Opteron 144 CABNE 0544 EPMW

[Maluno]

Ok, thanks for the info True Wisdom. Also, another newbie question: When I set the vcore to stock, it reads as 1.5v in both bios and windows... Is that an inaccurate reading, or is that the actual voltage, (I don't know how accurate these readings are). I thought that 1.4v was stock for these opterons... ??

 

[Maluno]

Never Mind, I found the answer to the vcore issue:

Originally posted by: MTDEW
Popped in my new Opteron 148 in my Epox 9NPA+ SLI board.

Mobo detects the cpu just fine as an Opteron 148.
Only problem is it defaults the cpu voltage to 1.5v.
But if you grab the latest bios dated 11-22-2005 you can adjust the cpu voltage to a minus value as well as plus values if you want more or less voltage.

Not sure if you NEED the latest bios to get the minus values, all i know is i didnt have them before i updated to that bios , my old bios was dated 4-7-2005


BTW: my Opteron 148 was a CABYE 0540 FPBW / Retail Boxed

It does 2.9ghz @ 1.55v
It boots just fine at 3ghz but i havent gotten that speed stable in Prime95 yet, i even went up to 1.65v and its looks like a NO-Go for this cpu.
But i'm not complaing at all for the money and of course i'm still testing.

 

[Triggerhappy007]

CPU: Opteron 144
Stepping: CABNE 0544
Overclocked speed: 2808MHz
CPU voltage: 1.504 actual, set to 1.55 in BIOS
Idle temp: 32C
Load temp: 45C
Cooling: Arctic Cooling Freezer64 nearly silent
Motherboard: DFI LanParty NF4 Ultra-D
Ram: Mushkin PC4000
Ram size: 1GB
Ram timings: 3-4-3-7-1T
Ram divider: 5/6 (255MHz)
Ram voltage: 2.8V

16M PI screenshot
This is max it will go with 1.55 in BIOS. I don't really want to add any more voltage to it.

 

[rahzel]

Originally posted by: TrueWisdom
rahzel--

Do that and tweak the timings. I know for a fact 4xanything with the A64 memory controller causes problems. I'm not saying you have to run your machine like that, but if you do it and it works then you'll know that the RAM and not the CPU is holding you back.

i dont know if its because i took 1 kit out, or if its just because my CPU is just getting worked in, but i can run 298x9 now SP2004 stable.

im selling my kits of OCZ Platinum Rev.2 PC3200 (1 kit is already sold) and im going to buy a 2x1GB kit of OCZ Platinum memory. Since i can't run 1:1 anyway, i might as well get 2x1GB as it will actually save me a bit of money, i will get better performance, and i will have less problems.

 

[TrueWisdom]

I would guess it's the one kit, Rahzel. But congratulations! I need to get myself some new RAM too... I think the PC3700 Gold is really holding me back.

 

[Maluno]

If only we all could get such results. 2800 seems like an unreachable possibility right now. Thats what I was originally aiming for.

 

[Sean D]

Just an update, as I've had a couple days with the 144 in. Keep in mind, I've never overclocked before, but I kinda knew what I was doing from just reading these last couple months.

2.77 (308x9) prime stable for a couple hours, haven't had a chance to run it longer yet. 1.52 Vcore and running a Zalman 9500 HSF. Ram is G.Skill Extreme 2x1gb DDR500. Running a 5/6 mem divider, with the ram at 252, and 3-4-4-8 timings (stock). I think I've pretty much hit the peak of the chip, but I'll have some time to do some more tweaking over the break. Not amazing results, but I'm happy for my first time.

 

[thesurge]

This chip saddens me.

I was able to get 288HTT primestable @ stock volts.

But even when I up the volts to 1.55 (1.525 actual), I can't get primestable at 300HTT.

Any ideas?


Running at 1T (Corsair value select 2x512), divider 2:3, 2.5-3-3-7.

 

[thesurge]

whoops double post

 

[Sean D]

Did you try lowering the multiplier and figuring out what your board's max HTT was first? You could be limited by the mb.

 

[thesurge]

the boards max htt is well over 330. it's an epox 9npa+

 

[Triggerhappy007]

Originally posted by: Sean D
Did you try lowering the multiplier and figuring out what your board's max HTT was first? You could be limited by the mb.

You don't need to max out your HTT. Just keep it around 2000MHz. All you need to know is CPU speed is king in Athlon64/Opteron.

 

[thesurge]

2000mhz? as in the LDT times my "FSB"? as in lets say my htt multi was 3 and my 'fsb' was 300mhz = 900mhz? arent we supposed to keep the HTT near 1000??? that's what it said in the quick and dirty overclocking thread.

 

[Sean D]

Originally posted by: Triggerhappy007

Originally posted by: Sean D
Did you try lowering the multiplier and figuring out what your board's max HTT was first? You could be limited by the mb.

You don't need to max out your HTT. Just keep it around 2000MHz. All you need to know is CPU speed is king in Athlon64/Opteron.

Yeah I know that. I was just saying if he had some cheapo motherboard, that could be limiting him from higher clocks.

 

[Diogenes2]

Originally posted by: thesurge
2000mhz? as in the LDT times my "FSB"? as in lets say my htt multi was 3 and my 'fsb' was 300mhz = 900mhz? arent we supposed to keep the HTT near 1000??? that's what it said in the quick and dirty overclocking thread.

It's best to keep it below 1000 while finding your max CPU..
Single socket AMD 64 systems show no performance benefit with HTT above 500 or so .. You can set it at 2x ( 400 ) and forget about it..

 

[chexi]

I have the 144 CABNE 0544 EPMW and am getting a very stranger error. Perhaps someone here can shed some light on it. I run perfectly stable at 2.4 ghz (and higher for that matter, but 2.4 is what I have it set to now). However, when I shut the computer off, when I try to restart, I hang during the Windows XP screen with some crazy fast repeated HD access going on. If I hit "reset" it boots fine. This happens every time I turn the computer on (i.e., I hang, hit reset, then boot fine and run flawlessly).

This is on a brand new 300 gb Seagate SATA HD (from Outpost.com courtesy of anandtech hot deals forum). I've run scandisk and found no bad sectors or any other problems with the HD.

Mobo is Asus SLI-Deluxe with latest bios.

512mb x 2 (1gb) RAM in Dual Channel.

HTT is below 1000 and RAM is underclocked.

Any ideas?

 

[GrInD1901]

guys, i got one question. if anyone is running speedfan on the evga nf-41 or the jetway (same as evga), please let me know which temp is the cpu temp? temp1 or temp2? thanks a lot. happy holidays.

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: GrInD1901
guys, i got one question. if anyone is running speedfan on the evga nf-41 or the jetway (same as evga), please let me know which temp is the cpu temp? temp1 or temp2? thanks a lot. happy holidays.

Boot up prime 95 to find out.

 

[Maluno]

I have a question regarding my vcore. My Powersupply is a Fortron AX 450, mobo is 9NPA+ Ultra, and of course, the 0544 EMPW opty 144. Whenever I start to prime, my vcore drops down about 0.04v, from 1.5 to 1.46. Then, when I stop prime, it jumps back up to 1.5v.

This is illustrated in the picture, I drew a redline on the graph where I stopped prime.

Picture

Could my powersupply be a problem?

EDIT:
Ok, I waited about 10 minutes more, then took another screenshot of the vcore graph, and it looks to me like it is kinda bouncing all over the place. Once again, the red line is where I stopped priming.
Picture 2

 

[Grimace]

Originally posted by: GrInD1901
guys, i got one question. if anyone is running speedfan on the evga nf-41 or the jetway (same as evga), please let me know which temp is the cpu temp? temp1 or temp2? thanks a lot. happy holidays.

pretty sure its temp1 or whatever is at the top, mine was lower then the mb temp at idle.

 

[thesurge]

My CPU temp is Temp2. (epox 9npa+)

 

[thesurge]

Originally posted by: Maluno
I have a question regarding my vcore. My Powersupply is a Fortron AX 450, mobo is 9NPA+ Ultra, and of course, the 0544 EMPW opty 144. Whenever I start to prime, my vcore drops down about 0.04v, from 1.5 to 1.46. Then, when I stop prime, it jumps back up to 1.5v.

This is illustrated in the picture, I drew a redline on the graph where I stopped prime.

Picture

Could my powersupply be a problem?

EDIT:
Ok, I waited about 10 minutes more, then took another screenshot of the vcore graph, and it looks to me like it is kinda bouncing all over the place. Once again, the red line is where I stopped priming.
Picture 2

my vcore on the opty jumps around as well...but not that much. that could be a power or mobo problem. notice any other symptoms?

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: thesurge

Originally posted by: Maluno
I have a question regarding my vcore. My Powersupply is a Fortron AX 450, mobo is 9NPA+ Ultra, and of course, the 0544 EMPW opty 144. Whenever I start to prime, my vcore drops down about 0.04v, from 1.5 to 1.46. Then, when I stop prime, it jumps back up to 1.5v.

This is illustrated in the picture, I drew a redline on the graph where I stopped prime.

Picture

Could my powersupply be a problem?

EDIT:
Ok, I waited about 10 minutes more, then took another screenshot of the vcore graph, and it looks to me like it is kinda bouncing all over the place. Once again, the red line is where I stopped priming.
Picture 2

my vcore on the opty jumps around as well...but not that much. that could be a power or mobo problem. notice any other symptoms?

The only other thing I noticed is that I can't seem to get my RAM to clock up to the Max 215Mhz it hits stable when I use a 1:1 divider, and drop the CPU multi down to 7x. The chip is stable to 2600Mhz+, and the RAM is 215Mhz memtest86 stable.

So, I set the RAM to a .66 divider, and crank the HTT up to 280, so the CPU is 280*9 = 2520Mhz, and the RAM is 280*.66 = 185Mhz, my motherboard boots up into safe mode, and it resets the HTT/multi/divider to stock, and tells me to reduce the HTT in the bios.

The machine is Prime stable for about 15min (thats as long as I bothered to test), at 275*9 and the RAM at .66 divider = 182, but at 280HTT, it safe-modes... I am running at stock vcore, too, BTW, which by default is 1.5v on the 9NPA, because of some kind of bios error.

I haven't played around too much with the other settings, but I plan on having some extra time tomorrow to test it out. I've been sooo busy recently that I haven't had time to OC at all.

 

[thesurge]

what is your htt multiplier at?

 

[Maluno]

Originally posted by: thesurge
what is your htt multiplier at?

I believe you mean LDT? LDT is 3x.