Opteron 242 limits

new_novice · 02-24-04, 10:15 PM

Does anybody know what the limit is for the 242? I'm running them at 220 FSB right now and didn't change anything else (not even voltage) and running prime for the last hour or so and seems to be pretty good. It's running at 1.76 Ghz right now. What PCI bus would I be running, if anybody can tell me how to calculate that, because I don't believe this board has AGP or PCI locks so it's a mystery to me. Running on a MSI K8T 2FAR, with OCZ 3200 DDR.

In the Bios it would say the RAM is at 200, but using Sandra it's running at 220. Any ideas? I wouldn't want to burn this thing up just yet.

disk11 · 02-24-04, 10:54 PM

Its a 1/6 divider so your PCI bus is 36.67 and your AGP bus twice the PCI bus or 73.33. If the temps are fine then you can keep going. To help out, make sure you set the AGP rate to 4x. It allows for higher overclocks and only has a 1%-2% drop at stock speeds, which will be made up and then some by your overclocking. And advance slowly so PCI devices don't lock up and cause a major problem later.

new_novice · 02-25-04, 01:38 AM

ahh, it seems to be fine for about 2 hours running Prime, then I quit it and start up a session of CnC Generals, me and another buddy against 4 hard AI, after 15 minutes, the machine rebooted. Backed down to 1.69 for now, hmm.

disk11 · 02-25-04, 06:40 AM

Might be your NIC or video card not taking the buses well. Run prime or whatever your stress test is for at least 8 hours.

02-24-04, 10:15 PM	Thread Starter #1
new_novice Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: san jose, CA	Opteron 242 limits Does anybody know what the limit is for the 242? I'm running them at 220 FSB right now and didn't change anything else (not even voltage) and running prime for the last hour or so and seems to be pretty good. It's running at 1.76 Ghz right now. What PCI bus would I be running, if anybody can tell me how to calculate that, because I don't believe this board has AGP or PCI locks so it's a mystery to me. Running on a MSI K8T 2FAR, with OCZ 3200 DDR. In the Bios it would say the RAM is at 200, but using Sandra it's running at 220. Any ideas? I wouldn't want to burn this thing up just yet. __________________ Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel Q9550 @ 3.4 Ghz 4 Gbs Kingston 1066 Saphire 4780 1Gb version 1 Raid 0 for scrap (2) 1 Raid 1 for OS (2) 1 Raid 10 for data (6x)
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02-24-04, 10:54 PM	#2
disk11 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Wilmington, NC	Its a 1/6 divider so your PCI bus is 36.67 and your AGP bus twice the PCI bus or 73.33. If the temps are fine then you can keep going. To help out, make sure you set the AGP rate to 4x. It allows for higher overclocks and only has a 1%-2% drop at stock speeds, which will be made up and then some by your overclocking. And advance slowly so PCI devices don't lock up and cause a major problem later. __________________ My Heatware OCforums Metal Club member # 665 OCforums Musicians Club member # 665 HTPC (in progress): i3 540, MSI H55M-ED55, 4GB RAM, WD800JB, nMedia 1000B, Corsair 520W Main/Gaming: i7 920, Noctua U12P-SE, Asrock x58 Extreme, 6GB pc16000 Gskill Pi, XFX 5850, OCZ Vertex 3 90GB, WD 640 Black, Lite-On DVD burner, 600W OCZ modX File server: AMD e-350, Asus E35M1-M Pro, 4GB Crucial, 1TB WD Black, 2x 2TB WD Green in RAID 1, Antec 900, Seasonic 300W
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02-25-04, 01:38 AM	Thread Starter #3
new_novice Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: san jose, CA	ahh, it seems to be fine for about 2 hours running Prime, then I quit it and start up a session of CnC Generals, me and another buddy against 4 hard AI, after 15 minutes, the machine rebooted. Backed down to 1.69 for now, hmm. __________________ Asus P5Q Deluxe Intel Q9550 @ 3.4 Ghz 4 Gbs Kingston 1066 Saphire 4780 1Gb version 1 Raid 0 for scrap (2) 1 Raid 1 for OS (2) 1 Raid 10 for data (6x)
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02-25-04, 06:40 AM	#4
disk11 Join Date: Dec 2003 Location: Wilmington, NC	Might be your NIC or video card not taking the buses well. Run prime or whatever your stress test is for at least 8 hours. __________________ My Heatware OCforums Metal Club member # 665 OCforums Musicians Club member # 665 HTPC (in progress): i3 540, MSI H55M-ED55, 4GB RAM, WD800JB, nMedia 1000B, Corsair 520W Main/Gaming: i7 920, Noctua U12P-SE, Asrock x58 Extreme, 6GB pc16000 Gskill Pi, XFX 5850, OCZ Vertex 3 90GB, WD 640 Black, Lite-On DVD burner, 600W OCZ modX File server: AMD e-350, Asus E35M1-M Pro, 4GB Crucial, 1TB WD Black, 2x 2TB WD Green in RAID 1, Antec 900, Seasonic 300W
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