The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Velvet Wafer]

It's too bad i can't really afford to purchase right now. There are some 1600 2x4 Ripjaws @ 'Egg on sale:
G.SKILL Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR...

Currently just shopping around, won't be for another month when I do an upgrade.

yeah that was about what i meant... pretty low price for an 8gb kit, with acceptable speeds

 

[YautjaLord]

G.Skill SNIPER 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz cost 220+ USD or 775 sheckels & RipJaw X 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz - 215+ USD or 760 sheckels. Either of those will be able to assist in Phenom II 965BE OCing; i think i'll go for either RipJaw or (more preferrably) SNIPER Edition. Stay tuned for end of August update, i'll also try it on Sabertooth 990FX; if you ask why not C5F - both have TurboV EVO & Ai Suite II plus both use extensively all 990FX/Phenom II features & i'll be fine without ROG features ROG CPU-Z included. End of August.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

G.Skill SNIPER 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz cost 220+ USD or 775 sheckels & RipJaw X 2x4GB DDR3 1600MHz - 215+ USD or 760 sheckels. Either of those will be able to assist in Phenom II 965BE OCing; i think i'll go for either RipJaw or (more preferrably) SNIPER Edition. Stay tuned for end of August update, i'll also try it on Sabertooth 990FX; if you ask why not C5F - both have TurboV EVO & Ai Suite II plus both use extensively all 990FX/Phenom II features & i'll be fine without ROG features ROG CPU-Z included. End of August.

with prices like that, i would give my local economy the finger, and start to order from abroad... god, with prices like that, i even have to think of vampirism,instantly! Sucking you dry till the last drop!

ROG CPU-Z is just a skin, everyone can use it. Here, have fun: ROG CPU-Z

 

[YautjaLord]

With taxes like the ones in Israel true - one will be on street & dead drunk from desperation; lol'd bout vampirism. And thanx for ROG skin but simple CPU-Z will suffice.

As for prices: you shocked from what i gave here? Trust me you don't want to know how high they are in other stores; if you call these prices vampirism then call the ones that way higher a sorcery or even satanism. Trust me the prices i gave are the same as in 'Egg, yet without taxes. With taxes=what i gave in my prev post.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

With taxes like the ones in Israel true - one will be on street & dead drunk from desperation; lol'd bout vampirism. And thanx for ROG skin but simple CPU-Z will suffice.

As for prices: you shocked from what i gave here? Trust me you don't want to know how high they are in other stores; if you call these prices vampirism then call the ones that way higher a sorcery or even satanism. Trust me the prices i gave are the same as in 'Egg, yet without taxes. With taxes=what i gave in my prev post.

oh well... smuggling hardware into your country must be really profitable then!
Forget drug trafficking, Ram is the new Cocaine!

 

[YautjaLord]

Yes - importing hardware & consumer electronics into Israel is quite profitable (assuming the people willing to buy those & frankly majority does buy), even though smuggling sounds more suitable (but fortunately it's not smuggling). Lol'd bout "RAM is the new Cocaine" thingy.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

i don't know why u all have your voltages so high set in bios, hears what i have set

Cpu vcore 1.440v 4.2ghz
Cpu/nb 1.2250v 2600mhz
cpu adda 2.2v
Ram dimm 1.6V
ht 1.1v
nb 1.1v
sb 1.5

 

[erocker]

i don't know why u all have your voltages so high set in bios, hears what i have set

Cpu vcore 1.440v 4.2ghz
Cpu/nb 1.2250v 2600mhz
cpu adda 2.2v
Ram dimm 1.6V
ht 1.1v
nb 1.1v
sb 1.5

That's because we're stable.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

That's because we're stable.

excuss me i am rock solid hear

 

[Athlonite]

dude you should increase NB to 2600. thats the 5200MT/s promised by AMD's chipset.
you'll get 10GBps speeds too.

I'll give it a bash but I think it was unstable at that speed with the 4x 1GB sticks but that was with Asus's 1909 BIOS I'm now running the 2003 BIOS so I'll give it another go see if they fixed anything

 

[erocker]

excuss me i am rock solid hear

Video card problems all sorted? I was just kidding man, I know you have a very good chip.

 

[Senupe]

Hello guys, i have a little phenom II, but the thing is i use a Phenom II 945 95 Watt version C3 stepping, so to get this thing stable at 3.5GHz over Prime95 6 hours i had to use 1.4v on Vcore, 1.2V on HT, 1.15V on NB and 1.2V on CPU/NB

Any ideas how can i squeeze my little boy higher without setting crazy voltages?

Thanks for any info

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

Video card problems all sorted? I was just kidding man, I know you have a very good chip.

all good bro i had it feel it was a joke

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

Hello guys, i have a little phenom II, but the thing is i use a Phenom II 945 95 Watt version C3 stepping, so to get this thing stable at 3.5GHz over Prime95 6 hours i had to use 1.4v on Vcore, 1.2V on HT, 1.15V on NB and 1.2V on CPU/NB

Any ideas how can i squeeze my little boy higher without setting crazy voltages?

Thanks for any info

have u back down the hyper transport clocks and north bridge as well the memory divider?
give us a summary of your bios overclocking settings?

 

[de.das.dude]

have u back down the hyper transport clocks and north bridge as well the memory divider?
give us a summary of your bios overclocking settings?

no his cannot go past 3500 i have the same problem as well and the same CPU. c3 stepping.

it wont stablisize after 3.5ghz not even 3.51GHz!

 

[Chicken Patty]

That's weird, it should hit 3.5 even on a not very decent CPU. My 940 hot 4GHz effortlessly, I only had it for a fee weeks though.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

no his cannot go past 3500 i have the same problem as well and the same CPU. c3 stepping.

it wont stablisize after 3.5ghz not even 3.51GHz!

for the stock cooler thats okay... you maybe should invest in something beefier, especially in such a hot country... you cant expect more than 3.5 with it, thats pretty normal in my opinion

 

[de.das.dude]

no.its not heating problem. i even tried in the winter when its 11C in my room. still wont get stable enough

something to do with the C3 revision and the 95W power limit.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

no.its not heating problem. i even tried in the winter when its 11C in my room. still wont get stable enough

something to do with the C3 revision and the 95W power limit.

its due to it beeing an EE proc then, and youre out of luck... not too bad tho, the difference between 3.8 and 3.5 is negligible on phenoms, especially when you just game and do normal things on it... even for encoding you just save a few seconds

 

[erocker]

no.its not heating problem. i even tried in the winter when its 11C in my room. still wont get stable enough

something to do with the C3 revision and the 95W power limit.

This is your problem:

It just isn't enough.

 

[de.das.dude]

This is your problem:

http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp112/erocker414/M4pro.jpg

It just isn't enough.

yeah yeah you said it before. but what about the other guy??

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

This is your problem:

http://i403.photobucket.com/albums/pp112/erocker414/M4pro.jpg

It just isn't enough.

yes and no, i had pretty much had the same board and had no problems overclocking a phenom II 920 to 3750mhz, and a phenom II 955 4ghz now i never primed 95 running any longer then 30mins, due to scared of overheating vrms and chokes, but in my case i had a 120mm fan on the back side panel cover mounted that blew air directly on to vrms chokes etc, so with that said i keep the board temps somewhat in check, i managed 3.8ghz was rock solid prime stable with a 955 x4 EE

 

[erocker]

yes and no, i had pretty much had the same board and had no problems overclocking a phenom II 920 to 3750mhz, and a phenom II 955 4ghz now i never primed 95 running any longer then 30mins, due to scared of overheating vrms and chokes, but in my case i had a 120mm fan on the back side panel cover mounted that blew air directly on to vrms chokes etc, so with that said i keep the board temps somewhat in check, i managed 3.8ghz was rock solid prime stable with a 955 x4 EE

Sure it can work, but there's a matter of what it can actually handle (specification wise). Some boards will do it, some won't and most boards will deteriorate after time due to pushing the VRM's/chokes past their limit. I have a Gigabyte board with a 4+1 phase and it can push 4ghz+ on one of my CPU's but if I keep it there it's just a matter of time before it fails. This I know through the experience of it actually happening.

yeah yeah you said it before. but what about the other guy??

His board has more chokes, but it still only has a 4 pin CPU plug.

 

[Corduroy_Jr]

Sure it can work, but there's a matter of what it can actually handle (specification wise). Some boards will do it, some won't and most boards will deteriorate after time due to pushing the VRM's/chokes past their limit. I have a Gigabyte board with a 4+1 phase and it can push 4ghz+ on one of my CPU's but if I keep it there it's just a matter of time before it fails. This I know through the experience of it actually happening.

i fully agree but in my case with that side panel fan i can run any game out there 24/7 at 3.8ghz the phase chokes and vrms where only warm to touch, now if i primed 95 the cpu the vrms etc would get extremely hot

 

[erocker]

i fully agree but in my case with that side panel fan i can run any game out there 24/7 at 3.8ghz the phase chokes and vrms where only warm to touch, now if i primed 95 the cpu the vrms etc would get extremely hot

There are many actual useful applications/games/etc. that can load the CPU just as much. If you know you don't use any of them, it's fine though in no way would I ever recommend someone to do it. Then again, cheap motherboards are easy to replace and I'm not everyone else.