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Opty 165 CCB1E 0550 VPMW

i sent out a whole tray of them last week. still waiting on data to come back but early reports are looking pretty good. I've seen at least 1 or 2 2.5ghz overclocks at +.50 voltage off stock. I'm hoping to get more data soon.

dave
 
Not bad...700mhz just over stock volts...I'm hoping to get 2.7 or so with it, but that might be dreaming on my part.

argus? A ween fan by chance?
 
Originally posted by: davegraham
i sent out a whole tray of them last week. still waiting on data to come back but early reports are looking pretty good. I've seen at least 1 or 2 2.5ghz overclocks at +.50 voltage off stock. I'm hoping to get more data soon.

dave
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Dave,

Have you got any 165's left?
 
I got this chip from dave and the highest I've been able to overclock it is 2.4 GHz (9x267)

Voltage is at 1.4, and the CPU gets up to 47 degrees Celsius under load using a Zalman CNPS-7700-CU heatsink.

This might not be the best number, since I put it in a Silverstone Sugo SG-01 case (virtually NO airflow).

I was able to boot into Windows at 9 x 275 Mhz, but Windows crashed on me. I had the voltage up to 1.45 and it still crashed.

I'm using a Foxconn 6150K8MA motherboard
 
update:

I upped the voltage to 1.5 and the FSB to 275. Right now, my chip is running at 2470MHz.

Just ran CPU Burn for 8 hours. Idle is around 41 degrees, load is probably near 50 or so
 
I'm going to try to lower the voltage back down to 1.45 and see if that's stable.

I'm trying for 300MHz by the end of the week. That might not be possible since my case runs rather warm. The case temperature is right around 40 degrees too.

I can't see how people manage to get 20 degrees when idle.
 
it all depends on cooling as well. my guess is you're using stock cooilng hardtech?

either way, overclocking is partial luck too. sometimes you get a good chip. sometimes you don't.
 
Originally posted by: Shimmishim
it all depends on cooling as well. my guess is you're using stock cooilng hardtech?

either way, overclocking is partial luck too. sometimes you get a good chip. sometimes you don't.
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CNPS7700-Cu
 
The only other results I've seen so far on this stepping are from K.I.T.T over at Xtreme. His is Prime stable at 2.7GHz@1.376V with decent air-cooling. I'll post up my results in the next couple days.
 
I just got my 165 in (CCB1E 0550 VPMW, newest stepping) (replacement for my 4600+, that I sold), and it does 2.8 @ 1.4V. 35C idle, 44C load. Under a Zalman 7700cu. Also, the memory controller seems to be MUCH better than my X2's also. I'm running some OCZ GOLD VX PC4000, on the 4600+ would only do 250 @ 2.5-4-4-10 2T. On the 165 does 255 @ 2-2-2-5 1T.

However, I can't seem to get these bastard DIMMS to run 1:1, no matter what voltage I shoot through them. 3.6V = 265 top out. Grrr. Still better than the X2, but damn. Nice timings though. Perhaps I should give some TCCD a try as these are BH5's.
 
Congrats, your processor rocks...
Well, I could dig up the old bandwidth vs. timing discussion again, but I won't 😛
My $0.02: Use the divider and the pretty nice tight timings 🙂
 
Originally posted by: Doctorweir
Congrats, your processor rocks...
Well, I could dig up the old bandwidth vs. timing discussion again, but I won't 😛
My $0.02: Use the divider and the pretty nice tight timings 🙂
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I concur. I was hoping for 2.7 out of this thing, but it exceeded my expectations for sure.

I'm planning on sticking with the 5/6 and those timings. I get pretty good Sandra #'s, around 7900 in memory bandwidth tests, so I feel satisfied with my switch from the X2 > Opty.
 
Very nice results. Hopefully my CCB1E overclocks as well as yours. I'd like to hit a stable 2.7-2.8GHz to justify a dual-core over my 146.
 
Decided to experiment a little with a dual core. Just ordered it off Monarch so hopefully they'll have more of the same stepping.

CPU: Opteron 165
Stepping: CCB1E 0550 VPMW
Overclocked speed: 2.7GHz
CPU voltage: 1.34V (as read by cpu-z)
Idle temp: 21C
Load temp: 31-32C
Cooling: Custom H2O
Motherboard: DFI Ultra-D
Ram: G.Skill Extreme Series HZ sticks
Ram size: 2x1024MB
Ram timings: 3-4-4-8
Ram divider: 166
Ram voltage: 2.8V

This was dual Prime stable (small fft) for 6+ hours. I tried 2.75GHz but one core failed after 2.5 hours so a little bump in vcore should get me Prime stable.
 
I hope Monarch and the like are still shipping 0550 UPMW/VPMW chips. Tankguyz still has 0546's, so it's a good possibility. The CCB1E 0550 week has been amazing.
 
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