The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Mussels]

2.2v is perfectly fine with no fan on all but a handful of very sensitive modules. And all but the worst kits can do CAS4 800Mhz stupid easy.

then i've had well over 20 'worst' modules. OCZ reaper, corsair XMS2, the lot.

every last one overheated on an open test platform at 2.1v after 6 hours or so, and so far NONE of the 800Mhz kits can OC to 1066 stable without at least 2.1v (which again, was not stable without airflow, and none of them worked in a 4x2GB config)

 

[Wile E]

then i've had well over 20 'worst' modules. OCZ reaper, corsair XMS2, the lot.

every last one overheated on an open test platform at 2.1v after 6 hours or so, and so far NONE of the 800Mhz kits can OC to 1066 stable without at least 2.1v (which again, was not stable without airflow, and none of them worked in a 4x2GB config)

You do have the worst luck. I've only ever had one kit overheat on 2.2v, and that was in a crappy mid tower. Hell, tons of kits REQUIRE 2.2V at stock speeds.

And I've only ever owned 2 kits that couldn't do 800Mhz CAS4 stable, and they were both very early 2.2V CAS5 2x1GB Corsair kits.

 

[Mussels]

well if you wanna send me 4 sticks that do 4-4-4-12 or 5-5-5-15 at 1066, feel free.

oh and make sure they dont have tall spreaders, they'll hit my TRUE 120 in this current system

 

[Wile E]

well if you wanna send me 4 sticks that do 4-4-4-12 or 5-5-5-15 at 1066, feel free.

oh and make sure they dont have tall spreaders, they'll hit my TRUE 120 in this current system

How about I have 4 sticks, 2x1GB and 2x2GB that can run at 960 cas4, 2.1V together.

They have tall spreaders tho. lol.

 

[Mussels]

talls no good

i'm currently running 6GB in a config like that can each do 1066Mhz, the problem is making it stable (i dont know if this board or CPU can pull it off)

 

[Wile E]

talls no good

i'm currently running 6GB in a config like that can each do 1066Mhz, the problem is making it stable (i dont know if this board or CPU can pull it off)

Go water cooling. Problem solved.

 

[Mussels]

Go water cooling. Problem solved.

corsair H50 is a long term option... but i'd rather get an AM3 board first (which will take a few months)

and by going AM3, i get rid of the DDR2 problem anyway... so yeah

 

[Wile E]

corsair H50 is a long term option... but i'd rather get an AM3 board first (which will take a few months)

and by going AM3, i get rid of the DDR2 problem anyway... so yeah

Yeah, but you live in one of the hottest places possible. H2o would be my priority.

 

[Mussels]

Yeah, but you live in one of the hottest places possible. H2o would be my priority.

yeah but i cant really run above stock on this mobo, so its chicken or egg.

the new board gives me many more options (much needed SATA ports, for one) and slightly better performance (faster ram), whereas the G50 gives me no benefits other than possibility to use ram i dont have.

 

[mastrdrver]

Hey CP, are you running raid on that Gigabyte board?

I need to switch back to the F7 to make sure, but I know for sure with the F3l that once I took the HTT off auto and started increase the clock, I would get errors in memtest86+ trying to run cl7 at 1333 on my G.Skill sticks and run with a 14x multi on the cpu-nb. They have no problem doing it with HTT set to auto, but even 5mhz over will throw errors all day in test 3 at ~2555mb range. Never fails and doesn't matter what I change. Worst part about is, sometimes I've let it loop the entire tests for 24 hrs and never saw the error. Rebooted and let it start over again and it was there with in the first pass.

Also, having raid 0 on killed my memory performance clock for clock, timing for timing no matter what. I lost a good 1GB/s in MaxxMem test and it showed up in other benches too. I think it may have even killed off 10fps on the minimum when running the Dirt 2 bench from the demo. I think the only thing it didn't hurt was the TechArp x264 bench.

 

[Mussels]

so has anyone got tips to help me run 1066Mhz? i saw mentions of lowering HT/NB clocks earlier? (it currently boots, but even with extra volts to the IMC and NB, its not stable once in windows)

 

[(FIH) The Don]

what do you guys think about this board?

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=b6R5QXWNOAJzwcUx

i can get it for 50$ +- so i think it would be nice if i wanna do some SLI action

and yes i know there prob is better boards, but they have DDR2 and i have DDR3 and i dont wanna spend more money than necessary

 

[brandonwh64]

what do you guys think about this board?

http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_ID=b6R5QXWNOAJzwcUx

i can get it for 50$ +- so i think it would be nice if i wanna do some SLI action

and yes i know there prob is better boards, but they have DDR2 and i have DDR3 and i dont wanna spend more money than necessary

its decent! if u want sli i would get it. if not then get a better board

 

[cadaveca]

so has anyone got tips to help me run 1066Mhz? i saw mentions of lowering HT/NB clocks earlier? (it currently boots, but even with extra volts to the IMC and NB, its not stable once in windows)

Yeah, becasue low NB is easier on the ram, if ram isn't quite capable, it lowers the load on the ram.


But because you are running Thuban now, I dunno that you'll have any better luck than mailman did. Thuban just doesn't like DDR2 much, it seems.

Mind you I haven't even tried my cpu yet...so grain of salt, as always.


should be running 5-5-5-18-4-28-8-4, TRFC 60 or higher.

 

[REALIN]

Add me to the list please.

AMD Phenom 2 x4 940 BE @ 3.5GHz + Corsair h50 Hydro. Will be getting Thuban soon!

 

[cadaveca]

BTW, Mussels, as you know, ram is a passive device, that has a literal BANDWIDTH limit. If lowering NB does not allow 1066 for 1066-rated sticks, we can say 100% for sure that it's a bug in the IMC or bios that is causing issues.

Now, given that ASUS and MSI agents have both "publically" stated that AMD has been pushing out Microcode updates for Thuban very quickly, it must be obvious that some bioses on some boards aren't going to work perfectly yet, until AMD gets that sorted out properly.


I mean, even 890FX boards are having issues...@ stock! I've only put off playing with my thuban for fear of killing it with a bad bios...

 

[(FIH) The Don]

ill be getting full WC loop tonight

but wont mount it today, might wait 2 days till i get home again

these are the parts

CPU http://www.alphacool.com/product_in....html/XTCsid/use49vgq61cat0dk74blok52q1mpla4k
pump http://coolbits.dk/pumper-47/laing-114/laing-ddc-1t-pro-431.html
rad http://www.aquatuning.de/product_info.php/info/p1833_Watercool-HTSF-240-Dual.html
res http://coolbits.dk/reservoir-66/andre-125/lund-reservoir-aluplex-972.html
10x fittings http://coolbits.dk/fittings-41/studser-52/3-8-10mm-153/koolance-slangestuds-g1-4-10mm-3-8-74.html

3m tubing, TFC?

all that for 165$ +-

 

[xvi]

so has anyone got tips to help me run 1066Mhz? i saw mentions of lowering HT/NB clocks earlier? (it currently boots, but even with extra volts to the IMC and NB, its not stable once in windows)

I'm sure the Australian warmth isn't helping, but is there any way you could get a fan on (or even near) your ram? You're probably going to really have to worry about your rise above ambient.

Any idea if it's temperatures holding you back?

That or do what I do. Buy a small household A/C and duct it to the inside of your case.

 

[Mussels]

I'm sure the Australian warmth isn't helping, but is there any way you could get a fan on (or even near) your ram? You're probably going to really have to worry about your rise above ambient.

Any idea if it's temperatures holding you back?

That or do what I do. Buy a small household A/C and duct it to the inside of your case.

its winter. doesnt go above 15C ambient in my room.

its not too big a deal, as within 3 months or so i'll have moved to a DDR3 system - but ofc, i'd like to get what performance i can in the meantime.

 

[cdawall]

anyone have some parts to spare i am trying to put together a TEC chiller

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=123889

 

[zaqwsx]

You guys think you can help me oc my Phenom II 965 past 4ghz

System Specs

Phenom II 965 BE
Corsair Dominator DDR3 2x 2gb 800mhz 9 9 9 20 29 1t timeings
Thermaltake though power 1000watt
HD4890 Sapphire toxic
win7 64bit
Asus forgot model will put it up later
Stock temps are 22c and under occt for 1hour wouldnt go past 34c

any help would be great i managed 4ghz at 1.6v and only upping the mulitplyer

 

[(FIH) The Don]

get that voltage down if you dont wanna kill your cpu

 

[zaqwsx]

What do you recommend?

 

[(FIH) The Don]

well if its a c3 then it can do 4ghz under 1.5

 

[zaqwsx]

its c2 one of the first ones that came out i have 2 of them

edit: motherboard is asus M4A785TD-V EVO also this is not for a 24/7 oc