The Phenom II List of Overclocks

[HondaGuy]

Not bad still @ stock volts

[Oldguy932]

Quick tests:







Not even tweaked yet. NB is pretty low now. Watercooled.
Tweaking more when i get back home.

Did you happen to write down your stepping before you put it in?

Yeah, I'm not ordering my 940 from the egg, the microcenter that's 2 minutes away should have them in stock so I'm just going there even though its slightly overpriced.

Edit: Just looked again, found it for 275. Definitely going to try and pricematch it at microcenter so get like $50 off what their selling price is.

[BertM]

i just made a occt 1 hour run at 3.3 and the rest all stock.
what more data do you need?.
gonna write down the batch nr. in a moment.
edit:
CPU Model Used : 940
CPU Full Stepping : cacvc ac 0850cpaw
CPU Frequency : 3315
CPU Vcore : 1.35 (but goes up to 1.378 according to occt)
NB Frequency : 1808
HT Link Frequency : 1808
Memory Frequency : 1070
Memory Configuration : 2x1gb Unganged
Mainboard Model : ga-ma790fx-dq6
Cooling Type : watercooled. pa120.3 and homemade alu cpu block
Windows : XP sp2 x86
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=479937

[krjalone]

Did you happen to write down your stepping before you put it in?

Stepping: CACVC AC 0849GPAW

[Brother Esau]

@OldGUY............You have to make this clear to all that the "Minimum Requirement" will be ....1hr OCCT "CPU TEST" @ High Priority........ Not Mix!!!!

[Oldguy932]

I'm fine with 2 hours of prime or 1 hour occt. I'm going to go change it after this post.

Thanks for the new information guys, can't put it in yet though because I'm on the Q9450 and not my 3.5 year old lappy with the classic Pentium M(That still manages to run vista x86 very easily after startup.).

I just got my 940 from microcenter, took like half an hour to get the price match from 334 down to 275. Its just annoying because 2 different guys had to look at the price on newegg, each at different ends of the store. Also had my girlfriends dad help me with the case, had to get stuff cut and drilled for my vapo, and with my luck the case sits about 3º off center. Now I get to wait till this evening to actually build the computer with her.

Keep the results coming guys.

Edit: Just updated the list.

[Caveman787]

Reviews were needing 1.5+ supposedly for 3.5-3.7 yet GondaGuy can do it on stock

Either they just suck or he got an amazing chip.

[TL1000S]

Reviews were needing 1.5+ supposedly for 3.5-3.7 yet GondaGuy can do it on stock

Either they just suck or he got an amazing chip.

Could be it is because HondaGuy is using ACC (preferred) than any half-buggy bios (as the reviewers do).

[HondaGuy]

Could be it is because HondaGuy is using ACC (preferred) than any half-buggy bios (as the reviewers do).

Im using a SB600 M3A32-MVP Deluxe Wifi, there is NO ACC....BIOS is beta 1406 for that board

[Oldguy932]

He's on the M3A32-MVP which is SB600... so no ACC. I actually have one that's not in use, and the M3A79-T is sitting in the box waiting to be used. Its because reviewers didn't want to fidget around with the last generation of phenoms that they can't do that well with this generation. Its sort of how I get pretty good at tweaking phenoms after buying 5 of them to do "testing", but I'm not very good with my Q9450 system. I can get it to boot at up to 490 fsb, but its not stable. Somebody that's more experienced with overclocking intels would have much better luck than I had.

Edit: Honda beat me to it.

[HondaGuy]

beat you to it...just....

[TL1000S]

Im using a SB600 M3A32-MVP Deluxe Wifi, there is NO ACC....BIOS is beta 1406 for that board

Even more impressive.
Since you used Amd utility (GUI) I assumed ACC was used.
Should have known better as you are on a board (SB600) that not really support ACC that well.
So it shows that people used to tweaking AMD probably are the best to test.
These days most reviewers only runs Intel rigs.

[leoy]

Any phenom I overclocker can do better than the reviewers @ tha other sites when ocing phenomII.

[Lightman]

Not to forget that reviewers were using older production samples and HondaGuy is clocking retail chip.
BTW HondaGuy which week of production is yours?? I've lost count already :P

[BertM]

but hondaguy used 10 seconds prime. thats a pretty short test. but still very impressive.
i saw in my test that it took 10 minutes for the system to get into operating temperature.

[-= rtz =-]

Nice guys, just one question, do you lap your new phenom and how is the base compared to old x2? Is lapping still necessary?

[HondaGuy]

Not to forget that reviewers were using older production samples and HondaGuy is clocking retail chip.
BTW HondaGuy which week of production is yours?? I've lost count already :P

CACVC AC 0848FPAW

[2good4you]

alittle more NB for yea.......

[IMG*]http://img71.imageshack.us/img71/8128/cpuphenom940nb2800bz1.png[/IMG]

[IMG*]http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3649/cinebenchphenom940nb280qq9.png[/IMG]

Extremely impressive that it makes 2800MHz NB, and that with 4 DIMM's! Looks that we maybe are able to run 3GHz+/- with 2 DIMM's stable.

Have you seen some big drop in L3 cache latency with 2800MHz NB? You should have. Also memory latency. Can you compare default 1.8GHz with 2.8GHz NB in apps but with same corefrequency? Should be very intresesting to see the difference.

[Particle]

Sweet. Looks like ZZF shipped via Fedex instead of UPS. It came in after I went back to work!

[Ben_Brown]

Just to let everyone know about ACC and my tests with my Phenom II. I enabled it on my board and my pc would not boot. I had to reset the bios to get it to boot back up. Did this twice to make sure that was the cause and it was. Maybe others experience will be different, but what I have experienced is that ACC does not work at all with Phenom II.

[chew*]

He's on the M3A32-MVP which is SB600... so no ACC. I actually have one that's not in use, and the M3A79-T is sitting in the box waiting to be used. Its because reviewers didn't want to fidget around with the last generation of phenoms that they can't do that well with this generation. Its sort of how I get pretty good at tweaking phenoms after buying 5 of them to do "testing", but I'm not very good with my Q9450 system. I can get it to boot at up to 490 fsb, but its not stable. Somebody that's more experienced with overclocking intels would have much better luck than I had.

Edit: Honda beat me to it.

I can help you with it if you'd like. LMK.

[chew*]

Even more impressive.
Since you used Amd utility (GUI) I assumed ACC was used.
Should have known better as you are on a board (SB600) that not really support ACC that well.
So it shows that people used to tweaking AMD probably are the best to test.
These days most reviewers only runs Intel rigs.

I haven't used AMD since my 939 well ok I played with a phenom BE for a few weeks......( about 1 year total away ), I managed 3.7 on stock air and 4.8 on mach 2 both being limited to .10 over stock @ boston event.............it has to do with reviewers not being hardcore overclockers by nature

The suspense is killing me but AMD is sending me an AM3 cpu so I will just have to suck it up and wait it seems. So close to pulling the trigger on a 940 and gigabyte.

[charged3800z24]

Not bad still @ stock volts

I think it is funny how all of us that have these are getting better clocks then the test sites on average...My PC is folding right now..when I get home I'll post my results..I have about 6 more days..hopefully less. Keep em' coming man..looks good..I think you might be doin better then I did.

[HondaGuy]

Just to let everyone know about ACC and my tests with my Phenom II. I enabled it on my board and my pc would not boot. I had to reset the bios to get it to boot back up. Did this twice to make sure that was the cause and it was. Maybe others experience will be different, but what I have experienced is that ACC does not work at all with Phenom II.

Thanks Ben I guess I will be keeping my M3A32-MVP Deluxe

Charged: Im waiting for your results.....

[Caveman787]

Come on HondaGuy get back at it, you seem to be one of if not the best amd overclocker here. I can't wait to see you hitting 3.0+ nb with high hypertransport and 4.0+ core since your on water.