H20 | AMD Phenom II C3 | Dragon's Revenge | Ultimate Thread

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Originally Posted by chew*

Think I need to send you this chip Simon.....It's pretested with voltage so.....I don't think it will meet the demise of your 940 :D

Was just doing a compare to see how c2 965 did/does versus c3, whipping out a c3 next as this chip doesn't appear to want any more voltage.

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Nice result, lets see the C3 :D. You still using a MA790FXT-UD5P? What were the temps?

for the energy efficient crowd 3.4ghz @1.23v

http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/j...lowvoltage.jpg

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Originally Posted by 64NOMIS

Drunkenpost! Stella & Bourbon! Wez & Beta did well in round one perhaps fate will favor them again!

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Well, got woken up by the fedex fairy today! After some treasure hunting thru bubble wrap, I found something niiice :)
HDZ965FBK4DGM
CACAC AC 0944EPMW
xxxxxxxK90165

Haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but got the evening freed up so should hopefully have some sort of results later tonight :)

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Originally Posted by 64NOMIS

Yeah, at 1.53 that's a monster.

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Is that true of c3's as well? Or did you mean for a c2 to achieve 4056/2500nb at that?

Mine wouldn't crack 4 ghz with the water in my sig using ~22C air, although I gave it 1.55v at that temp. Later, during my duel with Lastviking, I gave it 1.632 with air at 5C trying for 4144 (loved your plank, btw :clap:).

Does that make mine a good candidate for extreme cooling? (charged said this in another thread, but I don't really have access to more than outside air at this point).

Forecast is warm here for the next week :shakes: Otherwise I might try another run above 4 gig but with higher nb and mem.

Happy Thanksgiving to my neighbours to the south!

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Originally Posted by Lastviking

Thx for the info... its wierd, i know they passed memtest in windows @ pc1066 before with my 940BE but after some months i started to get blue screens...i did lower cpu speed first but still blue screens random with my dfi board..then i did lower the sticks to pc800 and no more blue screens.

After that i swaped to asus board... then i did not have any trouble with blue screen @ pc1066 , after that swaped to this 965BE same setting first...could do super pi1m 4.2ghz but crashed prime95 3.4ghz-4.1ghz changed to pc800 no more crashes.

Maybe this cpu IMC wanted another settings in bios.

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and maybe a bit NB voltage (+0.1 i have)

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Originally Posted by charged3800z24

Nice result, lets see the C3 :D. You still using a MA790FXT-UD5P? What were the temps?

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I'm using MSI atm namely becasue I want to see how strong this second board I got is. Temp's no clue, I just pushed chip till it failed to scale anymore.

PSU could be a limiting factor atm, using an FSP group 850 watt as my box of PSU's I shipped from MI is MIA atm.

Seems to be trailing my board I prepped for ln2 with a really strong PWM so I guess I made the right choice as far as a cold board between the 2.

I might swap out a few boards just to see if it yields any diff on the same chip.

Chew, i have under table new Seasonic 650W 4x12V with 18A. Do u think, can it me help with higher stabil clocks (to time i have 500W Seasonic with 2x12V and 17A)?

For 2d probably be good, I prefer single high amp rails for 3d benching myself.

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Originally Posted by wez

Well, got woken up by the fedex fairy today! After some treasure hunting thru bubble wrap, I found something niiice :)
HDZ965FBK4DGM
CACAC AC 0944EPMW
xxxxxxxK90165

Haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but got the evening freed up so should hopefully have some sort of results later tonight :)

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A quickie;
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o..._22deg-amb.png

Needs 1.37v to pass cinebench at same freq. More to come :)

Edit: ~22-23 deg ambient atm

Add another MSI to the death toll...... died at 1.568vcpu, 1.3NB_vid, 4240cpu/2540NB/1688ram at about 25min prime stable.

it was GD70 ?:( Ah...unlucky MSI boards :( Or maybe exception?

I think with nb@1.4up and a good ddr3 this C3 can run nb 3000 easy

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Originally Posted by FlanK3r

it was GD70 ?:( Ah...unlucky MSI boards :( Or maybe exception?

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It seemed weak compared to my other GD70 which has run prime at 4.2g quite a few times....on a side note I find it surprising it nuked with a 125w chip, maybe my prior run with the 140w pushed it over the edge. Hopefully I can get an RMA as this is just my board I use for air / water reviews.

It seems miracles never cease to happen.......the CPU is still fine. Think thats the first gd70 I have seen not take out a chip. Can't find the source of the problem as well.....the mosfets did not let go on this board nor are there any burn marks visible but I surely saw a spark right when it powered down. Board was being actively cooled so I urge you MSI guys to take it easy trying to keep up with the pack in this thread.

I had to reinstall windows so i haven'd had much time with the new cpu yet but playing around with the tweaker function revealed my new C3 can do 1M at default 1.375V. :)

Prime rebooted within a minute though.

Yeah, my MSI GD-70 died about the same way (maybe a little higher voltage). I was benching the 550 unlocked at the time and I also was lucky because the 550 survived.

Ok so back to old faithfull......c2 gets stomped on.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/965BE/sim...20giga%203.JPG

cinebench for kicks.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/qdig-file...E/lrg_cine.JPG

And a moment of silence for my MSI with less than 4 hours on board :(

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/965BE/IMG_1787.JPG

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Originally Posted by chew*

It seemed weak compared to my other GD70 which has run prime at 4.2g quite a few times....on a side note I find it surprising it nuked with a 125w chip, maybe my prior run with the 140w pushed it over the edge. Hopefully I can get an RMA as this is just my board I use for air / water reviews.

It seems miracles never cease to happen.......the CPU is still fine. Think thats the first gd70 I have seen not take out a chip. Can't find the source of the problem as well.....the mosfets did not let go on this board nor are there any burn marks visible but I surely saw a spark right when it powered down. Board was being actively cooled so I urge you MSI guys to take it easy trying to keep up with the pack in this thread.

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That makes me a bit nervous. Though, I've pushed some pretty high volts for what cooling I have and everything has been a-ok.

It was a few degrees cooler outside today which allow for a higher over clock but I still couldn’t get the C3 to complete prime @4.3GHz. I did improve the score in cinebench though. :) MY C3 overclocks higher in the 64-bit OS than the C2 version.

http://i262.photobucket.com/albums/i...nch18409-1.png

You guys are tearing it up! Fantastic results! :up:

chew* ain't that a bit much Vcore for a C3 cpu? Still awesome though. My condolences on your board, i know what it's like, i recently lost my golden Rampage Extreme. :(

This weekend i will see where my system will land.

OLDTIMER:whats your chip serie?

FlanK3r, I posted a photo of the chip in post #66 of this thread.

Its here :)....tomorow or at sunday it go into motheboard with a few next components (HD5770, new 120mm fan, maybe PSU 650W ?)

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/112...0cooler.th.jpg

http://img341.imageshack.us/img341/5351/x49651.th.jpg

http://img514.imageshack.us/img514/4863/x49652.th.jpg

http://img697.imageshack.us/img697/8783/x4965ax4955.jpg

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Originally Posted by theoldtimer

FlanK3r, I posted a photo of the chip in post #66 of this thread.

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I have the same! 0941CPMW

My 944APMW:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ime4GHz14V.jpg

I haven't tried lower Vcore but i think 4GHz at 1.4V is pretty impressive i think. :)

Zeus: yes, u right, its soooo cool, 1.4V and 4 GHz (+250 MHz up comparsion with x4 955)