Yeah, I play that maxed out with AA/AF.:rofl: I spend countless hours playing Superpi.:rofl::ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by akaBruno
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Yeah, I play that maxed out with AA/AF.:rofl: I spend countless hours playing Superpi.:rofl::ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by akaBruno
I knew I should've just registered years ago when I first started watching/reading this site, it took forever to be able to actually post haha.
Anyway I also bought the 920 when they launched to see how well the PII's performed and so far my mind is beyond blown! The max I've clocked my chip to so far is 3.78Ghz looking through my screenshots, but I know I've broken 3.8Ghz if I could just find the shot. I did a quick test using the processor in dual core mode and cracked 3.93Ghz using 1.552v which is the max voltage I can select. I imagine I wouldn't have to use the voltage so high but once you get over a certain point with my board it starts to fluctuate a bit.
Either way I use 3.5Ghz as my max clock which I've already done the work to make sure it's 100% stable (all night stress test) though I haven't gone through and knocked the voltages down to their minimum states just yet. That run was at 3.5Ghz @ 1.456v which to me is extremely impressive for a locked multiplier cpu.
Even more impressive is that I don't even know what my max HT Bus speed is because I finally quick testing once I'd reached a ridiculous 372Mhz (not a typo) with all four cores running. That's just ridiculous for an AMD Quadcore processor and I have no doubts that it would go even higher, but I'm already at the point where I'm running out of low multipliers to use so I gave up before reaching the end. Wild enough I left the multiplier at 10x all the way up to 350Mhz (giving me 3.5Ghz) when I finally knocked it down to 9x so the processor speed wouldn't be up too high. I didn't want to mess with the voltages much so I just set the processor at 1.472v and started clocking then like I said I gave up before it did.
Stock HSF yielded 3.71Ghz for me before I put my Xigmatek/Scythe combo back on and continued. Temps at full load for the 3.5Ghz @ 1.456v test were 55C max with the fan on extremely low 658rpm (out of 2000rpm 110cfm fan). With the fan at max speed the temperature reached only 49C on the same setting. Idle temps are 27C for the same clock and roughly 22-24C for stock speed on 1.20v.
The highest Northbridge clock I've clocked to so far is 2.7Ghz and I believe it will go higher still as I haven't put in too much testing time just yet on that.
Kei
great results kei! and :welcome:
:welcome:
Sounds like a good chip. What board are you using???
Hiya Kei! Nice info, awesome results so far. :) My D-Tek block came in on Monday! Just waiting for the other parts.
Oops, sorry guys I forgot to list my system details.
ASUS M3A32 MVP-Deluxe (1406 Bios)
4Gb ram (Patriot Extreme and GeIL Evo One)
ATi 4850
2 Hard drives (non raid config 160 main 250 storage)
Xigmatek HDT S-1283 with Scythe 110cfm fan (run only at ~600 rpm out of 2000 rpm for 100% silence)
650W Cooler Master power supply
Thanks for the warm welcome, I've been watching/reading this forum for a 1-2 years now but only recently realized I never joined so I couldn't post. I like to find the processors flexibility which is something I don't hear much about, but I imagine that 'epeen' has something to do with that haha. I'm running right now on 3 cores instead of 4 to see what the power savings is like and overall performance.
For the longest time I ran my 9850BE in dual core mode with a reduced clock speed for daily usage and surfing duties. I don't mind turning the speed down when I'm not using it instead of wasting power. It's honestly even more amazing to me the ability a quad has when you add in the fact that you can run it with 4, 3, or 2 cores depending on what you need at the time.
batmang, I saw that pretty picture you took of the D-Tek. :D
Kei