Help With OC'ing of New AMD 1100T

[Spliffie]

Hi All,

im new here and would just like some help OC'ing.
im no super noob, but i am a freshman at OC'ing....

System @ Stock:

AMD Phenom II Hexa-Core 1100T @ 3.3ghz
Mobo: MSI 890FXA-GD70
2x GPU in CrossFire: MSI 6870 TwinFrozor II 1gb DDR5
Mem: 16gb ECC DIMM DDR3-1333
Chassis: Aero Cool Strike-X
CPU Cooler: Corsair Hydro H100
PSU: 900Watt Huntkey Modular

All i want to do is get CPU to 4ghz or higher if temps are ok.
so far iv used the OC-Genie that MSI has on the Mobo and i reach 3.7ghz.

where do i start in the Bios, yes i have done some reading on it and have seen some other forum posts on here as well but i dont want to cook my new setup.

any help or advice would be much appriciated.

Regards
Spliffie

 

[hokiealumnus]

Hi; welcome to OCF! Moved this to the AMD CPUs forum for you. I'd first start by reading Dolk's excellent "3 Step Guide to Overclock Your AMD Phenom". That will answer most basic questions for the beginner on a Thuban. You'll probably have questions when you're done, but that should get you started.

4GHz should be relatively easy on the H100 and you'll run out of overclocking ability long before you can damage your chip. AMD overclocking is very temperature-dependent; you'll find ambient cooling can get you so far and then it will stop...no matter what you do or how much voltage you put through, it won't give you one more MHz. Stick ~1.4-1.41V loaded; you'll have reasonable temps and most likely reach your 4GHz goal.

 

[Spliffie]

cool thanx for the heads up man...

i think i did read that thread... im @ work at the mo but will be home shortly and have a whole weekend im wanting to bench and OC... will be awesome fun.

can i post my queries here once i get there?

peace..

 

[hokiealumnus]

Absolutely!

 

[Spliffie]

that seems a bit complex for my knowlage... especialy the RAM section and timings etc

ill see how i go by just changing the CPU multiplier up in the bios

 

[hokiealumnus]

That's the easiest, most straightforward way of doing it. Set Vcore to 1.41V and start bumping the multi. I had three thubans and all of them averaged 1.4-1.41V for 4GHz on ambient. That's loaded voltage though, so you'll need to monitor for Vdroop (the amount voltage drops from idle to load).

 

[Spliffie]

Hi ok im home now..

where should i start...
o and Ambient room temp @ the moment is 28'c 68% humidity.

@ the moment all is stock settings,
CPU @ 3.3ghz
Bus Speed @ 200.0mhz
HT link @ 2000.0mhz
NB Frequency @ 2000.0mhz
DRAM Freq @ 666.7mhz

Idle Temp: 26'c
Running Prime95 on Small FFTs for 20min
Load Temp: 52'c solid

so how should i start.. just the multiplier?
also i saw some thing about turning off turbo? and c30 or some thing like that?


regards
spliffie

 

[trents]

Yes, just the mutiplier. Your temps ate already pretty high so you have little or no room for increasing the the core voltage.

 

[Spliffie]

thanx

Yes, just the mutiplier. Your temps ate already pretty high so you have little or no room for increasing the the core voltage.

im do know why my temp would be so high?
my ambient room temp now is 27.7'c and CPU is now at 24'c at idle

 

[hokiealumnus]

Unfortunately that's impossible; a chip can't idle lower than ambient barring sub-zero cooling (or an inaccurate ambient measurement). What are you using to measure temperatures?

 

[Spliffie]

thanx

Unfortunately that's impossible; a chip can't idle lower than ambient barring sub-zero cooling (or an inaccurate ambient measurement). What are you using to measure temperatures?

im using speedfan
currently speedfan says core 24'c
my didgital themometer says its 27.4'c

im using H100 corsair liquid cooling

 

[hokiealumnus]

Download coretemp and see what sort of readings you're getting.

 

[Spliffie]

i have attached to images...

idle temps and load tems
prime was run for about 15min just to see temp, as i know its stable at the moment

 

[RGone]

You need to can SpeedFan and get HWMonitor from CPUID website as SpeedFan is not going to agree with any software we normally see.

 

[Spliffie]

ok ill dl it and do it again now

i did notice that the vcore was at 1.47v at max load

 

[RGone]

@ "Spliffie" > You have got enough posts to allow for making of signature.

Sigs are pretty easy.

Be logged in to the forum.

Across the top of the forum is a button shown as 'user cp'. Click that button.

On the page that loads are a list of options down the left side of the page.

Under the Settings & Options menu area is a Edit Signature listing. Click on that listing.

Clicking Edit Signature opens another page. In the middle of that page is where you Edit YOUR signature.

Enter your information there and at bottom of the window you are entering your signature is button for either Preview Signature or Save Signature. Do save and you will have your signature incorporated into the forum in each of your posts. Of course Preview Signature will let you see 'how' your signature would appear in the forum. But in the end the Save Signature must be clicked to save it to the forum.

You can look at my signature for a template of some good stuffz to put in one's own signature when seeking help.

Good luck man.

 

[Spliffie]

using CPUID H/W monitor

see images below

 

[Spliffie]

ok should have a sig now

 

[hokiealumnus]

OUCH that Vcore! Take the Vcore setting off of "Auto" it's way overcompensating and that's why you're getting crazy temperatures. Manually set Vcore for 1.41V, then bump the multiplier up until it crashes and back off one, then stress test and see what sort of temps and stability you get.

 

[Spliffie]

ok cool so take vcore off auto, then set to 1.41v then turn up multi till it "crashes" (crashes how?) the rest i got