View Full Version : Is It Safe To Run This 24/7?
Kilyin
06-11-2007, 07:41 PM
So after recently switching over to water, I decided to push my Opteron 165 to the limit, and see if it was capable of 3.0ghz.
The answer is yes, but I'm not entirely sure if it's safe to run this 24/7. In order to make this stable I had to put my vcore in BIOS at +0.225 (it's an Epox 9nPA+ SLI, idle of 1.65 vcore according to software). Under load, it will droop as low as 1.57. As you can see, it passed two hours of Orthos, but I'm hesistant to run it like this 24/7. What do you guys think?
http://home.comcast.net/~kilyin/3006mhz.jpg
Absolute_0
06-11-2007, 08:10 PM
Personally i would run it there. Only reason i would lower it is for folding i would like a little less heat production. Not familiar with speedfan -- temps look very hot but if you can do 2 hours dual prime you can do anything (from my experience).
Kilyin
06-11-2007, 10:15 PM
Speedfan is nice, it reads the same core sensors as CoreTemp, and it doesn't lock my system up. The only drawback is it averages both cores and reports them as one temp. If I want to monitor them individually, I just use Everest.
The sensor reading 71-72c, I believe thats somewhere in the mosfet/solid capacitor area by the CPU. It never went above 50 on air cooling. Now, even with a 120mm fan mounted on the side of the case pointed at the area, it still gets rather hot if the diode is anywhere near accurate, but it doesn't seem to affect stability.
I really need to vdroop mod this board, but I'm a little reluctant since I've never soldered.
afireinside
06-11-2007, 10:36 PM
I'd get a real reading off the board for core (drooping from 1.65 to 1.57 is kinda large...) but I ran my 165 @ 1.65-1.68 for a year no problems, still being run at same speeds by it's second owner.
Plywood99
06-12-2007, 06:57 PM
I'd get a real reading off the board for core (drooping from 1.65 to 1.57 is kinda large...) but I ran my 165 @ 1.65-1.68 for a year no problems, still being run at same speeds by it's second owner.
QFT. Opty 165 @ 1.7v for who knows how long and it is still going in a friends computer somewhere in texas. Lol, I run my Brisbane at 1.6v...
Ply
Kilyin
06-12-2007, 07:16 PM
Thanks for all the input. I'm gonna go ahead and run it 24/7.
olstyle
06-14-2007, 05:45 AM
Afaik the 9nPA+ SLI is reading 0,1V to high(got one but didnīt test it myself) .
Go ahead:up: .
ColonelCain
06-14-2007, 09:00 AM
I'd get a real reading off the board for core (drooping from 1.65 to 1.57 is kinda large...) but I ran my 165 @ 1.65-1.68 for a year no problems, still being run at same speeds by it's second owner.
Thats good to know since I'm getting an opty an throwing a w/c system on it soon. :banana:
mcflurry4321
06-14-2007, 11:03 AM
I thought brisbanes didn't report correct temps anyways?
Kilyin
06-14-2007, 05:54 PM
I thought brisbanes didn't report correct temps anyways?
They don't, but this is an Opteron, which is a socket 939.
Kilyin
06-14-2007, 08:18 PM
apparently not as stable as I thought. I got a blue screen decoding some video, so I dropped down to a 150 divider (well within the capabilities of my RAM) and it failed Orthos blend in 3 minutes.
In the past, I could pass many hours of blend and still fail small ffts. Dammit.
ColonelCain
06-14-2007, 10:26 PM
apparently not as stable as I thought. I got a blue screen decoding some video, so I dropped down to a 150 divider (well within the capabilities of my RAM) and it failed Orthos blend in 3 minutes.
In the past, I could pass many hours of blend and still fail small ffts. Dammit.
How long have you had it? I would think if you've had it for awhile that it is electron migration.