S-N's escape from the dark side!

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This makes me want to put together a s939 system just for some overclocking fun. I've already got some kickass DDR memory but would need a board & cpu. Maybe if I ever have some extra cash I'll think about it. Anyways, great OC and keep up the good clocking!

 

[Hipcrostino]

this sucks, i got a 146 that pushes 2.9 on 1.6volts, and your 144 is kicking it at stock. /cry

i agree with green (whos name is now blue i have noticed), crank ta volt-edge!

 

[Super Nade]

Hipcrostino, I'm just lucky. There is nothing special I'm doing (apart from the elaborate burn in) nor do I have any extra-ordinary tweaking skills.

This really makes one wonder about the binning process. I would venture to speculate that in a given batch, AMD shoot for a certain percentage of high end CPU's. These are sorted out first and once the requisite numbers have been obtained, the rest are simply badged as low end ones. Since sales is a numbers game, everything has to go according to plan. Ther can be no saturating one PR number versus the other.

Yep. The very same CPU burn mentioned by hitbyaparkedcar7
http://users.bigpond.net.au/cpuburn/

Gautam, patience is a virtue. It keeps me excited on something to look forward to. Just like the old BH6 days, where you burn burn burn and burn it in. Rest assured, if I can stay sub 52 C, this chip will see 1.6 V. On a cold day even more.

orlion, sometimes budget constraints can help tremendously in going old skool.

Now running Orthos at 3065 after last night's CPUBurn-in induced reboot in 10 min. I guess it was not as stable as I thought it would be. I ran CPUBurn-in overnight at 3065. After 30 min of Orthos, I'm gonn try 3100 again before I crank up the VCore by the smallest available step.

Edit:
Looking good bruda (especially after last nights reboot shenanigans)!

Failure at 3106. 33 sec vs 14 sec yesterday. (Gotta post the failures along with the success stories) But I've not giving up yet! More burn in coming your way Mr.CPU!

 

[David]

This is why I need an oppy setup.

 

[Super Nade]

You sure do my friend. The best part is, they are reasonably priced. My 144 was a bottleneck at 1.8GHz when playing a MMORPG like say LOTR-ROWK (review coming up soon!), but when OC'ed, the stutter disappeared.

PS# CPU Burn runs without crashing, I'm letting it run till 9 pm and then I'll try another Orthos run. I would like to hit 3.6 GHz without buming up VCore. (j/k!!)

 

[Maviryk]

SN I don't know if Opty 144s clock better with more cooling after a certain point. I had one that did 2.92Ghz on air, stuck it on water and it didn't do any more than 2.92. The previous owner had it under phase and it still didn't do higher than 2.92 either. But mebbe you got a good batch.

/OT

BTW SN I have a keyboard review coming up with the Saitek Eclipse II, Logitech G15, and Razor Tarantula coming up later this week.

 

[Super Nade]

Sure man, hit me up with the review.

Meanwhile, this is looking really good now! I stopped the Orthos run to take pics. VCore is 1.44 V in the BIOS. I had to up the VCore as the chip seems to crap out 3070MHz.

 

[WonderingSoul]

You must teach me the ways of CPU burn in

 

[Maviryk]

You must teach me the ways of CPU burn in

One time, I was doing a CPU burn in, and instead, I did a CPU burn OUT.

Twas a sad sad day for my wallet.

 

[WonderingSoul]

One time, I was doing a CPU burn in, and instead, I did a CPU burn OUT.

Twas a sad sad day for my wallet.

I hear that... For some reason I had a random reboot this morning

 

[Super Nade]

You must teach me the ways of CPU burn in

Your wish is my command.

A few words regarding the burn-in process I use (Warning! This is very time consuming!):

Memory is at stock or any guarenteed stable setting. I will be using StressCPU and CPUBurn. Goals are to achieve a higher stable OC at a progressively decreasing VCore, aided by conventional burn-in.For Dual core CPU's, I would recommend burning-in both core simultaneously. Ther is usually one weak core, which may need a bit more work to bring it up to par with the stronger core. Extra burning-in should not hurt, so keep working with both cores simultaneously throught the process. As always, I mean run two instances of the toasting programs

Just to put things in perspective, with my Venice, out-of-the-box, I could hit 2.55GHz at stock volts, but getting to 2.6GHz necissitated the use of 1.65V! This was prior to the burn-in. After the burn-in, I'm comfortabley lodged at 2.77GHz @ 1.64V. I followed this elaborate process with some measure of success. It may or may-not work for you, it did for me.

• Stock settings for 6hrs (StressCPU)

• Bump net CPU Freq by 50 MHz for 1 hr (Edit*4 hrs) (CPUBurn with error checking off). If you computer crashes,back off by 20MHz.

• Check status for 30 min using StressCPU. If you find errors,bump voltage by 0.025 V and repeat step #2.

• Continue this process till you reach your Magic number/Target Freq (mine is 2.7GHz).

• Turn off error checking and use CPUBurn for > 14 hrs i.e overnight.

• Turn off computer, let it cool down and then use Stress CPU to check for errors. Let it run for the rest of the day. If you still see errors, you have not completed setps 1, 2 properly and have jumped the gun. Don't be hasty!

• Now decrease VCore in steps of 0.025 V and see if you get errors. The idea is to reduce the voltage threshold by this back and forth process.

PS#
Now taking bets on the max stable CPU OC.

 

[blitzkrieg1110]

PS#
Now taking bets on the max stable CPU OC.

I got an e-cookie for 3150mhz orthos stable

 

[WonderingSoul]

I read about that burn in guide on the Xoxide forums. I did it when I first got my opty dropped the volts WAY down, like 1.30 in bios and was reading 1.28 in CPU-Z... Still can't get above 2.6GHz for some reason.

 

[||Console||]

Some cpus just dont clock as good as others ?

Maybe ask some one you trust on here IE S-N or another mod that runs amd gear if they could test your chip in their system to see what they can get out of it .

 

[blitzkrieg1110]

Hey Super Nade, what mobo are you running with the 144?

 

[||Console||]

Hey Super Nade, what mobo are you running with the 144?

Check his sig =)

 

[blitzkrieg1110]

Check his sig =)

Oops, I thought he had that inactive thing in his sig still.....my bad

 

[ochungry]

This really makes one wonder about the binning process. I would venture to speculate that in a given batch, AMD shoot for a certain percentage of high end CPU's. These are sorted out first and once the requisite numbers have been obtained, the rest are simply badged as low end ones. Since sales is a numbers game, everything has to go according to plan. Ther can be no saturating one PR number versus the other.

I believe you're right about binning according to supply/demand.
My 4400 x2 shows up as "Opteron 185 family" in Asus ProbeII.
I am just wondering if this cpu I bought was actually an opteron 185 in 4400's clothing. I have had great luck w/ it so far:

http://img404.imageshack.us/img404/815/01082007175434ko5.jpg

BTW, Welcome back to the green side, and great OC on that 144.

 

[Super Nade]

Guys, I just got lucky that's all. It takes NO SKILLS to do what I'm doing with the CPU.

Tweaking the RAM does take a bit of experience and tons of patience. Experience gives you an intutive feel for timings and patience is always a virtue.

That is a nice OC ochungry. What kind of cooling do you have on it? I'm using the Silverstone Nitrogon and frankly I'm a bit disappointed by the quality of its base and by the fact that the fan was DOA. I'll post up a few pics when I get home.

Stable at 3.1

 

[blitzkrieg1110]

I'm telling you: 3.15 max stable on orthos