The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Corduroy_Jr]

phenom 920

LOL tell laughing man i said whats up! i havnt got to talk to him in a long time.

Im glad you got it to unlock! now you need a board in your rig! yea im just looking for a phenom II to replace my x2 5600+ but im in no hurry. one will come along one day!

1.4v not sure if its stable or not, ran a few games not a crash
could aim for higher, but this board does play nice past past 3,8ghz

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

phenom 920

LOL tell laughing man i said whats up! i havnt got to talk to him in a long time.

Im glad you got it to unlock! now you need a board in your rig! yea im just looking for a phenom II to replace my x2 5600+ but im in no hurry. one will come along one day!

woops forgot pic lol

 

[mastrdrver]

Hello, all! All of my PC build have been Intel based but I'm now seriously considering going with AMD, especially with their AM3 socket. I can't afford to buy new and I was wondering if this board GA-MA770T-UD3P--currently available in my local used market--is good enough for Athlon II/Phenom II procs? I plan to use this for 1-2 years at least and I OC a lot. Thoughts?

I would hold out for one of the later Gigabyte AM3 boards. They seem to handle memory better than the first round. I think they are the ones that don't start with MA.

Like how my board is GA-MA790FXT-UD5P while the one to follow that offers better memory clocking is GA-790FXT-UD5. While its nothing major, Gigabyte seems to have a little better hand on memory clocking with the newer boards.

 

[Killer_Rubber_Ducky]

LOL tell laughing man i said whats up! i havnt got to talk to him in a long time.

Im glad you got it to unlock! now you need a board in your rig! yea im just looking for a phenom II to replace my x2 5600+ but im in no hurry. one will come along one day!

Eh, Im willing to sell my 550BE

 

[mastrdrver]

Can anyone help with memtest86+ errors?

I've got: 790FXT-UD5P with F7 bios | 955 C3 | G.Skill 1333 CL8

Dimms are in the outside slots.

I can run the memory at 1600 with the 4x multi no problem at 8-8-8-24 1T. Even 28 tRC and 90ns refresh. I can't go lower than 1.6v because that's as low as the bios goes. leaving reference clock at 200 I can run memtest for hours without errors at stock speeds and volts. If I push the cpu-nb to 2800 I need at least 1.2v to boot. I know stability is around 1.3v. For the life of me I always, always get an error in test 3 or 4 (it moves depending on a couple voltages) in the same exact address +/- 1mb with the same exact error-bit. This error never shows up at stock cpu-nb speeds.

I can not get it to go away not matter changes in sub timings, volts, etc. I either just takes longer to show up or shows up more often. Does anyone have any idea what could be making it do this? This is driving me nuts.

Would I be correct to assume that it is probably a cache error or maybe a voltage balance error that I can't figure out? I can't conceive of any voltage balances that I havn't tried but I'm more than willing to listen to suggestions.

 

[MilkyWay]

Just got a new cpu, Phenom II X4 955BE C3 and its really good its running hotter than the X3 720BE i had but thats because i think i did a rotten job on the thermal paste, its cool though im going to redo it i found a cool way to apply the paste to my xig, you put 2 thin lines of paste on the cooler instead of a pea sized blob on the cpu.

Stock 1.25v is awesome.

 

[JrRacinFan]

@mastrdrver

It's not your ram causing instability.
CPU NB is just like clocking CPU cores. Try bumping CPU NB volts up about 0.1v, unless you're at max (1.5v), then unfortunately you will need to bring down NB multi 1 notch.

 

[MilkyWay]

My new cpu is running kinda hot its like 38c idle. This is from the bios and core temp program which seem to be about the same reading.

That cant be right as the cpu is at STOCK 3.2ghz 1.25v and i have a xig and MX-3 paste, btw the ambient temperature in this room is not hot my old x3 720 used to run cooler like under 30c at idle.

45c is the highest it gets in game i just tried serious sam HD 1st encounter.

 

[brandonwh64]

kieran - what do you plan on doing with the X3 720?

 

[MilkyWay]

kieran - what do you plan on doing with the X3 720?

dunno possibly flogging it on ebay because there i can make most of the difference back
for some reason now it only does 3.5ghz on 1.425v it used to do 3.6ghz stable on 1.4v

recently i was running it 3.4ghz 1.4v

weird that there is only a 7c difference at load for the x4 955

 

[JrRacinFan]

My new cpu is running kinda hot its like 38c idle. This is from the bios and core temp program which seem to be about the same reading.

That cant be right as the cpu is at STOCK 3.2ghz 1.25v and i have a xig and MX-3 paste, btw the ambient temperature in this room is not hot my old x3 720 used to run cooler like under 30c at idle.

45c is the highest it gets in game i just tried serious sam HD 1st encounter.

45C is more than adequate. Try to stay below 55C.

kieran - what do you plan on doing with the X3 720?

I'm looking to downgrade to a regor chip + 785G AM3. But not for a little while so if you want to wait . . . .

@ both

Mine usually stays @ 3.4Ghz 1.34v

Max it gets to is 3.6Ghz@1.45 with cpu nb @ 2.7Ghz 1.47v

 

[brandonwh64]

Well i have been looking to upgrade the HTPC to a Phenom II but i havnt decided on a X3 720BE or a X2 550BE

Im hoping to get one that will unlock as well but not a must

 

[JrRacinFan]

Well i have been looking to upgrade the HTPC to a Phenom II but i havnt decided on a X3 720BE or a X2 550BE

Im hoping to get one that will unlock as well but not a must

Chip does unlock but doesn't boot into windows when unlocked so the 4th must be dud.

 

[brandonwh64]

Chip does unlock but doesn't boot into windows when unlocked so the 4th must be dud.

oh ok cool! well i will on the look out probly when you get ready so let me know

 

[MilkyWay]

Here is what i did when i applied my thermal paste.

Here is what i am thinking might be better.

This is instead of using a pea sized amount in the middle of the cpu, supposed to be so you get more even coverage instead of a squashed circle in the middle.

I think the first one which i did has to much paste.

 

[Mussels]

HDT coolers like the xigs do need the line method, not the blob method.

 

[MilkyWay]

HDT coolers like the xigs do need the line method, not the blob method.

So which line would you suggest, the second like i am thinking?

 

[Mussels]

So which line would you suggest, the second like i am thinking?

yes indeed

 

[JrRacinFan]

The first is ideal but with a line on each heatpipe.

EDIT:

I stand corrected. The first would be best.

 

[Mussels]

The first is ideal but with a line on each heatpipe.

that'd be too much paste overall. way too much (unless you were using a medical syringe to squirt out ultra thin lines)

 

[MilkyWay]

yes indeed

Thanks, ive got some MX-3 and a litre of Isopropyl i might just do it again just now.

 

[JrRacinFan]

that'd be too much paste overall. way too much (unless you were using a medical syringe to squirt out ultra thin lines)

I corrected myself. The first gives you best coverage while still maintaining proper amount.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...sk=view&id=170&Itemid=38&limit=1&limitstart=5

 

[Mussels]

just remember that these days with heatspreaders, you dont need to cover the whole IHS with thermal paste.. if 90% of its covered with dry patches around the very edges, thats enough.

 

[brandonwh64]

On my evercool transformer 4 i put paste on the cpu and the heatpipes cause without it in the heatpipes it would idle at 50deg! with it on both it would idle at 29 deg

 

[mastrdrver]

Here is what i did when i applied my thermal paste.

http://img.techpowerup.org/100521/did.jpg

Here is what i am thinking might be better.

http://img.techpowerup.org/100521/possible.jpg

This is instead of using a pea sized amount in the middle of the cpu, supposed to be so you get more even coverage instead of a squashed circle in the middle.

I think the first one which i did has to much paste.

First way is best. I have mounted my OCZ Vendetta 2 over 10x between a 775, 1366, and AM3. I always got the best results when running the lines between the pipes but the lines must be very thin as it is easy to over do and get too much.