Opteron 170 Current OC results and new computer pics + benches!!!

[vixro]

Finally! It's done! Full formatted, cleaned and everything reinstalled. Here it is. Pics of the beast with specs, overclocks, and benchmarks!

Specs:

-Thermaltake XASER, Armor Series VA8000BWS
-ASUS A8N-SLI Deluxe Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
-AMD Dual Core Opteron 170 939 Socket
-Thermaltake 120mm SmartFan on top of an XP-120 Heatsink
-eVGA GeForce 7800GT PCI-e 256mb Co (Copper heatsink / 517 model)
-Corsair 2GB Kit DDR500 XMS4000 Memory w/Platinum Heat Spreader (2x1GB)
-Western Digital Raptor WD740GD 74GB 10,000 RPM 8MB Cache Serial ATA150
-Antec TRUEPOWERII TPII-550 ATX12V 550W Power Supply
-Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeMusic 8 (7.1) Channels 24-bit 96KHz
-ASUS Black E-IDE/ATAPI DVD Burner 5X DVD-RAM Write
-Logitech 961265-0403 QuickCam Pro 4000 1.3MP Effective Pixels
-Rounded UV Reactive Cables
-2x UV Cathode Lights
-2x 120mm case fans (intake and exhaust)

Total Cost - $1800 to me ($2000 with case and burner, were free for Christmas)

--- Overclock ---

CPU:

Opteron 170 Dual Core - CCBWE 0546 XPMW
Default Clock: 2.0ghz
Default Multiplier: 10x
Default FSB: 200mhz
Default Idle Temp: 29c
Default Load Temp: 42c

Overclocked:
Clock: 2.75ghz
Multiplier: 10x
FSB: 275fsb (4x HTT effective running speed 2200mhz HTT)
Voltage: 1.5v
Idle Temp: 34c
Load Temp: 45c

Overclocked benchmarks in Sandra 2003 R3:

Arithmetic:
Dhrystone ALU : 24778 MIPS
Whetstone iSSE3 : 11435 MFLOPS

Multimedia:
Integer x4 aEMMX/aSSE : 51626 it/s
Float x4 iSSE2 : 56775 it/s


RAM:

Corsair 2x1GB ddr500
Default FSB: 250mhz
Default timings @ 250mhz: 3-4-4-8-2T
Voltage: 2.6v

Overclocked (still tweaking atm):
FSB: 230mhz
Timings: 3-3-3-6-1T
Voltage: 2.8v

Overclocked benchmarks in Sandra 2003 R3:

RAM Bandwidth Int Buff'd iSSE2 : 6512 MB/s
RAM Bandwidth Float Buff'd iSSE2 : 6449 MB/s


Video:

eVGA GeForce 7800GT Co
Default Core: 470mhz
Default Mem: 1.1ghz

Overclock:
Core: 490mhz
Mem: 1.2ghz

Benchmark Results:

3dmark05: 8135
3dmark03: 17600
Aquamark 3: 98274

CS:S Stress @ 1024x768 - High everything 4xAA 8xAF dxlevel 9.0+ Full HDR:
212.50fps



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There's my system! Thought I'd share my upgrade with you. The pictures are *okay* I will put up higher quality when my brother visits with his digital cam!

 

[dawei213]

Yeah! now you gotta upgrade that camera of yours

Great specs though!

 

[paleh0rse]

excellent results man, congrats! My Opty 170 should be done by Sunday.. (still modding case... and my damn HS has not arrived... DOH!) I'll throw mine up for comparison ASAP.

Great job!

ps: yes, plz get a new camera! lol...

 

[metloaf]

Thanks for posting and awsome results! This is the info I am looking for for setting up a Opty 170 system.

 

[dominick32]

Nice specs man. Just curious, was the Windows XP Idling rig stable at 1.45 Vcore? I know it would crash when playing a game, or a memory intensive but were you able to boot up and idle?

Dom

 

[metloaf]

I assumed that you were H2O cooling initially. That's pretty impressive for air cooling. I will have mine setup with H2O.

 

[<<Spider>>]

Excelent results...

The 3DMark05 seems to be a little low. I would thought your 3DMark05 would be abit higher with the 7800GT but maybe not. I've seen many people getting 9000s on that card. Are you able to get into the 9000s?

 

[paleh0rse]

excellent.. I think that I'll use your results as a template for posting my own next week.

 

[EvilCloudStrife]

ehh.. you might want to take your HTT down to 3x to get under 1000mhz. better stablity and you wont sacrifice performance at all

 

[vixro]

In response to cloud, I have stability. I tried 3x and lost 1% performance in all benches without gaining... anything. The only thing I am disappointed in right now with my 05 score, and I am trying to find out what the problem is. Personally I blame the latest nvidia drivers (I'm using the latest official from their website), and I usually use modified ones but I didn't want to sacrifice any quality. I'm still burning in at 275fsb, but once I feel like I can go further, I will.

If you have any suggestions for hitting higher 3dmark05 scores, let me know. Upping my core and memory gave me about a 200 score increase from 7800 to 8000. The 270 to 275 fsb and 225 to 230 memory got me to around 8100. I'm thinking, if I can tweak the RAM a little further and get close to 7GB/s I can perhaps have my max system performance then I can work on the video card some more. I'm *thinking* it's drivers, I haven't really messed with them yet. The OC on the card is also tentative, I haven't found the max yet.

As for the question about booting into windows at 1.45. I have it set to 1.45 in the bios, but I my reading in windows ranges from 1.48-1.50 on cpu-z. I think the motherboard overvolts a little bit. When I tried 1.4 (overvolt to 1.45), it would crash during the windows boot. I haven't tried since burning in. yes, this is all on air!!

I also noticed on my memory that I could boot at 250fsb pretty easy on the default timings, but it wanted to force me to use 2T and my bandwidth benchmarks were terrible, in the low 5GB/s mark. I found tighter timings and 20 less fsb was a huge performance increase.

 

[CountChocula]

your 3dmark scores are right on par, however I wouldnt look to the ram bandwidth so much for improving your #'s. I broke 8000 with my 165 opty at 2.6 and 1 gig of ram at 240 fsb and that card with about the same clocks as you showed in your OC. Overall that performance is right on par with my 165 system and my roomates 170 system (although you do have 2 gigs of ram to our 1). Congrats on the new system!

 

[vixro]

Alright, thank you! I was thinking that maybe I did something wrong and I went and messed with my ram timings. I still haven't found anything else more stable than what I had though!

 

[InfiniteThought]

Nice OC!

Have you run Prime95 yet? I suggest you check for stability before you get too comfortable.

 

[vixro]

The system is prime stable, the RAM itself is iffy. I think I need to drop to 270 at these timings and back to 225memory, it's very stable. I got a crash after 2 hours of gaming because of the RAM and video. Toned video down to 490/1200 and it seems to like me also. Back to 1.41v now @ 270x10 4xhtt, prime stable so far for 2 hours on both cores.