Llano in the house... (as Charged :-) )

[The Stilt]

On APUs: Forget the timings and raise the MEMCLK as high as you can.
The tighter timings certainly would not hurt, but Samsung is generally HLHC (high-latency, high-clock) stuff.

[Daveburt714]

On APUs: Forget the timings and raise the MEMCLK as high as you can.
The tighter timings certainly would not hurt, but Samsung is generally HLHC (high-latency, high-clock) stuff.

Thanks Stilt...

I really did'nt intend to OC this rig, but I just can't help myself.

I'm sure theres more on these Samsungs, and I trust your opinions!
I'll work on memclocks a little more, 2k @ 9-9-9 is looking good for now though...

I'm trying to find a nice balance, the fact that clocks help more than timnings on an APU is good info!
Thanks Bro...

[Lightman]

As Stilt said go for mem clock even if it will mean CL10 or CL11 as long as it gives you reasonably higher effective clock.
I like your idle power with all them toys in HTPC

My currently idles around 95W but that is because it temporarily serves as my main rig so it's overclocked with C'n'Q disabled and HD6970 in it! Still miles better than my old overclocked 1090T which idled at around 170W!
When I get back my main rig I will retest idle consumption on it. I expect around 55W with my PSU (380W Seasonic S12-II) and APU.


EDIT: It turns out my HTPC takes 40W at idle I'm pleasantly surprised, as it is A6-3650 100W chip.

[S1nn3r]

May have noticed a lack of posting in this thread after I received all the parts for the Llano build and my creation of the Socket 939 thread, these are related.

I have not done any building/OC for 5 years, and I feel kinda out of practice and also the last build I attempted in that timeframe ended up being a nightmare(bit of an long story this one, maybe another time/thread heh) that I had to abandon for all sorts of reasons and this kicked my ass confidence wise so im using the "Revenge of S939" build as a low risk practice/warm up as it were to get me back in the groove.

[S1nn3r]

May have noticed a lack of posting in this thread after I received all the parts for the Llano build and my creation of the Socket 939 thread, these are related.

I have not done any building/OC for 5 years, and I feel kinda out of practice and also the last build I attempted in that timeframe ended up being a nightmare(bit of an long story this one, maybe another time/thread heh) that I had to abandon for all sorts of reasons and this kicked my ass confidence wise so im using the "Revenge of S939" build as a low risk practice/warm up as it were to get me back in the groove.

Managed to use the 939 build enough to get in the groove, tomorrow is Go Time for assembly of the Llano build all being well.

Noob like question though. Ive been out of things build/OC wise for a good long while so what would be a good set of utility's for CPU and Memory performance/stress/stability testing these days ?

[S1nn3r]

Managed to use the 939 build enough to get in the groove, tomorrow is Go Time for assembly of the Llano build all being well.

Noob like question though. Ive been out of things build/OC wise for a good long while so what would be a good set of utility's for CPU and Memory performance/stress/stability testing these days ?

Case turned out to be faulty, awaiting replacement then I can finally finish this thing

Not seeing much happening in this thread lately, everyone abandoned Llano or something ? am i really that late to the party ..

[S1nn3r]

Case turned out to be faulty, awaiting replacement then I can finally finish this thing

Not seeing much happening in this thread lately, everyone abandoned Llano or something ? am i really that late to the party ..

So the case situation got really stupid real quick, two faulty cases received in a row, the original and the replacement. Have spent the last 2 weeks trying to figure out a plan B case wise.

Also I figure most here have moved on a while ago from Llano and from the looks of it stopped reading the thread altogether which makes me wonder what im going do if I need further input on Llano specific stuff. This thread and links from it being the best source I have found.

[Daveburt714]

As Stilt said go for mem clock even if it will mean CL10 or CL11 as long as it gives you reasonably higher effective clock.
I like your idle power with all them toys in HTPC

EDIT: It turns out my HTPC takes 40W at idle I'm pleasantly surprised, as it is A6-3650 100W chip.

Nice efficiency Lightman...
I tweaked my power profile to shut down the drives after 15mins and got down around the 40w range too (without ill effects).

As for my Samsungs, I must not have a strong kit (week 1220), after alot of tweaking the best I could get out of them on that rig was ~2090 10-10-10.
Even that required a voltaage bump to 1.4v to eliminate some random screen sparkle after sitting for a few hours...
To be fair though, the locked Llano limits my OC headroom because of the HTRef Clock and max 1866 divider.
I'm still pretty impressed with the power/performance level of Llano compared to FX though!

After playing with this chip and seeing your results with the 3650, I really wish I would have spent a little more and gone for an unlocked version.
From my light testing (and your results) I'm pretty sure I could have had low power with more ballz...

I'm still switching gear around, the sammys aren't all that impressive in the main rig either though!
Even @ 11-11-11/1.60v they crapped out ~2250...

C'mon AMD... I'm jonesing for some new gear.
Be it, FX-8350 or 5800K, I need some new toys!

I've never considered it before, so don't make me go to the Dark Side...