Opteron 146 clock results

Cyber-Mav · 15 Apr 2006 at 00:08

i would but i doubt that i would benefit from it.

im at 2900mhz currently at 1.375v
im not even stable at 2950 even with max 1.45v on the vcore.
anything higher than the 290HTT is just plain unstable.
i have not tried 291-294htt but i tried 295-300htt and not stable on the overclocks with them.

i guess i should try 291 and go up and up and see if im stable.
the northbridge may be crapping out on me or something i guess.
ram is currently on divider at 193mhz. ram works perfectly fine at speeds of 228mhz so ram is not holding me back.

chopchop · 15 Apr 2006 at 00:21

Cyber-Mav said:
i would but i doubt that i would benefit from it.

lmao, everyone else benefitted from doing the volt mod, i couldnt get 2.8 without it..

and like i said before, these boards ARE FINE at 300htt and higher.

m3csl2004 · 15 Apr 2006 at 00:34

how about lowering the multi and seeing if its the board or chip? (actually can opty's even do that? - dont think they can??)

chopchop · 15 Apr 2006 at 02:31

m3csl2004 said:
how about lowering the multi and seeing if its the board or chip? (actually can opty's even do that? - dont think they can??)

yup 300x9 works perfectly

Cyber-Mav · 15 Apr 2006 at 10:09

right this is the highest stable speed i can get it to:

HTT of 292 giving me 2920mhz @ 1.375v

i tried to go to 293htt and get 2930mhz but snm would crash within a few minutes.

odd thing is i even tried 1.40v, 1.425v and 1.45v at 293htt and it still wasn;t stable. max load temps were at 47c during the snm testing of 2920mhz. im sure to get that extra 10mhz the bumping of vcore from 1.375 to 1.45 would have been more than sufficient but it looks to me like im hitting a board limitation rather than a core limitation.

oh well 2920mhz is not that bad for 1.375v ehh?

Cyber-Mav · 15 Apr 2006 at 12:55

forgot to add my northbridge and southbridge link speeds are set to 16bit 600mhz in the bios if thats of any use?

geeza · 15 Apr 2006 at 14:29

Cyber-Mav said:
i tried to go to 293htt and get 2930mhz but snm would crash within a few minutes.

odd thing is i even tried 1.40v, 1.425v and 1.45v at 293htt and it still wasn;t stable. max load temps were at 47c during the snm testing of 2920mhz. im sure to get that extra 10mhz the bumping of vcore from 1.375 to 1.45 would have been more than sufficient but it looks to me like im hitting a board limitation rather than a core limitation.

oh well 2920mhz is not that bad for 1.375v ehh?

that to me sounds more like your volts are being reported incorrectly. There is no difference between 1.375 and 1.45v? Im sure there is

can voltage be displayed incorrectly?

Cyber-Mav · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:31

the only difference there was with the higher volts was that the temps went higher on the cpu.

i did another test now by reducing the multiplier and upping the htt, i tried 300x9 to give me 2.7ghz and it was indeed unstable.

looks like i have maxed out my htt speed at 292mhz.

question is this: 292htt, is this the boards limit or the cpu's limit?

turbotoaster · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:50

if ya have lowered your multi and its still unstable its your board, can you increase the chipset voltage on that board

m3csl2004 · 15 Apr 2006 at 16:55

turbotoaster said:
if ya have lowered your multi and its still unstable its your board, can you increase the chipset voltage on that board

mod it tbh

tickle me elmo · 15 Apr 2006 at 17:25

mines fine:

Cyber-Mav · 15 Apr 2006 at 18:22

guess its like cpus with these boards, not all are created equal.

gonna keep my eyes out for the dfi expert board though.

Townlea · 16 Apr 2006 at 13:37

I can say for certain that this is a HTT issue. get yourself an expert or even an Ultra D if on a budget aye. you might get some awsome results with a DFI mobo with that chip

Cyber-Mav · 16 Apr 2006 at 13:52

hmm, iv had a lot of people tell me that the cpu i have could give some very nice results under the right board.

my gfx card is comming next week so i will be fully up and running with pci-e power. then i will think about this board. the dfi expert board seems to be the best one to go for but im going to have to wait till its price drops down a lot.

Mul · 16 Apr 2006 at 14:42

The nF4 Ultra-D is a fantastic board to go for if you don't plan on spending as much as an expert and don't have SLI in mind. Rock solid board and I havn't seen an Ultra-D struggle at FSB's over 290.

Mul

StevenG · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:06

Iv'e tried and tried to get it over this but cant

Still Happy tho. much better than my 3500+

4Qman · 16 Apr 2006 at 15:23

Dude u sure u cant hit more, maybe with some more go go juice it will go higher. As its only stock Vcore from what i can see.

m3csl2004 · 16 Apr 2006 at 18:46

Cyber-Mav said:
hmm, iv had a lot of people tell me that the cpu i have could give some very nice results under the right board.

my gfx card is comming next week so i will be fully up and running with pci-e power. then i will think about this board. the dfi expert board seems to be the best one to go for but im going to have to wait till its price drops down a lot.

sorry to keep pimping this but when these boards are fully modded you can hit 370htt 0 however, it still nice to have an ultra-d, with 3.9v on the mem and lots of settings to play with

theres 1 in mm now

(you can mod the ultra-d to sli)

geeza · 16 Apr 2006 at 19:07

m3csl2004 said:
sorry to keep pimping this but when these boards are fully modded you can hit 370htt 0 however, it still nice to have an ultra-d, with 3.9v on the mem and lots of settings to play with

theres 1 in mm now (you can mod the ultra-d to sli)

yep, u can mod it. no idea how though!

m3csl2004 · 16 Apr 2006 at 21:17

which?

the ultra to sli is just joining some points of the northbridge with conductive paint

the dual is more difficult, have a look at the link earlier

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