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 Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 10:48 Post subject: Ocing my Phenom 925 |
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Hy guys,can anyone recommend a good tutorial for overclocking this cpu ?
Im not having much issues at stock,2.8 ghz,but i think it can do much more.Right now im idling at 30-40 degrees,and when stressed 49 max.
I know how to overclock black edition AMD's,but this has the multi locked,so im clueless,any help is apreciated.
I also have an aftermarked cooler on it,an Asus Triton,old but it has served me well.
Btw,i have in my system a radeon 5770,also stock,my main reason for ocing,is that i think it will give my GPU some breathing room,maybe ?
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 10:58 Post subject: |
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No need for double post 
And I would like to second his question though. I have an Athlon II X4 640 but with stock cooler. Also locked multi. Should I go for a new CPU or is it possible to get some more out of it? Werelds already recommended an after market cooler.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 23:09 Post subject: |
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AMD's are easy to OC but once you hit that 58C mark they start getting to be a pain in the ass.
OC'ing on AMD cpu's can be a bit different with AMD since you have to worry about the northbridge to play with as well as the HTT.
http://www.overclock.net/amd-general/792461-amd-overclocking-guides-essential-threads.html
Everything you could possibly need is in that post.
Anything on stock cooling you won't get much more OC out of it. You'll need an after market. I highly recomment the Corsair Hydro series coolers. Completely sealed "water cooler" that does an amazing job with keeping temps down and the hot air immediately expelled out of your case instead of inside like most tower coolers. I use the H-50 and almost got my 965 to 4.0ghz.
Essentially for locked multi, you'll want to up your FSB up little increments at a time till it fails, push a little bit of V on it then try again. At some point you'll have to turn your memory speeds back down because if you push up your FSB it's going to raise the speeds of other stuff too.
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 23:12 Post subject: |
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My phenom 2 x4 955BE got on stock speeds up to 70-80 degrees (80 before, but now these days 70).
So i cannot even OC it 
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 23:45 Post subject: |
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.....what are you using for a cooler, max safe temps for AMD is 65C
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 23:48 Post subject: |
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Stock when it went up to 80, now a cheap ass zalman.
I know those are the safe temps, but i ran on 80 degrees thru the whole summer last year, nothing bad happend ^^
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| Posted: Mon, 10th Oct 2011 23:49 Post subject: |
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I never remember AMD being so bitchy about temperature. Mine eaches 61~62°C while playing BF 3
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 00:04 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 01:01 Post subject: |
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Sausje, somethings mighy wrong in that case.
I had to buy a non-stock cooler for my old AMD 940 and as soon as I did I managed to push it to 3.5Ghz with temps around 30-35 idle and 40-50 on load.... 
My current 970 @ 4.1Ghz is now idling around 38-40 and doesn't go above 55c on heavy load...
Get a new cooler dude.
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 01:23 Post subject: |
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Still, i dont really care about that cpu anyway, as it is my second pc.
But like i said, i ran summer 2010 this thing with 80 degrees during gaming, not a single problem.
Even guys from AMD themself said that 80 was quite normal for the Phenom 2 x4 955BE
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 01:44 Post subject: |
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Nah, i think the airflow in that case is just really shit (NZXT Apollo)
But like i said, its my second pc, im not that bothered anymore.
For now it still works flawless, and when it breaks down.. well too bad then.. 
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 12:35 Post subject: |
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Ok i think ive hit a milestone,managed to reach a peak for the reference clock at 240,everything above and it freezes into bluescreen.Im not gonna juice my MB so thats the limit.CPU is now 3.35 ghz,and i tweaked the NB and ram timmings and freq to match closely my stock speeds,1 hour in OCCT medium data set so far with no problems at 45 celsius,how long should i stress ?
Edit : NVM just crashed.Gonna bump up the vcore to 1.4
Strange that i didnt crashed in another test with the same cpu freq but with small data set test
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 17:06 Post subject: |
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Omg im freaking out here,i decided to abort the whole OC'ing stuff,but i just found out that my mobo keeps my CPU at a default vclock of 1.35,and when i search online i find out that a phenom 925 has a stock of 1.3
Lol wtf my mobo is purposelly killing my CPU ?
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 18:01 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 19:49 Post subject: |
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any chance its gonna do damage ?
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| Posted: Tue, 11th Oct 2011 23:42 Post subject: |
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.05 on the vcore isn't going to do anything. ignore it
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Even stock cooler will not go that high if its properly installed 
