790gx/PH II

[EnJoY]

Hate to keep you guys in suspense but I had a set a goal for myself and I refused to not acchieve it......Persistance pays off in the end.

http://valid.canardpc.com:80/show_oc.php?id=492149

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Running memtest to make sure I didn't lose a stick.

Nice job buddy! 5.0GHz ftw.

I finally started tweaking tonight, can't give away the results yet and I'm far from done, but let's just say our chips are more similar than you thought lol.

I started off the night finding max oc on the chip just by upping multiplier and voltage, and that was fun. Now I'm on to max northbridge clock. Max at stock voltage seems to be around ~2650MHz. Do you know if vcore helps nb clocking as well? First time ocing Phenom so I'm learning as I go.

I'll post my thread tomorrow night with my first results.

[chew*]

Nice job buddy! 5.0GHz ftw.

I finally started tweaking tonight, can't give away the results yet and I'm far from done, but let's just say our chips are more similar than you thought lol.

I started off the night finding max oc on the chip just by upping multiplier and voltage, and that was fun. Now I'm on to max northbridge clock. Max at stock voltage seems to be around ~2650MHz. Do you know if vcore helps nb clocking as well? First time ocing Phenom so I'm learning as I go.

I'll post my thread tomorrow night with my first results.

Nah you should have seperate voltages for NB, and a little tip when going for max cpu validation underclock your NB, lot of guys dont realize MHZ > NB and you lose max clocks when pushing the NB.

Thx, I think thats the first 5gig I've seen on DI and on a cheap pot to boot.

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[Lightman]

Nice going chew*
It is first 5GHz I'm seeing on DI

So can you know play some 3DMark

[chew*]

Nice going chew*
It is first 5GHz I'm seeing on DI

So can you know play some 3DMark

Next time it goes under DI yes I will do some serious 3d benching, wifes getting me another card to play with for my B-day (feb 5th).

I won't be so concerned about toasting something If i have a spare.

Unfortunately I'm not in the same financial position I was in 3 years ago when benching so losing hardware hurts a tad more now then it did back then.

Seems like its a strong chip, a better pot might yield some interesting results and LN2 may be very very interesting.

Not to bad for a gigabyte board "that sux" Boy am I glad I don't listen to "the majority"

I was benching for 4 straight hours with 10LBs DI, good thing I didn't buy 20lbs.

I thought I might add that I think the Myth that you need a HIGH Amp / HIGH Watt PSU is debunked, you just need a quality PSU with Clean voltage. I'm sure if I used a video card I would require more but for aquiring max clocks and cpu intensive benches it makes little to no difference.

[EnJoY]

I thought I might add that I think the Myth that you need a HIGH Amp / HIGH Watt PSU is debunked, you just need a quality PSU with Clean voltage. I'm sure if I used a video card I would require more but for aquiring max clocks and cpu intensive benches it makes little to no difference.

Exactly, especially the point I highlighted though. You'd never max out a high efficiency 500w PSU without a video card or multiple video cards.

[EnJoY]

Nah you should have seperate voltages for NB, and a little tip when going for max cpu validation underclock your NB, lot of guys dont realize MHZ > NB and you lose max clocks when pushing the NB.

Thx, I think thats the first 5gig I've seen on DI and on a cheap pot to boot.

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Yea, when I was going for max OC I used only the multiplier, so nb was always at stock. Temps only became the issue when I went to 1.65v which seemed to have no benefit whatsoever over 1.575v...same stability. Essentially 1.6v in bios is the max these chips will benefit from under >ambient cooling.

Once I get my max nb figured out, I'll get some high cpu/high nb combination clocks and run some benchmarks. One thing I was amazed about so far in my early testing was my attainable HTT frequency. I was able to hit 290MHz HTT w/ HT/NB multi's both at 9x. This achieved me around 2700mhz which was at the edge of stability, but both seemed fine with it. I later raised the NB multiplier in bios and tried to surpass 2700MHz NB and could not, so it seems that is where the failure point was. That makes me wonder where in fact the HT bus would give in! I thought these boards weren't supposed to be able to clock HTT much above 250MHz or so?