Whats my opteron 165 capable of?

[Columbo]

Had the afformentioned CPU for a while now on my network and never really touched it. I've checked the stepping and its one of the VERY overclockable ones, so I think it's time it saw its potential.

So before I rip into it, I was just wondering what other folks had managed to get out of it and with what type of set-ups, FSB's and voltages?

I'll be doing on a DFI Infinity mobo, Corsair XMS ram with a Freezer 64 on the CPU.

Any help appreciated.

 

[steve258]

A very good stepping 165 can do 2.8Ghz - 3Ghz on stock volt. My mate has one at 2.8Ghz with an A8N-SLI Deluxe and Corsair XMS 1Gb PC3200 C2PT kit. Last time I talked to him he was getting a Scythe Ninja as it does get pretty hot at 2.8Ghz even on stock volt.

 

[gt_junkie]

I had a 165 under a big typhoon. It was run with some OCZ platinum PC4000 and on a DFI SLi DR. I had it up to 2.95ghz @ 1.425v but ran it 24/7 at 2.8ghz @ stock volts! Very impressive chips if you find a good one!

As steve says though... they do tend to run quite hot even on stock volts so a good air cooler or water is required!

At 2.8 the opty got to 54 degrees C under Orthos. At 2.95 i had it at 63 degrees C which i wasn't happy with. But tbh there are users who don't care too much about temps and find them to run fine quite hot. One forum member 'geezer' has had his 3800 X2 running over 3ghz at around 70 degrees C and says he's had no problems!

gt

 

[geeza]

I had a 165 under a big typhoon. It was run with some OCZ platinum PC4000 and on a DFI SLi DR. I had it up to 2.95ghz @ 1.425v but ran it 24/7 at 2.8ghz @ stock volts! Very impressive chips if you find a good one!

As steve says though... they do tend to run quite hot even on stock volts so a good air cooler or water is required!

At 2.8 the opty got to 54 degrees C under Orthos. At 2.95 i had it at 63 degrees C which i wasn't happy with. But tbh there are users who don't care too much about temps and find them to run fine quite hot. One forum member 'geezer' has had his 3800 X2 running over 3ghz at around 70 degrees C and says he's had no problems!

gt

indeed. was windows stable at 3.1ghz 70c is fine, i was a little worried when i went up to 81 tho! still, the computer will crash and restart before it gets too warm anyway.
I have it running at 2.8ghz 1.300v now and one core still gets to over 70c. Its fine

 

[dante6491]

ive checked the stepping of mine (hope to be overclocking it as soon as my new power supply gets here). It says about 2.8ish on air at stock volts, but i have taken the IHS off and put it under water so i hope it does a little better. It is on a dfi sli-dr

 

[fester]

My Opteron 165 ccbbe 0615 dpmw is doing 9x312 1.375v 27c idle or 47c dual prime 95.

 

[geeza]

My Opteron 165 ccbbe 0615 dpmw is doing 9x312 1.375v 27c idle or 47c dual prime 95.

jesus. my 3800 on 1.3volts idle is about 41 and load orthos is 70s. im sure its seated correctly and has just a grain of rice amount of AS5 on freezer 64 pro

 

[Mul]

My Opteron 165 ccbbe 0615 dpmw is doing 9x312 1.375v 27c idle or 47c dual prime 95.

Either something's not right there or I've done something terribly wrong with my cpu cooler installation.

I take it those are coretemp readings and not smartguardian or anything else that picks up Socket temperature rather than the temperature of the individual cores?

My Opteron 165 is at 312*9, 1.400V 40c idle and 60c load (on both cores)

(note, the temps I mentioned are an average of the two core temps, coretemp picks up)

Mul

 

[l33t-krew]

potentially its capable of killing you