AMD FX OC'ers Club

[Johan45]

I've read bits and pieces about this before and just didn't seem to tickle my fancy at the time. Besides it would take away from important things like gaming and benching. Ha ha

 

[d1nky]

i just run it when its not being used, kind of makes sense that when my rig is usually off. it could be making money and paying for electric or itself.

and a bonus is that they heat the room as well...

 

[Deleted member 6693]

Well the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 is quite good.....

 

[Durvelle27]

 

[Johan45]

Well the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX R2.0 is quite good.....

YOU BETCHA!!!

 

[Johan45]

Ya I've seen that before. If you wanna compare apples to apples the 9590 has a 20% OC over the 8350. Bump that 3970 up to 4.2 which they'll do quite easily and there's no comparison.

 

[Durvelle27]

Ya I've seen that before. If you wanna compare apples to apples the 9590 has a 20% OC over the 8350. Bump that 3970 up to 4.2 which they'll do quite easily and there's no comparison.

Cant wait for mantle

 

[d1nky]

yea me too.. with all this new change in hardware im kind of taking it slow deciding which direction my rig is going.

i know someone that popped a vrm with 290x and well i keep hearing horror stories on the ref pcbs.

8350/xfire 7950s should see me through a while

 

[Durvelle27]

yea me too.. with all this new change in hardware im kind of taking it slow deciding which direction my rig is going.

i know someone that popped a vrm with 290x and well i keep hearing horror stories on the ref pcbs.

8350/xfire 7950s should see me through a while

Ppl Ocing high on stock cooling

 

[d1nky]

the vrm thing was stock on water lol

but yea, theres many stories on the net about em!

damn coin prices have dropped....

 

[Johan45]

I'm surprised they usually have the cards tightened down pretty good any more for adding volts. Someone must be using some bad caps. Or they underestimated the power draw. Maybe they based the new chips off the FX design that would certainly blow them up. Ha ha ha

 

[Durvelle27]

My Sapphire R9 290 arrived and i got the Accelero Xtreme III installed along with some copper heatsinks

 

[d1nky]

might want to edit

 

[Durvelle27]

might want to edit

Edit what

 

[d1nky]

LOL the pics were showing error and only url visible.


check that out, ya new massive 290. cant wait to see benches man!

 

[Durvelle27]

stock run (947/1250)

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7624361




OC'd (1151/1450) Core @63c Max

http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/7625094

 

[Johan45]

Nice pieces parts Durvelle. I have to try that 3D11 again!! Maybe I'll throw the 580s in and see haw they do against the 290. I've got these babies all tricked out. Ha ha JK

 

[Durvelle27]

My never ending overclocking quest. 1190/1450

There ya go. Try to beat that




@1215/1450

 

[techtard]

Decided to clean my loop then place the rads externally. Made a world of difference temp wise. When I had everything inside the case, the VRMs on my sabertooth would get hot to the touch and needed a fan, now they run cool even at 5.0ghz.
The clear tubing that came with my XSPC kit discolored and had some kind of gross non-algae residue lining the inside, so I had to swap it out with new tubing.

My main PC looks like it will be down for some time while I wait for my new GPU, might mix some antifreeze into my loop and place my rads at the window and run some -25 C air cool them down. Maybe try to make a run at your guys scores.
The air is so dry that condensation won't be a problem. I just need to find my ski-pants and I think I will be set.

 

[d1nky]

Decided to clean my loop then place the rads externally. Made a world of difference temp wise. When I had everything inside the case, the VRMs on my sabertooth would get hot to the touch and needed a fan, now they run cool even at 5.0ghz.
The clear tubing that came with my XSPC kit discolored and had some kind of gross non-algae residue lining the inside, so I had to swap it out with new tubing.

My main PC looks like it will be down for some time while I wait for my new GPU, might mix some antifreeze into my loop and place my rads at the window and run some -25 C air cool them down. Maybe try to make a run at your guys scores.
The air is so dry that condensation won't be a problem. I just need to find my ski-pants and I think I will be set.

shame ya rig is down. i have the same issues with most clear tubing, it goes white inside. its common that people who run clear and and clear coolant to change hose every 2 months or so.

you guys are lucky needing anti freeze, its like 12*c here and 8-10*c at night. i cant wait to get my bench on!


@durvelle, nice benches man!

the power of those 290s are pretty damn incredible!

 

[Durvelle27]

Guys getting my bench on today.

Its -3*C here and i have the window wide open. Time to beat some scores

 

[d1nky]

Guys getting my bench on today.

Its -3*C here and i have the window wide open. Time to beat some scores

heres something to get warmed up too. http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=75196

im in the process of making some decent OS iso's for a few of us chums

probably take a day of stripping and testing tbh!

 

[Durvelle27]

heres something to get warmed up too. http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=75196

im in the process of making some decent OS iso's for a few of us chums

probably take a day of stripping and testing tbh!

I'll give it a shot

and yea this 290 is pretty sick

 

[Durvelle27]

Comparison between my ole HD 7970 @1280/1850 & R9 290 @1215/1450


http://www.3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/7626071/3dm11/7462575


Pretty happy with my purchase

 

[Johan45]

I managed to play just a bit yesterday here's the 770 on the left vs the 2x580's on the right. I told ya they'd give that 290 a good run didn't I Durvelle
http://www.3dmark.com/compare/3dm11/7629200/3dm11/7629810