My first time with DDR3 + Phenom II

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Hi guys,

I've got one Gigabyte 870A-UD3 to do a review and oc on air with X2 555BE from a team mate and an 2x1gb DDR3-1066 CL7 rams with D9JNL ic's. I am quite surprise with this mobo, so i decided to share the results here.

For 3d I use my crappy Zotac 8600GT GDDR2 (a piece of with 100% Sacon FZ caps, clock scales bad even with 1.61v on gpu, probably due to eletrical noise )

First max clock try:


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1307092



These sticks can do this clocks @ 6-5-6-18, but doesn't do any gains on pi...
Just silver theme and real-time priority, I don't know how to use copy waza...



Will run pifast soon.

3d benchs:






Aquamark and 3dm05 I run with 1.61v vgpu and 2.08v vram.
Will post link for review soon.


Sorry my bad english, this time I dont use google translator to help me...

[BeepBeep2]

That ram is amazing.

My GTS does 6-5-6 @ 1550-1575 and my Hyper does 6-5-6 @ 1450-1500.

Try 6-5-5.

[crazydiamond]

nice results, good job man! also, your english is great

[duron]

nice clock on that 555, can it be unlocked?
i also used a DDR3 1600, though from SuperTalent, + 555

[CoNtAcT]

Hey, nice resuluts, try an GSkill..
Or look in your memory supported list

[NoM$_YesLinux]

That ram is amazing.

My GTS does 6-5-6 @ 1550-1575 and my Hyper does 6-5-6 @ 1450-1500.

Try 6-5-5.

6-5-5 FAIL
This ram is really amazing, all this needs is crank vdimm (~2.4v for 1720 6-5-6-18 1T ), run stable @ 1600 7-7-7-18 1T 1.74v with more relaxed sub-timmings ofc

nice results, good job man! also, your english is great

Thanks!

nice clock on that 555, can it be unlocked?
i also used a DDR3 1600, though from SuperTalent, + 555

Unfortunately, no unlock for this 555...

Hey, nice resuluts, try an GSkill..
Or look in your memory supported list

I just have these D9JNL here...

[BeepBeep2]

Why is everybody crazy about PSC on AMD?
I'd rather run four sticks of D9 than two sticks of PSC/BBSE.

It's more fun :P

[Tomasis]

double post

[Tomasis]

I have d9jnl.. would be nice compete each other.. i have gigabyte

i have run 6-5-5 up to XXX.. i dont remember.. hehe i have to sit and OC now.. d9jnl scales up 2,35V which is nice.. what AOD supports up 2,5v? my newest aod supports 2,35 like in bios, hm

u have better cpu but what cooling? :P

[NoM$_YesLinux]

I have d9jnl.. would be nice compete each other.. i have gigabyte

i have run 6-5-5 up to XXX.. i dont remember.. hehe i have to sit and OC now.. d9jnl scales up 2,35V which is nice.. what AOD supports up 2,5v? my newest aod supports 2,35 like in bios, hm

u have better cpu but what cooling? :P

Mine D9JNL scales well up to 2.4V (maximum of UD3 without mods ), AOD and Easytune 6 wont work here (and I dont know why...)

I am on air, Evercool Buffalo + Vizo Windstorm 92mm 110cfm, some rig pics:

[ricardoosaki]

Great results and nice clock my friend!

[Tomasis]

Mine D9JNL scales well up to 2.4V (maximum of UD3 without mods ), AOD and Easytune 6 wont work here (and I dont know why...)

ok, I tried d9jnl with athlon x2 240. It seems that my memory starts to degrade

with 6-5-5, 90ns, I was able boot 1780 though not very stable. I did ran maxmemm with 1750, unfortunately I didnt save any screen.

Now I hardly run 1720

guess ours mem are much same in league

now im back with phenom and running PSC. I need give chance for d9jnl to run with phenom though I dont hold much hope.

I see you run heatsinks on mem, mine ran bare, probably thats why it degrades

good luck

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Great results and nice clock my friend!

Thanks my friend!

ok, I tried d9jnl with athlon x2 240. It seems that my memory starts to degrade

with 6-5-5, 90ns, I was able boot 1780 though not very stable. I did ran maxmemm with 1750, unfortunately I didnt save any screen.

Now I hardly run 1720

guess ours mem are much same in league

now im back with phenom and running PSC. I need give chance for d9jnl to run with phenom though I dont hold much hope.

I see you run heatsinks on mem, mine ran bare, probably thats why it degrades

good luck

A pity your D9JNL sticks degrade, It seems to be an killer rams, you are using 2.4v on these too?
Ah, 6-5-5 won't work here, freeze on boot...

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As I promissed in first post, here is the full review of GA-870A-UD3:

http://translate.google.com.br/trans...83&sl=pt&tl=en

enjoy!

[BeepBeep2]

Yeah, from what I see all DDR3 D9 degrade kinda slowly, and all of it clocks well. Just gotta watch voltage, 2.4v is still a lot.

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Yeah, from what I see all DDR3 D9 degrade kinda slowly, and all of it clocks well. Just gotta watch voltage, 2.4v is still a lot.

Apparently mine sticks won't degraded nothing, still can run @ 1720 6-5-6-18 1T 2.4v for bench and 1600 7-7-7-18 1T with about 1.74v (with more relaxed sub-timmings) rock-solid, but even with 2.4v it works cold...

I'm using these ramsinks:
http://www.nexustek.nl/NXS-nexus-hxr...tspreaders.htm

Really worth the $10 wich this cost.

[stangracin3]

dude quit making me miss my 8600...

810 Mhz at 1.51 i never got to use 1.6 or more cause i never modded bios for more core clock

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Let me bump this thread...

In August your team has doing an extreme overclocking reunion on your lab (OverLab, pics of reunion here), and the 870A-UD3 was used in LN2 more one time. (Xandelly run the 555BE of first post and a X6 1090T on LN2 in this board before) The initial goal was run 3dmark01 for August HWbot OC Challenge, but even @ 5.7ghz it freeze on bench...Apparentely the insulation on back of board was insuffient for -185ºC temps and that was the instability cause on 3dmark, so, the only things I do is max clock cpu-z validation and superpi 1m. That was my first time with xtreme cooling, my teammates help me a lot with this, teamwork

For this run I used a old batch X4 965BE (0941CPMW) which was never tested before even on air, one of my mates has bought this and never used...

Rig: X4 965BE + GA-870A-UD3 + 2x1gb Micron Value DDR3-1066 D9JNL + GTX275 + HX1000 + Xandelly Monster Pot (100% Cooper )


http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1364629


At least a sub-11s pi

Rig and thermometer pics:



GA-870A-UD3 is a really amazing board...
Gigabyte!

[BeepBeep2]

Wow, I really want to do LN2 so bad...but nobody in my area does. Cecil has 400+ points on HWBot but hasn't done subzero...(I live about 15 minutes from him)

[NoM$_YesLinux]

Wow, I really want to do LN2 so bad...but nobody in my area does. Cecil has 400+ points on HWBot but hasn't done subzero...(I live about 15 minutes from him)

LN2 for me just 1~2 times per year, OverLab is approx 260km (+/- 2 1/2 hours) from here and I still have to consider my vacation Otherwise I got to miss classes at the University ......

btw my situation still good, one of my team mates just have to come by plane (expensive $ $ $) because of the distance, look at this:

http://maps.google.com.br/maps?f=d&s...169922&t=h&z=4

[Tomasis]

i like result i wish I'd do ln2 sometimes.. ridiculously expensive here

[davelakecity]

Looking at doing a build with this mobo and an X2 555 BE.
Been tearing up old components to make a homemade heatsink for the mosfets as the 870a-UD3 does not come stock with mosfet HS.

Noticed your 870a-UD3 looks to have a heatsink on it's mosfets... perhaps from another giggy board? From what I've read, the lack of mosfet hs is this board's biggest shortcoming.

I saw that your ram is using D9JNL ic's... could you post the name of the ram modules ? or suggest some modules with the same D9JNL ic's ?

[NoM$_YesLinux]

i like result i wish I'd do ln2 sometimes.. ridiculously expensive here

In my city even dice is ubber expensive, it cost about R$13.00 per kg (aprox US$7.5 per kg ), so my old crappy (and miraculous ) Evercool Buffalo will still keep rocking here...

Looking at doing a build with this mobo and an X2 555 BE.
Been tearing up old components to make a homemade heatsink for the mosfets as the 870a-UD3 does not come stock with mosfet HS.

Noticed your 870a-UD3 looks to have a heatsink on it's mosfets... perhaps from another giggy board? From what I've read, the lack of mosfet hs is this board's biggest shortcoming.

I saw that your ram is using D9JNL ic's... could you post the name of the ram modules ? or suggest some modules with the same D9JNL ic's ?

1GB Micron Value DDR3 1066 CL7.
I can take a pic of the ram modules if you want, but they look like this:

http://webrevolutionary.com/price/im...0459320880.jpg

Mine modules are single sided, 2x1gb kit and non-ecc.

The mosfet hs if I'm not mistaken my mate removed from a dead board, I will confirm this with he.

EDIT: I take proper pics of my rams:




These was used in LN2 session, the rams used on 555BE use same chips and oc capability is barely the same.

[davelakecity]

thanks... suppose it would just be the luck of the draw getting those same chips.. crazy that they run at those speeds with those timings

[cab]

Nice! What's the power consumption of the NVIDIA 8600GT, does it clock down when idle?

[PatRaceTin]

Gigabyte always make good cheap board for AMD and Intel