Phenom II C3 4GHZ IBT stable

[Martini1991]

This has taken me hours upon hours of testing.
Regardless of what's said, 4GHZ on the new C3's is NOT easy, my C3 will go 3.9GHZ IBT stable at 1.375 Vcore, but this took forever, I'm going to work on trying for stability at 1.45V tomorrow.

I'd like to thank Gareth for his overclocking thread, and the people who go "Oo your overclock isn't stable unless it's LinX stable, or IBT stable"
Well here it is dammit!

 

[Martini1991]

wow, very impressive, the temps too

I'm not too keen on the temps.
My mam whacked the raditor on.
I'm going to do more testing tomorrow, hopefully to get 4.1GHZ IBT stable.
They scale better to cold than they do volts, if I lap my CPU and T.R.U.E I reckon I could get 1.45V 4GHZ IBT stable.
Either way, this took hours and hours, considering it was so simple for 3.9GHZ stable lol.

 

[Martini1991]

Good results dude,

My overclock on the C3 was easy but I have to pump 1.525volts through it to get 4.0ghz stable, but this was very easy.

BTW I have it under H20, tripple rad so temps never go above 50oC

I've had two C3's, they were completely different to each other in terms of what they were capable of.
This one is 3.9GHZ IBT stable at 1.375V. I was quite shocked at the amount of voltage it took for 4GHZ.
I'm going to lap my cooler/cpu soon, hope to take it further to 4.1GHZ lol.
It won't even boot at 4.2GHZ.
Can you show a screenshot like I have please? It'd be interesting to see, 10 runs of IBT with core temp and your HT/NB.

 

[Martini1991]

I'd never say 4GHZ stable was easy lol, I don't know why yours was so easy =/.

 

[Martini1991]

Very well done mate, that's something to proud of. Took me hours just to get 3.72GHz stable on my 940, but this oc is in another league!

Phenom II 940 was a pain to overclock when I had mine, max I could get on it was 3.7GHZ too.

 

[Martini1991]

Very nice...however if your going to go down the linx road 20 passes is the norm on and regarded as stable not 10

10 passes of IBT will suffice .

 

[Martini1991]

Are you going for a proper oc now on the NB?

My NB's running at 2.6GHZ.

 

[Martini1991]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/BIOS_Model.aspx?ProductID=3258#anchor_os
This is my board.

 

[Martini1991]

i'm thinking about getting this board.

It won't be a massive improvement over your last one.

 

[Martini1991]

My ripjaws won't run at 2GHZ.
And also the board won't post when RAM is at 7-7-7.

 

[Martini1991]

It doesn't go to a native 1866, I need to up the bus speed at 1600MHZ to take them to 1866.

 

[Martini1991]

but is it stable at 1866?

It is indeed.