The AMD Phenom II OC'ers Club

[Wile E]

GA is which board?

No I don't have a fever, I'm just like

I Think he means Gigabyte. They usually have GA in their model numbers somewhere.

And you know my take on OCing. Research the safe voltages, then just start setting stuff. lol. Trial and error, ftw!

I have no fear about setting soemthing wrong and frying a part. That's what warranties are for. lol.

 

[Chicken Patty]

I Think he means Gigabyte. They usually have GA in their model numbers somewhere.

And you know my take on OCing. Research the safe voltages, then just start setting stuff. lol. Trial and error, ftw!

I have no fear about setting soemthing wrong and frying a part. That's what warranties are for. lol.

That's what I figured, but just wanted to make sure. As far as GB boards, I have a 790FX and it's a great board, I haven't had any experience with a 890FX chipset GB board yet though so can't say.

 

[eidairaman1]

well AsRock, Gigabyte or Asus for 890FX, I dont think MSI gets it when they release boards that their Strong models should be able to overclock well or better than the others

 

[Chicken Patty]

well AsRock, Gigabyte or Asus for 890FX, I dont think MSI gets it when they release boards that their Strong models should be able to overclock well or better than the others

One thing to love about the MSI boards is the looks. I know you shouldn't choose a board on looks, I'm just saying. The GD70 was a great board, and the new one is just pure sexyness!

 

[eidairaman1]

One thing to love about the MSI boards is the looks. I know you shouldn't choose a board on looks, I'm just saying. The GD70 was a great board, and the new one is just pure sexyness!

It just doesn't have the Grunt to perform with the others under non normal conditions. I think MSI incorporated the wrong part of the Abit Company.

 

[Chicken Patty]

It just doesn't have the Grunt to perform with the others under non normal conditions. I think MSI incorporated the wrong part of the Abit Company.

I never owned one, just think they look great. Although peeps have reported great results though. You ever owned one yourself?

 

[eidairaman1]

I owned a MSI and I say compatibility was great, just the board I had couldnt OC for nothin and thats when I got the DFI. Eitherwhich way you got any reviews of the MSI 890FX GD 70?

 

[Chicken Patty]

I owned a MSI and I say compatibility was great, just the board I had couldnt OC for nothin and thats when I got the DFI. Eitherwhich way you got any reviews of the MSI 890FX GD 70?

You can check here if anything is worthy of taking a look...


http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&...xa-gd70+reviews&aq=f&aqi=g1&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

 

[eidairaman1]

Some Decent OCs, just nothing stable over 4.2GHz

 

[Chicken Patty]

Some Decent OCs, just nothing stable over 4.2GHz

What CPU's?

 

[eidairaman1]

the HexCore and I believe Quad Core

 

[Chicken Patty]

the HexCore and I believe Quad Core

hmm, not bad, but possibly can be better. 4.2 GHzs for a quad is very nice, the hecore can do a bit better from what i've seen

 

[onepost]

just installed my 1055t with h50 cooling it. plugged it in and set some volts and got it up to 3500 without touching nb/ht links or volts. these chips are awesome. and this is on a cheap GB board in my htpc. loving it!! gonna shoot for 4ghz tomorrow if it crunches fine for the night

 

[Chicken Patty]

just installed my 1055t with h50 cooling it. plugged it in and set some volts and got it up to 3500 without touching nb/ht links or volts. these chips are awesome. and this is on a cheap GB board in my htpc. loving it!! gonna shoot for 4ghz tomorrow if it crunches fine for the night

You should be able to hit higher than that easily. I have yet to play with mine though, can't wait to sort out my issues with my rig.

 

[eidairaman1]

Cant find many Reviews on the AsRock, Im gonna have to research between Asus and Gigabyte. Id love to have a comparison between all 3 using the exact same CPU, Memory and cooling. Features, adjustments, overclocks

right now im tired for research.

 

[Chicken Patty]

Cant find many Reviews on the AsRock, Im gonna have to research between Asus and Gigabyte. Id love to have a comparison between all 3 using the exact same CPU, Memory and cooling. Features, adjustments, overclocks

right now im tired for research.

Give it another shot tomorrow.

 

[eidairaman1]

ill follow up, Bet the Asus has the overall for everything but, I just dont trust them as much as I do Gigabyte or MSI.

 

[Chicken Patty]

ill follow up, Bet the Asus has the overall for everything but, I just dont trust them as much as I do Gigabyte or MSI.

I personally think you cannot go wrong with ASUS when it comes to AMD, not to fond of them on the Intel side of things.

 

[eidairaman1]

alright later yall, got training in the morning, so far 3 As on 3 Exams- which each course is a week long, got 3 left then I'm off to Washington State.

 

[mastrdrver]

If MSI's 890FX board is anything like this 890gxm-g65, I'd stay far away from it. I've got no new equipment in this thing and will randomly get no boots on a reboot. Its completely random and then their three boot and fail safe thing doesn't work. So I have to clear cmos and go back in and reset everything.

Now with running 4 dimms, I find out that there is a bug that doesn't correctly set all timings the same even if I enter them in bios. I'm really starting to get mad at this thing and thinking about swapping in a ma785gmt-ud2h Gigabyte board just to see if I can run set cas 7 with the 8x ram multi and be able to get it to boot and stable (anyone know?).

Also, for a higher end board, I'd expect this thing to hold core voltage stable when stressing. Instead it likes to jump up and down about .007v and you need to set 1.426v bios to get 1.375v from CPUz. I've got a 770-C45 board that is far, far worse on voltage control.

There are just so many bugs that really don't need to be there especially for someone that is using a 955BE, 4 dimms, and the on board igp. They're up to three official bios version now and they still can't get this thing right. My P6T6 was rock stable and no quirks in a normal use scenario by the time the second official bios came out to support D0 i7s.

Fwiw ASRock seems to have the ability to not have things work even in nominal mode. MSI isn't too far behind in my book though.

 

[eidairaman1]

ive heard of some decent results with the MSI with the Quad and Hex Core CPUs, GD70 that is.

 

[mastrdrver]

No doubt I'm sure you have.

I've got a C3 955BE on the G65. Still don't like the board and personally wouldn't get the GD70. Though I've had no experience, I'd take the Biostar board over the GD70. I can't be worse than this thing.

Just me.

edit: That should be wouldn't. There is no way I'd get the GD70 after this G65.

 

[eidairaman1]

No doubt I'm sure you have.

I've got a C3 955BE on the G65. Still don't like the board and personally would get the GD70. Though I've had no experience, I'd take the Biostar board over the GD70. I can't be worse than this thing.

Just me.

bios can be flaky, but i heard that board got the highest OC, but I dont like the layout of it due to videocard sizes.

 

[mastrdrver]

Anyone know of a Gigabyte or Asus 790fx or 8 series board that will do cas 6 at 1333 or cas 7 at 1600 (or tighter cas in both cases) without needing to overclock the htt because of ram multiplier bugs? No Crosshair boards either.

bios can be flaky, but i heard that board got the highest OC, but I dont like the layout of it due to videocard sizes.

Why does the board have a flaky bios that has been out for 3+ months on a cpu that has been out since end of last year? No excuse.

tWR doesn't even set correctly at times. Wtf is up with that?

This is all on air. No extreme cooling just what joe blow is going to use 24/7 and this board abounds with fail. :shadedshu

I couldn't care about highest oc if it is slower than everything else with less clocks.

 

[eidairaman1]

ok you have lost me.