The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Johan45]

You so bored?

Who Me ???

 

[suraswami]

Who Me ??? View attachment 56550

yeah. getting all those old retired people and giving them heart attack!! (I meant those Phenoms )

 

[Johan45]

I just haven't been able to do any real benching lately cause of the warm weather Swami, I gotta fix this before I get a bit crazy.

 

[itsakjt]

yeah. getting all those old retired people and giving them heart attack!! (I meant those Phenoms )

Dude, Phenom II X4s and X6s still rock! I still use a Phenom II system as my only primary and gaming rig. I cannot upgrade to what I want since I am a student now and earn very little on my own(I live in India so you must know or heard about her limitations). But it gets the job done and I am happy and so are many of my friends with the same condition as me. I currently have got an Asus R9 280X as a review sample and games run very good(Battlefield 4 at 62 FPS average all maxed out and Grid 2 at 85-100 FPS all maxed and 8x AA). So the bottle-necking is not much in my 1080p 60 Hz screen which is very common here and in fact, in many places of the world.

 

[suraswami]

Dude, Phenom II X4s and X6s still rock! I still use a Phenom II system as my only primary and gaming rig. I cannot upgrade to what I want since I am a student now and earn very little on my own(I live in India so you must know or heard about her limitations). But it gets the job done and I am happy and so are many of my friends with the same condition as me. I currently have got an Asus R9 280X as a review sample and games run very good(Battlefield 4 at 62 FPS average all maxed out and Grid 2 at 85-100 FPS all maxed and 8x AA). So the bottle-necking is not much in my 1080p 60 Hz screen which is very common here and in fact, in many places of the world.

Dude I was just joking around, and I am from India too (but live in Republic of Asia). I own few Phenom IIs (X2, X3, X4 and X6) and few Athlons and they all still rock. I upgraded my family machine from X3 to X6 and I upgraded mine from X6 to FX 8xxx. My son uses the X6, me and my son play Age of Empires on LAN (father son bonding time). Hardcore AMD fan, My gaming, media centers, servers and laptops all AMD based, only intel chip I own is a dumb Atom!!

 

[itsakjt]

Dude I was just joking around, and I am from India too (but live in Republic of Asia). I own few Phenom IIs (X2, X3, X4 and X6) and few Athlons and they all still rock. I upgraded my family machine from X3 to X6 and I upgraded mine from X6 to FX 8xxx. My son uses the X6, me and my son play Age of Empires on LAN (father son bonding time). Hardcore AMD fan, My gaming, media centers, servers and laptops all AMD based, only intel chip I own is a dumb Atom!!

Following you on TPU now. #IndiaThings.

 

[ThE_MaD_ShOt]

I have a 955BE in the mail headed this way, should be here soon. These old Phenom IIs are just fun to push. It would be a lot more fun if it were still -20c outside but it's not.

I have a 1090t, 1055t, and my 8350 I am going to play with. The 1090t has been running 3.6 for well a long time crunching 100% load so I know him can do more and the 1055t has been at 3.2 or 3.5 crunching. I am going to use the Rev 4 giga 990fxa ud3. When I am done with those I am going to either pick up another 8350 or a 8320 and build another cruncher around the rev 4 board.

 

[xBruce88x]

i'd just love to get a 95w 1055t, I think i'd be able to overclock it decently with my board. I do need some more ram though, unfortunately an 8gb kit of ddr2 1066 is kinda expensive now, though i guess i could just get another 2x2gb set of ddr2 800, but the ram i have now is showing its age (6+ years!, about as old as this whole thread!)

 

[Johan45]

Dude, Phenom II X4s and X6s still rock! I still use a Phenom II system as my only primary and gaming rig. I cannot upgrade to what I want since I am a student now and earn very little on my own(I live in India so you must know or heard about her limitations). But it gets the job done and I am happy and so are many of my friends with the same condition as me. I currently have got an Asus R9 280X as a review sample and games run very good(Battlefield 4 at 62 FPS average all maxed out and Grid 2 at 85-100 FPS all maxed and 8x AA). So the bottle-necking is not much in my 1080p 60 Hz screen which is very common here and in fact, in many places of the world.

yeah. getting all those old retired people and giving them heart attack!! (I meant those Phenoms )

Well I didn't manage to give it a heart attack but it did do a little dancing.

And a few benches
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548671_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548692_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2549386_

 

[itsakjt]

Well I didn't manage to give it a heart attack but it did do a little dancing.

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And a few benches
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548671_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548692_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2549386_

AWESOME! How did you manage to cool that? I mean the cooling?

 

[Johan45]

With a big azz rad and a 700 GPH pump

 

[suraswami]

Well I didn't manage to give it a heart attack but it did do a little dancing.

View attachment 56792

And a few benches
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548671_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2548692_
http://hwbot.org/submission/2549386_

Well now you are tempting me to wake up few old guys at home and make them run this race!!

 

[itsakjt]

With a big azz rad and a 700 GPH pump

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Oh my gawd!

 

[Johan45]

Oh my gawd!

I though you'd like that. It's warm here noe or I would have had higher clocks. I can hang that rad outside in the winter and take advantage of -20c goodness.

 

[itsakjt]

I though you'd like that. It's warm here noe or I would have had higher clocks. I can hang that rad outside in the winter and take advantage of -20c goodness.

Lucky you. Here in Kolkata, India, it is 35 degree Celsius now.

 

[Irony]

It was 102f here today. I object to that, should not be that hot in may...

 

[Johan45]

Lucky you. Here in Kolkata, India, it is 35 degree Celsius now.

It was 102f here today. I object to that, should not be that hot in may...

Those kind of temps would make it difficult to do much of anything rreally. Summer is coming, that takes all my fun away

 

[itsakjt]

Those kind of temps would make it difficult to do much of anything rreally. Summer is coming, that takes all my fun away

Exactly. Going out has become impossible and in India, there are not much AC buses or public AC transport. Those which are there are expensive(more than 6 times the fare of normal transport) and so we cannot afford such luxury everyday. Third world woes.

 

[Johan45]

Exactly. Going out has become impossible and in India, there are not much AC buses or public AC transport. Those which are there are expensive(more than 6 times the fare of normal transport) and so we cannot afford such luxury everyday. Third world woes.

Now I see whay so many immigate to Canada. Everything has AC here except my house and where I work. When it gets really hot we just go into town and hang out in the mall for a couple hours to cool off.

 

[itsakjt]

Now I see whay so many immigate to Canada. Everything has AC here except my house and where I work. When it gets really hot we just go into town and hang out in the mall for a couple hours to cool off.

Yeah true. And Canada is comfortable even in summer. Living here is becoming kind of impossible in this hot and humid climate. This year, there were many days in which the temperature went to 41 degree C! Can you believe it? But I cannot do anything at the moment. I am a 3rd year computer science engineering student and will be giving my finals at this time next year. Then only, I will become officially eligible for a job(everything's corrupt here and its been like this for decades).
So after my graduation, I have my dreams to explore various places of the world and if possible, settle somewhere better. Even in India, there are better places but Kolkata is just too hot now.

 

[suraswami]

Yeah true. And Canada is comfortable even in summer. Living here is becoming kind of impossible in this hot and humid climate. This year, there were many days in which the temperature went to 41 degree C! Can you believe it? But I cannot do anything at the moment. I am a 3rd year computer science engineering student and will be giving my finals at this time next year. Then only, I will become officially eligible for a job(everything's corrupt here and its been like this for decades).
So after my graduation, I have my dreams to explore various places of the world and if possible, settle somewhere better. Even in India, there are better places but Kolkata is just too hot now.

I thought Chennai was hot and humid? Much of the heat is because of too much hot polluted gases/fumes/smoke out of those unclean and unmonitored vehicles. It adds more during hot months.

 

[Johan45]

Yeah true. And Canada is comfortable even in summer. Living here is becoming kind of impossible in this hot and humid climate. This year, there were many days in which the temperature went to 41 degree C! Can you believe it? But I cannot do anything at the moment. I am a 3rd year computer science engineering student and will be giving my finals at this time next year. Then only, I will become officially eligible for a job(everything's corrupt here and its been like this for decades).
So after my graduation, I have my dreams to explore various places of the world and if possible, settle somewhere better. Even in India, there are better places but Kolkata is just too hot now.

Good luck with your studies, I have heard from some that the corruption is so bad it's impossible to do anything unless you want to "pay" a bit extra.

 

[itsakjt]

I thought Chennai was hot and humid? Much of the heat is because of too much hot polluted gases/fumes/smoke out of those unclean and unmonitored vehicles. It adds more during hot months.

Yes man, same here in Kolkata. And since summer from the middle of March, it has rained just two days!

Good luck with your studies, I have heard from some that the corruption is so bad it's impossible to do anything unless you want to "pay" a bit extra.

Exactly. People are so unscrupulous here that you have to pay an extra 50 Rupees to a cab driver if its late night though there are many other taxis who are honest. So you can guess. Then there's politics and what not! Thankfully, I did not have to pay those people for anything I have done in my life so far except a 30 Rupees to a police officer because I had my earphones plugged while crossing the road. But it was my fault.

 

[Irony]

I live in western kansas now, used to live right in the middle of kansas. I've seen it up to 117 there, (google says that's 47c) and a couple years ago we had something like 53 days in a row over 100f, It was a new record here. And in the winter it sometimes gets -25f. It's probly one of the biggest temperature ranges there is; Almost everyone has AC here tho, there's still some people that dont It's tough without AC. I would much rather it was below freezing than miserably hot

I have some friends from up north in the US, and they're always like, you guys all have AC down there? what do you need it for...



How much rain do you guys get over there?

 

[itsakjt]

I live in western kansas now, used to live right in the middle of kansas. I've seen it up to 117 there, (google says that's 47c) and a couple years ago we had something like 53 days in a row over 100f, It was a new record here. And in the winter it sometimes gets -25f. It's probly one of the biggest temperature ranges there is; Almost everyone has AC here tho, there's still some people that dont It's tough without AC. I would much rather it was below freezing than miserably hot

I have some friends from up north in the US, and they're always like, you guys all have AC down there? what do you need it for...



How much rain do you guys get over there?

Just average. In monsoon, there's torrential rain usually and continues for days, sometimes 2-3 weeks. Thanks to the authority, we still have places where a lot of water logging occurs(being sarcastic). Used to happen just in the front of my home as well but thank god they fixed the issue here. Seriously, India needs to improve. It has great goods but has got the worst of bads.