Bulldozer Overclocking Guide (Performance Scaling Charts, max OCs)LN2 Results coming!

[sin0822]

sin: Have you had problems with P95? My machine seems very stable ~4.9 and will run every benchmark I've thrown at it including 20 passes of IBT.
For some reason though, P95 fails on a couple cores almost instantly unless I really crank the v's (>1.4v) and then heat becomes a problem when loaded (~56c)....

Maybe I'm just asking a little too much, but I wondered if you've noticed any incompatabilty with Prime95.

Thanks, Dave

I used wprime and ran 1024M a few times to quickly test consistency, but not prime95. I use IBT for stress testing as i like being able to set a limit on the amount of time run, but i will give p95 a shot.

I decided to pick up 10L of LN2 today, and I reapplied some LET, so I am going to do an LN2 run tomorrow morning or somthing, and then the rest of the weekend doing tests for users like you. i will toss P95 into the mix, if not only to test if this platform like SB is better stressed on prime.

Finally we can focus on overclocking BD

Still a lot of surprise waiting to be discovered with this platform

Agreed man, a lot of surprises with cold as well, I have to be honest, i have never benched AMD in the cold with LN2, and i gotta say i love being able to just fill up the POT. Now to find a paste that will hold lol. If i do see any improvements, or any tips provided by other users, and they don't mind then id add them to the first post, and give them credit. That is just what i was able to come up with in a week or so, so I am sure with months there will be much more info.

sin I gotta hand it to you. Its been a year since I did anything with AMD and its been a year since Ive used a container. I totally skipped sandy because it just defeated the purpose of cold benching. I just got my 8120 and 990FX Ud7 tonight and im messing around with an air cooler and just trying to get back into the swing of things. I would like to personally thank you for putting the time into this guide for xs. you know the prerequisites and basic common sense but its always nice to have a foundation to work from. You laid the foundation and now its up to everyone else to elaborate. thanks man. outstanding job! finally a thread about bulldozer that isnt full of noobs talking trash.

Thanks I appreciate it Yea i wanted to keep benchmarks out just for that reason, but i still get guys telling me that their 1100T scores better in cinebench, lol. I am just glad some people find a use for this, because i didn't know how many ppl would actually buy BD after the reviews. There is one thing tho, its just really fun to OC this CPU, if AMD got one thing right it was that BD would be fun to OC>

Hey,

Having a problem was wondering if you might know whats causing it.

First specs:

GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 F5 Bios
FX-8120
16GB G.Skill DDR3 1600 (1.5v)
Crucial M4 128GB SSD [OS]
Samsung 1TB F3 32MB Raid 0 (x2) [STORAGE]
GIGABYTE 6870 1GB
AuzenTech Prelude
Prolimatech Megahalems
Corsair HX620


This is my friends build and we go into bios and at first it shows Stock voltage for cpu @ 1.41 but when we reboot it shows it as 1.368v. But when we go to overclock and under load his Vcore is all over the place 1.45v and will bounce to 1.31, 1.200v and obviously fails linx right away. Was wondering if you might know what is causing this problem. His temps are fine as well no problems on temps.

sorry for semi hijack if anything mod can delete this and I will make a thread

nah no problems man, is core boost enabled?