I've heard the stock Opteron cooler is quite good. Does anyone know how it compares to the Zalman CNPS9500 ? I'll have a choice of using either one but I'm lazy and don't feel like doing multiple remounts to test it.
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I've heard the stock Opteron cooler is quite good. Does anyone know how it compares to the Zalman CNPS9500 ? I'll have a choice of using either one but I'm lazy and don't feel like doing multiple remounts to test it.
I know the Zalman CNPS9700 is better than the stock opteron cooler. The 9700 can be compared to the one I'm using, the ThermalTake BigTyphoon 120VX, and is somewhat better than the stock cooler. Don't misunderstand, the stock cooler is quite good, but can be considered as a good mid-end cooler. The 9500, 9700 and the TT BigTyp 120 VX is high-end cooling and will perform better.
Having said that, I don't know on personal experience with the 9500, but I have tested the stock Opteron cooler with the four heatpipes, and it totally rocks - really, think the 9500 might pull off lower temps, but I honestly don't know. The thing with the opty cooler is that it is so goddamn silent - and at the same time performs so well. The AMD fan on it is also temp regulated on it's own (not PWM I'm talking about), so if the temps rise above certain hights it will start it's "afterburner", and I measured it to spin 6250 rpm!!! That's just insane for a fking 80mm fan... or whatever it is... it's small! It blew like a hurricane! When not THAT EXTREME hot (I put a 2000W heating fan to cabinet door to test this ;)) it only blows at 3125 rpm and is really really silent.
To make this less confusing, I use to put air-coolers in three categories;
1. Low-end - like the stock aluminium block for AMD!
2. Mid-end - better than low-end but not totally super, can contain both alu and copper, but some of them is all copper.
3. High-end - the best of them, can contain both alu and copper but has better solutions and performance then both low-end and mid-end. All copper base (personal opinion) ;)
Nice chip! Remember I had 2 180's with the same stepping. One of them did about the same as your chip (maybe a few mhz less), the other one was a bit worse. But both were INCREDIBLY cool chips. I tried it @ 1.65v and 3.1GHz - using my Zalman 9500 - and the temps were never more than 52-53C. Which is about the same as the Opty 175 I have, except that it runs at 3Ghz - 1.26v......Quote:
Originally Posted by Repoman
CCBBE 0615EPMW is the best s939 stepping for ppl with air cooled rigs:D
I recommend the 9500. It's not the BEST, but still very good. Easy to mount and looks great as well, especially if you have some blue LEDs;)Quote:
Originally Posted by CannonFodder
I never tried the stock cooler, but I just can't imagine anything "stock" can beat the Zalman.
Wow! What stepping is that and where did you get it? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by knopflerbruce
Amd Opteron 170 LCB9E 0703XPMW
DFI Ultra BIOS Mod 21-05-2007
OCZ EL DDR PC-3200 Platinum rev 2 ver 1.0
Well... She's a 0613RPMW:D I think I posted a link to a screenshot somewhere. Wasn't a 3g-screenie, but 2.86 @ 1.19v, on my good ol' Zalman 9500 ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Repoman
It's too d*mn hot here now so I won't try to push her yet. A friend of mine is waiting for some pots so I will definately try it on dice someday. It's running so hot it should be no problem if I up the voltage a bit.
Got it off ebay a month or two ago, btw. Buy it now for $190.
What cooling are you using? I got the same chip but he is getting to hot to handle at 2.8Ghz with 1.35V :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by by -=Merlin=-
I wonder how he will perform under SS
i just got my opti 165 CCBWE 0551WPMW (in israel it's very very hard to find dual core 939 this days) with a ninja cooler and
with my DFI RS482 and A-Data Vitesta ddr500 512*2
i ve got my 170,anyone have seen this stepping(lcbqe)
i ve google it and i saw nothing...I hope its a good chip!
Nice steal there :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by knopflerbruce
I just won a 165 off of ebay, its a CCBBE 0614EPMW. I was wondering if I have to install any drivers or anything for my new CPU. This will be my first duel core cpu. I just want to know if I have to do anything besides pop it in and OC the hell out of it. Thanks.
If you already installed the AMD K8 driver all you basicly will have to do is put swap put the cpu with the old one and install the "dual core optimizer" driver. That's it. I've tried several times to install this so called "hot fix" from microsoft, but had to reinstall XP every time, so I beg you - don't try that :)Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
So I just need to instal the dual core optimizer and thats it. Sounds simple enough. thanks.
That's about it yes :) You'll find it on the official AMD website :)Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
I know this is the wrong thread for this, but I got a 3000+ about two months ago, thought it was a winchester as the seller claimed it to be, so I didn't bother with it any much, but decided a couple of days ago to check it out.... turned out it was a 1.4V Venice instead! Strangely enough the seller had removed IHS, which I glued back on... sounds a bit strange that he claimed it to be a winchester so I really don't think he OC'd it to much... anyways, I now have it on 2.8 GHz... which is 1 GHz over stock... getting a new PSU in the mail in the morning, a more 12V strong PSU than the one I got, so I hope I can squeese even more out of it then ;)
Nice OC on that venice. The best I could get on my 3200 venice was 2.5. By the way how do you think I could get on the new 165 CCBBE 0614EPMW?
I see that repoman got up to 2.9 @ 1.35 with the exact same stepping. Sweet.
The CCBBE 0615EPMW is known to reach 3ghz... that's produced only a week after yours!! All CCBBE is supposed to be good. Atleast by this list ;) http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ad.php?t=96900Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
And yeah, I got lucky with the 3000+, especially considering I only paid like 30-40$ for it :up:
EDIT: I almost feel sorry for the man who sold it to me :D:D
Oh wait I did get the 0615. not 0614, guess I hit the wrong key. Now I just got to worry if anyone will buy my 3700. It seems single core cpus are harder to sell. If I cant sell it I'll probably just make it my new keychain.
I don't think it's any harder to sell, it's just a harder buyers market. I mean, that the buyer can be more picky about what to buy, since nobody wants to pay to much. But if you advertise it for what it is. A real overclockable 3700+ that has been run at 3ghz+ I think you will be getting more for it and maybe even getting a sale quicker.Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
And with the 165 CCBBE 0615EPMW... try and use the list on the link I gave you to see what volts it was run on to get 3 ghz and if it was on air-cooling or water-cooling. Then you'd atleast know somewhat around what you should excpect.
Does anyone know how terrible the coldbug is on a LCB9E?
My 0615 doesn't really like anything but stock +/- .025. I can't run 2.4 @ 1.2 (which would bring my ram to the max) and it takes 1.25v for 2655. It does 2.9@stock but won't run 3GHz @ 1.5 :/
Wow repoman I thought for sure that you could have gotten up to around 3.1 if you could get 2.9 at stock volts. Its still a great OC. I'll be happy if I get up to 2.8. By the way how hot do these chips get? I remember my upgrade from my 3200 venice to my 3700 sandie. The idle temps went up around 10C. If the temp goes up even further on the new 165 then I'll have to get a new air cooler.
Bad idletemp is probably because of a bad IHS. Hottest s939 CPU I ever had was a 4400+ that idled @ 40C. But an IHS removal was all it needed before it was pretty cool.Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
Yeah, if it scaled like most 939 opties it would have done 3.1@1.55 if I could keep temps down. But, it doesn't scale at all, only likes 1.35v :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by carholmes
It gets to about 44C on each core in Core Temp with stock volts. The chip is naked under a Thermalright Ultra-120. With the side panel on, it gets to about 50C, and also will only do 2.87GHz. 30MHz is a good trade-off for really isolating the fan noise - this setup is quieter than my water cooling, both used 4x 120mm Yate Loon's total, but with water 2 were out of the case on the radiator ;)
New 170 LCB9E 0704XPMW came in today, ran too hot at 62/73C for each core in core temp so I cut off the IHS. New results -
http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/7...8135oa6.th.jpg
nice chip! Is that the oneyou got from newegg recently?Quote:
Originally Posted by Repoman