How well does your Opteron overclock?

[LeAd_Poisoning]

Offtopic: I got thew same graphics card as you, but the highest freqs i could get it to do were 703/1464. how did you manage to get to the GTX level? different cooler or what?

stock cooling at 65% permanent fan speed

 

[imposter]

Whats with breaking David's legs? i thought we are suppose to be NICE people heh

 

[Avro]

CPU Type: 165
Stepping: CCB1E 0609FPMW
Best Stable OC: 3004
VCore: 1.55(testing)
Temps: 35/40

 

[GunnerMan]

CPU Type: 180
Stepping: LCB9E
Best Stable OC: 2832
Vcore: 1.375 sets but reads lower
Temps:42/53

Core 0 could probably get this on stock volts but core 1 is really weak. I raised Vcore all the way from 1.375 to 1.450 and it is still not stable at anything over 2.832. I raised the the LDT and Chipset voltage, lowered ram below 200Mhz(been tested up to 250). It wont budge.

 

[LeAd_Poisoning]

my experience with the 165 was that it was totally stable at low voltages of 1.43v for 2.9Ghz, an 1100mhz increase for just 0.08v which i was quite pleased with, but i needed a substantial boost to get 3ghz and higher perfectly stable. I have seen a similar trend with many opteron dual cores here. You could be hitting that same wall at your 2.8ghz overclock, either way you wouldnt notice much of an improvement if you pushed up to 3ghz+. you'd need some good water cooling for that.

 

[GunnerMan]

I just bought a kinda cheapo WC kit forom sidewinder, The FuZion Extreem cpu block, a 350 GPH pump off Ebay, Swiftech Micro res, and an HW Labs Black Ice res. I just wanted a small intro setup to WC and nothing expencive because I am about to start my "Project Redneck" phase project. It is just getting to hot here to OC with air.

 

[QuietIce]

Nothing cheap about that set-up - except maybe the price. Those are good components you've picked ...

 

[Goonda]

My Opty seems to be doing just fine

Still testing and burning it in...All this is with stock VCore.

Stable 2.7GHz:

Next testing phase 2.8GHz:

I hope to hit 2.85 stable before my luck runs out

 

[LeAd_Poisoning]

odds are at some voltage increases it will happily to 3ghz and a little more

 

[Goonda]

http://www.ocforums.com/showpost.php?p=5112888&postcount=21

 

[tamw]

hi!
goonda: what stepping is it on that opteron of yours?

-tamw

 

[Goonda]

hi!
goonda: what stepping is it on that opteron of yours?

-tamw

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4605/dsc00322ev3.jpg

 

[QuietIce]

http://img519.imageshack.us/img519/4605/dsc00322ev3.jpg

Awesome chip! I hope mine, same chip except a TPMW, does as well ...

 

[Muaz]

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[fragile ice]

Well got my opty 185 to 3.0 ghtz stock voltage on air cpu verified 244723 . My 3.0 ghtz cherry has finally been popped it had spikes up 59 whiledoing orthoes but idles in the mid 30's I think it could go higher but Ill let it sit here for a week b4 I try anything else.

****got it to 3.1 with 1.375 vcore orthos great no probs just runs hot getting a thermalrite extreme 120 after i get that ill see how high I can go*********

 

[xavenged]

just got my new opty in from newegg. oc'd to 2.7 right out of the box with stock cooling.

 

[darkbarf]

opteron 185

I ran stable at 240x12 2888ghz
love it
Here we have 2916 243x12 in the picture

Is this a good oc?
I want to know what else I can do to bump it up more.
I really don't want to spend days tweaking my memory...just want the best effort with little work.
Does everything look OK?

Suggestions?

 

[QuietIce]

A CPU-Z shot of the CPU & Mem tabs would show us more ...

 

[darkbarf]

here it is...thanks for any observations

 

[QuietIce]

Unless you have 4 sticks of RAM you should change the CR to 1T (if possible).

Also, your HT Link should be running near 1000 MHz (in your case 4x = 960 MHz) - did you turn the multi for it down or is CPU-Z reporting a wrong number ...?