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- Oct 14, 2013
I built my dad a rig recently and I think I got way too good of an overclock to be true, but it would not fail a stress test.
Phenom 965
Asus M5A97 (970 chipset)
Cruicial Ram kits 2x4gb 1600mhz
750W corsair
7850 GPU
OCZ SSD
XIGMATEK Gaia cooler running a single 120mm fan. Stays under 60C full load.
The cpu is running 4ghz with a multiplier overclock with only 1.375v. Yes you read that correctly.
The NB is at 2800mhz with only 1.375v. The system runs stable in prime for hours. I ran it hard multiple times to try and get it to fail but it simply would not. This astounds me because the board is a 4+1 phase but it has nice heatsinks on the VRMs.
Meanwhile my personnel rig is running 4.2ghz with a phenom 965 (UD3 990fx board) but my chip is at least a year older than my dads. Maybe his is binned much higher + a little luck. I need 1.55volts under load to get 4.2ghz stable and I needed about 1.475-1.50v to get 4ghz stable. I also could not get my NB to run 2800mhz with the same voltage, I settled for 2600mhz @ 1.375v.
My system runs cooler with the water loop, maxes out at 50C.
anyways, I thought I would share both of the overclocks that I have done with AMD systems.
Phenom 965
Asus M5A97 (970 chipset)
Cruicial Ram kits 2x4gb 1600mhz
750W corsair
7850 GPU
OCZ SSD
XIGMATEK Gaia cooler running a single 120mm fan. Stays under 60C full load.
The cpu is running 4ghz with a multiplier overclock with only 1.375v. Yes you read that correctly.
The NB is at 2800mhz with only 1.375v. The system runs stable in prime for hours. I ran it hard multiple times to try and get it to fail but it simply would not. This astounds me because the board is a 4+1 phase but it has nice heatsinks on the VRMs.
Meanwhile my personnel rig is running 4.2ghz with a phenom 965 (UD3 990fx board) but my chip is at least a year older than my dads. Maybe his is binned much higher + a little luck. I need 1.55volts under load to get 4.2ghz stable and I needed about 1.475-1.50v to get 4ghz stable. I also could not get my NB to run 2800mhz with the same voltage, I settled for 2600mhz @ 1.375v.
My system runs cooler with the water loop, maxes out at 50C.
anyways, I thought I would share both of the overclocks that I have done with AMD systems.
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