We all have things that we like to do and right now you like to push your AMD.

I seem to get really involved in stuff for awhile and then move on to something else.  I just sit and wonder when I am going to get tired of tweaking and messing with my new PC, hopefully never!  Once I am sure that I am rock solid at 4.2GHZ I will probably try for 4.4GHz just to say I did it and then throttle it back down to 4.2GHz.

Rod

idahosurge wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2010 at 1:37pm:


NO YOU DON"T! AAAAHHH!!!! I won't even come close to that! Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!?

Just kidding! Go for it, just watch temps, and so on. You know what to watch for... Go for it, mang!

Dang it!

Thai09 wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2010 at 1:56pm:


Hopefully you will be able to find some by the time you are ready to upgrade.

Well, after a little messin, I found that in order to go faster than 4.114 GHz, the voltage starts increasing rapidly, and I didn't like where 4.28 got me (1.68+V!! AAAAHHHHH!!!! Bios limits it to 1.75 with an "irreversible damage" warning) The temps weren't bad, only 58*, but it was by no means stable there, as it couldn't even start 3DMark 06 without exploding! So, I throttled back to 4.114, and that's the best I did with 1.512V. That's reasonable, and I can be ok with that. Afterall, that i7 950 (I think that's what Idaho got) is $370 more. I imagine it will go considerably faster. So, I digress. I throttled back to 4.1 GHz, and am going to stay there.

I will say IdahoSurge has, by far, theee fastest stable OC I have ever seen on an Air-cooled box. Great work, and I bet you could probably hit 4.4, just to brush off any future attempts by anyone other than an i7 975 xtreme user. I know that if I were you, I would be laughing (although under my breath) at some Speed-Of-Flight guy trying to crank up his li'l Phenom II to get me. Good work. I have found my limit, and ain't going to try any harder than I have.

I think, though the AMD folks had us enthusiasts in mind when they built the PhII 965. They had to have known that this chip would yield a stable 4.0 GHz. That's what I'm talkin' about! That's as fast as I need to go. I'm glad, though, that I made the attempt. They, however, need to get on the ball. Intel's i7's are KILLIN 'em, and they need to make something to really shake things up.

So, without any further adeu, I say:


You've won the OC competition before you even knew there was a race! There are no prizes, or bikini girls, but you get to tell all your friends that this is why to spend more on an Intel!

Now, I'm going to play some well-deserved FSX on this thing. It's been so long, I don't even remember my password!

Yeah, I'm no Encyclopedia Computica by any means, but with the knowledge I do have, even if I got 4.2 GHz stable out of this thing, the i7 architecture is way more capable than this Phenom II. The design is built for speed, and they are killin us! However, AMD will HOPEFULLY get their act together soon, and develop something to rival it with, like they did a few years ago. We've all been waiting patiently.

Moreso than most, I like to support the competition in this arena. Rather than just buy a product from a company I know and trust, I would rather help the competitor get their foot in the door. Their would be no i7 without the rivalry between the Intel C2Q and the AMD 9850 BE. I would like to see AMD reverse-engineer an i7 and learn from it. Not to copy it, but figure out how it starts at 2.66 GHz and can OC to 4.2+! Or, even better, just spend some time in R&D and develop their own equivalent...

As we all know, it's a WAR out there. AMD on one side, and you-know-who on the other. MY president is giving us food rations and RPG's to shoot down enemy helicopters, but theirs has NUKES! Kind of an unfair advantage whe one looks at it like that. AMD should spend some time in the hangar, developing a new stealth bomber...

No, I had to do it when it was -2F outside. 
I love winter overclocking   
But I could run it at 4.5 inside and get no higher than 80C core temps, but if I tried 4.75 inside, I don't think that chip would have survived.  But hey, like I said, if you can't pay to replace it when you kill it, you shouldn't be playing with it. 

1.35v is the max I ran at for 24/7 use.
But on the 4.75 or even higher run I went up to 1.4V which may have degraded the chip a little, but it was still good.
But like my motto says. "If you can't pay to replace it, you can't play."
If I had LN2 (Liquid nitrogen) I'm sure that chip would have gone way about 5.5GHz, but it would have taken upwards of 1.8V or more. Now this after about 5 sessions of overclocking and benchmarking will kill the chip. But your not out to get to a nice 24/7 useable overclock, your there to push it to the edge, and sometimes, you go too far. It's all about the thrill and joy that is overclocking.