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Dolk · 07-17-09, 12:11 PM

This is an experiment that I have been wanting to do for some time. I want to downcore my CPU and OC it. I have not read much research on it, and I don't think a lot of people are willing to try it.

So, if you have read anything, please let me know. I'm most likely going to try this out come this Saturday.

EDIT 1: Charts!

System Setup:
Phenom II 940 BE
M4A79-T Deluxe
4870 512 Asus Matrix Cat 9.7
Windows XP 32bit SP3

Wprime 1024

Cinebench

Crysis

SuperPi 1M

Wprime 32

The max speed recorded was 4.3ghz, this was done on Dry Ice. With each step down I was able to play around with the CPU-NB a bit more and the overall speed more. But nothing to significant. I blame this mostly on the fact that I couldn't get the temp below -20C.

As for what I received with results, I must say they are not what I expected. On whole I believed that the SuperPi 1M was going to be much different. What I'm not surprised is the scale with Wprime and Cinebench. These programs rely a lot on the number cores on the CPU.

As for the Crysis graph, I'll help explain how it is setup. The first bar dictates the min FPS, the second set of bars dictates the max FPS, and the last set of bars dictates the average FPS. Note that in some cases, Crysis was slower when it should have been much faster. Since most of this was done consistantly in the same day, I believe that this is just an error with the software rather than something with the hardware.

In conclusion of these preliminary tests, I can see that the number of cores, when applied to the right application, will due its part along with how fast it is. Basically its doing what it is suppose to do. The next update will show how fast I can push 1 core, 2 core, and 3 core. This will come some time after I get my LN2

EarthDog · 07-17-09, 12:15 PM

I would help but Im not entirely sure what the word "Downcore" means. Unless you are trying to say disable 1,2,3 cores of a quad and overclock a single core? Its been done before without a doubt as one core is usually for some reason stronger. I just remember posts saying, "yeah thats nice, but what about the other cores".

Im looking for your ATI results regarding vantage and PPU from that other thread. I did some work on it but dont have an ATI card to confirm.

Dolk · 07-17-09, 12:22 PM

oh lols, that won't happen until this weekend as well, or tonight. Depends on the GF factor with the X,Y Parent Principlie that is overall being controlled by the Fate theory.

And yes I do mean disabling cores

I come up with strange and sometimes un-needed words that describe some action.

Archer0915 · 07-17-09, 12:37 PM

Down Core: Term coined by Dr. Dolk OC.

Dolk · 07-17-09, 12:48 PM

with all this respect, I wonder if i can make a cult...

Quick Mods, make me a channel just for people to praise me!

ChanceCoats123 · 07-17-09, 01:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Archer0915

Down Core: Term coined by Dr. Dolk OC.

Nope... K10stat beat him to it

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Vurtexx · 07-20-09, 03:28 AM

Can someone tell me how to do this?

Riqand · 07-20-09, 10:26 AM

why in the world would u wanna do this???

Dolk · 07-20-09, 10:54 AM

You do it using the ACC feature in the BIOS.

The reason to do it? Who knows, it could bring about better performance, it could some how destroy my CPU, it could bring back the originial Pirate Bay. All of wich I some how want but probably won't happen.

I'll be working on this project for the rest of the week so make sure to come back and read

EarthDog · 07-20-09, 11:02 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Riqand

why in the world would u wanna do this???

Read post #2.

ChanceCoats123 · 07-20-09, 04:38 PM

I still doubt this will be a very good idea. Even if you can disable or down core one of the cores, you will still probably get a very small increase in top speed by doing so and in order to make a difference in any applications the increase would probably have to be larger than 100 or so mhz.

SCFAdamVcG · 07-21-09, 12:06 AM

Ah,i think i get you,you want to shut off some cores to see what speeds the actually cores can do individually to see if its worth getting better cooling.

EarthDog · 07-21-09, 06:25 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChanceCoats123

I still doubt this will be a very good idea. Even if you can disable or down core one of the cores, you will still probably get a very small increase in top speed by doing so and in order to make a difference in any applications the increase would probably have to be larger than 100 or so mhz.

Maybe he benchmarks?

Dolk · 07-21-09, 10:47 AM

Its not just about cooling, but about everything that comprises the CPU itself.

I did my first round of tests, started off with 1 core. I'll be posting my results later today in my first post, so keep an eye out for that. What I can say is that there is some changes that you guys may like

Marshmallow64 · 07-21-09, 12:03 PM

^ Cool I will be waiting on the results and maybe I will downcore my 3 cores to 2!

Maverick0984 · 07-21-09, 12:34 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ChanceCoats123

I still doubt this will be a very good idea. Even if you can disable or down core one of the cores, you will still probably get a very small increase in top speed by doing so and in order to make a difference in any applications the increase would probably have to be larger than 100 or so mhz.

Why are any of us here at ocforums?

To tinker and mess around with things just for the heck of it.

deathman20 · 07-21-09, 12:36 PM

Be careful of using a single core with windows. I know at least with XP it was an issue where if you went from a multi-cored PC to a single one and back to multi (turing HT off, or if there was 2 CPU's in the system) it would error out due to the hal.dll being switched and needing to copy it back into the system32 directory (the proper multi-threaded hal.dll that is).

Just word of warning.

EarthDog · 07-21-09, 12:37 PM

Like i have mentioned, I have only seen it for benchmarking purposes to eek that extra, for example, .1 second in Superpi for some boints. Power consumption/savings would be negligable to me b/c if that is breaking the bank, you have other issues to deal with.

Im still looking forward to the results though.

Dolk · 07-21-09, 12:42 PM

I can say that the power and temps were dramatically lowered, but is to be expected due to 3 cores being turned off. As far as benchmarking... well lets say I still got a long way to go.

Now were did I leave that dri ice...?

ChanceCoats123 · 07-21-09, 05:16 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EarthDog

Maybe he benchmarks?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maverick0984

Why are any of us here at ocforums?

To tinker and mess around with things just for the heck of it.

Just stating my opinion on the topic. I have done my fair share of tinkering for the hell of it, but I was just expressing the issues I saw with this particular idea.

QuietIce · 07-22-09, 02:49 AM

I'm in!

Awwww, no popcorn smilie ...

Dolk · 07-22-09, 10:17 AM

So I have Dice runs planned for tomorrow. Tonight I'll be posting my intial WC runs. So far things have been working great, and the results are so far consistant.

EarthDog · 07-22-09, 10:35 AM

Sweet. Before you do all that jazz, how about the PhysX runs? Those would take 20 minutes.

Neuromancer · 07-22-09, 10:45 AM

Fun experiment Dolk. Never thought about trying it myself (I am more of the mind of trying to get MORE cores out of my CPUs

) lol

Will be interesting to see your results though and how much of a differnce you can make

Have you already isolated your strongest core? Or are you just going with core0?

Dolk · 07-22-09, 11:23 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EarthDog

Sweet. Before you do all that jazz, how about the PhysX runs? Those would take 20 minutes.

I still need to post the pics, but I can say that there was only a 100 or 1000 points difference. Which means it didn't help or hurt at all. I'll post those as well tonight

@Nec: I have not isolated which core is the strongest just yet. I hope to do that tonight.

Junglebizz · 07-22-09, 12:59 PM

Should be some interesting results!

Dolk · 07-23-09, 10:43 AM

So I left work real late yesterday. I was not able to do any testing yesterday, so again no updates. Most likely none until next week

Sorry to disaopint most of you guys. Please make sure to subscribe!

QuietIce · 07-23-09, 11:14 AM

So what are you saying - your work is interfering with overclocking?!?
Man, you gotta' get a different job!

BTW - What are you doing this summer, something career related I hope ...?

Dolk · 07-23-09, 12:00 PM

Network Intern... Not really part of the Computer Engineering programm but it pays pretty well

oldbrave · 07-24-09, 03:36 PM

Here ya go Dolk, this is my 940 on just 2 cores, didn't touch anything but raise the multiplier one step !

Haven't run any stability tests yet but it seem solid !

07-17-09, 12:11 PM	#1
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	Downcore that CPU This is an experiment that I have been wanting to do for some time. I want to downcore my CPU and OC it. I have not read much research on it, and I don't think a lot of people are willing to try it. So, if you have read anything, please let me know. I'm most likely going to try this out come this Saturday. EDIT 1: Charts! System Setup: Phenom II 940 BE M4A79-T Deluxe 4870 512 Asus Matrix Cat 9.7 Windows XP 32bit SP3 Wprime 1024 Cinebench Crysis SuperPi 1M Wprime 32 The max speed recorded was 4.3ghz, this was done on Dry Ice. With each step down I was able to play around with the CPU-NB a bit more and the overall speed more. But nothing to significant. I blame this mostly on the fact that I couldn't get the temp below -20C. As for what I received with results, I must say they are not what I expected. On whole I believed that the SuperPi 1M was going to be much different. What I'm not surprised is the scale with Wprime and Cinebench. These programs rely a lot on the number cores on the CPU. As for the Crysis graph, I'll help explain how it is setup. The first bar dictates the min FPS, the second set of bars dictates the max FPS, and the last set of bars dictates the average FPS. Note that in some cases, Crysis was slower when it should have been much faster. Since most of this was done consistantly in the same day, I believe that this is just an error with the software rather than something with the hardware. In conclusion of these preliminary tests, I can see that the number of cores, when applied to the right application, will due its part along with how fast it is. Basically its doing what it is suppose to do. The next update will show how fast I can push 1 core, 2 core, and 3 core. This will come some time after I get my LN2 __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS Last edited by Dolk; 08-20-09 at 08:26 AM.

07-17-09, 12:22 PM	#3
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	oh lols, that won't happen until this weekend as well, or tonight. Depends on the GF factor with the X,Y Parent Principlie that is overall being controlled by the Fate theory. And yes I do mean disabling cores I come up with strange and sometimes un-needed words that describe some action. __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-17-09, 12:37 PM	#4
Archer0915 Member Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Inside a PCB coffin looking for short circuits	Down Core: Term coined by Dr. Dolk OC. __________________ *I am my AVATAR and YES WE have an ATTITUDE problem* Too many to list, just know all are overclocked, most are AMD some are Intel. CPUs are like stock PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUARANTEE OF FUTURE RETURNS-in other words, Expect No OC and be happy if you can OC!!!!!!!

07-17-09, 12:48 PM	#5
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	with all this respect, I wonder if i can make a cult... Quick Mods, make me a channel just for people to praise me! __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-20-09, 10:26 AM	#8
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07-17-09, 12:15 PM	#2
EarthDog Intel CPU/Mobo Content Editor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: USA	I would help but Im not entirely sure what the word "Downcore" means. Unless you are trying to say disable 1,2,3 cores of a quad and overclock a single core? Its been done before without a doubt as one core is usually for some reason stronger. I just remember posts saying, "yeah thats nice, but what about the other cores". Im looking for your ATI results regarding vantage and PPU from that other thread. I did some work on it but dont have an ATI card to confirm. __________________ Evga P55 FTW / i7 860 @ 4Ghz, 1.33v (w/HT), (H2O) SSDs:30GB Vertex (OS) 60GB Summit (Games), 640GB WDCBlack, 410GB NAS GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1800 (stock v) / 4GB 1600Mhz Gskill Ripjaws @ 7-7-7-20 / X-Fi Extreme Gamer Acer 23" 1920x1080 / Seasonic X750 / Corsair Obsidian 800D MCP655 / MCR320 + PA120.2 / Fusion v1 / EK FC470 / MicroRes My HEATWARE C2D/C2Q Overclocking Guide / i7 Overclocking Guide/Info / Power Supply Guide Want to see your writing featured on the overclockers.com Front Page? PM me, I can help!

07-20-09, 03:28 AM	#7
Vurtexx Registered Join Date: Jul 2009	Can someone tell me how to do this?

07-20-09, 10:54 AM	#9
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	You do it using the ACC feature in the BIOS. The reason to do it? Who knows, it could bring about better performance, it could some how destroy my CPU, it could bring back the originial Pirate Bay. All of wich I some how want but probably won't happen. I'll be working on this project for the rest of the week so make sure to come back and read __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-20-09, 04:38 PM	#11
ChanceCoats123 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Illinois	I still doubt this will be a very good idea. Even if you can disable or down core one of the cores, you will still probably get a very small increase in top speed by doing so and in order to make a difference in any applications the increase would probably have to be larger than 100 or so mhz. __________________ Amd PII 720 x3 @2.8Ghz \| Amd Athlon 64 3800+ TRUE Rev. B \| Stock GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (F8h) \| Asus A8V 2x2GB Mushkin 996744 \| 2x1GB Crucial DDR PC3200 Vertex 60gb (v1.6)+Seagate 1000 HDD \| Seagate 320 Kingwin Lazer 750 \| 600w Ultra supply Evga 9800gtx+ \| Nvidia Fx5200 Win 7 Ult. x64(Vertex)/ Ubuntu 10.04 x86(1TB Partition.) \| Win 7 Ult. x64 Phenom II and Athlon II Models and Socket Compatibilites. In light of a recent trend, Try it!

07-21-09, 12:06 AM	#12
SCFAdamVcG Member Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: Morecambe,North West,England.	Ah,i think i get you,you want to shut off some cores to see what speeds the actually cores can do individually to see if its worth getting better cooling. __________________ [PROCESSOR] AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor - 3.8GHz [HDD]Hitachi 250gb's 7300rpm [HDD2]Samsung 1TB 7300 rpm [Motherboard] MSI DKA-790GX [Cooling]ThermalTake Bigwater 745 Modded w/ S 775 Block on AM2+ , Swiftech MCW-60 (GPU) [Memory]Kingston HyperX DDR2 1066Mhz CL7 [PSU] Atrix 720w +12v 30a [OS] Windows 7 64-Bit [GFX] Sapphire Radeon HD4870 GDDR5 1GB w/ artic silver 5. (Swiftech MCW-60)

07-21-09, 10:47 AM	#14
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	Its not just about cooling, but about everything that comprises the CPU itself. I did my first round of tests, started off with 1 core. I'll be posting my results later today in my first post, so keep an eye out for that. What I can say is that there is some changes that you guys may like __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-21-09, 12:03 PM	#15
Marshmallow64 Member Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: California	^ Cool I will be waiting on the results and maybe I will downcore my 3 cores to 2! __________________ -> Gaming PC \| AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 3.5 Ghz \| MSI 790FX-GD70 AM3 \| \| EVGA GeForce GTX 275 (648/1458/1188) \| 4 GB G-Skill DDR3 1333 \| \| OCZ Vertex 120 GB SSD \| Western Digital Black 640 GB HD \| \| Creative X-Fi Titanium Fatal1ty \| Corsair HX 620 W \| \| Zalman 9700 CPU Cooler \| Antec 1200 \| \| Logitech Z-5500 Digital 5.1 \| Asus VW266H \| \| Saitek Eclipse \| Logitech MX518 \| \| Windows 7 x64 \|

07-21-09, 12:36 PM	#17
deathman20 High Speed Senior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Where the Cheese Heads Live	Be careful of using a single core with windows. I know at least with XP it was an issue where if you went from a multi-cored PC to a single one and back to multi (turing HT off, or if there was 2 CPU's in the system) it would error out due to the hal.dll being switched and needing to copy it back into the system32 directory (the proper multi-threaded hal.dll that is). Just word of warning. __________________ -=The Gamer=- EVGA X58 \| i7 920 C0 (3841A578) @ 3.67Ghz w/ 1.14375V \| 40C Idle / 66C Load (LinX) 6 Gig G.Skill PC3-12800 8-8-8-21 @ 1632Mhz w/ 1.6V \| TR Ultra eXtreme 120 w/ 2 Fans EVGA GTX285 @ 702/1584/1404 \| 36C Idle / 72C Load \| 2x 80Gig Intel G2 SSD's Modified Antec P180 Case \| SilverStone DA750 \| Dell 2405FPW 24" Screen -=The Server=- DFI LT LP X38-T2R \| E1400 @ 2.0Ghz w/ 1.275V \| 32C Idle / 48C Load (Normal Load) 2 Gig G.Skill PC2-8500 5-5-5-15 @ 800Mhz w/ 1.8V \| Stock E8400 Heatsink w/ MX-2 ATI 4350 \| 1x WD 640Gig \| 2x WD Green 1TB \| WD 160Gig External Offsite Backup SilverStone Black LC10B-E Media Center \| Corsair CMPSU-400CX Code of the Week: Oni Likes It In The Cartilage \| Heat

07-21-09, 12:37 PM	#18
EarthDog Intel CPU/Mobo Content Editor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: USA	Like i have mentioned, I have only seen it for benchmarking purposes to eek that extra, for example, .1 second in Superpi for some boints. Power consumption/savings would be negligable to me b/c if that is breaking the bank, you have other issues to deal with. Im still looking forward to the results though. __________________ Evga P55 FTW / i7 860 @ 4Ghz, 1.33v (w/HT), (H2O) SSDs:30GB Vertex (OS) 60GB Summit (Games), 640GB WDCBlack, 410GB NAS GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1800 (stock v) / 4GB 1600Mhz Gskill Ripjaws @ 7-7-7-20 / X-Fi Extreme Gamer Acer 23" 1920x1080 / Seasonic X750 / Corsair Obsidian 800D MCP655 / MCR320 + PA120.2 / Fusion v1 / EK FC470 / MicroRes My HEATWARE C2D/C2Q Overclocking Guide / i7 Overclocking Guide/Info / Power Supply Guide Want to see your writing featured on the overclockers.com Front Page? PM me, I can help!

07-21-09, 12:42 PM	#19
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	I can say that the power and temps were dramatically lowered, but is to be expected due to 3 cores being turned off. As far as benchmarking... well lets say I still got a long way to go. Now were did I leave that dri ice...? __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-22-09, 02:49 AM	#21
QuietIce ♫ ♪ ♫ OC*SETI's Senior ♫ ♪ ♫ AMD Cruncher Join Date: May 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO ... The City of Fountains	I'm in! Awwww, no popcorn smilie ... __________________ Everyone likes to BOINC! ......... *Upgrade those optimizers!!!* ..............................Heatware..............................cucumber .Newest additions to the farm -> ...........CentaurB, Phen9950, and Quadary Opteron 180 @ 2.8 GHz\|\|A8N32-SLI\|\|Corsair TwinX2048-3500LLPro\|\|ASUS 7900GTX\|\|Tt680W PurePower\|\|4x WD-SE16 Copper"T" with 3/4" tubing>MCP655#1>Storm(Opty165)>2-302 HC w/2x141CFM Delta's>MCP655#2>Storm(Opty180)>MCW60 The only thing I can presume, since I know I'm not crazy (certifiably at least), is that everybody else is until they prove otherwise! -howetechnical

07-22-09, 10:17 AM	#22
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	So I have Dice runs planned for tomorrow. Tonight I'll be posting my intial WC runs. So far things have been working great, and the results are so far consistant. __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-22-09, 10:35 AM	#23
EarthDog Intel CPU/Mobo Content Editor Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: USA	Sweet. Before you do all that jazz, how about the PhysX runs? Those would take 20 minutes. __________________ Evga P55 FTW / i7 860 @ 4Ghz, 1.33v (w/HT), (H2O) SSDs:30GB Vertex (OS) 60GB Summit (Games), 640GB WDCBlack, 410GB NAS GTX 470 @ 750/1500/1800 (stock v) / 4GB 1600Mhz Gskill Ripjaws @ 7-7-7-20 / X-Fi Extreme Gamer Acer 23" 1920x1080 / Seasonic X750 / Corsair Obsidian 800D MCP655 / MCR320 + PA120.2 / Fusion v1 / EK FC470 / MicroRes My HEATWARE C2D/C2Q Overclocking Guide / i7 Overclocking Guide/Info / Power Supply Guide Want to see your writing featured on the overclockers.com Front Page? PM me, I can help!

07-22-09, 10:45 AM	#24
Neuromancer Member Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Tau'ri	Fun experiment Dolk. Never thought about trying it myself (I am more of the mind of trying to get MORE cores out of my CPUs ) lol Will be interesting to see your results though and how much of a differnce you can make Have you already isolated your strongest core? Or are you just going with core0? __________________ B-A-bay, B-E-bee, B-I-bicky-bi, B-O bo, bicky-bi bo, B-U bu, bicky bi bo bu

07-22-09, 12:59 PM	#26
Junglebizz Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: BC	Should be some interesting results! __________________ AMD Phenom II X3 720BE 2.8GHz \|\| Sunbeam CCTF G.Skill Pi 2 x 2GB PC-8500 5-5-5-15 \|\| Corsair TX850w Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P \|\| Coolermaster Centurion 534 Galaxy GeForce 8800GTS 512MB 740/1041 \|\| Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS WD WD6401AALS 640GB x2 Raid 0, Seagate-320GB \|\| LiteOn 16x DVD+RW LG L203WT 20.1" LCD \|\| Panasonic TH46PZ800U HDTV Overclock: 3588 MHz @ 1.475v (17.5x205), 2255 CPU-NB @ 1.275v, 2050 HTT, 5-5-5-15-25-2T - 1093 @ 2.1v

07-23-09, 10:43 AM	#27
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	So I left work real late yesterday. I was not able to do any testing yesterday, so again no updates. Most likely none until next week Sorry to disaopint most of you guys. Please make sure to subscribe! __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-23-09, 11:14 AM	#28
QuietIce ♫ ♪ ♫ OC*SETI's Senior ♫ ♪ ♫ AMD Cruncher Join Date: May 2006 Location: Kansas City, MO ... The City of Fountains	So what are you saying - your work is interfering with overclocking?!? Man, you gotta' get a different job! BTW - What are you doing this summer, something career related I hope ...? __________________ Everyone likes to BOINC! ......... *Upgrade those optimizers!!!* ..............................Heatware..............................cucumber .Newest additions to the farm -> ...........CentaurB, Phen9950, and Quadary Opteron 180 @ 2.8 GHz\|\|A8N32-SLI\|\|Corsair TwinX2048-3500LLPro\|\|ASUS 7900GTX\|\|Tt680W PurePower\|\|4x WD-SE16 Copper"T" with 3/4" tubing>MCP655#1>Storm(Opty165)>2-302 HC w/2x141CFM Delta's>MCP655#2>Storm(Opty180)>MCW60 The only thing I can presume, since I know I'm not crazy (certifiably at least), is that everybody else is until they prove otherwise! -howetechnical

07-23-09, 12:00 PM	#29
Dolk Why does this keep happening? Senior Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: St. Louis MO	Network Intern... Not really part of the Computer Engineering programm but it pays pretty well __________________ sam ~~ dolk 1090T ~~ Opty 185 4870 Matrix ~~ 8600GT OCZ B.E. ~~ OCZ M4A89GTD Pro ~~ A8N-SLI Dlx 1td HDD ~~ 2.2 td raid 5 currently has .2748428927348 internets create your own rules to find the answer be proud of the pink stars Phenom II Result Thread Phenom II Guide ASUS AMD Beta BIOS

07-24-09, 03:36 PM	#30
oldbrave Registered Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Sacramento,Ca.	Here ya go Dolk, this is my 940 on just 2 cores, didn't touch anything but raise the multiplier one step ! Haven't run any stability tests yet but it seem solid ! __________________ Electronic Smoke Signals From my "Techno Teepee" AMD Phenom II x4 965BE c3 @ 4032Mhz(16.0x252)1.54v HT 2520Mhz @ 1.22v, NB-CPU 2772Mhz @ 1.2875v Koolance EXOS-2.5, CPU 350AT WB, Idle=30c Load=44c ASUS M4A79-T Deluxe AM3 790FX 8Gb OCZ AMD BE ddr3 1600 @ 1680Mhz-1.65v 1-64GB Corsair Extreme Series SSD, 1-WD 250Gb SATA 2, 1-WD 750Gb SATA 2 ASUS Radeon HD 5870 1Gb 950/1325, Cat 10.6, Dell 2407WFP Win 7 Ultimate 64bit, Corsair Obsidian 800D, PC Power & cooling 750W THANKS Dolk! :)