X2 550 Unlocking & Overclocking Consolidated

[shadow_419]

It did unlock but I haven't gotten it stable yet. I think it might be board/bios related. The temp problems are actually temp reporting problems. Using a temp probe, I've been able to get realistic readings.

[Daveburt714]

It did unlock but I haven't gotten it stable yet. I think it might be board/bios related. The temp problems are actually temp reporting problems. Using a temp probe, I've been able to get realistic readings.

Your probably right about the bios issue, since our chips are so close, even down to the serial number...

I've only been playing with it for an hour or so, but so far I'm pretty impressed! I've still got alot of tweaking to do, but it sure seems like it's going to be stable as a Quad...

No serious stress testing yet, but so far so good as far as my preliminary testing goes. One thing I always watch is WPrime, from my experience, if the cores stay in sequence (or at least close) during the benchmark thats a good sign your going to be able to get it stable. This puppy went 1234,1234,1234,1234...

Heres a SS:



I had to give it a little Vcore, but not nearly as much as the 940 or the 720, and the temps still seem to be decent (of course it's just a guess on an unlocked chip )...

So far I'm a Happy Camper!! This may very well be my new "Best Ever Chip"...

Week 22's are fairly recent, but if these are the duds that weren't good enough to be 965's it gives me hope for AMD's process improvements.

[Daveburt714]

Sorry for the double post, but I'm as giddy as a school girl...

I actually broke the 4Ghz barrier and it doesn't seem to be done yet (Sweet)!!

[shadow_419]

Your probably right about the bios issue, since our chips are so close, even down to the serial number...

i guess I'm just going to have to wait for a stable bios from MSI that will unlock. I can prime any two sets or individual cores up the wazoo( using affinity ), but if I add a third core hard locks instantly. I even hard locked doing menial task in windows like clicking on a youtube video. It didn't matter how few or how many volts I threw at it. It's a pretty good clocking chip for an x2 cause I'm at 3.8ghz with 1.385, but the temps are completely retarded in software running 4 cores. What's strange is that every once in a while when I boot up with 4 cores the temps will report fine in AOD, HWmonitor, and everest but that's once every 5 -6 boots. I'd even get core temp readings that weren't 0C but realistic 28-29C idle. Any stress test will hard lock within 10s of starting though.