AMD FX OC'ers Club

[Chicken Patty]

I would so pick E's combo up if I had the money, that's actually the only thing holding me back. Really dying to have one just to play with it and get it crunching. No one tends to have #'s with the BD's as far as WCG yet.

 

[AphexDreamer]

Anyone with a 6100 have advice on how to clock this?

Right now I'm sitting at 4.54 Ghz with 1.45 volts.

Messed around with 4.7 but I couldn't get it stable even with 1.49 volts and didn't want to go higher.

 

[Irony]

@erocker: What do you want for your BD?

 

[Athlon2K15]

it's gone

 

[Irony]

it's gone

That was quick. Like 5 seconds after i posted, lol

 

[erocker]

Just the board left. It's listed in the [FS] section.

 

[johnnyfiive]

Anyone with a 6100 have advice on how to clock this?

Right now I'm sitting at 4.54 Ghz with 1.45 volts.

Messed around with 4.7 but I couldn't get it stable even with 1.49 volts and didn't want to go higher.

What multi and HT/bus combo are you using when going beyond 4.5?

 

[pantherx12]

Got an fx8120 on the way !

Will be sticking as close to stock voltage as possible for my over clocks.

By the way @ aphex dreamer, did you try overclocking with stock voltage first?

After reading all the reviews and several pages of user overclocks over the interwebs it seems bulldozer is effected by temperatures more than voltage, most can overclock pretty decently on stock volts as the cpu runs a lot cooler, more volts go in the hotter it gets harder overclocking becomes.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Phenoms also hate heat. Makes a world of a difference when it comes to overclockin them if you can keep them cool.

 

[AphexDreamer]

What multi and HT/bus combo are you using when going beyond 4.5?

I tried High Multi Low FSB and Vice versa

So like 255-260 X 18-19

Or

220-230 x 19-21

 

[Super XP]

Upped my FX-8120 to 4.40 GHz stable, though I upped the volts alittle to 1.375 or something. I'm on my laptop right now, still running tests on the Bulldozer.

Oh, QUESTION, how on earth do you disable cores? What software is out to do this because the bios does not let you disable individual cores, just whole modules.

Got an fx8120 on the way !

Will be sticking as close to stock voltage as possible for my over clocks.

By the way @ aphex dreamer, did you try overclocking with stock voltage first?

After reading all the reviews and several pages of user overclocks over the interwebs it seems bulldozer is effected by temperatures more than voltage, most can overclock pretty decently on stock volts as the cpu runs a lot cooler, more volts go in the hotter it gets harder overclocking becomes.

 

[cadaveca]

You just need the right BIOS on your board for Core disabling.

 

[Super XP]

You just need the right BIOS on your board for Core disabling.

I do, I have the newest bios from the ASUS site. The Bios # 0903

Though I believe you mean this version right?
http://www.phoronix.com/image-viewer.php?id=amd_bulldozer_scaling&image=amd_zambezi_bios_lrg

I learned one thing about this FX-8120, it's the same as the FX-8150, just up the multi and that's it. It doesn't need any vCore increase from 3.1GHz to 3.6GHz. Also I found that it doesn't need any vCore increase at 3.8GHz, it is when I hit higher that this is where it needs a slight bump up. Anyhow still testing at 4.40 GHz with all 8 cores. Been running the CPU burn test for a few hours now. I'll post pics after the test(s).

 

[cadaveca]

Yeah, it's in one of the beta BIOSes. You can find it on the ROG site.

 

[pantherx12]

Upped my FX-8120 to 4.40 GHz stable, though I upped the volts alittle to 1.375 or something. I'm on my laptop right now, still running tests on the Bulldozer.

Oh, QUESTION, how on earth do you disable cores? What software is out to do this because the bios does not let you disable individual cores, just whole modules.

AMDs own overdrive software is probably best bet.

 

[Super XP]

AMDs own overdrive software is probably best bet.

I have the newest AMD Overdrive and I cannot find an option to disable cores

Also here's some OC'ing picks.

Bus = 200 / Multi = 22.0 / CPU = 4.40 GHz for all 8-Cores / vCore = 1.375v

Bus = 232 / Multi = 19.0 / CPU = 4.40 GHz for all 8-Cores / vCore = 1.375v

 

[pantherx12]

Nice man, looking forward over-clocking this if I do add voltage I don't think I'll go past 1.4v myself.

Good to know that FSB overclocking helps reduce voltage requirement as I'm used to over-clocking with FSB anyway.

 

[Super XP]

And here is the validation.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2125967

Nice man, looking forward over-clocking this if I do add voltage I don't think I'll go past 1.4v myself.

Good to know that FSB overclocking helps reduce voltage requirement as I'm used to over-clocking with FSB anyway.

Good luck on your setup. It's fun to play with. Though I am having issues running Skyrim ever since I had to format and re-install Windows and such. I have the game on my RAID 0, and for some reason Windows always checks the bloody disk for errors when I restart my PC. As it's checking for errors, it deletes files from my Steam folder lol, need to figure this out. Maybe my drives are going bad or something?

 

[pantherx12]

And here is the validation.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2125967

Good luck on your setup. It's fun to play with. Though I am having issues running Skyrim ever since I had to format and re-install Windows and such. I have the game on my RAID 0, and for some reason Windows always checks the bloody disk for errors when I restart my PC. As it's checking for errors, it deletes files from my Steam folder lol, need to figure this out. Maybe my drives are going bad or something?

Can you tell it to not check for errors?

Not ever had the option to a HDD plugged in via sata but when it comes up for my usb devices I just ignore it as normally it's wrong

 

[nt300]

And here is the validation.
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2125967

Good luck on your setup. It's fun to play with. Though I am having issues running Skyrim ever since I had to format and re-install Windows and such. I have the game on my RAID 0, and for some reason Windows always checks the bloody disk for errors when I restart my PC. As it's checking for errors, it deletes files from my Steam folder lol, need to figure this out. Maybe my drives are going bad or something?

You update with the Windows Update after you did a new Windows install? You should do that first then see what happends.

 

[fullinfusion]

Idk on load stress testing with OCCT passed the linpack test 1:30min my CPU temp reached 51C.

I believe it may be right (which is awesome) but worried it might not be?

I agree OCCT is the best. Plus its not hard on the vregs

 

[AphexDreamer]

I agree OCCT is the best. Plus its not hard on the vregs

You know OCCT won't launch for me anymore.

I click the .exe and it goes to Initilizing system components and then stops responding every time.

I'e uninstalled reinstalled uninstalled restarted Cleaned Registry and reinstalled tried the .zip version and same thing happens every time.

The best has just failed on me. Any ideas on how to fix it?

EDIT:
4.1.0 Beta 3 works for me but 4.0.0 won't work for me anymore...

 

[fullinfusion]

You know OCCT won't launch for me anymore.

I click the .exe and it goes to Initilizing system components and then stops responding every time.

I'e uninstalled reinstalled uninstalled restarted Cleaned Registry and reinstalled tried the .zip version and same thing happens every time.

The best has just failed on me. Any ideas on how to fix it?

EDIT:
4.1.0 Beta 3 works for me but 4.0.0 won't work for me anymore...

sounds like a time stamp in the program or you need to look into Show hidden folders and dig around. you can also go into the bios and change the date on the RTC to 2010 or whatever. Some times it works. I do that for programs that give me a problem because of the above.

 

[fullinfusion]

5GHz run Cinebench R11.5 cpu run.
This runs real good @ this clock
I wonder how a 3D mark 11 run will go or is my psu going to take a big shit!

 

[Chicken Patty]

Great job Brad. I think people are jumping the gun with BD and it being a fail. Platform shows it has potential, but it's like it is severely bottle necked by software/BIOS.