still trying to "find my feet" with this naked opty. I think I need to take it from 2750 and go from there...

Agent.
 
Scoobie Dave said:
Gonna try for more a bit later on. Seems to need more than 1.36v once it goes above 2.82 though. . . still plenty of headroom I guess.
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I'm going to try the same trick at your Scoobie. Hopefully my DFI can do about 340HTT and then I could possible get 3ghz. ATM i'm struggling to get any where with this ISH-less chip tbh...

But still, damned good work there.

Agent.
 
well iu'm priming at 280x10 with 1.375v so far and i've been going for 3 hours now and we are all good.

I'm going to go down to 312*9 with 1.35v and go from there...

Agent.
 
Right, i dropped it down to 312*9 @ 1.35v and failed from so I went up to 1.3*1.048% (1.3624) and it seems to be ok now, I'm going to prime over night tonight and get some results for you all.

I'm idling at about 30 - 32C and load creeps upto 41C. Not bad for air cooling imo...

Agent.
 
I'm not sure of different multis. I'm experimenting.

I remember reading some where that it has different effects but I can't remember where or what it was about. So a bit of person investigation.

ATM i'm priming at 2.83ghz (315*9) at 1.39v.

Lets see how well it does. But its pretty warm today so its probably failed...

Agent.
 
Hesky82 said:
lol, your worse than me! soon we will be checking the weather forecast.
hummm, it looks like 2.8ghz weather today and tomorrow looks good for 2.9gh :rolleyes: :D
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Its so true! I'll be buying air-con for my room / PC case. Thats would be the ultimate in "taking it too far".

Agent.
 
Ok guys.

I've been doing a bit of experimenting with getting 2.8ghz stable with the lowest voltage going. I got it at 1.35v.

So a slight bump to 2.83ghz. I've needed to go up by a further .06v to get it there. Temps have gone from 42C load at 2.8ghz to 46C load. Is this normal?

Also, with 1.41v it failed prime after about 4.5hours. Looks like water cooling is going to have to happen to get this bad boy rocking.

Agent.

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Sadly not by the looks of things.

I haven't really been playing much more with my 170 simply 'cos I need better cooling.

I was going to get some water cooling from Welsh Tom but I need to save the cash.

I'm wanting house et kit car.

Are you not trying to up your 170 Scoobie?
 
Scoobie Dave said:
Gillette - the best a IHS can get! :p
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Oh dear... Made me laugh mind.

But really, get a whole load of cheapo BIC razors and split 'em up.

And extra exciting news..!

I'VE JUST GOT MY 165 FROM THE STATES!!!

Ehehehe, i'll get playing with this badboy tonight...


Agent.

P.S. DAMN IT! I'm going to watch Les Miserables tonight.

Oh well, some time next week.
 
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