Just got my Opteron 146 :)

[mongoled]

Woohooo,

just got my Opty in the post, UK to Cyprus in 5 days! Thanks to Stella over at cpucity.co.uk for sorting this all out, first UK retailer of Opty 939 with the help of XS and one of its members .

Right my cooling is as follows:

XP90 some crappy low speed 90mm fan

This will be updated in the next few days to:

temporary water cooling setup + some lumps of ice in water
first attempt a WaterCHiller, dont want to cold temps +10C idle would be nice

Booted up fine at 2.8ghz 1.4v, idle temps 38C, ambient temps arnd 28C (its hot and humid in Cyprus ). Running prime95 as we speak, onto 2nd test, temps are arnd 48C.


The CPU I have has a low last three didget number I think its 036 , we will see if the low number proves to be any good. Im going to push it as far as it goes on default voltage, the temps r already quite high, once ive tested on air, I will switch to water. Need to get tht sorted, just finished cleaning out my WC system, now need to work out how to set everything up.

Think I will be priming, benching whilst planning the WC setup

Oh here is a MaxTCase screen shot



Hehhehe, onto test number 5, temps steady at 46-48C, not bad when considering ambient temps.

[Vapor]

Looks like you've got a pretty good one there, mongoled!

[mongoled]

Yeah just had a look at the MaxTCase info in the 'Unofficial' thread, gundamit is a 65C one, lets see if 67C makes a difference, hehehhehee, im excited to see how far this one goes, touch wood it doesnt go belly up like my 2.9ghz 0512DPBW Venice did.



I decided to stop prime and boot at a higher speed, hehehee here the screenie



-UPDATE-

Just running some prime @ 2.9Ghz/1.44v (1.45v bios)/290x10/2.5-4-3-7

0.04v == 3C increase in temps



Im sure the WC is going to help this chip out with the heat, only once ive fully tested will i think abt removing IHS. Lets see how long it takes to fail now, back to planning....

[i found nemo]

so...how hi did it go???

[mongoled]

so...how hi did it go???

Well we dont know yet

Im taking it easy, the chips run hot and my fan aint very good at moving air, the real high clocks will come once the WC is setup. 2.9Ghz with 1.44v priming aint too bad



onto the forth set of the first test, temps steady at 50-51C

[higgins]

sweet man, sweet... wonder if the 144 clock that high too.

[gundamit]

Yeah just had a look at the MaxTCase info in the 'Unofficial' thread, gundamit is a 65C one, lets see if 67C makes a difference,

Dang! How come I get the lower rating? Same week and stepping right? Oh ... I'm going to get all bitter now.

Good luck. Put some crazy numbers up!

[mongoled]

Dang! How come I get the lower rating? Same week and stepping right? Oh ... I'm going to get all bitter now.

Good luck. Put some crazy numbers up!

Yup same stepping,

Just failed after 30min, not the usual error though, got a

'FATAL ERROR: Final result was B2....., expected: 3E......'

message.

Be4 i move the voltage up, which i dont fancy doing (getting mightly hot), im going to check my setting in bios, see if i can get 2.9Ghz prime stablish without increasing voltage, call me boring, but the CPU sure is burning in at low voltage

[pcfreak]

congrats for your new toy mongoled! enjoy it (and keep us informed)

[Zeus]

Good luck man, these CPU's are top-notch!

[fullup3]

looks sweet man! can't wait to get mine in!!

[Lithan]

I'm getting a 144, Using 2x1gb of micron chips so Im stuck on a divider anyway, figured might as well save the $60 and just use 9x instead of 10x. Now I just have to hope that my DFI has no problems hitting 340 HTT.

[i found nemo]

run toast for 4 days

[dogsx2]

I'm getting a 144, Using 2x1gb of micron chips so Im stuck on a divider anyway, figured might as well save the $60 and just use 9x instead of 10x. Now I just have to hope that my DFI has no problems hitting 340 HTT.

Is that the mb in fs that I wanted?

[Lithan]

Hmmm?

No I dont think so. I'm buying it from tankguys with the cpu. If you're talking about the board I think you are (What was it, $105 in FS?) then I was second in line and looks like the first guy took it. Tankguys price is decent. $120 + ship And I'm paying like $8 shipping for both parts.

[dogsx2]

Hmmm?

No I dont think so. I'm buying it from tankguys with the cpu. If you're talking about the board I think you are (What was it, $105 in FS?) then I was second in line and looks like the first guy took it. Tankguys price is decent. $120 + ship And I'm paying like $8 shipping for both parts.

I sure hope this cpu does well, I think your about due.

[Lithan]

Thanks. I dont think my chips (Venice/SD) have been that bad. A couple 2.8's on air. a couple dozen 2.7's and possibly the worst week 17 ever (2.5-2.6). But I wouldn't have any complaints about a 3.1ghz+ stable on air chip. I'm Sort of expecting 2850-2900 though.

[mongoled]

thanxs 4 the comments,

Just a small update be4 i bring WC results, CPU burned in last night at 280x10 with 1.3v using CPU Burn-In without crashing . Just trying out some superPI at 290x10 with 1.38v (1.4vbios) almost at the end of 16M run now. Will be popping out to buy some cheap tubing and will leave 32M running, hopefully wont crash by the time i come back.

Im really looking forward to the results of this CPU under WC

[Zeus]

Sounds like you have a good one, what stepping?

edit: Mine is a 67C as well, what does that tell me?

[Absolute_0]

Zeus i think they're all 0530APMW, i haven't heard of any other stepping for these Opties.

Doing good mongoled, hope the burn in is having some effect. Some people say burn in on air with high temps help, and then to improve cooling? i don't know if that has any validity but seems to be what you're doing so good luck.

[mongoled]

Well 32M ran fine



Here is the screenie



gonna take rig apart now, results l8r

[mongoled]

Ok got the CPU on water, must admit I expected more, not tht I have poor results, just my expectation are probably too high!!

Anyhow I managed to get a superPI 1M @ 3100mhz



Im priming right now at 3Ghz with 1.5v, CPU is at 45C. Hopefully with some burn in I will be able to increase my benchable clocks. At 3100mhz I cant do much more than superPI 1M . Increasing the voltage has a negative effect on the ovrclk. I can boot at 3150mhz but have no real stabilty.

Wish I had another board here so I could see if it really is the CPU tht cant go higher. Think I may try watercooling the nthbridge to see if it effects my clocks, from wht I understand it shouldnt, but their is no harm in trying

If anybody wants me to try a few things, just let me know. Im going to put in the freezer some ammonia packs I have to bring the water temp down a little and will see if I can do some superPI at 3.2Ghz.

Oh and I still got IHS on, will only consider taking it off as last resort to reaching a higher clock!

[mongoled]

Well it looks like the mthbrd has died on me, its been acting funny for a while and may have cst me the life of my venice chip while i was still in the UK.

I hope my Opteron is ok, i tested my winny with the mthbrd and it still doesnt work. Ive tried a diff gfx card and again no go.

I get all the red led's lit, but no post

Im thinking of getting the aRock mobo , to tie my down till i get one of the new ati chipset mobo or even the DFI Extreme edition mthbrd.

Will hae to do a little reading on the aRock, if anyone has any suggestions with regards to my mthbrd please let me know.

[i found nemo]

dude, that blows report back asap when you get a new board, or wait i bit for the dfi expert?

[dogsx2]

Well it looks like the mthbrd has died on me, its been acting funny for a while and may have cst me the life of my venice chip while i was still in the UK.

I hope my Opteron is ok, i tested my winny with the mthbrd and it still doesnt work. Ive tried a diff gfx card and again no go.

I get all the red led's lit, but no post

Im thinking of getting the aRock mobo , to tie my down till i get one of the new ati chipset mobo or even the DFI Extreme edition mthbrd.

Will hae to do a little reading on the aRock, if anyone has any suggestions with regards to my mthbrd please let me know.

Try using just one stick of ram in the middle orange slot.