*** Official Opteron 170 Ocing Thread ***

[w3bbo]

CCBWE 0534 SPMW

Exactly the same stepping that I had..I was 100% (yes...24hrs P95v24.14 x2 large fft's stable) @ 289x9 with 1.5v. Load temps were a problem though, 53c so I tried to pop the IHS and failed miserably.

Gotta admit these UPMW 170's are much easier to clock(curently @2.7 default vcore) although they dont seem to scale aswell with volts as the SMPW I had. Ben805 over @ XS has gotten 3.2 out of a 0550 408L btw albeit on phase.

Trying to get 2.8 stable(on air) as soon as I do I'll post some SS.

 

[Big.Wayne]

Big.Wayne, what your problem dude?

Huh? no I was just grumbling about lack of screenshots, its so easy to say an overclock is stable/solid/rock etc but if you have a good look around the forums you will see not a heap to back it up. I'm not saying anyone is lying, just mistaken.

In this one thread for example, the evidence of stability is very thin, probably the best screenie was supplied by mercyless, showing a completed cycle of S&M, but the other few are simple 32mb super PI, or a 3D-Mark loop, bits and pieces.

As someone who is interested in overclocking, I would like to see a whole desktop picture showing everything possible, 12-24hour loops of primes, cpu-z pages showing CPu results, finished 32MB super-PI runs, S&M, OCCT etc etc.

Also I would like to see the temps from the whole period of the test (high-low) voltages, etc

As much as you can cram into a screenshot basically

 

[Agent WD40]

Heh, cool man. Sorry for being agressive. must have miss read ya.

I'll get my machine priming now. (after doing several Windows installs to get this RAID0 working I think i've finally got it...)

And i'll post here again in 24 hours with some interesting results.

Agent

 

[Hesky82]

Wayne I refuse to go ott with these stability tests
after a few power issues heres my cpu looping 12hours+ of prime95 small fft torture test, thats good enough for me and my hours of gaming, I'm a normal pc user and see no need to stress the cpu so excessively / thoroughly, its a gaming rig not a server

 

[Big.Wayne]

Looking good Hesky82

I noticed you raised the vCores listed on both your Opterons from 1.3v to 1.4v?

Hmm two cores running stable @ 2.8GHz, that must be blazing fast!! Have you got stuck into any meaty 3D-Shooters? ones that have optimizations for multi-core?

Have you done any encoding?

Which is the main area where you reckon you can notice the biggest boost from having such a chunk of processing power under the hood?

My Opteron-Mono-146 @2.8GHz (2.9GHz testing) seems mentally fast to me, I just can't imagine what its like running two cores at that speed!!

 

[Agent WD40]

Hi Wayne,

I've got COD2 coming, which I think is dual core based, so I will let you know what its like.

I used to run a 3700SD @ 2.8ghz before and it would have a few little issues running BF2 @ 1024x768 (mazx details with all the AA and AF trimmings) but when I put my opty in @ 2.8ghz BF2 ran on 1280x1024 full detail with by fraps reporting about 80-100 FPS, drops down to about 60 in SF2. But I dont think BF2 is dual core. But it still boosted performance for me!

Anyways, back to priming...

Agent

 

[teggs]

As someone who is interested in overclocking, I would like to see a whole desktop picture showing everything possible, 12-24hour loops of primes, cpu-z pages showing CPu results, finished 32MB super-PI runs, S&M, OCCT etc etc.

Sorry but i only have a 19" monitor!!

 

[w3bbo]

12hr stable

Gonna let it run for another 12hrs to get 24 hr stability then onto 2.8

 

[The $6m Dan]

Managed to take a quick peek at my Opteron 170 last night despite gettng in from work at 2am. Ran a couple of 3D05 loops last night and a brief 30 minute Prime95 test on both CPUs this morning before work and initial test are promising, with 2.6GHz at stock voltage.
Stepping is CCBWE 0550 UPMW . . . 434L
More to follow this weekend, or possibly tonight.

Quick question. What are people using to check temps? Is it possible to get a temp read out for each core, or just an overall temp?

 

[mattup]

You can only get the overall temp. Mine is 33C idle 44C both cores loaded.

Matt

 

[The $6m Dan]

Thanks for that
I think mine was at 43 running two Prime95 tests.

 

[Big.Wayne]

12hr stable

Gonna let it run for another 12hrs to get 24 hr stability then onto 2.8

err any chance you can make your screenie a bit bigger

 

[Hesky82]

Looking good Hesky82

I noticed you raised the vCores listed on both your Opterons from 1.3v to 1.4v?

Hmm two cores running stable @ 2.8GHz, that must be blazing fast!! Have you got stuck into any meaty 3D-Shooters? ones that have optimizations for multi-core?

Have you done any encoding?

Which is the main area where you reckon you can notice the biggest boost from having such a chunk of processing power under the hood?

My Opteron-Mono-146 @2.8GHz (2.9GHz testing) seems mentally fast to me, I just can't imagine what its like running two cores at that speed!!

both cpus vcore resides at 1.408volts on my dfi board, which I'm not sure is a coincidence. with my single core opteron especially I can run prime95 for long periods of time at a slightly low voltage (1.36v), but on occasions, sometimes quite frequently I would get BSOD simply when surfing or checking emails, simply upping the vcore slightly got rid of the BSOD completely. I think this is to do with my old tccd and the type of opteron memory controller not the cpu core itself. sort of a compatibility issue i think. im taking no chances with my new uccc ram.
why did prime blend not pick this up?? because it is not perfect! no stability test is, less time wasted on stability testing and more time actually using your pc with the programs you 'use' is the direction I choose.

 

[w3bbo]

err any chance you can make your screenie a bit bigger

Rofl yeah...was in a rush before I came to work. Will post a better pic when I get home

 

[w3bbo]

This 170 dosn't seem to like much scaling with volts. Tried upping vcore upto 1.55 and 2.8 still fails. So tried going the other way (lowering vcore) and now priming 2750 @1.38...go figure Temps have now dropped to 42c load

Not touched memory settings yet so that could well be the problem.

 

[smids]

Bah you guys and your opti's... let's not forget the foold old X2 though! My new X2 (RMA replacement for the one in sig) is amazing.

Straight in at 2.5ghz stock volts.

Went for 2.6 ghz stock volts (1.31v) but prime conked out after 7 hours (system freeze). Upped the vcore to 1.32v and prime lasted a good 4.5hours before failing (no crash this time). I've now got it going at 1.36v and tbh it should pass easily - gonna go for 2.8ghz soon, once I know this is stable.

FYI, I seem to have one of the opti steppings - CCBWE 0546SPAW. Seems like an amazing chip - only 38C dual prime loaded (custom watercooled). Anyway back to your opti's - I know where the door is.

 

[Big.Wayne]

not forget the foold old X2 though!

Funny to hear you describe X2 processors as old, as they are just beginning to arrive in joe publics machines!!

X2= Opteron for Joe Public

I really don't see the difference, apart from it seems that Opterons are getting slightly better OC results, but having said that I don't think theres a lot in it. .

I was on a P4 2.8 @ 3.5GHz a month ago so I just walked into the Athlon64 camp for the first time straight into Opteron hysteria. I hadn't been reading the forums much for a few months so it wasn't until I read custom PC that I got a sniff of what was going on, just managed to score myself a 146 mono-core before the prices jumped, then after having it for 2 weeks I decided multi-core looked interesting lol

 

[wam7]

Pretty much in the same boat as B.W. I was using a P4 @3.8 for the past couple years but price/performance ratio of the Opty 165 was too hard to resist - I got my 165 for £170inc, before the price hike. In tandem with the AsRock motherboard my move over from Intel has been a smooth transistion. HT was keeping me with Intel but I sensed as soon as AMD got a medium priced dual core I would jump.

I have not got round to really overclocking this 165, I just set it it to 2.6Ghz and left it there. More than fast enough for me. The killer feature for me was that I could transcode a movie and game at the same time. Funnily enough Smids was partly responsible for planting the seeds as I first saw him 'wallowing' in this fact a good while back.

Now the search goes on for SMP application... we should make a list!

 

[teggs]

i bet most people here who have dual core opterons have owned a single core one before, i owned 3!!

 

[smids]

Funny to hear you describe X2 processors as old, as they are just beginning to arrive in joe publics machines!!

X2= Opteron for Joe Public

I really don't see the difference, apart from it seems that Opterons are getting slightly better OC results, but having said that I don't think theres a lot in it. .

I was on a P4 2.8 @ 3.5GHz a month ago so I just walked into the Athlon64 camp for the first time straight into Opteron hysteria. I hadn't been reading the forums much for a few months so it wasn't until I read custom PC that I got a sniff of what was going on, just managed to score myself a 146 mono-core before the prices jumped, then after having it for 2 weeks I decided multi-core looked interesting lol

Only reason I say it is old is because no-one even talks about these X2's anymore.

I've got one of the recent ones and it is a stonker! I can't believe this one - getting results as good and better than some Opti's. I have a prime stable 2.6ghz @ 1.34v (basically stock).