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The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

Well turns out the board I got was Completely dead with no way to revive :( MTalex is supplying me a board for my HTPC and I will be using it. Oh well for the memory lane build :(
 
Senupe said:
Hello guys, i'm trying to overclock on this little girl in my sisters PC, but i can't even boot up at 3.6GHz with 1.4V on VCore, 1.26V on Northbridge (@2150MHz), 1.55V on RAM (8Gb 1333MHz @ 1433Mhz 9-9-9-28), the cooling it's stock but i'm not planing going too far just (3.6 or more if it's posible ;)) i tested the ram before at that speed and seemed to work, i don't know what it's the problem here.
I think i'm going to let the RAM at lower speed and the northbridge at less than 2000MHz. but really don't know if that's going to help me =/
The Processori'm using it's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition.
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945 are poop. they are lemons. specially c3 ones like min. mine wont clock well either. :shadedshu
 
asus goes by serial number. 100% sure. i RMA's my board 2 times already.
 
I want a M3A78-CM for my memory build. It will mark the first build I ever had with quad core. It will consist of that board with a Phenom II 940BE. I went quite big at the time with my quad core build and loved it until I made the stupid decision to get a 965BE :( Waisted money and time for something that was only alittle faster and used less wattage.
 
yup going from a quad phenom to another is pretty useless unless you are going from a locked to a BE.
 
de.das.dude said:
yup going from a quad phenom to another is pretty useless unless you are going from a locked to a BE.
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Yup I'd have to agree there evan if I can't afford a BD and AM3+ mobo I'd be thinking 1100t or simalar to replace my aging 940BE @ 3.4GHz

but it still runs perfectly fine for Skyrim and CF'd HD5770's
 
Let me tell you, I absolutely loved my 1090T over my 940. I know it's a different more potent CPU but it was a complete night and day difference. You'll love the 1100T if you et a hold of one. :D
 
Athlonite said:
Yup I'd have to agree there evan if I can't afford a BD and AM3 mobo I'd be thinking 1100t or simalar to replace my aging 940BE @ 3.4GHz

but it still runs perfectly fine for Skyrim and CF'd HD5770's
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What CP said is true :) The 1100T is an awesome CPU. I'm running one now and its fantastic :D
 
PHaS3 said:
What CP said is true :) The 1100T is an awesome CPU. I'm running one now and its fantastic :D
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I had the 1090T, but it's prett much the same thing except for clock speed correct?
 
Alright, yesterday i wasnt able to hold it anymore.:o

After more than 2 Years, i bought a Phenom 960T in Hope that 1-2 Cores will unlock, while providing superior ram,CPU and NB clocking capabilities,compared to my aging 955, which seems to be on its slow path to death.

It suddenly refuses many settings which were stable for years before, and that, and the best board i had run it so far (so i dont think this is the Culprit)

Paid 100€ for the 960T and now im kinda curious what it will bring me... could be anything from eternal damnation to everlasting happyness!:laugh:
 
Heya VW! Think of them as 1090t's with 2 damaged cores, overclocking is stellar on them. Don't try to unlock it, 37% good 73% bad chances of getting a good stable unlock. Also epending on which SKU you get you might get a black edition. :)
 
Congrats on the purchase VW. Looking forward to some results.
 
JrRacinFan said:
Heya VW! Think of them as 1090t's with 2 damaged cores, overclocking is stellar on them. Don't try to unlock it, 37% good 73% bad chances of getting a good stable unlock. Also epending on which SKU you get you might get a black edition. :)
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In addition to that 37% overclocking is limited on some that have been unlocked.
 
JrRacinFan said:
Heya VW! Think of them as 1090t's with 2 damaged cores, overclocking is stellar on them. Don't try to unlock it, 37% good 73% bad chances of getting a good stable unlock.
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Good Info, thanks! That lightens my Heart quite much!
I have heard that many have damaged cores, so i hoped for a 5 core unlock with a good OC.
OCing the hell out of it is also an option, should the 5 core unlock also fail (i can shut off each single core except the first on this board, so searching the 2 weakest should prove easy)

Maybe finally the 4ghz on a phenom for me,stable? i would be partying! :rockout:

EDIT:
I bought it as a BE version, so its completely unlocked
 
Velvet Wafer said:
Maybe finally the 4ghz on a phenom for me,stable? i would be partying!
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Oh yeah definitely. I've seen reports of 4Ghz @ 1.35v. Must add, another reason why i switched back to P55, may end up going SLi in the near future.
 
JrRacinFan said:
Oh yeah definitely. I've seen reports of 4Ghz @ 1.35v. Must add, another reason why i switched back to P55, may end up going SLi in the near future.
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Would be amazing, this would be dream clocks for me with this old one here :laugh:
SLI works great when hacked, since HyperSLI was released, Nvidia has a hard timing countering it.;)
 
No hacked SLi here bro. Got a Max 3 Gene coming today.
 
Velvet Wafer said:
It suddenly refuses many settings which were stable for years before, and that, and the best board i had run it so far (so i dont think this is the Culprit)
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Hey VW :)
I recommend you try to RMA, if possible. I just RMA'd a 555 BE that I didn't even think they would accept. It used to unlock to a quad, but after a few months it started crashing so I kept it as 3 cores. Few months down the line, more crashes, so back to a stable dualie.

Then a couple of months ago it started crashing as a dual even with stock RAM settings. It would work for a whole day, then would crash all the next day and was completely random. I was worried AMD wouldn't accept the RMA because it would be fine for a whole day at a time, but yea, they accepted and were very cool about it. Even got an e-mail that wasn't a copy and paste, to check I had received the replacement and it was working okay!

Always worth a try ;)
 
scaminatrix said:
Hey VW :)
I recommend you try to RMA, if possible. I just RMA'd a 555 BE that I didn't even think they would accept. It used to unlock to a quad, but after a few months it started crashing so I kept it as 3 cores. Few months down the line, more crashes, so back to a stable dualie.

Then a couple of months ago it started crashing as a dual even with stock RAM settings. It would work for a whole day, then would crash all the next day and was completely random. I was worried AMD wouldn't accept the RMA because it would be fine for a whole day at a time, but yea, they accepted and were very cool about it. Even got an e-mail that wasn't a copy and paste, to check I had received the replacement and it was working okay!

Always worth a try ;)
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Sounds about like my problem... random instabilities, especially after cold boots... i think i shall try to RMA it if it really was the problem, just need to test it in another board, luckily i have a buddy that has one.

OT, but something amazing just happened:
HYPER SLI with different GPUs
 
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