H20 | AMD Phenom II C3 | Dragon's Revenge | Ultimate Thread

[charged3800z24]

Think I need to send you this chip Simon.....It's pretested with voltage so.....I don't think it will meet the demise of your 940

Was just doing a compare to see how c2 965 did/does versus c3, whipping out a c3 next as this chip doesn't appear to want any more voltage.

Nice result, lets see the C3 . You still using a MA790FXT-UD5P? What were the temps?

[Titan7171]

for the energy efficient crowd 3.4ghz @1.23v

[wez]

Drunkenpost! Stella & Bourbon! Wez & Beta did well in round one perhaps fate will favor them again!

Well, got woken up by the fedex fairy today! After some treasure hunting thru bubble wrap, I found something niiice
HDZ965FBK4DGM
CACAC AC 0944EPMW
xxxxxxxK90165

Haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but got the evening freed up so should hopefully have some sort of results later tonight

[Grinder]

Yeah, at 1.53 that's a monster.

Is that true of c3's as well? Or did you mean for a c2 to achieve 4056/2500nb at that?

Mine wouldn't crack 4 ghz with the water in my sig using ~22C air, although I gave it 1.55v at that temp. Later, during my duel with Lastviking, I gave it 1.632 with air at 5C trying for 4144 (loved your plank, btw ).

Does that make mine a good candidate for extreme cooling? (charged said this in another thread, but I don't really have access to more than outside air at this point).

Forecast is warm here for the next week Otherwise I might try another run above 4 gig but with higher nb and mem.

Happy Thanksgiving to my neighbours to the south!

[FlanK3r]

Thx for the info... its wierd, i know they passed memtest in windows @ pc1066 before with my 940BE but after some months i started to get blue screens...i did lower cpu speed first but still blue screens random with my dfi board..then i did lower the sticks to pc800 and no more blue screens.

After that i swaped to asus board... then i did not have any trouble with blue screen @ pc1066 , after that swaped to this 965BE same setting first...could do super pi1m 4.2ghz but crashed prime95 3.4ghz-4.1ghz changed to pc800 no more crashes.

Maybe this cpu IMC wanted another settings in bios.

and maybe a bit NB voltage (+0.1 i have)

[chew*]

Nice result, lets see the C3 . You still using a MA790FXT-UD5P? What were the temps?

I'm using MSI atm namely becasue I want to see how strong this second board I got is. Temp's no clue, I just pushed chip till it failed to scale anymore.

PSU could be a limiting factor atm, using an FSP group 850 watt as my box of PSU's I shipped from MI is MIA atm.

Seems to be trailing my board I prepped for ln2 with a really strong PWM so I guess I made the right choice as far as a cold board between the 2.

I might swap out a few boards just to see if it yields any diff on the same chip.

[FlanK3r]

Chew, i have under table new Seasonic 650W 4x12V with 18A. Do u think, can it me help with higher stabil clocks (to time i have 500W Seasonic with 2x12V and 17A)?

[chew*]

For 2d probably be good, I prefer single high amp rails for 3d benching myself.

[wez]

Well, got woken up by the fedex fairy today! After some treasure hunting thru bubble wrap, I found something niiice
HDZ965FBK4DGM
CACAC AC 0944EPMW
xxxxxxxK90165

Haven’t had a chance to test it yet, but got the evening freed up so should hopefully have some sort of results later tonight

A quickie;


Needs 1.37v to pass cinebench at same freq. More to come

Edit: ~22-23 deg ambient atm

[chew*]

Add another MSI to the death toll...... died at 1.568vcpu, 1.3NB_vid, 4240cpu/2540NB/1688ram at about 25min prime stable.

[FlanK3r]

it was GD70 ? Ah...unlucky MSI boards Or maybe exception?

[sinar]

I think with nb@1.4up and a good ddr3 this C3 can run nb 3000 easy

[chew*]

it was GD70 ? Ah...unlucky MSI boards Or maybe exception?

It seemed weak compared to my other GD70 which has run prime at 4.2g quite a few times....on a side note I find it surprising it nuked with a 125w chip, maybe my prior run with the 140w pushed it over the edge. Hopefully I can get an RMA as this is just my board I use for air / water reviews.

It seems miracles never cease to happen.......the CPU is still fine. Think thats the first gd70 I have seen not take out a chip. Can't find the source of the problem as well.....the mosfets did not let go on this board nor are there any burn marks visible but I surely saw a spark right when it powered down. Board was being actively cooled so I urge you MSI guys to take it easy trying to keep up with the pack in this thread.

[Zeus]

I had to reinstall windows so i haven'd had much time with the new cpu yet but playing around with the tweaker function revealed my new C3 can do 1M at default 1.375V.

Prime rebooted within a minute though.

[theoldtimer]

Yeah, my MSI GD-70 died about the same way (maybe a little higher voltage). I was benching the 550 unlocked at the time and I also was lucky because the 550 survived.

[chew*]

Ok so back to old faithfull......c2 gets stomped on.



cinebench for kicks.



And a moment of silence for my MSI with less than 4 hours on board

[TheBlueChanell]

It seemed weak compared to my other GD70 which has run prime at 4.2g quite a few times....on a side note I find it surprising it nuked with a 125w chip, maybe my prior run with the 140w pushed it over the edge. Hopefully I can get an RMA as this is just my board I use for air / water reviews.

It seems miracles never cease to happen.......the CPU is still fine. Think thats the first gd70 I have seen not take out a chip. Can't find the source of the problem as well.....the mosfets did not let go on this board nor are there any burn marks visible but I surely saw a spark right when it powered down. Board was being actively cooled so I urge you MSI guys to take it easy trying to keep up with the pack in this thread.

That makes me a bit nervous. Though, I've pushed some pretty high volts for what cooling I have and everything has been a-ok.

[theoldtimer]

It was a few degrees cooler outside today which allow for a higher over clock but I still couldn’t get the C3 to complete prime @4.3GHz. I did improve the score in cinebench though. MY C3 overclocks higher in the 64-bit OS than the C2 version.

[Zeus]

You guys are tearing it up! Fantastic results!

chew* ain't that a bit much Vcore for a C3 cpu? Still awesome though. My condolences on your board, i know what it's like, i recently lost my golden Rampage Extreme.

This weekend i will see where my system will land.

[FlanK3r]

OLDTIMER:whats your chip serie?

[theoldtimer]

FlanK3r, I posted a photo of the chip in post #66 of this thread.

[FlanK3r]

Its here ....tomorow or at sunday it go into motheboard with a few next components (HD5770, new 120mm fan, maybe PSU 650W ?)

[Raiderman]

FlanK3r, I posted a photo of the chip in post #66 of this thread.

I have the same! 0941CPMW

[Zeus]

My 944APMW:



I haven't tried lower Vcore but i think 4GHz at 1.4V is pretty impressive i think.

[FlanK3r]

Zeus: yes, u right, its soooo cool, 1.4V and 4 GHz (+250 MHz up comparsion with x4 955)