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Passive Opteron anyone??
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Clint said:Haha, well...I did just sell the brother of your FPAW (for a premium price) with the help of both that screenshot with 2.0GHz @ 0.99volts and another with 3.1GHz @ 1.475volts...sure is a amazing performer.
its sad but I cant part with mine
Big.Wayne you completely forget about case cooling, a good case will draw a decent flow of cool air over the cpu cooler and prevent the cpu from thermal run away, just gotta make sure the vcore is low enough and cooler has a good enough C/W efficiency.
erm, to actually see your results, all I can see is a 32Mb SuperPI?. How come you don't use MBM5?Raikiri said:Erm... I have ran OCCT, prime 95, super pi and CSS. What more do you want?
Yup true enough, I like that termHesky82 said:
Still takes a while for temps to peak though!
MBM5 is a superior way of sharing your technical info with your brother techno junkies, its shows high-low-average etc, just is better for sharing info. Speedfan may control fan rpms but it doesn't show us much does it?Raikiri said:
Post the CPU temps graph from OCCT, that is a good reference to back up your findings. .
32MB SuperPI is pretty low down the stability tree and doesn't really heat up your CPU that much, S&M on the other hand. . . . .
[edit] What mobo u using?
32MB SuperPI is pretty low down the stability tree and doesn't really heat up your CPU that much, S&M on the other hand. . . . .
[edit] What mobo u using?
Big.Wayne said:
It only has my old ones that I posted in your thread for some reason, i'll run OCCT again sometime tomorrow.
Stability wise, I have had it clocked at this for nearly 2 months without a single crash and the temps arent going to cause instability as they arent very high.
I am using an Epox EP-9NPAJ SLi motherboard
Mbm5 doesnt work with our mobos as far as im aware??
Can you give S&M a run and see what happens? Prime/superpi max out my cpu at 51 but s&m has had it up to 56
Do some cpus just run hotter than others? Mine seems overly hot in very similar conditions to others on here and it kinda sux in a rather large way
Can you give S&M a run and see what happens? Prime/superpi max out my cpu at 51 but s&m has had it up to 56
Do some cpus just run hotter than others? Mine seems overly hot in very similar conditions to others on here and it kinda sux in a rather large way
the fit of the ihs over the cpu core is probably questionable, seems to be a lot of amd 64 cpus that have poorly seated heat spreaders or with unevenly applied thermal compound between the core and ihs. could always take it off
i guess it could be that hesky! A tad annoying it is. Got the same stepping as u as it goes and cant get past a stable 2.9ghz even with 1.575v's goin through it
Im abit wary about removing the ihs tbh... and im sure my arctic freezer wouldnt like it much either.
Im abit wary about removing the ihs tbh... and im sure my arctic freezer wouldnt like it much either.
of course temps play a big part, but do you know if your epox likes playing with high fsb, have you dropped the multi and pushed the fsb any higher to see if your mb is limiting your overclock?
Yes taking a knife to a cpu is never going to be a pleasant proposition, my 146 seem to run so very cool but this 170 dual runs a good 5c on load higher, I know its holding my overclock back but I still cant bring myself to cut the ihs off.
Yes taking a knife to a cpu is never going to be a pleasant proposition, my 146 seem to run so very cool but this 170 dual runs a good 5c on load higher, I know its holding my overclock back but I still cant bring myself to cut the ihs off.
n3x said:A tad annoying it is. Got the same stepping as u as it goes and cant get past a stable 2.9ghz even with 1.575v's goin through it
Well don't let the buggers get you down, who can say how stable their actuall system is while running their overclocks. Don't pay too much attention to what some other posters are claiming, just have a fiddle with what you got and take some time to draw your conclusions and then share them with us
What is the sweetspot on your overclock so far? and have you giving that some serious *load* to test how stable it is?
I'm almost got my 170 dual-core to 2.6GHz 24 hour Quad-Prime stable using 1.4125vCore, but will post screenshots once I am 100% certain, wouldn't want to get your hopes up by claiming an amazing overclock that you would never be able to reach stably.
Good luck, patience is a virtue
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Big.Wayne, I'm not sure if that really works though - you are running a dual SP2004 which isn't optimised for A64's or DC's and running that with dual prime normal. Are you sure there are no program conflicts causing the failure after some 20 odd hours? Also, it could be the RAM failing having all those calculations stored in there. The RAM will heat up and any one single error will fail the test.
Are you sure your RAM is 100% super doooper stable because if not, then your results cannot be valid - I'm also assuming you are overclocking the RAM?
If you want to see if the CPU is stable, are you only using small FTT's as this will only involve the CPU...
EDIT: I noticed the failed prime was in fact a large FTT test and the small FTT's were still running... you sure if the CPU isn't stable?
Are you sure your RAM is 100% super doooper stable because if not, then your results cannot be valid - I'm also assuming you are overclocking the RAM?
If you want to see if the CPU is stable, are you only using small FTT's as this will only involve the CPU...
EDIT: I noticed the failed prime was in fact a large FTT test and the small FTT's were still running... you sure if the CPU isn't stable?
Hesky82 said:
I dont think it does like a high fsb, got my gskill hoping to run it around 270 - 280mhz but dropping the multi and uping the fsb to over 310ish seems to cause all manor of problems! so now its only at 233mhz
Big.Wayne said:
2.8 seems to be the best with 1.5v's, maybe slightly over but i like round numbers
Tested quite thoroughly with everything i can find, primed for well over 20 hours which seems good enough for me, just a shame the temps are so bloody high!