Phenom 9950 overclocking

[Assassin48]

woot woot assasin, awesome. Any benchies yet?

Not yet have to put the koolance block on it hopefully this one works better then my last 4870x2

 

[Chicken Patty]

Not yet have to put the koolance block on it hopefully this one works better then my last 4870x2

cool dude, what happened to your last one?

 

[servermonkey]

Brad, I was able to do 3.55 GHz at 1.456v in windows, I say with 1.5v in the BIOS for CPU voltage you can basically get up to at least 3.4-3.5 GHz. you are watercooled with great temps, dont be afraid dude.


Set your NB core at 1.28v and the Hyper transport voltage at 1.28v, leave SB on auto.

Suggestion, leave your FSB at 200 and use the multi, once you find the max on the CPU start to lower the multi and up the FSB. Its easier to tell whats causing instability.


Settings that worked for me:

200x17.5 = 3.5 GHz

CPU voltage @ 1.5v in the BIOS
CPU NB voltage @ 1.5v matched with the vcore

DRAM voltage by SPD as well as timings by SPD

NB multi at x10 *default
HT link at 1.8 GHz, always under 2.0 GHz for stability on high clocks.

NB core and Hyper transport voltage at 1.28, SB on auto

leave Auto express enabled, and CPU tweak must be off!!! it gives you a crazy increase in temperatures and has no performance increase other than in super pi.

Let me know how that works.

Once you find the overclock on the CPU, then you start to raise the FSB and lower the multi, then you can also play around with finding the max speed on your NB, as well as your HT.

Note: keeping the HT under 2000 MHz and the NB at around 2000 MHz is key to being stable at high clocks!

muah ha ha ha ha
we have your secrets now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Assassin48]

cool dude, what happened to your last one?

My first 4870x2 was a visiontek from best buy and that one was messed up i brought up all the sliders for the gpu / memory and it started to artifacte so i took it back and got the diamond XOC version and i kept hearing a whining sound looked on google and most people said it was happening on Nvidia cards, it was a capacitor leak so i rma that one and i finally got it back
here are some pics with the block on.

 

[fullinfusion]

My first 4870x2 was a visiontek from best buy and that one was messed up i brought up all the sliders for the gpu / memory and it started to artifacte so i took it back and got the diamond XOC version and i kept hearing a whining sound looked on google and most people said it was happening on Nvidia cards, it was a capacitor leak so i rma that one and i finally got it back
here are some pics with the block on.

nice job man.. i have the 3870x2 Dimond gpu and love it.

 

[Chicken Patty]

muah ha ha ha ha
we have your secrets now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

took me a long time to find them bro, thats what worked best for me. I came along way with AMD bro as far as learning the architecture and overclocking it, I started overclocking about 5-6 months ago.

 

[Chicken Patty]

My first 4870x2 was a visiontek from best buy and that one was messed up i brought up all the sliders for the gpu / memory and it started to artifacte so i took it back and got the diamond XOC version and i kept hearing a whining sound looked on google and most people said it was happening on Nvidia cards, it was a capacitor leak so i rma that one and i finally got it back
here are some pics with the block on.

damn dude, that looks awesome, can't wait to watercool my 4870!!!

 

[Chicken Patty]

hey Brad, you mind posting a screenie of your best 3dmark 06 run? Want to see something dude, please

 

[Frenchie]

Thanks for your advice on overclocking how to OC my board Meizuman That's given me a much better ide how to go about things.
You got to love a motherboard with hidden options that are only available by secret key combo's
Got ACC enabled in Bios now and a result of that and better grease I've got a stable OC of 3.08 at temps 10C lower and less Volts than they were before you gave me the heads up

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=465806

As a footnote has anybody been able to get Vantage working properly - Keeps crashing in the CPU test no matter what I do.. Saw some reviews mentioning a problem with vantage from a while back. I'm not sure if this is still going on or if it's because my copy 'fell off the back of an internet' A heads yp on that one would be great

 

[Chicken Patty]

Thanks for your advice on overclocking how to OC my board Meizuman That's given me a much better ide how to go about things.
You got to love a motherboard with hidden options that are only available by secret key combo's
Got ACC enabled in Bios now and a result of that and better grease I've got a stable OC of 3.08 at temps 10C lower and less Volts than they were before you gave me the heads up

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=465806

As a footnote has anybody been able to get Vantage working properly - Keeps crashing in the CPU test no matter what I do.. Saw some reviews mentioning a problem with vantage from a while back. I'm not sure if this is still going on or if it's because my copy 'fell off the back of an internet' A heads yp on that one would be great

dude, I can run vantage fine...

 

[fullinfusion]

hey Brad, you mind posting a screenie of your best 3dmark 06 run? Want to see something dude, please

the best i hit was 16741
heres a shot....the only one...

 

[Assassin48]

well i wont be doing any benchmarks till next week
i found out that i need some angled fittings so the tubes wont slip out and to get better flow but mostly everything is done to the case


PS: got email and its arriving on the 22nd so on the 23 you will see some overclocking

 

[Chicken Patty]

the best i hit was 16741
heres a shot....the only one...

damn I was hoping to see the details of your score, like the sm2 score sm3 and CPU.

I want to compare against my card.

 

[Chicken Patty]

well i wont be doing any benchmarks till next week
i found out that i need some angled fittings so the tubes wont slip out and to get better flow but mostly everything is done to the case


PS: got email and its arriving on the 22nd so on the 23 you will see some overclocking

damn man that sucks, keep us posted. Can't wait to see some runs

 

[fullinfusion]

damn I was hoping to see the details of your score, like the sm2 score sm3 and CPU.

I want to compare against my card.

i figured thats what you wanted to see but that test was using the trial ver.
sorry about that.

 

[fullinfusion]

Thanks for your advice on overclocking how to OC my board Meizuman That's given me a much better ide how to go about things.
You got to love a motherboard with hidden options that are only available by secret key combo's
Got ACC enabled in Bios now and a result of that and better grease I've got a stable OC of 3.08 at temps 10C lower and less Volts than they were before you gave me the heads up

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=465806

As a footnote has anybody been able to get Vantage working properly - Keeps crashing in the CPU test no matter what I do.. Saw some reviews mentioning a problem with vantage from a while back. I'm not sure if this is still going on or if it's because my copy 'fell off the back of an internet' A heads yp on that one would be great

your not stable if vantage fails the cpu test... try adding more volts (+1 click) mabey thats what she needs... i also found that i run more stable by setting the ACC to each core instead of running all cores the same... one core is a tad weak so i more less guessed what one it was... i set +2/+4/+2/+2

 

[Chicken Patty]

your not stable if vantage fails the cpu test... try adding more volts (+1 click) mabey thats what she needs... i also found that i run more stable by setting the ACC to each core instead of running all cores the same... one core is a tad weak so i more less guessed what one it was... i set +2/+4/+2/+2

yep, in my case core 4 was the weakest, so i set 2/2/2/4 on mine "+" of course.

 

[Chicken Patty]

well, be back later guys, CPU water block is here, time to water cool the i7!!!

 

[fullinfusion]

well, be back later guys, CPU water block is here, time to water cool the i7!!!

yeah go water cool that I7 CP lol.... i posted those pic's in the other thread for ya to look at

 

[Chicken Patty]

yeah go water cool that I7 CP lol.... i posted those pic's in the other thread for ya to look at

saw them, i posted there too, i'll post some pics of the setup now. Came out pretty good, however once I get paid that I get the new pump and more tubing, I cant put it in a case for now.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Here you go Brad...

Cell phone pics, sorry bout the quality
Block






finished system

 

[Chicken Patty]

wPrime, I never knew this thing uses all of the cores at 100%

Temps before would go into the 70's or 80's under full load, now:

 

[fullinfusion]

Here you go Brad...

Cell phone pics, sorry bout the quality
Block






finished system

Man Cp thats sweet!
I sure hope thr P II is going to be great like the I7

 

[Chicken Patty]

Man Cp thats sweet!
I sure hope thr P II is going to be great like the I7

Well Like I said even before I went i7 most benchmarks still show it being an underdog, but its a huge leap for AMD. I mean compare it to our current phenoms, the Pii's are hopefully going to have amazing overclocking abilities, and not to mention they run super cool, which is a plus for everyone, especially the air cooled rigs.

 

[fullinfusion]

Well Like I said even before I went i7 most benchmarks still show it being an underdog, but its a huge leap for AMD. I mean compare it to our current phenoms, the Pii's are hopefully going to have amazing overclocking abilities, and not to mention they run super cool, which is a plus for everyone, especially the air cooled rigs.

Never mind air! How about H20'd Rigs man!