First experience with AM2

[Airsofter]

Hi, I just put together my new budget ($496) gamin rig. Specs:

AM2 3500+ Orleans
Tforce 6100 Mobo
1gb G.Skill 667 (adding another gig soon)
ATI X850XT
Forton 400w Power Supply
Samsung DVDRW
WD Cavier 80gb HD

I have a lot of experience with overclocking s939 and this new board is fantastic but is almost as quirky as my neo2 platinum was. Regardless, the results are pretty good until a new bios comes out that lets me hit 270+ HTT. I hit 2 settings that work pretty well:

251 HTT
1.39v Core
2.0v Dram
11x CPU
4x HT
3-3-3-9 1T Timings
2:1 Divider

or...

261 HTT
1.52v Core
2.16v Dram
11x CPU
4x HT
3-3-3-9 IT
2:1 Divider

Both are 100% stable. Passed Prime 95, Super Pi 32m, everything. The cpu can do close to 2.8ghz at 1.4v before you need to ramp it up to 1.5 for 2.9ghz. The ram timings are locked on this motherboard, which is why those timings are so tight. I'm using the stock cooling and even stock thermal pads. At idle, the cpu is about 40C, it peaked at 49C during Prime.

Any thoughts?

 

[Captante]

Nice oc!

Personally I'd accept the 2.8ghz at 1.39v myself though... 1.52v is a little much for only 100mhz, but then A64's are so cheap now it doesn't matter too much!

 

[Airsofter]

Yeah, I'm backing off. I don't think I'll be able to notice the difference between 32 and 33s on a super Pi 1m test. Not too bad for a budget rig.

 

[cmrmrc]

yeah i don't know why but the single core AM2 A64 seems to be better at ocing then the X2s....there's alot of people ocing their A64 to 2.8 without much effort but some cannot do 2.8 on an X2...

 

[alex123]

Nice OC....

Does anybody know, by chance, how would Foxconn 6100 board OC with X2 3800?

 

[lopri]

1.5V would be fine for me with good air-cooling, expecially for single-core A64. I've been running my Opteron 146 @3.0GHz (1.55V) for past 6 months. Granted this is with the Tuniq 120, the max temperature is around 40~42C. (idle 33~34C)