First contact with Phenom 2

Hello,

My friend Raven29 and me got a Phenom 2 940 and a M4A79 Dlx, so we decided to try it under LN2.
It was my first experience with AMD and he was a bit familiar with old 939s...:p:

Here is some pics :

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We got some issues because we had no software to increase fsb thru windows. Turbo V and Overdrive were down, so we just discover K10stat (thx marmott) and we was able to change only the cpu multi...Not really good for the maxscreen :D

6100MHz
http://valid.canardpc.com/cache/screenshot/559263.png

Spi 1M 11.453s 5945Mhz
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/4981/spi1m.jpg

Spi 32M 12m30.469s 5773Mhz
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/5817/spi32m.jpg

Pifast 19.41s 5715Mhz
http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/1128/pifast.jpg

wPrime 32 7.067s 5500Mhz
http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/3963/wprime32.jpg

wPrime 1024 234.609s 5170Mhz
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/360/wprime1024.jpg


As you can see, we make our Pifast at lower clocks than Spi 32M. In fact, we did it around 19.08 5840Mhz, but i wasn't able to screen it...only the pifast window, but no CPUz...

I hope we will make it better next time :p:

not bad for a first go around at all

Great start with that AMD cpu Benji :up: , its that you feeding LN2 to your dog bro :shocked:

:rofl:

Nice start there - i'm sure there's more to come.. :)

so tempting to try Phenom II hehe

impressive guys, very good job on ram, nice frequency on AMD platform:up:

That's some brutal ram clocks you guys got there! Very nicew first attempt at AMD. :up:

Good job on that first run with AMD :clap:

Thanks a lot.
In fact, my first kit od D9GMH was good, but not good enough. I was able to reach 570Mhz, 600 for light bench (like 1M). But when i plug the 2nd kit, it just go to 680 easily i would say. So i think IMC of Phenom 2 is not so bad :)

Memory freq. is really sick :D I'm waiting to see some 955 in yours hadns with that pot ;)

Héhé...Next time, i think it will be my own CPU pot. if not, it will be yours :D

Your mem clocks 680 is impressive. What vmem are you running? I have two kits of Ballistix 8500 (one old and one new) I hope I have same luck as you :D

2.42vdimm. Maybe 2.32v is enough, because i have set this once. 32m crashed, so i thought it was the vdimm, but in fact it was the NB which was too high (4Ghz was impossible)...
Anyway, this kit is 730 C5 2.2v 1M capable (it's a second hand, i have buy it for 45€ :D)

Really nice clocking guys :up:!
I was :shocked: when I saw mem clocks!

Great stuff!

Nice first contact to PII. Congratz great results :D

Extremely nice. I just had my first Phenom II experience (spent the night pouring LN2 for elmor), that was completely worthless, we managed 4.9GHz somewhat stable and found out the CPU had a coldbug at -125c or so. Wish we had a experience more similar to yours. :D

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Originally Posted by Benji Tshi

2.42vdimm. Maybe 2.32v is enough, because i have set this once. 32m crashed, so i thought it was the vdimm, but in fact it was the NB which was too high (4Ghz was impossible)...
Anyway, this kit is 730 C5 2.2v 1M capable (it's a second hand, i have buy it for 45€ :D)

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be careful pushing the vdimm up the IMC is manufactured on 32nm and does not handle volts very well mine died in 2hrs@3.5v (D9DCD :up:)

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Originally Posted by Lightman

Really nice clocking guys :up:!
I was :shocked: when I saw mem clocks!

Great stuff!

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Thanks a lot. We are quite proud of it :D

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Originally Posted by Mean Machine

Extremely nice. I just had my first Phenom II experience (spent the night pouring LN2 for elmor), that was completely worthless, we managed 4.9GHz somewhat stable and found out the CPU had a coldbug at -125c or so. Wish we had a experience more similar to yours. :D

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Ah, so some chips have coldbug ! Sorry for you, i hope you'll enjoy it next time :yepp:

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Originally Posted by cdawall

be careful pushing the vdimm up the IMC is manufactured on 32nm and does not handle volts very well mine died in 2hrs@3.5v (D9DCD :up:)

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I hope you mean 2.5v. But thanks for the information. Your CPU died with extreme cooling or aircooling ? Because i believe 2.4v (for example) is not as dangerous on LN2 than on aircooling...

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Originally Posted by cdawall

...the IMC is manufactured on 32nm...

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What makes you say that? It's 45nm like the rest of the core.

Great results :up:

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Originally Posted by MACMAC

What makes you say that? It's 45nm like the rest of the core.

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no its 32nm i'm looking for tech sheets on it right now

2,4 vdimm is no good for aircooling, huh? I need find the limit to let memories live longer ;) max v 2,32?

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Originally Posted by Tomasis

2,4 vdimm is no good for aircooling, huh? I need find the limit to let memories live longer ;) max v 2,32?

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2.4v is a low voltage for DDR2 memory, I gave my ballistix 2.8v and they are still alive and work very fine ;)

Great results guys :up: I want to see what you can do with a 955!! :yepp:

Hey James. I hope i will be able to show you before the end of the month, i'm trying to plan another lanparty with one of my friend :p:

what vdimm is recommended for 24/7 and benching for those Ballistix?

I didnt even imagine such as v2.9-3.5 :shocked:

Good job :clap::clap::clap:

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Originally Posted by Tomasis

what vdimm is recommended for 24/7 and benching for those Ballistix?

I didnt even imagine such as v2.9-3.5 :shocked:

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I wouldn't go past 2.3V for 24/7 for DDR2 D9's, 2.6-2.7V is no problem for benching.

I agree for 2.3v 24/7, but i won't set more than 2.5 to my D9gmh :p: Maybe more for 1m, but for sure not for 32M/3Dbenching

Thanks!

I pumped 2.7 into my D9 Ballistix for a 5 hour bench session and they were fine. I also dont go above 2.2 or 2.3 for daily use though.