Good job, :thumbsup: you keep playing with it and who knows how high your little opty and a pair of 7800gt's will end up.Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
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Good job, :thumbsup: you keep playing with it and who knows how high your little opty and a pair of 7800gt's will end up.Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
These seem to be doing great... hopefully i'll get one soon!
Thanks. I keep thinking the 146 might end up being the strongest though. I just need to find more seal string and I'll switch again and give the 146 a crack at sub-zero. I'll try an auto glass place today to see if they have something simillar to the seal string for the Prommie.Quote:
Originally Posted by dogsx2
Speaking of the Prommie ... I popped the front of my Mach 2 open and strapped a 120mm to push more air through it, and it seems to be helping a little, but it still looks like cooling might be the limiting factor as usual.
Hi guys,
next week I will have an opteron 146 (boxed version)... If I reach good results, you will know. :D
I hope that my neo 2 platinum an my pqi memory will work with the opty without any problems... :) (:party2: )
Bye!
Here is a screen from my 148 (CABNE 0528).
http://img364.imageshack.us/img364/5...superpi9jc.png
The temp above is under load. I don't think I'm going to go any higher until I get water cooling. Will probably even back off some.
man the temp aint bad at all
Good call. I'm really liking your memory. Makes me want to buy a new pair just to bench with. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by ixtapalapaquetl
@ixtapalapaquetl:
Great results!. For 306Mhz, what about your MAL and RPT (read preamble)?
Well, some initial results from my new opteron...
It was a 148 0528 CABYE from ewiz.
When I got this chip, I was in the middle of a entire system rebuild. I moved from a Lanparty754 and mobile 3400 @ 2.7ghz to the 939 Optie. Also upgraded my waterblock from a Maze3 to Storm. I had big plans. :banana:
I am using the DFI SLI Infinity board- seems to be a decent board, but not many people are running it, so tweak guides are nonexistant. Wasnt really the best time to buy a mobo with the Xpert and ATI boards coming out, but I figured I would give it a try.
Cooling is a Swiftech Storm, MCP650, etc.
When I first got everything fired up, I could load windows up at 3ghz no problem at 1.50 volts. 3.15ghz Suicide screen was about it. Things looked good and I was sure I could stabilize 3ghz.
Unfortunately, this has been a challenge for the last day. As it stands now, I can only get 32m SPi to complete at 2850. For good water cooling, this is somewhat disapoining for me.
As mentioned, I am on a whole new setup here so there may be some kinks I need to work out. The Infinity board is stable at 320 htt when tested with a 8x multi, so I know its not chipset limited per se. I am running OCZ 3700EB (remember these? :D ) and they are good for about 255 3-2-2-10. This would be great at 3ghz, as using a divider runs them at 250 which would be perfect. Unfortunately, cant get the damn thing stable at 3ghz.
In a fit of drunken rage last night, I kicked it up to 1.675v and it primed for about 30min at 3ghz, but 32SPi still fails rather quickly. I would rather not run these volts 24/7 either.
A big problem with the Infinity right now is there is no Smartguardian app that monitors temps properly, so I am left feeling various parts of my cooling loop for a relative measure. It seems to be running quite a bit cooler than my mobile claw, which is puzzling.
--Along the lines of temps... my flow rate really took a dive when going to the storm and the new Swiftech GPU block. Water stays in the raddy longer now, which may lead to the loop being "cooler", but actual heat removal from the die may not be as good. Any one with a Storm care to chime in here?
Now as stated, the DFI 939 is a new platform for me. Many of the bios settings are the same as the Lanparty (I am using newest 8/31 bios). Does anyone have 2 or 3 BIG "everyone knows these" type tweaks for the DFI that I could try? The threads on the Lanparty boards are HUGE and I'm sure someone could save me some time. Thanks in advance.
Yeah- I am kinda disapointed.. I thought about poping the lid off, but as stated, Im not sure temps are really my problem at this point. Plus, I have a 146 coming sometime in the future that I want to try before I start chopping chips up.
Thoughts? Comments?
:toast:
That mb is junk. I got one to try(think it might be a cheap oc'er) and it died on me in less then a day. Sent it back to Newegg for full refund. I then bought a Asrock sata2 and it is a hard mb to oc(except for the master, misteroadster). I am going to wait until the new mb's come out to buy another. LD, there is no comparison between the board you got and a dfi ultra-D or sli.
I don't trust the mb reviews anymore. Alot of the mb's run 2T or won't go much over 250 on memory.
Another bad thing about the mb you have is there are less then half the memory options compared to a ultra ro sli. Rma it and get something else.
try benching with DQS Skew Mode setting = FASTER (or Descreased something in bios) and DQS Skew = 96................it should give you extra points....something eva2000 came across the other dayQuote:
Originally Posted by gundamit
Lex, I have the exact same chip 148 0528 CABYEGPMW. Mine is setting on 2.9ghz 24hour prime stable, 32m SuperPI no problem. Running 1.6v through it.
I am on water also. I did drop 17*c when I took the lid off mine, just did it last night. 17 temp drop is huge. Was running 60-61*c load with CPUBURN. Now it loads at 43-44*c. Haven't tried going past 2.9 yet, letting the chip settle in so to speak.
Is there no way to check your temps? What about Systool or Speedfan?
Concerning your Storm block, it is multitudes more restrictive than a maze3, but also the best comercial block you can buy. Although your flow did decrease I'm sure temps are far better.
Cathar won't like me saying this but you will have to try and reseat the block at it's finnicky.......eva2000 did 19xmounts to get his FX57 right........Quote:
Originally Posted by Plywood99
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Originally Posted by dinos22
Hmmm. Well its not exactly a evap head or anything... Farirly large heatspreader matched with large ridge on waterblock... tightened the set springs equally a bit at a time... not too sure if contact is a problem. I dont think I would have been able to run 1.7v at 3ghz without a :explode: , but I will check it out. THanks for sugestion.
Wow, that is huge. Maybe the CABYEs have bad heatspreader contact that was just overcome by the brute power of phase by a few people?Quote:
Originally Posted by Plywood99
I still dont think temps are my problem... I am more inclined to believe my board is a POS, but still unsure at this point. Still hoping someone has some DFI tweaks I can try.
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Originally Posted by gundamit
Stepping /week?!?!
gundamit is running a CABYE 0528 in that screenshot (on phase)
Lex, on the flip side of my IHS, it looked like the tim joint was very thick, thicker than on my clawhammer and my winnie, don't know why there would be a difference but there is. If you want I can throw up a pic for you...
I have the same stepping 146 and with a TT BT it will run about 48c under full load. The optys I have all started out very hot and with some stressing and the AS5 settling in, they all run between 43-48c under load.
The problem is you only have half the memory settings in the mb you have and SG is about half. The ultra-d is the same price as the infinity with alot more options.
If I had a proven mobo that I already knew the limits of and a way to get accurate temps, the HS on my optie would have been a keychain already. Unfortunately, I dont want to be too hasty with that when I dont really know where to source of my problem lies....
Plywood- if its not too much trouble, it would be interesting... I think I know what you are saying about the thick TIM, but pop a pic up so I can check it out.
Here is a pic of the underside of my opty 148 ihs.
The tim looks very thick. The scratch in the middle was made with my fingernail.
But then again I never took the ihs off a cpu before using it for some time. Maybe the stuff goes through phase changes and thins out, I don't know. But a 17*c drop is huge in my book.
On a side note the ihs has the S stamp on it that OPB was talking about. Anyone know what that is? It is on my 3500 Clawhammer ihs also.
http://xs50.xs.to/pics/05410/TimJoint.jpg
Memory set-up always seem to be the thing holding me up. (I'm just getting started on my Patriots again and they're reminding me how sensitive they are to voltage.) Eliminate your stick as the OC party crashers by running your system 274x11 with the 3:4 (150) divider which should take the sticks down to PC3200 speeds. If you still have a problem with 32M stability, try one stick at a time.Quote:
Originally Posted by LexDiamonds
What kind of PSU are you running? If you have a spare you can run jumped use it to power your pump and any fans to decrease the load on the PSU feeding your components. If it stabilizes your OC you might want to look for a better PSU.
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Originally Posted by gundamit
Yeah, Ive already eliminated my DDR sticks as the problem. I know from previous experience where they are stable at and have always ran them under this limit thusfar. In hindsight, I was actually hoping to maybe push them a little further with the benefits of the improved mem controller and dual channel as my allies.
I have a OCZ 600, so I know my PS is not slacking on the job. I have my 3.3 pot set to about 3.4 to provide the full 3.2 via bios to my EB sticks.
Thanks for sugestions......
Is this tweak specific to Winbond BH/CH type memory? In any case, when I get back to 3D benching I'll give it a try. Perc is sending me some more seal string so I can swap in my 146 next week. Until then I'm working on my water blocks for the video cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by dinos22
looks like the 148 CABYE isn't too bad either......I'll be happy to get prime stable at 3.30Ghz for 24/7 :D :D
Gundamit, did you removed the IHS or is it still on?
i think he had a 2GB kit of something and probably TCCD can't remember last time he used BH5Quote:
Originally Posted by gundamit