The Opteron Skt 939 Overclocking thread !!!!

ScarySquirrel · 29 Nov 2005 at 08:35

just done it, i cant believe how easy it was, i usually have to get a bloody floppy drive out but that ASUSUpdate program is awesome

now to find my arctic silver

pabloB · 29 Nov 2005 at 16:52

mp260767 said:
check you're mobo manual it should tell you which slots to put it in to run dual channel.

pabloB: no point swapping tbh.

Cheers mate (&Megatron!!), saves me some cash lol

Trick · 1 Dec 2005 at 16:45

Well I've finally had the chance to upgrade the main computer with the Opteron 164 I ordered over a month ago.

A nice surprise - it's a CABYE 0540 FPBW
I've coupled it with 1gb of Geil ONE tccd and an artic freezer 64 pro.

Preliminery o'cing results look quite good. It's sat happily Priming at 2.8ghz, stock volts, with the ram at 233 2,3,3,6 1T. I'll try slacking off the timings and go for 3ghz later this evening.

Ol!ver · 1 Dec 2005 at 17:24

Trick said:
Well I've finally had the chance to upgrade the main computer with the Opteron 164 I ordered over a month ago.

A nice surprise - it's a CABYE 0540 FPBW
I've coupled it with 1gb of Geil ONE tccd and an artic freezer 64 pro.

Preliminery o'cing results look quite good. It's sat happily Priming at 2.8ghz, stock volts, with the ram at 233 2,3,3,6 1T. I'll try slacking off the timings and go for 3ghz later this evening.

Bargain, how long's it been priming?

Just a question on the Freezer. What m/board are you running? Ive just installed the freezer on my NF4 Ultra-D and it's slightly pushing one of the sticks of ram to the side !

ScarySquirrel · 1 Dec 2005 at 17:25

i appear to be having toubles.

i got a clock of 2.7Ghz the other night, cant remeber all the votages etc, it ran fine in all games i played, except Age of Empires 3 the CPU reset, and in the BIOS it said that the CPU was about 65c, whereas in Speedfan it was only about 45c.

Also, I cant boot in anything above about 280,

ATM i have 250x10 with vcore on 1.45. i ran Prime only for about 10 mins, and OCCT 30 min test was fine, 3d mark 05 is fine, and in BIOS temps say 51c after all this, and in speedfan it still only said about 43c

what temperature should i believe?

Ol!ver · 1 Dec 2005 at 17:33

nick_cfc said:
i appear to be having toubles.

i got a clock of 2.7Ghz the other night, cant remeber all the votages etc, it ran fine in all games i played, except Age of Empires 3 the CPU reset, and in the BIOS it said that the CPU was about 65c, whereas in Speedfan it was only about 45c.

Also, I cant boot in anything above about 280,

ATM i have 250x10 with vcore on 1.45. i ran Prime only for about 10 mins, and OCCT 30 min test was fine, 3d mark 05 is fine, and in BIOS temps say 51c after all this, and in speedfan it still only said about 43c

what temperature should i believe?

I'd go on the BIOS. Sounds to me like speedfan is reporting either the chipset or PWM temp.

ScarySquirrel · 1 Dec 2005 at 17:42

hmm ok.

thankyou, things arent working out how i hoped, i know its down to me though, the CPU is up for it, im just a noob and dont have the patience. its faster on stock that my old CPU though so cant complain

Trick · 1 Dec 2005 at 19:04

Ol!ver said:
Bargain, how long's it been priming?

Just a question on the Freezer. What m/board are you running? Ive just installed the freezer on my NF4 Ultra-D and it's slightly pushing one of the sticks of ram to the side !

Only a couple of hours so far but its been doing some superPi 32mb and 8mb test without a hitch. The big test is an hour or so on Battlefield2!

The m/board is an old Abit av8 which its fits perfectly, no issues at all. I think the board will be the weakest link in the chain though. I'm not sure whether it'll handle 3gigs but I'm certainly going to give it a try!

I'll put up some screenies of the install and cpu-z/superpi later on.

Ol!ver · 1 Dec 2005 at 19:16

Trick said:
Only a couple of hours so far but its been doing some superPi 32mb and 8mb test without a hitch. The big test is an hour or so on Battlefield2!

The m/board is an old Abit av8 which its fits perfectly, no issues at all. I think the board will be the weakest link in the chain though. I'm not sure whether it'll handle 3gigs but I'm certainly going to give it a try!

I'll put up some screenies of the install and cpu-z/superpi later on.

I used to have an AV8, but that would only do 240Mhz HTT. Could have been the winchester/newcastle I used with it though.

Assimilator1 · 1 Dec 2005 at 19:16

I picked up my mates 146 today

I got a CABYE 0543 ,I'm hoping its a reasonable stepping ,at least it isn't a CABGE

How have the CABYE's faired ?
Won't be able to test it for a little while as I'm waiting for more cash from my mate for the mbrd etc

Inccidently they showed me a tray of OEM CPUs he had for some servers he was building ,they were 0545 dated ,I think that might be the latest around? (they were CABNE btw).

IzaLearnin · 3 Dec 2005 at 12:34

146 cabye 0540 FPMW image shows temps at just 2800mhz. Best compromise without better cooling is 2900mhz for 24/7 with load at 57c.

This one will boot into windows @ 3080 but not 32mb pi stable and sp2004 small fft fails after 30 secs. Mainly I believe due to temps. The IHS has to come off :eek:

.

Can anyone suggest an air cooler with similar performance to the xp120 but with a smaller base (so as not to foul the cpu socket plastic surround) and which has a screw down mounting to prevent damage to the core?

Anyone gone down this road?

Water may well have to be the next step but this kind of negates the bang per buck element of the opty!

MikeTimbers · 3 Dec 2005 at 12:37

Water is an investment though because you can use it with your future upgrades. I'[m about to go A64 with my 146 and the only change to my water-cooling is a £15 adaptor for the block .

IzaLearnin · 3 Dec 2005 at 12:53

Agree completely, I was hoping to auction my 2840mhz A64 4000+ and the two 6600gt's to pay for a 7800gt as my next upgrade. Water would have come after that.

I guess nobody ever said life was fair!

matt1 · 3 Dec 2005 at 12:57

That is very hot. My 146 FPMW does 3GHz 1.5v with load temp of 50.C (OCCT produces a lower load temp).

IzaLearnin · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:07

matt1 said:
That is very hot. My 146 FPMW does 3GHz 1.5v with load temp of 50.C (OCCT produces a lower load temp).

Yes, my 4000+ will run 2840 @1.568 (1.425*110%) with sp2004 small fft's @ 52c. Which is why I am looking to remove the IHS on the Opty. I just can't do it with the xp120.

IzaLearnin · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:27

IzaLearnin said:
146 cabye 0540 FPMW image shows temps at just 2800mhz. Best compromise without better cooling is 2900mhz for 24/7 with load at 57c.

This one will boot into windows @ 3080 but not 32mb pi stable and sp2004 small fft fails after 30 secs. Mainly I believe due to temps. The IHS has to come off .

Can anyone suggest an air cooler with similar performance to the xp120 but with a smaller base (so as not to foul the cpu socket plastic surround) and which has a screw down mounting to prevent damage to the core?

Anyone gone down this road?

Water may well have to be the next step but this kind of negates the bang per buck element of the opty!

Any one ?

Jokester · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:29

IzaLearnin said:
Any one ?

Akasa EVO 120 fits naked A64s perfectly

.

Jokester

chrisheron · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:37

Whats a safe vcore for an opteron 170? (Max safe)

thanks

rulocal · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:38

Jokester said:
Akasa EVO 120 fits naked A64s perfectly .

Jokester

I have an EVO 33 and am considering removing the IHS. Is the EVO 33 a similairly good fit? I am currently getting high temps aswell. 56 load at 2.8G with 1.5v.

IzaLearnin · 3 Dec 2005 at 13:45

Jokester said:
Akasa EVO 120 fits naked A64s perfectly .

Jokester

Thanks Jokester, I read your exellent sticky and your mention of the Akasa but iirc you hadn't had the chance to test it.

Its got to be worth a punt before I get out the ladybird book of plumbing!