Dolk's Guide to the Phenom II

[Xerran]

Hehe you can push it to 1.45v if you have the balls. But I suggest only do that if you are doing anything above 3.0ghz NB

Errrrr, in this economy I have no balls

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Haha, if you have good enough cooling it doesn't really hurt the chip, I agree. I don't want to be spending money on this system every two weeks to keep it running.

 

[Dolk]

Hehe thank god for my WC system. I've pushed the CPUv to something like 1.65v and the CPU-NB to 1.45v before. (but that was during the cold weather and I brought the computer outside).

 

[Malakai]

Wanted to post an update! Been having fun today boys!

I managed to ghetto rig my old thermalright SI-97 onto my baby. Temps dropped 10+ celcius across the board. On full load it still gets pretty hot, even tho I have smart fan set to off in the bios, the mobo only spins the cpu fan up fast when it breaks 60c. Wierd!

Anyway I am currently sitting at 3.5ghz @1.4v. To get stable at 3.6ghz it took another 1.45 and maybe even a little more, and got up to 70c.
I am not comfortable with that, this cooler is much better than stock but still cant compete with a core contact or xigmatek dark knight.

Check this sandra multimedia bench I just did at 3.5. Was only running the benches for stability testing but this caught my eye:



Beat an i7 [email protected], STRIKE

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Great benches! I love making intel look bad so other people doing it too is even better. Keep pushing it once you get better cooling though.

 

[Malakai]

WoW runs much better now than before. Had the same amount of ram, but X2 [email protected] and ram only at 800. MMO's actually stress more than just the GPU. Even then I can have wow running window mode but filling the whole of screen 1, and firefox/thunderbird/digsby/ect running in monitor 2, and switch between them seamlessly. There is nothing this pc cannot do! It can take over the world!

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Hahaha, I can do some in game multitasking, but it is by no means seamless.

 

[Malakai]

I basically stepped up from your exact CPU. I had a 2.2ghz brisbane oc'd to 2.75ghz. In cities like Dalaran my sys would be crawling before, now it barely lags at all.

What chipset does your mobo use Chance? Can you just drop a Phenom2 in?

If so I would have the upgrade itch driving me crazy! My old mobo was amd770 but its max TDP was like 90W.

 

[johnboy1998]

nice one dolk, when I finally get the board for my pii x3 720 this will be handy, thanks!

 

[Opteron 1100]

Wanted to post an update! Been having fun today boys!

I managed to ghetto rig my old thermalright SI-97 onto my baby. Temps dropped 10+ celcius across the board. On full load it still gets pretty hot, even tho I have smart fan set to off in the bios, the mobo only spins the cpu fan up fast when it breaks 60c. Wierd!

Anyway I am currently sitting at 3.5ghz @1.4v. To get stable at 3.6ghz it took another 1.45 and maybe even a little more, and got up to 70c.
I am not comfortable with that, this cooler is much better than stock but still cant compete with a core contact or xigmatek dark knight.

Check this sandra multimedia bench I just did at 3.5. Was only running the benches for stability testing but this caught my eye:



Beat an i7 [email protected], STRIKE

What is your NB multiplier at ?

 

[dark bishop]

first overclock on air.

 

[Malakai]

You guys with 3.5ghz + overclocks, did you guys need to raise the voltages on stuff other than the CPU? Ie the northbridge or cpu_nb vid?

What is your NB multiplier at ?

10. 200x10=2000mhz.

Too bad that CoolNQuiet won't work in vista without the multi set to auto. Having it clock my cores to 800mhz 0.9v when not in use was quaint =)

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Not all needed to, but most did as it helps stabilize the clocks in general. Helps keep up with the faster memory and such.

 

[Malakai]

I figured. =)
I really like CnQ at night, the pc is a little space heater, and CnQ drops its TDP from 100+ down to the 50's.

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first overclock on air.

Nice, did you try undervolting it at that speed? Try dropping to 1.3vcore, you may stay stable and shave a few c off your temps.

 

[dark bishop]

i bumped the nb voltage by one step and the cpu by two.

 

[dark bishop]

bumped it from 16.5x to 17x, still 11x on the nb. 1.36v cpu 1.22v nb, everything else unchanged.

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Nice clocks, but you should be able to get atleast 200 to 400 more mhz depending upon things like cooling, 32vs.64 and so on.

 

[dark bishop]

32 bit xp pro (in the process of dieing) stock cooler and all the case fans cranked. will go farther when i finish my damn water cooling.

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Coolio, I look forward to those speeds when you are done. Are you doing cpu and gpu setup or are you going full blown with the cpu+gpu+fets+sb?

 

[dark bishop]

to start just cpu, ill probably make a custom bracket for my maze4 gpu and add that in. i seem to make custom blocks for everything cause i always end up with intel only or older amd socket stuff.