The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Chop what was your temps when running IBT(intelburntest)?

with OCCT temps you show those are fine. for E8400 70c is where i would worry if you got up that high. if you used dvd-rebuilder i bet your temps would barley hit 50c.

speaking of intel burn test.. thats a way newer version than the one im useing. mine is v1.6. i need to look into that newest one.. only thing i dont see if it says it passed or not????

hmmm interesting. i just DL'd the 1.9version. still looks the same as 1.6 that i had.. mine dont show any of that info it is showing in Chop2113's screen

 

My Bad forgot thaat. Occt had my temps between 58-61 through out the whole test. Yeah it doesn't say past but states to check that the residual(norm) are all equal if not i did not i did not pass. All mines were equal. I passed it..

 

shouldn`t error detection be turned on on intel burn test or you wont know if it passed without errors S !!!

ok just read the bit about residual norm values lol )

 

lol i did the same thing.

 

you could try running S&M

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=127

 

seems the phenom oc's just fine too

http://www.extremeoverclocking.com/reviews/processors/AMD_Phenom_II_X4_940_920_15.html

 

that some pretty high voltage or is that ok for a quad?

 

Yeh its a quad under phase cooling though. I think as the review says people will hit 4ghz under air with them in the end )

waiting to see what the am3+ phenom 2's can do now lol.

for the pricepoint of a top end am2+ build it isnt too bad, aimed at mid end intel by the looks of things.

Still we all know intel will clock higher easier, but its nice to see amd finaly offering something half decent after all this time.

 

looks like they are finally ready to play the game with intel. Guess maybe its cause the ati dept is doing good now with there 4800 series cards.

 

I think they are far from in the game at the moment, intels 45nm processors are seasoned and proven, plus they run cooler meaning higher oc's, i think we can say they are catching up, but we still dont really know if they have any aces up their sleeve.

I know they are planning processor cores / graphics core/cores? on one chip, but even then both run hot at the moment, so is that the flaw in their idea?

i think by the end of the year they might match the current high end intel chips, but then intel will still be ahead with newer tech.

unless they have that elusive ace again ;o) who knows. Its good for everyone as prices drop, and with the worldwide recession amd might be playing the smarter hand with the cheaper chips? only time will tell.

"Guess maybe its cause the ati dept is doing good now with there 4800 series cards."

yeh hadnt thought about that, more 4800 series cards sold the more money they can invest in research and development, if theyre combining the techs then they can pool the money . . . . .

 

Right now, ATI is the best part of AMD in my opinion.

 

Ati is AMD! The smartest thing AMD did, was acquire Them! A lot of the "Woz" era employees who only Knew how to work for an extreme Control Freak like old Stevie W, either adapted to free thinking again after all those years, or were replaced by people capable of doing just that! I also credit AMD for listening to Ati, and taking their people's recommendations. Amd has somewhat disappointed us in the past 8 or 9 months, but everything they've shown has always shown better results than what they offered before. I think that the "Aces up the sleeve" ck mentioned in another post, may be right around the corner. Maybe as soon as the AM3 Phenom II! Motherboards should be inexpensive for AM3 because almost all the hardware on the AM2+ motherboards, is used for the AM3 and is already there, and the DDR3 controller is in the CPU. The price shouldn't be much more than Current high end AM2+ motherboards, and maybe even cheaper than some existing AM2+ motherboards since a lot are forward and backward compatible!

Russ

 

I know that ati is part of amd, the thing is due to laws and legislation, as they are still using 2 brand names, the money the companys earn has to stay within that part of the company, as they are still trading under their respective names????. however the tech each company controls doesn`t.

 

Yes but AMD should be making some kind of profit off of ATI. Why by a company you can profit from. Those profits can lead to better development for AMD to catch up with the better success that ATI is having atm.

 

http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-phenom-ii-x4-920-and-940-review-test/6

the overclocking looks better on here, plus the who 22 pages they wrote make a very interesting read. =o)

 

Just thought i'd share my overclock with everone on my Q9550 C1 stepping, temps are 60c-63c load.. I passed 7 hours of Prime and 3 passes of OCCT, load line calibration is enabled to avoid vdroop in the bios with v.core at 1.3625..


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=484005

******Motherboard Intelligent Tweaker (M.I.T.)******

Robust Graphics Booster.........................[ Auto ]
CPU Clock Ratio.................................[ 8 ]
Fine CPU Clock Ratio............................[ + 0.5 ]
CPU Frequency 4.0GHz............................[ 471 x 8.5 ]
CPU Host Clock Control..........................[ Enabled ]
CPU Host Frequency (Mhz)........................[ 471 ]
PCI Express Frequency (Mhz).....................[ 100 ]
C.I.A 2 [Disabled]
CPU Clock Drive.................................[ 800mv ]
PCI Express Clock Drive.........................[ 900mv ]
CPU Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ]
MCH Clock Skew..................................[ 0ps ]

Performance Enhance.............................[Standard]
(G) MCH Frequency Latch.........................[ 333MHz]
System Memory Multipler.........................[ 2.00B]
Memory Frequency 800............................[ 942]
DRAM Timing Selectable..........................[ Manual]
CAS Latency Time................................[ 5]
tRCD............................................[ 5]
tRP.............................................[ 5]
tRAS............................................[ 15 ]
tRRD............................................[ Auto ]
tWTR............................................[ Auto ]
tWR.............................................[ Auto ]
tRFC............................................[ Auto ]
tRTP............................................[ Auto ]
Command Rate (cmd)..............................[ Auto ]
Static tRead Value [ 10 ] ...............[ 9 ]
tRD Phase0 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase1 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase2 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD Phase3 Adjustment [ 0 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2wr (Differnt Rank) [ 6 ] ................[ Auto ]
tWR 2rd (Differnt Rank) [ 5 ] ................[ Auto ]
tRD 2wr (Same/Difft Rank) [ 8 ] ................[ Auto ]
Dimm 1 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
Dimm 2 Clock Skew Control.......................[ Auto ]
DDR Write Training..............................[ Auto ]

*****Motherboard Voltage Control******

Load-Line Calibration...........................[ Enabled ]
CPU Vcore [ 1.21250 ]...................[ 1.32 ]
CPU Termination [ 1.20 ]...................[ 1.28 ]
CPU PLL [ 1.50 ]...................[ 1.50 ]
CPU Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.863 ]
MCH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ 1.30]
MCH Reference [ 0.760 ]...................[ 0.863 ]
MCH/DRAM Refernce [ 0.900 ]...................[Auto ]
ICH I/O [ 1.500 ]...................[ Auto ]
ICH Core [ 1.100 ]...................[ Auto]
DRAM Voltage [ 1.800 ]...................[ 2.00]
DRAM Termination [ 0.900 ]...................[Auto]
Channel A Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[ Auto]
Channel B Ref [ 0.900 ]...................[Auto]

 

elusiv1,
Nice........... How about some Sandra Benchmarks? CPU Arithmetic and Memory bandwidth and maybe CPU Multimedia. Let's see what it can do! If you could scroll the slider down so the CPU speed shows, so there's no misunderstanding as to what we're seeing, that would be good!

Thanks,
Russ

 

Hey many thanks theonejrs, i narrowed the sliders down some so you can read them better.. I'll do some benchies with Sandra, it's been a minute since i used Sandra but i'll give it a shot and post some results later on..

 

Damn, sorry for the huge pics...

 

i have nearly identicle hardware :O


http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk50/shaffaaf27/Capture2-1.jpg