Just bought a 3000+ 939 ... o/c details inside

[duffin]

Originally posted by: Zambien
Just wondering, but how long is prime95 supposed to run? I mean what normal application will run your processor at 100% for an hour?

Theoretically it should be able to run forever. I've let my run over night at stock speeds before just to make sure everything was in working order before I started overclocking.

Btw, how long have you been able to have it run without bombing?

I can't get over that hour mark....

idle temps 37-40, load 52-53.

 

[Zambien]

Once I get my PSU I'll let you know... I ran it for 45 mins last night before closing it.

Oh yeah, how much thermal paste did you put on your CPU? You didn't put any on the HSF did you? Too much thermal paste can REALLY hold you back.

Adam

 

[duffin]

I used artic silver 5 in accordance with the instructions that were provided. basically a 3/4 size of a BB in the middle of the heat spreader and then place the clean HS on top of it and rotate a couple of degrees counter-clockwise and clockwise.

Brent

 

[FullRoast]

Sorry, I haven't read through the whole thread, but if everthing is completely stable, you should be able to run Prime95 forever. I have a 3000+ 90nm that will usually get an error in Prime95 after anywhere from 45 minutes to 2 hours, but ran for over 24 hors once. I still wouldn't call it stable at that speed (2.4 GHz). The CPU will, however, never get a Prime95 error at anything below 2.4 GHz.

 

[acivick]

You may want to try uping the VDIMM to 2.8. At least, that's what Anand used. Otherwise, you just might have to go down to 260 HTT.

 

[Gothgar]

Anand makes a system, and watch, every new person in the forums for the next 2 months will have the same exact system... c'mon people, be creative.

 

[Zambien]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
Anand makes a system, and watch, every new person in the forums for the next 2 months will have the same exact system... c'mon people, be creative.

ummm, roasted troll anyone? :evil:

 

[charloscarlies]

Originally posted by: Zambien
Just wondering, but how long is prime95 supposed to run? I mean what normal application will run your processor at 100% for an hour?

I like to let it run 24 hours without errors.

 

[duffin]

Originally posted by: Gothgar
Anand makes a system, and watch, every new person in the forums for the next 2 months will have the same exact system... c'mon people, be creative.

It's okay I've got an aquarium sitting on top of my case... It's "custom"

 

[LouPoir]

Sweet

 

[duffin]

Okay after a bunch of help from the community here's what I finally ended up with, 16 Hrs prime95 stable (before I stopped it).

9x270=2430Mhz
HTT mult=3x
CPU voltage=1.536 volts

Mem. voltage 2.8 volts
timings 2.5 4 4 10 1T.
Mem speed=166Mhz

temps. idle 38-39C/load 50-51C

I think this chip could do more if I were more experienced though...

 

[claspingbeast]

Get the A64 tweaker tool from here..


http://xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=39559


Scroll down to it.

 

[Zambien]

Originally posted by: duffin
Okay after a bunch of help from the community here's what I finally ended up with, 16 Hrs prime95 stable (before I stopped it).

9x270=2430Mhz
HTT mult=3x
CPU voltage=1.536 volts

Mem. voltage 2.8 volts
timings 2.5 4 4 10 1T.
Mem speed=166Mhz

temps. idle 38-39C/load 50-51C

I think this chip could do more if I were more experienced though...

Congrats! Looks like our results came out to be pretty much identical.

Try bringing down your cpu multi to 8 and FSB up to 304 and see what you can get out of your ram. You'll need to up your voltage to 2.85. Don't worry ocz won't void your warranty unless you go over 2.9. I'd say start out at 3-3-3-6 1T. You should be able to get that much out of it... i did and I'm pretty disappointed with the batch of ram i got. Maybe you can do better!

Cya,

Adam

 

[karlreading]

awww man i hate being a early adopter i want some of the 939 cake, and now theres cheapo 939's i want in
respect guys, your overclocks are tastier than a bar of cadburys dairy milk
enjoy!!!
karlos

 

[Etruscan]

So, I've now played with my anandsystem for a while. Yeah, I'm running the Neo2, OCZ plat rev2, and 3000+ 939 as well.

What I've found, is that I'm primestable for 26 hours (then I get home from the mountains and play video-games again), with 283x9, memory at 1:1 divider (2.5,3,3,10, li'l better than than people had been getting). This is with 1.5/1.495 V on the CPU, and 2.85 on the memory.

Now, i know my board is stable to 310, but Ideally I would drop all my multipliers and run my board at 333MHZ FSB. However, it won't post over 316 FSB. So, I will be getting lots of little copper ram Heatsinks and gluing them to anything hot on my motherboard over the next few days. If I can get a stable 7.5x333 with 5:6 ram divider, that would be fun, though I'm not sure that the FSB matters at all with the memory controller on the CPU.

Sorry for the poor writing ,I spent far too long in a bar with friends trying to drink enough to make baseball interesting (it failed).

 

[PumpActionWalrus]

Originally posted by: Zebo
"Just ordered the thermaltake 480 from newegg"

Im sorry that's a POS.

Taht power supply isnt an Antec, but it is far from a POS, try a deer for a while, or a Powmax

 

[Zambien]

Originally posted by: karlreading
awww man i hate being a early adopter i want some of the 939 cake, and now theres cheapo 939's i want in
respect guys, your overclocks are tastier than a bar of cadburys dairy milk
enjoy!!!
karlos

mmmm.. cadbury's dairy milk..

 

[Zambien]

Originally posted by: Etruscan
So, I've now played with my anandsystem for a while. Yeah, I'm running the Neo2, OCZ plat rev2, and 3000+ 939 as well.

What I've found, is that I'm primestable for 26 hours (then I get home from the mountains and play video-games again), with 283x9, memory at 1:1 divider (2.5,3,3,10, li'l better than than people had been getting). This is with 1.5/1.495 V on the CPU, and 2.85 on the memory.

Now, i know my board is stable to 310, but Ideally I would drop all my multipliers and run my board at 333MHZ FSB. However, it won't post over 316 FSB. So, I will be getting lots of little copper ram Heatsinks and gluing them to anything hot on my motherboard over the next few days. If I can get a stable 7.5x333 with 5:6 ram divider, that would be fun, though I'm not sure that the FSB matters at all with the memory controller on the CPU.

Sorry for the poor writing ,I spent far too long in a bar with friends trying to drink enough to make baseball interesting (it failed).

Hrmmm, now I can't really get over 309 fsb stable. You've got me curious as to the stability of my motherboard. I thought it was my CPU or memory... but maybe not! That's what I get for not testing my fsb stability. I just tested memory and CPU.

that's why our results are never final....

 

[Etruscan]

Originally posted by: PumpActionWalrus

Originally posted by: Zebo
"Just ordered the thermaltake 480 from newegg"

Im sorry that's a POS.

Taht power supply isnt an Antec, but it is far from a POS, try a deer for a while, or a Powmax

In my opinion it's pretty useless for a modern system. I mean, it pumps tons of power on the +3.3 and +5v rails, but the A64 draws a lot on the 12 V rail, as does a 6800 or x800, as well as HDs and opticals. And the thermaltake only has 18A on the 12V rail. That's not enough.

 

[Markfw]

OK, I just ordered an ABIT AV8 and 3000+ 90nm from Monarch. I have PC3500 Mushkin level1 or Kingston Hyperx PC3500 CAS2 (the good stuff) and I have a good Antec 350 watt PSU, and I crap video card (this will be a F@H cruncher) I want the most speed out of my OC, and I don;t care about dividers. What memory and settings do you suggest ? I can;t try this out for a week or so, but I am doing research now.

Thanks for any advice.

 

[DRS]

I ordered an Asus A8V rev2 and a 3000+ 939 last week. Started off with 2x256 Corsair XMS3202 modules that were good to about 240mhz. Interestingly the Kingston Value Ram I also had hit some really high numbers (around 270 if I recall correctly), sold those to my brother in law and then went out and got ripped off at Microcenter on a gig of Corsair 3200XL modules that didn't do much better. I finally just ordered a gig of the OCZ Platinum 3200 rev2 memory and it hauls! 280 @ 2.5-4-4-10-1T all default voltages, stable as all get out. Absolutely great memory, really made the difference.

What I don't get is this

CPU-Z screenshot

Why does CPU-Z only show my memory frequency to be 229?

Edit: I'm guessing this has to do with the Hyper Transport bus.

2nd Edit: Had to scale back to 275 -- failed after 3 hours.

 

[glanglitz]

Zambien,

Can you (or anyone for that matter) cross reference your your bios settings with mine?

I have not had as much success as everyone else. As a matter of fact, and quite peculiar, my system gets a hard drive error after updating DMI pool data if I OC the FSB beyond 220. If I play Call Of Duty, the system will crash after 15 minutes. Even when running Prime, my system temp goes up to 52c.

Anyway, my system is listed below. My System Temp is 10c and CPU 46c. My Bios setting are as follows:
AGP aperature 512
AGP speed 3.0 8x
Fast writes Auto
System Bios Disabled
IDE Setup SATA 1-4 DMA Transfer enabled
Onboard Device SATA 1-4 enabled
Cell Menu
High Performance Disabled
Dynamic OC Disabled
Spread Spectrum Disabled
HT 3x
Cool 'n' Quiet Disabled
CPU Ration x9
CPU FSB Freq. 220
AGP Freq. 67
CPU VID 1.525
CPU Voltage By CPU VID
Memory Voltage 2.80
AGP Voltage 1.55
DRAM COnfig
Max Memclock AUTO
1t, 2.5, 4, 4, 10

And that should do it.
Any comments or help is greatly appreciated.
G

 

[glanglitz]

That is also with the Raptor on CH03 BTW,

 

[Zambien]

Originally posted by: glanglitz
Zambien,

Can you (or anyone for that matter) cross reference your your bios settings with mine?

I have not had as much success as everyone else. As a matter of fact, and quite peculiar, my system gets a hard drive error after updating DMI pool data if I OC the FSB beyond 220. If I play Call Of Duty, the system will crash after 15 minutes. Even when running Prime, my system temp goes up to 52c.

Anyway, my system is listed below. My System Temp is 10c and CPU 46c. My Bios setting are as follows:
AGP aperature 512
AGP speed 3.0 8x
Fast writes Auto
System Bios Disabled
IDE Setup SATA 1-4 DMA Transfer enabled
Onboard Device SATA 1-4 enabled
Cell Menu
High Performance Disabled
Dynamic OC Disabled
Spread Spectrum Disabled
HT 3x
Cool 'n' Quiet Disabled
CPU Ration x9
CPU FSB Freq. 220
AGP Freq. 67
CPU VID 1.525
CPU Voltage By CPU VID
Memory Voltage 2.80
AGP Voltage 1.55
DRAM COnfig
Max Memclock AUTO
1t, 2.5, 4, 4, 10

And that should do it.
Any comments or help is greatly appreciated.
G

Here's mine...

AGP aperature 256
AGP speed auto
Fast writes Auto
System Bios Disabled
IDE Setup SATA 1-4 DMA Transfer disabled
Onboard Device SATA 1-4 enabled
Cell Menu
High Performance Disabled
Dynamic OC Disabled
Spread Spectrum Disabled
HT 3x
Cool 'n' Quiet Disabled
CPU Ration x8
CPU FSB Freq. 309
AGP Freq. 67
CPU VID 1.550
CPU Voltage +8.3%
Memory Voltage 2.85
AGP Voltage 1.50
DRAM COnfig
Max Memclock 166
AUTO, 2.5, 4, 4, 10

Hope this helps!

 

[Killmenow]

Anyone know why people with a setup similar to anandtech arent getting the 2.6Ghz which anandtech claims is easy to reach?