Quote Originally Posted by justapost View Post
What was your HT speed? As gotVoltage mentioned a few times for higher NB speeds high HT speeds are a must. I can select above 2GHz here on the AsRock in the bios but at max 2GHz(10xmultis) are used.

BTW: LaingUltra leaked, shortened , burned a hole in my table and stopped working. Waiting for an D5 vario now.

Dang ,,bummer

ALSO you can mod the D5 real easy for better flow

The D5's and or 655's are great little pumps...What works for great flow is drill the Inlet to !/2" ,, this will let the pump draw more volume from Resivior while keeping the same Head Preshure but with hihger flow. Its an easy 5min mod with a 1/2"drill bit.


On to the good stuff,,
As for Phenom Volts ,, i cant believe How much these things can take even with a stock heatsink.. The trick is to allow good volts but keep the temps in check.. Heat is the Number one ccause of Phenom failure along with the old IMC the B2's used. The B3's Handle Ram volts plus high NBvolts way better than the Old B2's.

For using 3.2-3.3ghz with 2400nb ..Even on Air (nonstock cooler) ive found that 1.48v -1.5volts works graet on the CPU/And NB with or with out ACC.

When you raise the Volts up you can use ACC in Munus mode -2 -4 aand so on to lower the overall volts Idle and Load although using higher manual settings for NB and Vcore..

It takes a lot of tweaking and all my Overclocks are done with high volts up to 3.3/3.4ghz and High NB just to see what it can do and watching my Temps . if its under the Max temp limit i lower the Volts a hair NB then go for Higher Clock values.. Ilways run the HT @ 2000 or Higher depending on My NB speed.

At high CPU clocks the NB @2000 -2200mhz can perform. Highe rCPu clocks along with low NBmhz do better than Low CPUclocks with HIGH NBmhz. Least thats what ive been seeing.


In the end its all realted to Heat ..Start stock with like 1.5volts for both CPU and NB and slowly raise the CPU to its highest level using just the Cpu Divider(multiX) with Stock NB..

yOu should be able to reach 3.2ghz with a decent air cooler and even the stock one on B3 9850/9950. Default VID is 1.55 for both CPU and NB .

Even My TA770 was default with 1.55volts for both thats how i discovered this way of overclocking. You can use ACC to Lower Volts when using High manual CPU and NBvolts aswell.

Theres just so much more of a challenge with Phenom overclocking when i compare to friends Core2Q's..

In the End they all ask why my Pc seems faster than thiers when they are @3.6 and im @3.5ghz..It seems kinda amazing to me how smooth the AMD platform really is @ any speed conpared to all my Friends Intels.