Quote Originally Posted by Daveburt714 View Post
Really nice clocks man, Gratz..

I really think you may be focusing too much on the HTref clock though, lowering all your multis/mem divider to push that clock is probably not the best way to OC on the PhenomII....

You have an unlocked chip, I would suggest using multis to find your best settings, and then using the HTref to dial in the final tweaks....

It's nice to know that the UD5P can do 320 HTref, but I really don't see how it's going to help performance or stablility on a 955...
actually, this is far from my final overclock. I am far from stable.

and I never use stock Heatsinks for 24/7 use Final cooling will most likely be water cooling.

I also have to take into account the large temp swings we get here. 40-50 degree temp swings are common here. it might be in the 40's in the morning, but we may hit in the 90's at the hottest part of the Day. on that screenshot, I was already hitting 67C during full load and that was done in the early morning. by the hottest part of the day, that would be up to 75-80C with those same settings.

But, now I have the Basic parameters to work with.

I now have plenty of FSB, cpu multi's and mem multi's to find the best overclock.

I have already found an area to avoid. at around 275 FSB at same cpu overclock, wprime32 was almost a 1/2 sec slower in the run.

final overclock will take me about 2 weeks to find. but, I will have a lot of fun with this cpu and mobo combo as I have a lot to play with for settings