X4 PHENOM taken to 3GHz

[The-PHENOMATOR]

Well, I've been at this setup for a few days now and have finally managed to tame this 9500

MOFO64 presents the worlds first RETAIL oc'd B1 9500 to reach 3GHZ

Firstly I'd just like to say thankyou to all the people who msg'd me either through XFIRE or by email regarding phenom and my progress with this setup.
Had it not been for all of your encouragement and kind words I may well not have pushed myself to bring you this fantastic result

You know who you are

I saw OBR's review and OC attempt on the 790FX and think he perhaps needs to spend more time with head in pc case rather than behind camera

Now, what's the story I hear you ask..

Well.....I gave up with the M2N-SLi and switched over to the MSi 790X.

After many hours of trying lots of settings, MOFO is proud to announce that this phenom (and others aswell no doubt) can hit 3ghz (albeit very unstable).



following tictacs suggestion I use WPCREDIT to drop the NB mutli to x7 I managed to attain this OC.

Firstly due to this boards bios, I cannot access memory timings....only divider....however it detects my memory modules spd timings np.

There is also no NB multi access (dunno if there is supposed to be) so this is where tic-tacs guide helped enormously.

1...I boot with a FSB of 215mhz, 1.560v vcore, 1.40v NB, HTx of 3.

2...Once on desktop open cpu and use mem tab to check NB speed.

3...open WPcredit and change NBx to 7 using 00011B, apply,close restart.

4...allow system to restart but do not enter bios.

5...once on desktop again open cpu and check NB multi & speed are properly applied, you'll see they are.

6...Now I use AOD to increase cpu fsb slowly. Do not increase anymore than 2mhz at a time as 30mhz-40mhz increases can cause lockups

I've included a few screenies just for you guys.



Laters all

MOFO64 (SOLDNER)

The Location (MOFO LABS)



The reservoir



The cooling



Closeup



Geekbench



CPUZ verified 2904mhz



27.5 sec Pi 1M



3GHZ albeit very flakey



IDLE temps is 14c-15c...MAX LOADED single core 24c....MAX LOADED four cores 44c

[StyM]

nice cooling...

[kiikkuja]

That looks good!! When people get their hands on some DFI mobos and mature BIOS's we will see
stable 3g and more...maybe the phenom isn't so bad afterall.

[Fraggle]

The superpi 1M time is the same as my San-Diego@3120 :o(

[Wiggy McShades]

weren't you banned in your other thread for making another account after being banned the first time?

[Fraggle]

Who? Me!?

[The-PHENOMATOR]

The superpi 1M time is the same as my San-Diego@3120 :o(

Yes but the 9500 is at 2850mhz with very slack DDR2 timings of 5,5,5,18,24,2t. Once the memory it tweaked down to 840mhz 3,4,4,12,18,2t and the cpu is at 3ghz+ then we'll see some nice improvements.

Also, a 3700+ at release was around 220quid for a single-core. I have 4 cores with virtually same power each for 155quid I ain't complaining.

weren't you banned in your other thread for making another account after being banned the first time?

yes you are correct. However this news is far bigger than me, or a trivial forum ban. You guys deserve to see that phenom is not a complete flop as many are suggesting. I just want to show people that like AMD and are curious as to phenoms performance that there is hope for a 3GHZ + phenom in the very near future. This is a B1 9500, so if I can get 3Ghz on a flakey bios within 10days of release I'm sure there is lots more to come

[LIKMARK]

SOLDNER-MOFO64 is back! Awsome results! What's your last experience with your AM2 board?

[Fraggle]

Not me...:o)

It`s still not as much of a jump as I would have hoped from a K8, maybe I`ll wait until they get the clocks up a bit then the performance per clock advantage will be more valuable.

[The-PHENOMATOR]

SOLDNER-MOFO64 is back! Awsome results! What's your last experience with your AM2 board?

I gave up on the M2N-SLi at 250FSB mate. I believe this was as a result of not correctly applying the NB multi via wpcredit.

tic-tacs advice is correct in that a restart is required in order to apply the NB multi change, but I was forever entering my bios upon restarts and this cancels the NB multi change made by wpcredit.

AFAIK if you apply the NB multi drop with wpcredit on an AM2 mobo and perform a restart without entering bios, then as soon as you have rebooted to desktop check cpuz mem tab and I think NB multi change will be in effect. Then use AOD as I have to increase cpu fsb in small increments. I will have to confirm this myself in the next few days when I strip this rig down and move to 790FX. I'll pop the 9500 back in the M2N-SLi in order to see whether this is infact the case or not. Unless ofcourse someone else manages to try it in the meantime.

[BeardyMan]

Hey dude i can assure you that this is not teh right manner of doing things,making more accounts will only make things worse...

I speak out of experience weight my words...

[Timbosan]

wow thats a slow time, its 2 secs faster than my e6300 @ stock (2 cores @ 1.86GHz) also with slack (5-5-5-15) timings.

[Vapor]

...user banned. I don't want to hear about it...the user has broken so many rules repeatedly it's not even funny.

Someone else hit 3GHz....please

[Lightman]

Good work MOFO!!

I will try to match your results soon

Thanks for all tips

[Blacklash]

A stable 3.0GHz would be a start. I don't think a "flaky" 3.0GHz is note worthy. 5000+ BEs and 6400s are doing well over that. Of course they don't have quite the same punch as Phenom clock for clock. If they are soon doing 3.0-3.2GHz stable I might have to get one for my alternate rig.

[JWilson]

Finally someone posts a Phenom SuperPI score and it's not half bad considering all of his obstacles!

[Sparky]

A stable 3.0GHz would be a start. I don't think a "flaky" 3.0GHz is note worthy. 5000+ BEs and 6400s are doing well over that. Of course they don't have quite the same punch as Phenom clock for clock. If they are soon doing 3.0-3.2GHz stable I might have to get one for my alternate rig.

2.9GHz stable though, not too far off.

Finally someone posts a Phenom SuperPI score and it's not half bad considering all of his obstacles!

That is with loose mem timings too. Wonder how it would do with memory at the proper speed and timings.

[cegras]

Not me...:o)

It`s still not as much of a jump as I would have hoped from a K8, maybe I`ll wait until they get the clocks up a bit then the performance per clock advantage will be more valuable.

Becuz superpi is everything, amirite? It's extremely cache dependent.

[knightwolf654]

should of raised the volts, could of stabilized it.

[Fraggle]

The superpi score is all that we have here in this thread. If it`s good I`ll buy it, I`m not prejudiced or anything :o)

[mAJORD]

nice one Mofo.

Nice Ghetto cooling Love it. Wish the NB clock change would work with the gigabyte board (((((

PM me your Xfire mofo. (and anyone else for that matter)


-edit Re super Pi. With a Full speed NB, I can get low 27sec @ 2.68Ghz DDR2 438 CAS4. so it is sensitive to such things

[akaBruno]

Thanks for the update MOFO.

BRUNO

[Sparky]

sorry i don't understand.

1 )At 3Ghz, what is the Vcore ?
2 )At 3Ghz it's stable ?

Looks like 3GHz vcore was 1.25V, pretty low actually *edit* says up there he used 1.56V... ouch.

[Nazu]

Does the chip produce so much heat that he couldn't use aircooling or what?

[Motiv]

Does the chip produce some much heat that he couldn't use aircooling or what?

going off the OP, the chip is probably a lie, fake or cooled with something other than air.

He's not entirely, how can I put this, 100% accurate in his postings.