The Phenom II List of Overclocks

[Titan7171]

I have no clue, its extremely high,as well as the db, it can most certainly dice carrots/fingers or whatever gets in the blades...

It's my benching fan I almost never use it for prime because its not real world imo.

hmm 3940 dropped a core at 44C,must need more volts, more than I'm willing to throw at it on air. Ahh screw it I'll toss 1.6v at it for a little bit and watch temps, I dont like to break 50C on air.

youve got a tighter tolerance on your temps than I do , My limit is 60c at 100% load.......for normal 24/7 gaming it always stays behind 55c.

I have to say these cpus are 100% more stable than the phenom 1.

could you imagine if this is what we had gotten for the first Phenom what we would have gotten as Phenom 2?

[chew*]

I have to say these cpus are 100% more stable than the phenom 1.

could you imagine if this is what we had gotten for the first Phenom what we would have gotten as Phenom 2?

I imagine i wouldn't have an intel rig in my sig if this had been what they released back then

[TL1000S]

youve got a tighter tolerance on your temps than I do , My limit is 60c at 100% load.......for normal 24/7 gaming it always stays behind 55c.

I have to say these cpus are 100% more stable than the phenom 1.

could you imagine if this is what we had gotten for the first Phenom what we would have gotten as Phenom 2?

Good point!

The problem for us that have been using Intel (and AMD) for a while have been "spoiled" by various Core2 Duo/Quad chips ("lucky" chips).
I have seen 100% twice with "super-cheap" E4300, 4Ghz 24/7 stable E5200 (NOK 600/USD 100) and a super-cheap MSI P45 board paired with a Q6600 (G0) 3.6Ghz@1.28VCore (24/7).

It is then difficult to be impressed by two perfectly good PII-rigs, X4 920@3.4 and X4 940@3.6 for 24/7 use (and the rigs was at least double the cost of the above Intel rigs.. as I had to get new boards/paid "new stuff-price" for the PHII rigs.

Anyhow:
I swapped my two PHII before the weekend, and could test the max for my 940 in the MSI DKA790GX board.
It is an OK chip, but nothing spectacular compared to other posters here that shows 4Ghz++ 24/7 results.

[chew*]

youve got a tighter tolerance on your temps than I do , My limit is 60c at 100% load.......for normal 24/7 gaming it always stays behind 55c.

There's a formula I have for temps

Stock heatsink, stock Cpu settings run prime , max temps you see is the max safe temps amd wants that particular chip to run at....adjust heatsinks, volts cooling methods accordingly.