The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[LifeOnMars]

TBH Jr, I'm thinking of selling my 555 for £50. The 960T is £95 and the 1055T is £119.

I'm not fixated on having a hexacore, I used to have a 1090T about a year ago and there was no major difference apart form lower voltage and better IMC. So I'd be quite happy getting the 960T with the slight hope I would unlock for any encoding and stuff but if it doesn't, I'll still have a 4GHz + quad with a slightly better IMC and hopefully slightly cooler.

 

[de.das.dude]

Semi-true. An unstable IMC can cause this, rather than loosening sub-timings you could have given CPU-NB more voltage.

i had 1.45v already.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I've got a question. My Fatal1ty has the 1.3 BIOS from the factory, and I wanted to flash it to 1.5. (newest) So I was gonna use Instant Flash, but it doesn't recognize my flash drive with the new BIOS on it.

Do I need to try a different flash drive? I only have that one. I could borrow a couple to try from a friend though if thats what it is.

Can it be done through windows? That was the only way to do it on my buddies ASROCK 990FX Extreme 3, just wouldn't do it through the BIOS.

Formatting to FAT32 is easy, just right click on the drive in windows, hit format, and then choose FAT32. It will erase any content on it, so back it up if needed.

Is it normal for memory subtimings to have an effect on in game stuttering/hitching?

I loosened a few of my subtimings and I could swear blind it has got rid of some annoying hitching and split second frameskip I was getting in some games.

Any fact behind this?

If you change RAM timings and you have stuttering issues I would say it's some sort of instability. My two cents.

 

[Irony]

Formatting to FAT32 is easy, just right click on the drive in windows, hit format, and then choose FAT32. It will erase any content on it, so back it up if needed.

Thanks. I feel stupid now.

I did that, and it says "No image file detected." But at least it sees the drive.

There is a way to do it through windows, but instant flash is just so simple.

Edit: I did it through windows. It took about 2 mins. Now I have version 1.5.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks. I feel stupid now.

I did that, and it says "No image file detected." But at least it sees the drive.

There is a way to do it through windows, but instant flash is just so simple.

Edit: I did it through windows. It took about 2 mins. Now I have version 1.5.

 

[Irony]

And the best part is, I don't have to stare at Johnathan Wendels face in my BIOS anymore!!!

 

[Athlon2K15]

+1 to that llol

 

[Chicken Patty]

 

[Athlon2K15]

Trying to see how low on vcore i can go @ 4ghz. still a WIP

 

[de.das.dude]

wip?

 

[Athlon2K15]

work in progress

 

[JrRacinFan]

Hey Athlon, how many different ram dividers do you have? Well was just going to mention, you may be able to get away with lowering bclk and raising multi. Essentially doing a reverse to lower board voltages and MAYBE the cpu voltages too. But again, some cpu's like LOW multipliers/HIGH bclk, just a case by case trial and error basis you have to do.

 

[Athlon2K15]

um..4 i think from 800mhz to 1600

 

[JrRacinFan]

um..4 i think from 800mhz to 1600

Ok crap, was thinking you had an 1866 divider too.

 

[Athlon2K15]

no not that leet still using the trusty old crosshair III 790FX

 

[JrRacinFan]

Yeah, try upping bclk as far as you can while keeping your current ram/timings, may need to up board voltages a touch but should allow more tweaking to cpu voltages.

 

[Irony]

Trying to see how low on vcore i can go @ 4ghz. still a WIP

http://img.techpowerup.org/111209/Capture.png

I can only get to 1.375 stable with mine at 4Ghz. I can go lower, and it'll be fine doing anything but stress testing. I can leave it on for a week, and then if I start Prime95 it crashes. That's to be expected tho

 

[Athlon2K15]

well..my board is giving me fits right now,maybe i corrupted the bios or something but it doesnt wanna boot. using the rig in my specs for now

 

[JrRacinFan]

Remove battery, put cmos in clear and let it sit for an hour or so.

 

[Athlon2K15]

Thats what i did,we will see what happens

 

[de.das.dude]

or, remove jumper, and start your PC. it will restart a couple of times. then turn it off an replace jumper and start.

 

[Spartan805]

What was your previous CPU?

i've had both the Fx-4100 then the FX-6100. Utter junk! My 960T will wipe the floor with either.

 

[de.das.dude]

^ looks like you dont have your own opinions, just copied stuff.

 

[Irony]

i've had both the Fx-4100 then the FX-6100. Utter junk! My 960T will wipe the floor with either.

Would you mind showing a couple Benchmarks? Like with Cinebench11.5 or 3Dmark11. (just to make me happy if nothing else)

Just playing games and messing around, its very difficult to tell major differences between chips. But benchmarks can tell you if its really any faster or not.

Edit: also, did you overclock em at all?

 

[Spartan805]

? huh ?