I managed to bag myself one of these babies However I cannot reslly find much on google for them so wondering if their are any owners out there in the forum that can post their thoughts on this chip EDIT: Okay played with this bit more and I usually run it day to day 250 X 10 1:1 3,3,3,6 with my 2GB ballistix with the CPU 1.35v and the memory 2.6v I can go higher SP2004 stable at 270 1:1 with 3,3,3,8 but BF2 does not like this. On a divider and upping the volts to 1.4 I can do 2.9 but it get too hot too quick and it will need to wait till I try it under water. However I can get it BF2 stable at 300 X 9 on a 233 divider 2,2,2,5 stock volts boths So what is best, and I think I have read of some sort of calulator to work it out can someone point me in the right direction: 250 x 10 1:1 3,3,3,6 stock volts or 300 x 9 233 divide 2,2,25 stock volts
Afaik I'm the only one here with a dual core opteron, other than yourself. What stepping is it? That can make a massive difference. For instance, with an 0530 (any of the opterons, 165 through 180, the model makes little difference) youre pretty much garaunteed to get 2.9GHz+ without much effort, wheras there are more recent steppings that refuse to push past 2.4GHz
Dunno thats the thing I seen it in stock and did not hang about to ask questions as I knew they would fly out and lo and behold they did, but I managed to bag one Coolies on being a minority opteron owner! I cannot wait for it to arrive in the past 2 months I have went 3500 venice to 144 opteron to 3700 san deigo to the opty - result! I have therfore had ample overclocking experience of late and hope to squeeze th last out of this. Also I have a astek vapochill micro with an aksa amber 92mm HSF, was considering getting the Big Typhoon but have been reading that the new stock 4 pipe cooler is very very good so thinking of getting an 80 to 120 adapter to stick a bigger fan on and using that - What cooler did yours come with or was it OEM?
I have a 175. i can get about 30 seconds in pi when its at 2.8 (280x10). it cant do much faster than that though, although that might be human error. its at 2.7 now. I'm running 2 gigs ofOCZ PC 4000 Gold at 270 1:1 (have had it up to 280 although i havent tested for stability yet) I also have a DFI Expert. i like it, but the problem with the temps kinda scares me. i guess they're about 10C off. it reports about 23C idle and when overclocked, about 28C. (running a xp-90 btw) what are your temps at stock? My vcore is about 1.56 or so. im not going any higher and im actually kind of scared to have it at that as im not watercooling. Anyone think this is too much for my chip? i paid a good price for it though: $461 hoping to sell this system though. Dont have the money now to pay for it. Life got in the way. Ebay here I come.
I had a DFI Expert a couple months ago, that reported 17C idle and 23C load with 1.5v at 2.9GHz. Now on an Asus A8N-SLI Premium with 1.45v (2.8GHz, I doubt that the asus would get much more 24/7 stable as the vCore isnt especially solid) it reports as 28C idle and 35C load, which is a bit more beliveable (same cooling). Don't know about my stock temps, as I've never run it at stock What stepping is your 175? (mines a 0534SMPW)
no idea about the stepping, as i was too excited to get it up and running and forgot to look before i put the AC5 on. I remember wanting to check when i got it too. oh well.
It would be worth checking 2.7GHz is a decent overclock from most, but if its a wk30 then it would be worth trying to get a bit more out of it
Banged it in and does FX60 speeds right out the box Its in with the stock HSF which is the 4 pipe FX60 one, I dunno whether to replace the whole unit with a big typhoon or just to replace the fan and use a duct to get a 120mm one on there? Idling at 40 loads at mid 50s but I'll have to let the Akasa Silver thermal compound bed in Also I'm running it with 1GB xms3200C2 on a divider at the moment at 2,2,2,5, due to get some new 2GB Ballistix back from crucial Friaday so will really see what it does later Edit: Could not help myself so ran the divider at 266 as was on 333 and bumped the volts to 1.45 and it flew to 2.8 1M Super Pi stable Looks like I have struck it lucky with this
Okay played with this a bit more and I usually run it day to day 250 X 10 1:1 3,3,3,6 with my 2GB ballistix with the CPU 1.35v and the memory 2.6v I can go higher SP2004 stable at 270 1:1 with 3,3,3,8 but BF2 does not like this. On a divider and upping the volts to 1.4 I can do 2.9 but it get's too hot too quick and it will need to wait till I try it under water. However I can get it BF2 stable at 300 X 9 on a 233 divider 2,2,2,5 stock volts boths So what is best, and I think I have read of some sort of calulator to work it out can someone point me in the right direction: 250 x 10 1:1 3,3,3,6 stock volts or 300 x 9 233 divide 2,2,25 stock volts
300*9 on a divider will probably be faster. You've got an extra 200mhz CPU speed, and the tighter timings at a lower HTT will match/beat the looser at higher. Simple test is to run something like the sandra CPU bench, or Super Pi. That'll give you a rough idea as to which is the better performer
Faster CPU speeds seem to be better than anything else, or at least thats what I've found. Even if its just 100mhz.
Okay cheers guys this is what I thought. I can get even more out of it this way by upping it to a massive 1.4v 2.8 is easy taking the memory to 200 2,2,2,5
I have a 165 running at 300X9 (ram at 270 2.5-3-3-8), on DFI SLI-DR. CPU volts - 1.425V, VDIMM: 2.8V, LDT: 1.4V, CHIPSET: 1.7V As far as volts is concerned, you MUST keep to below 1.5V unless you have water or phase-change. it can be done but you will seriously reduce the lifespan of your chip. I would suggest seeing how far you go on stock (i get to 275X9) but after that I must increase the VDimm quite a lot (1.3V --> 1.425V) to get to 2700Mhz. I have an xp90C and the temps are slowly increasing due to the onset of summer. i find that the pwm and chipset temps are highest, while cpu runs between 26C-34C(after 2h of oblivion)! The stock cooler that comes with retail dc's is supposed to be within a degree or two of this, provided you have a nicer fan stuck on it! have fun!
I am proud to say i have joint you elite b****rds, with a CCBWE 0551 stepping Opteron 170. She seems to be happy at FX60 speeds (2600mhz, FSB of 260 @ 1.446v). I can't quite explain how amazing it is to own a cpu that can equal an FX60, and yet cost me under £150. I tried going over 265fsb, but she locks up on POST. Not enough voltage, or should i drop the multiplier from 10 to 9, then push the FSB harder?
drop the cpu multi down. and put the memory on a devider. then see how far the HTT goes. then work your way up to it with the cpu. then see what the ram can do. if you do this. then you can see if its the motherboard not been able to reach 265 or the cpu
Cheers for the advice. With that in mind, this was the best i could get with stability, and no errors flagged in systool. http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=119389 I guess what with the corsair VALUE ram im running, and the board, im limited. To be honest, my aim was to match my A64-3000 which ran at the same FSB (280) with the ram at the same speed (221).
I'm with ya homies Seriously though - quick silly question. Do you determine your Vdimm using the BIOS or using software such as CPU Z or speedfan? I mean the vdimm in the BIOS on my mobo is always a lot lower than what CPU-Z etc say but I don't know whether to trust it or not. CPU-Z reports my Vcore1 shooting between 1.39v and 1.44v (which seems rather a large fluctuation to me).
