The Phenom II List of Overclocks

[knopflerbruce]

2h prime95 is plenty IMO. 4 times longer priming doesn't mean 4 times the stability Besides, it's to everyone's interest to have as many OC's as possible, and I'm pretty sure alot of people are WAY too impatient for 8 hours.

[jonspd]

2h prime95 is plenty IMO. 4 times longer priming doesn't mean 4 times the stability Besides, it's to everyone's interest to have as many OC's as possible, and I'm pretty sure alot of people are WAY too impatient for 8 hours.

some times prime will not error until later in the run 2 hrs IMHO is no where near a stable rig. Unless you have it in a oven at 200 degrees

[Oldguy932]

If people want to do longer than 2 hours, that's their choice. We can just make the minimum stability test to be 2 hours of it. And more overclocks is always better.

[leoy]

With my 9950 when i primed for an hour , i said that's it!, no more torture we are good. And i was good, never ever crashed with that setting no matter what i did. Although When i was stable for 30 minutes neither did that o.c ever crashed, games,encoding nothing.I just think prime is too much....

[merkk1]

My self i use a 1-2 hour prime run to test my over clocks with and that has work good for me also . Just did not want to see guys get stuck in a long prime run and have them maybe break rigs .

[Titan7171]

no prime for me, theres no way I would ever need my rig to run 100% for hours at a time. I overclock for fun, benching and for my games and thats it. Im not going to torture for no reason. highest oc and settings and 24/7 oc and settings ahould be sufficient. An easier test should be maybe 3dm06/ vantage or something for proof the system runs on a decent load?

[roofsniper]

its not like if they aren't running prime for 2 hours its a suicide. i myself have only ran prime for 2 hours once because i was watching a movie. typically when i have problems with things not being stable prime will pick it up within 10 minutes. its fine if people run prime for 2 hours just some like me don't feel like doing that all the time.

[Daveburt714]

Just a suggestion.... Instead of 2 hours Prime why not use a good 10 pass Linpack (IntelBurnTest) run to show stability.

It pushes harder and has shown (to me atleast) to be just as reliable but only takes about 20 minutes to run (less chance of damaging the PWM section of your board).

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...87&postcount=1

[BertM]

you cannot oc a chip and not test it with 100% load.
so i agree with prime, it must be used to proof stability.

when i test for oc walls, i start prime and slowly turn up the htt bus untill it starts to error. then i play with voltages and other things.

[Stage1Ocer]

Ran OCCT for 24 hours one day only and it worked on the 790GP-DS4H pretty well. Mind you, the nb and the vrm runs pretty hot. If it fails its a good thing it fails on you runnin' prime because what if it fails on you on a time when you need it the most...if its meant to fail it will.

no prime for me, theres no way I would ever need my rig to run 100% for hours at a time. I overclock for fun, benching and for my games and thats it. Im not going to torture for no reason. highest oc and settings and 24/7 oc and settings ahould be sufficient. An easier test should be maybe 3dm06/ vantage or something for proof the system runs on a decent load?

[Zucker2k]

It's simple guys: If you want to list stable overclocks, then change title to read: The Phenom II Stable Overclocking Thread or something similar. If it's just overclocking then everything goes.

[topdog]

PhenomII 940 3600Mhz 200 X 18
Stepping CACVC AC 0850BPEW
Voltage 1.42
Windows Vista x64
Zalman CNPS9500

[Rammsteiner]

K, giving up on my Drive Strength quest.

Ive a question though, although it slightly depends on your NB clocks, but considering they can go well over 2.4Ghz it doesnt matter.

Is it more favourable to have ~DDR1000 4-4-4 (at 2.2~2.3Vdimm) or ~DDR1150 5-5-5 (2.16Vdimm)? Those DDR1000 4-4-4's are risky since it's Micron and might die at a point (or not), but I guess those Micron's are slightly more favourable regarding bandwith/latency?

What do you guys think?

[Baulten]

First post all, here's my specs: Best boots I could get in Windows Vista stable and suicide run. I run 24/7 at the stable setup.

Verification on stable: http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=514176
Stable Screenshot:

Suicide Screenshot:


CPU Model Used
Phenom II 940
CPU Full Stepping
CACVC AC 0849GPAW
CPU Frequency
3.6 GHz (stable)
3.756 GHz (suicide)
CPU Vcore
1.456V (stable)
1.488V (suicide)
NB Frequency
2.2 GHz (stable)
1.878 GHz (suicide)
HT Link Frequency
1.8 GHz (stable)
1.878 GHz (suicide)
Memory Frequency
400 Mhz (stable)
417 Mhz (suicide)
Memory Configuration
2x2 GB (5-5-5-15-24)
Memory Ganged/Unganged
Ganged
Mainboard Model
DFI LanParty 790FX-M2RS (Beta Bios 12-26-08)
Cooling Type
Air - Xigmatek s1283
Windows Version and x86 or x64
Windows Vista Home Premium x64

[mav2000]

Heres mine...i know am at the bottom of the list but so what...lol...I got a forth core for free....lol

@ 4 cores



@ 3 cores



And no its not prime stable. And if someone can help me touch the magical 4 Ghz it will be just awesome.

[charged3800z24]

Heres mine...i know am at the bottom of the list but so what...lol...I got a forth core for free....lol
And no its not prime stable. And if someone can help me touch the magical 4 Ghz it will be just awesome.

32bit or 64bit?

[bobehud]

hey all
Bobehud here and this is only my second OC first was with a locked 9750 quad that taught me a great deal stable for years after 20 hrs-max load prime no blend.I was at 2.75 now for a 2.4 chip doesnt sound like much bear in mind it was a locked chip.
Okay enough babble as i got this am to cl on my OC it just passed the 12 hr mark 3817 with a 955 c3 with 1.45vts to chip.
My question is it is keeping cooler temps at full load NOW than when i went to bed from 51-52c down now to 48-49c does the thermal paste need to get a better bond and that is the reason a better heat transfer..?

[Dreadlockyx]

Hi guys ! I submit my suicide score:

Username: Dreadlockyx
Model: 965 BE
Stepping: C3
CPU Frequency: 4212.31
CPU Core Voltage: 1.512V
NB Frequency: 2GHz
Memory Configuration: 2x 2GB (PC3-10600)
Motherboard: Crosshair III Formula
Cooling: Air
OS: Win7 x64
Post Number: 1684

http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...be_4214.31_mhz

PS: sorry if my english is bad, i'm french. :P

[crazydiamond]

i guess i worded that poorly brother esau lol i meant i havent done the long priming sessions on my 9850, i did 12/24hr tests on my 5000be but after reading about all the mosfets popping on the x4's i tried using other methods to find stability haha

[Titan7171]

Maybe Im not wording this right............I dont have a problem with prime I have a problem with the extreme heat it causes, as someone running on air I can run 1.5v into my cpu and do anything I need to do. When you run prime at those voltages on air the heat little by little start to oversaturate and overpower the system cooling causing shutdowns, lockups and other breakdowns. This leaves people with aircooling out of the loop especially since many who run water will be able to overcome the heat issue and post high overclocks. Is this really a true testament to how the cpu will clock?? People with better cooling will be able to run higher clocks with prime while people with air will be able to hit similar clocks at normal use but not be able to sustain the cooling needed to run prime for hours on end....

[G0ldBr1ck]

If your looking to post "stable" overclocks then Prime is a must. Its the universaly exepted standard for stable. @Titan7171 It will just show a more accurate max OC on various types of cooling.

[roofsniper]

well what are we doing? if im going to have to run prime for 8 hours im most likely not going to submit it.

[Titan7171]

well what are we doing? if im going to have to run prime for 8 hours im most likely not going to submit it.

me either, just not worth killing components or shortening lifespan to be on a list


Im upgrading my cooling anyhow and Ill see how it pans out, Im on Thermalright SI-128 SE last time I ran prime I let it go to 72c then just shut it down that was after only 4 minutes or so.Im due for some better cooling, If I can keep it cool then Ill submit the best I can do but Ill still run 24/7 whatever speed I can get to run games,surf and convert
video without an error......its the way Ive always done it anyway

[jonspd]

Never killed anything running prime, cpu-burn, toast, etc...

I guess if you aren't beyond your stable point of running a system and you run prime you might not have problems, but if your are like most of you and just have it overclocked without knowing its stable then yea I guess prime could kill a few things...

I use my pc's to run Folding@home 24\7 so having a system that isn't stable is out of the question but I guess if all you do is web-surf it would be ok to have a unstable overclock.


2 hrs prime wouldn't even qualify for being stable IMHO

[jonspd]

NM

I have no cpu-z validation link?

still want me results?

sry for the post