Phenom 9950 overclocking

[Chicken Patty]

Yeah, thanx. I have to make copies of those charts and write them down or print them out in order to determine what is what when I buy a new CPU in the future. It will be hard to decide what to get with all the choices, especially if the prices drop in the future and all those CPU's become somewhat CHEAP.

Chris

yeah, you'll probably then be able to pick up a 9850 or 9950 for cheap, really cheap. They would still be good chips

 

[christof139]

Yeah, P4's with HT and PD's and Athalon X2's still have a lot of practical uses. Thin clinets use in the main low GHz CPU's, and for basic business and office use many of these olser and slower but OK CPU's are used and will be used for some time. Plus, people sometimes need older CPU's and OS to run older but still good and efficient programs and games.

If I were to get a 9850 it would have to be 95W version (I think there is a 95W version) as my MSI K9A2 CF-F mobo won't most likely handle a 125W (even if I put MOSFET coolers on it and the BIOS includes the higher Watt CPU support) and definitely not a 140W, so a new mobo is called for.

However, the X3 8750 and 8850 BE's would be OK at 95W, if I can eventually get one off ebay for $80 something. i really don't need a X4 and a x@ is actually good enough, so maybe one of the new X2's might do when and if the price drops.

All these CPU's will be good for 5-years and more, depending on what use they are put to.

Chris

 

[servermonkey]

Yeah, P4's with HT and PD's and Athalon X2's still have a lot of practical uses. Thin clinets use in the main low GHz CPU's, and for basic business and office use many of these olser and slower but OK CPU's are used and will be used for some time. Plus, people sometimes need older CPU's and OS to run older but still good and efficient programs and games.

If I were to get a 9850 it would have to be 95W version (I think there is a 95W version) as my MSI K9A2 CF-F mobo won't most likely handle a 125W (even if I put MOSFET coolers on it and the BIOS includes the higher Watt CPU support) and definitely not a 140W, so a new mobo is called for.

However, the X3 8750 and 8850 BE's would be OK at 95W, if I can eventually get one off ebay for $80 something. i really don't need a X4 and a x@ is actually good enough, so maybe one of the new X2's might do when and if the price drops.

All these CPU's will be good for 5-years and more, depending on what use they are put to.

Chris

i had a MSI K9A2 CF-F for my interim board. it sucks. i stuck my 9850 (140) in there and all i could get was 2.9 out of it. Granted the board doesnt support the 9850 (according to mis's cpu list).

 

[servermonkey]

this is the greatest news i've ever heard.

AMD gaurantees 4Ghz on air, and over on Liquid

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/11/16/phenom-ii-athlon-x4-oh

but that source is from the inquirer.....i want to believe it but its name sake....lol

 

[christof139]

i had a MSI K9A2 CF-F for my interim board. it sucks. i stuck my 9850 (140) in there and all i could get was 2.9 out of it. Granted the board doesnt support the 9850 (according to mis's cpu list).

Yeah, I'm glad you didn't fry your mobo!!!! I'm looking at some decent Jetways at Newegg, and they have various voltage adjustments and support 125 and 140W, and the reviews are positive on them, and they are CHEAP.

The K9A2 is OK for a quick OC with a x2 or x3 BE and OK for a backup mobo. May sell mine with a practically new 5000+ BE and a cheap HSF that kept the CPU @ 3.1GHz or so cool enough.

Chris

 

[Lionheart]

can you guys help me overclock my 9950, i want to get it at least 3.2ghz or higher if possible but not too high, im still a noob when it comes to overclocking the cpu, dont like fucking around with the voltages and shit, any help much appreciated, by the way does anyone here have farcry2, awesome game!

 

[Chicken Patty]

but that source is from the inquirer.....i want to believe it but its name sake....lol

I saw it somewhere else too!, just can't remember where now.

 

[Meizuman]

Finally got my board running with 1066MHz memory speed. I had to bump the voltage to 2.34 (actual voltage). But now I am @ 3.2 GHz. I still need to do some research.

About the HT Link speed. Only way to get it to 2400 is increasing the multi in AOD, right? At least my board will not increase it if I change it from bios. Only decreasing is possible.

I also tried
HT ref. clock @ 250
HT Link @ 2500
Northbridge @ 2500
RAM @ 1000

It was merkk who was using those as 24/7 settings and got better points in 3Dmark06.

I didn't try else than AOD benchmark and it gave me exactly 10 000 points. The best points I have got. It wasn't exactly stable so I gave up and went back to what I have now.

But once again I messed windows up slightly when I was playing around with higher NB and HT link speeds. It seems HT link speed setting in bios is one thing that needs extra attention. Still its odd that it doesn't increase HT link frequency, and still it can do some damage to windows when set too high.

 

[merkk]

Hi guys
Meizuman i reran 3dmark-06 at 3.2 ghz this time to back up what i was saying early . With the cpu set at 3.2 ghz using 16x multi and mem. set at 1066 ,NB & HT link speed at 2000, i score 17098 ,sm2 6317,sm3 8992 and cpu 4266 .Now i declock my mem back to ddr 800 set the cpu at 3.211 ghz using 13x multi. set the NB & HT link speed to 2470 i score 17470 , sm2 6443 , sm3 9146 , cpu 4404 .by givening up some mem. speed and picking up the NB & NT link speed you get better over all perfornamce . It beats the strait clock by 372 points. Now to doing this you have to work on getting your mem. stable at the highter NB & HT link speed .I had to add some volts to my NB and HT to get them stable at the highter speed setting .

 

[cdnbum88]

You can see my AMD system in my sig that this was done on.

So far so good. Have some leaking during testing and just had to tighten some fittings.

Doing this in my hotel room, left the tool selection to be desired

But I got it in and with the OC I had at 3.319 my idle temps where 51 and now they are 36. So that is nice. Will start cranking on it later to hope to get up closer to 3.5 and 3.6.

With that said my 4870x2 temps went up from 68 to 83. I know these run hot, but odd that it went up. Not worrying too much, will most likely next month get the XPSR for it and cool it down and maybe a NB cooler.

BTW...what recommendations for what I should do and get forsure the GPU and possibly the NB?

Here are some pics....

http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wcpartszk6.jpg
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu03bu2.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu01vy3.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu02ob2.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu05ck2.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu04qx4.jpg

 

[fullinfusion]

seen that, on XS, freaking awesome dude, can't wait.

sweet man!!!!

 

[Chicken Patty]

You can see my AMD system in my sig that this was done on.

So far so good. Have some leaking during testing and just had to tighten some fittings.

Doing this in my hotel room, left the tool selection to be desired

But I got it in and with the OC I had at 3.319 my idle temps where 51 and now they are 36. So that is nice. Will start cranking on it later to hope to get up closer to 3.5 and 3.6.

With that said my 4870x2 temps went up from 68 to 83. I know these run hot, but odd that it went up. Not worrying too much, will most likely next month get the XPSR for it and cool it down and maybe a NB cooler.

BTW...what recommendations for what I should do and get forsure the GPU and possibly the NB?

Here are some pics....

http://img136.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wcpartszk6.jpg
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?i...hotel03ag5.jpg
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?i...hotel02rv7.jpg
http://img246.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu03bu2.jpg
http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu01vy3.jpg
http://img209.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu02ob2.jpg
http://img165.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu05ck2.jpg
http://img213.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wccpu04qx4.jpg

hey bro, the water cooling set up looks nice man. There is a wide variety of blocks, but I personally like Koolance blocks, quality is unmatched!!

 

[servermonkey]

bios 0602 is out for the m3a79-t dlx

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

 

[servermonkey]

I saw it somewhere else too!, just can't remember where now.

xs

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=207906

 

[Squark]

bios 0602 is out for the m3a79-t dlx

http://support.asus.com/download/download.aspx?SLanguage=en-us

It was mentioned in post #694, but thanks for the link.

 

[trt740]

hey fellas any links to how you overclock the phenoms just bought 9950 and other than changing the mulitipler I'm lost. I can get stable at 3.0 with default voltage and settings. Is the memory unlinked unlike a core 2 duo? Should I drop the http threading ? will that help me go higher. Does anyone have some setting or a good gude to look up. My board is limited with monitoring tools does anyone have a good free tool like everest?

Okay found a guide http://www.ocia.net/articles/k10overclock/page1.shtml

 

[servermonkey]

It was mentioned in post #694, but thanks for the link.

ooh oops

 

[Chicken Patty]

ooh oops

damn man, always late on things hahaha just kidding dude.

 

[trt740]

guys any bios setting that i can try and what the general max safe voltage for these bad boys

 

[Chicken Patty]

guys any bios setting that i can try and what the general max safe voltage for these bad boys

do you have the 125w or 140w version of the 9950??

If you can give us a shot of your bios as is right now please, thanks.

 

[trt740]

do you have the 125w or 140w version of the 9950??

If you can give us a shot of your bios as is right now please, thanks.

125w and there was a tool for that some place

 

[Chicken Patty]

post #2244, great guide bro!!

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=58746&page=90

 

[Chicken Patty]

125w and there was a tool for that some place

have you tried AMD OVerdrive? Heres a linky. Try it out, see if it works with your chipset.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/844/AMD_Overdrive_2.10.html

 

[trt740]

have you tried AMD OVerdrive? Heres a linky. Try it out, see if it works with your chipset.

http://www.techpowerup.com/downloads/844/AMD_Overdrive_2.10.html

I have plenty of options in the bios but I'm so used to intel this is hard as hell after you get past the basics. I might add even at 3.0 this chip is as fast as any intel chip I have used.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I have plenty of options in the bios but I'm so used to intel this is hard as hell after you get past the basics. I might add even at 3.0 this chip is as fast as any intel chip I have used.

Glad to hear that, what intel chips have you used?


Why dont you give me a pic of your bios and then I can see what settings you hvae and what they are set to