AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here

Zardon · May 26, 2009, 10:35 AM

Ok AMD have asked me now that time has passed to get results from the guys who got the free kits. I have noticed longhorn is active with results and no one else has really posted their findings which is very disappointing.

I put my neck on the line getting you guys the kits, so I want to see results and findings that we can show to AMD.

I want to see cinebench R10 results and something else, such as PCmark/3dMark.

longhorn1000 · May 26, 2009, 12:53 PM

I went for Cinebench and Sandra...

procupine14 · May 26, 2009, 02:11 PM

Lookin' good Longhorn

Chaos · May 26, 2009, 04:38 PM

come on you guys lets see what kinda of smokin' scores your new AMD kits can produce. I can only sit back and watch with envy, so make me wanna come back to check the results

Judas · May 26, 2009, 04:43 PM

i haven't been home pretty much for the last 2 weeks due to farm related tasks (get home, sleep, wakeup and back to work) I've posted a few 3dmarkvantage and other benchmarks in the thread i created as well as my various overclocking attempts)

When i get home i'll be redownloading a bunch of the benchmarks and running them, i didn't want to jump to fair into installing things on win7 7077, figured i'd overclocking and if i corrupted 7077, it'd be fine

Still i want to see if i can break 3.8ghz

Heres my Futuremark Vantae Compare link

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1078707

Updated with new Clock speeds:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dmv=1102580

And heres 3dMark06 compare link

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=10924229

Updated with new clock speeds:

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=11060457

(needs updating again)

And just for amusements sake....

nicnik · May 26, 2009, 11:08 PM

windows 7 seems to suffer a bit on the scores.

Mac Daddy · May 27, 2009, 01:42 AM

Looking good so far guys I wanna see 4G

**kris23** · May 27, 2009, 01:46 AM

those some incredible numbers

Judas · May 27, 2009, 03:40 AM

Well, i've spent close to 2 and a half hours further fine tuning and working up the balls to break the 1.5v barrier.

Even at 1.5v, anything above 3500mhz was unstable.. it would crash out emediately under major cpu stress such as vantage/3dmark cpu test or cinebench...

Anything over 1.5v initially resulted in no chance, unable to load windows, or when in windows, failing every time..... so i bumpped the ocz memory from 1.8v straight to it's orginal rated 2.1v and then started over @ 1.5v

So i took it to 1.5125, fail
1.5250, pass @ 3.625ghz..... nice..
1.5250, fail @ 3.75
1.5375, pass @ 3.75ghz... nice..
1.5375, fail @ 3.8ghz
1.55v, fail @ 3.8ghz
1.5625v, FAIL @ 3.8ghz (i'm getting weary at this voltage, but my cpu temperatures remain below 50*C via amd overdrive and under 40*C via bios check.

1.5750v, Total Failure, cpu will not even start windows... odd..... back the cpu down to known good clock.... 1.5750v still would instantly crash windows loading... i mean i couldn't even see the loading logo... so i took this as a sign of "quit screwing around" and didn't bother going for the "third times a charm"....

Backing down to 1.5625v, i was able to post yet again @ 4.3ghz, go into the bios and whatnot... obviously not doing anything beyond that though lol...

I backed it down to 1.5375v, 3.75ghz with 250mhz FSB, and did the following a few times.... just to make sure....

Running according to amd overdrive idle...between 27*C - 31*C
and loaded it seems to revolve around the 43-45*C range....

IMO that seems pretty good for what i feel is a massive amount of voltage being fed to the suckers.

probably would have gotten a better result if i hadn't ran a few other things at the time just to make sure.. but still pretty damn good boost over 3.5ghz i think..

Judas · May 27, 2009, 04:07 AM

Just finished a 3DMark 03 Run

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k3=6125167

finally i placed in the top performance results of system similare to mine.... where as all the others i placed lowest or close to lowest in vantage/06/05

3dmark01se score here http://service.futuremark.com/compare?2k1=9498120

nicnik · May 27, 2009, 06:32 AM

i'll try gunning for 3.8 in the weekend or tomorrow. i've had it perfectly stable on 3.6 for weeks now @ 1.45v, auto loose ram timings. tightening timings on ram at 3.6 seems to work ok too.

i seriously doubt i will get near 4ghz, last few attempts a few weeks back were fail.

Judas · May 27, 2009, 06:35 AM

yeah i was really hoping i could muster a 4ghz clock.. i mean i'm running cool enough considering.... the V10 is doing quite well i think, as the temperatures remain rather low even with high abient temperature of 25-29*C.... however when the ambient hits 16*C.. the cpu temperatures considerably start to drop off.

I have Liquid nitrogen available to me in relatively large quanities if i wanted, but i'm not that crazy lol.... i don't have the hardware to do it properly.

Alex · May 27, 2009, 08:45 AM

I'll post some results today

Hoping to see if I can hit 4ghz too!

buburuza76 · May 27, 2009, 10:01 AM

Nice...numbers.Impresive. How can i have/win/test one of this kits?

Mac Daddy · May 27, 2009, 12:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Alex

I'll post some results today

Hoping to see if I can hit 4ghz too!

Cool Alex looking forward to your results everyone has done a great job so far

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicnik

i'll try gunning for 3.8 in the weekend or tomorrow. i've had it perfectly stable on 3.6 for weeks now @ 1.45v, auto loose ram timings. tightening timings on ram at 3.6 seems to work ok too.

i seriously doubt i will get near 4ghz, last few attempts a few weeks back were fail.

Well it is fun to try and sometimes it is as simple as one setting somewhere. A hidden HT divider setting on my MSI board allowed be to go from 3G to 3.4G on the 5200+

nicnik · May 27, 2009, 12:33 PM

to be honest i'm not impressed with the bios of this asus board, but i gather from reviews that almost all asus boards have a similar bios.

So any of the other dragon kitters using windows 7??

blibbax · May 27, 2009, 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicnik

i'll try gunning for 3.8 in the weekend or tomorrow. i've had it perfectly stable on 3.6 for weeks now @ 1.45v, auto loose ram timings. tightening timings on ram at 3.6 seems to work ok too.

i seriously doubt i will get near 4ghz, last few attempts a few weeks back were fail.

Just saw your sig specs... you have a similar Intel / Nvidia rig too! I hate you! :P

Perhaps some comparisions are in order?

Judas - I've just had a look in your 3d mark 06 comparison link, that rig is basically outperforming mine by around 100% in every test :S

Are you still running it on the 600W PSU as you described there? Perhaps that's what holding back your OC?

Alex · May 27, 2009, 02:43 PM

I've got similar results to you guys

Even if I start turning things up just slightly I begin to get BSODs and failure to boot into windows... it is perfectly stable at this speed however.

Judas · May 27, 2009, 04:42 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mac Daddy

Well it is fun to try and sometimes it is as simple as one setting somewhere. A hidden HT divider setting on my MSI board allowed be to go from 3G to 3.4G on the 5200+

I don't know, i've tried everything conceiveable from what i can muster and so far, even scouring the internet, the average is 3.6-3.8ghz for the 940's it seems without getting into some crazy high voltages.

Most are able to hit 3.4-3.5ghz stock voltage, but the general concensus seems to be a full .15v increase to get even 3.6ghz stable. Some people are lucky though and have managed a 3.8ghz at stock voltage.. but it's relatively rare.

I'd increase my FSB and HT speeds considerably more, but my ram won't take it.

Unfortunately last night, after running a number of tests, the system BSOD'd and i had to bump the cpu voltage back up to 1.55v for a stable 3.75ghz clock.

I'm going to be rerunning 3dmark06 and vantage later today with the new values so that it's up to date, but at 1.55v, cpu idle jumps 5*C and the loaded temperature gets into the high 40s and twiddles with 50*C

Judas · May 27, 2009, 04:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicnik

So any of the other dragon kitters using windows 7??

indeed i am, in all my screenshots posted above, i've been using windows 7 rc1 7100....

Judas · May 27, 2009, 04:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

Judas - I've just had a look in your 3d mark 06 comparison link, that rig is basically outperforming mine by around 100% in every test :S

Are you still running it on the 600W PSU as you described there? Perhaps that's what holding back your OC?

lol... the sucker runs things extremely well... in comparison to the i7 920 with 6gb of DDR3 in triple channel, things are just as if not quicker in some respects. Even the windows 7 score is a little bit higher. IMO, these 940's compete very well with the i7's.... very good value....

And yes i'm still running the 600watt GamerXStream..... it MAY indeed be holding me back, but the suckers sitting rock solid stable, my APC UPS however is registering overload whenever i fire up anything 3d related. I would NOT be shocked if i was loading the psu to near if not AT it's rated maximum output.

I'm waiting on a Corsair 1000watt modular PSU.... Although i'm not faund of the idea of only having 2 12v high output rails, i still like the idea of 4 or better yet 5-6 12v rails. Guess we'll see.

BTW, anyone else find that 3Dmark05 just doesn't seem to make use of crossfire whatsoever, or 3DMark01se? I mean my score in 3dmark03 is rediculious compared to either of the other 2.

nicnik · May 27, 2009, 04:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

Just saw your sig specs... you have a similar Intel / Nvidia rig too! I hate you! :P

Perhaps some comparisions are in order?

The intel nvidia setup scores higher than the phenom easily. i7 in cinebench hits 20k on multi cpu. the sli 260s overclocked jus about beats the 4870x2 by a small margin.

blibbax · May 27, 2009, 05:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

lol... the sucker runs things extremely well... in comparison to the i7 920 with 6gb of DDR3 in triple channel, things are just as if not quicker in some respects. Even the windows 7 score is a little bit higher. IMO, these 940's compete very well with the i7's.... very good value....

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicnik

The intel nvidia setup scores higher than the phenom easily. i7 in cinebench hits 20k on multi cpu. the sli 260s overclocked jus about beats the 4870x2 by a small margin.

An interesting difference of opinion :P

By the way Judas - why don't u like a smaller number of rails? I've always gone for as few as possible, as this reduces the risk of overloading a single rail.

procupine14 · May 27, 2009, 09:48 PM

Yeah, I'm pretty fond of 2-4 rails and that's it for me. Is there something you know that I don't?

Judas · May 27, 2009, 10:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by blibbax

An interesting difference of opinion :P

By the way Judas - why don't u like a smaller number of rails? I've always gone for as few as possible, as this reduces the risk of overloading a single rail.

Because i've had a few cases where the least amount of rails actually resulted in overloading of those rails.

In my first case every i had a OCZ Powerstream 600watt completely unable to cope with handling 2 12v rails and diliver the power even when properly balanced to the best of it's ability.

I find it quite a bit easier when each individual rail is rated at a relatively decent amperage.... preferrably 16amp minimum and 20amps maxmimum needed, anything between is acceptable (18 would be my own recommended value though)..

I'll take 6 18amp 12v rails over 2 40-50amp 12v rails any day.

But if the psu isn't designed well enough anyways, where it's essentially a single 12v rail to begin with and is only splitting it... it's really of no benefit anyways.

This is where i stretch/bend/break the rules as corsairs 1000watt psu design is apparently 3 psu's in one... 2 500watt and with a much smaller psu to back up the other 3.3/5v rails. Best to go read up on it yourself for interests sake

Either way, provided i can properly load balance the connections, i would hope the manual has the suggested layouts for how to connect it up for proper balance, if they had designed it in a 4x 12v rail setup, balancing the load would be easier, 5+ rails would make it much easier yet.

Quick reference 6 rail layout figured....

12v1 ~> motherboard
12v2 ~> 12v 4+4 cpu + Sata + Molex connectors (etc)
12v3 ~> PCI-ex 1
12v4 ~> PCI-ex 2
12v5 ~> PCI-ex 3
12v6 ~> PCI-ex 4

If corsair so much as just labeled their connectors a little bit better, without even present true rails but suggestive labeling... considering the 2x500watt psu's crammed into one big unit... it would make balancing easier..

X-12v-zz, where X refers to the first or second main internal PSU's... (birzarre idea perhaps)

1-12v1 ~> Motherboard
2-12v1 ~> 12v 4+4 cpu + sata + Molex connectors (etc)
1-12v2 ~> PCI-ex 1
2-12v2 ~> PCI-ex 2
1-12v3 ~> PCI-ex 3
2-12v3 ~> PCI-ex 4

Mac Daddy · May 28, 2009, 02:04 AM

Similar rails are cascadable and Alex nice job man

Quote:

Originally Posted by nicnik

to be honest i'm not impressed with the bios of this asus board, but i gather from reviews that almost all asus boards have a similar bios.

Not sure I do know on my 775 system I was glad to switch back to my Gigabyte board even though the ASUS one was supposed to be a better board. I never achieved the same stable O/C's as easy on the ASUS board.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

I don't know, i've tried everything conceiveable from what i can muster and so far, even scouring the internet, the average is 3.6-3.8ghz for the 940's it seems without getting into some crazy high voltages.

I'd increase my FSB and HT speeds considerably more, but my ram won't take it.

Well keep plugging away Bro and on the HT speed I used the ratio to lower it on my O/C.

Judas · May 28, 2009, 02:12 AM

i've tried setting everything extremely low and loose just to make sure they weren't the cause of instability at higher frequencies....

the only logical things i could do is change the psu (working on it) and hope that a big ass 1000watt corsair will present better stable power..

but i doubt it considering that the rails with a multi-meter are checking out spot on even under load..... It's actually quite impressive.

Mac Daddy · May 28, 2009, 02:21 AM

Was just the HT for me it lowered the strain on the memory and allowed a higher CPU speed.

Either way just trying to help out guys some cool stuff

Judas · May 28, 2009, 03:59 AM

hmm... maybe i'm lowering it to far?

i mean i dropped it right down to the lowest... i didn't imcrementally drop it.....

but then again hitting 200fsb or 250fsb with no real change in effect....

SeraphicSorcerer · May 28, 2009, 04:57 AM

I actually increased the Hypertransport to 5200, along with the CPU-NB and have notice good memory Gains, this is of course with my 955. Both are currently running 2600 MHZ ("FSB" is still stock)

May 26, 2009, 10:35 AM	#1
Zardon DriverHeaven Founder Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 32,480 Rep Power: 179	AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Ok AMD have asked me now that time has passed to get results from the guys who got the free kits. I have noticed longhorn is active with results and no one else has really posted their findings which is very disappointing. I put my neck on the line getting you guys the kits, so I want to see results and findings that we can show to AMD. I want to see cinebench R10 results and something else, such as PCmark/3dMark.

May 26, 2009, 12:53 PM	#2
longhorn1000 DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: Mar 2004 Posts: 70 Rep Power: 0	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here I went for Cinebench and Sandra...

May 26, 2009, 02:11 PM	#3
procupine14 Why is it Beeping!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA, Missouri Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 58 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Lookin' good Longhorn __________________ HTPC/file server: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom x4 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 800 (2x2GB) - 1TB WD Black - 4 x 1TB Hitachi DeskStar in RAID 5 - ATi TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HIS Raedon 4850 512MB - ASRock N68C-S UCC mobo - OCZ ModExtreme Pro 500W PSU GF's Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 - 500GB Western Digital GP - HIS Raedon 5770 1GB - ASUS M3A78-EM - Zalman 650W PSU Media Streamer: Win 7 Pro 64-bit - AMD Athlon x2 3200+ - 4GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 - 250GB SeaGate Barracuda - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - ASUS Raedon 5450 SILENT - FSP group 250W PSU

May 26, 2009, 04:38 PM	#4
Chaos Number Nine Join Date: May 2002 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 5,268 Rep Power: 167 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here come on you guys lets see what kinda of smokin' scores your new AMD kits can produce. I can only sit back and watch with envy, so make me wanna come back to check the results

May 26, 2009, 11:08 PM	#6
nicnik In the Land of Snow Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 569 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here windows 7 seems to suffer a bit on the scores. __________________ Follow Me on Twitter Battlefield 3 \| youtube \| TwitchTV Last edited by nicnik; May 26, 2009 at 11:45 PM.

May 27, 2009, 01:42 AM	#7
Mac Daddy DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 7,950 Rep Power: 80 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Looking good so far guys I wanna see 4G __________________ "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance." - Tim Allen

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May 27, 2009, 06:32 AM	#11
nicnik In the Land of Snow Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 569 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here i'll try gunning for 3.8 in the weekend or tomorrow. i've had it perfectly stable on 3.6 for weeks now @ 1.45v, auto loose ram timings. tightening timings on ram at 3.6 seems to work ok too. i seriously doubt i will get near 4ghz, last few attempts a few weeks back were fail. __________________ Follow Me on Twitter Battlefield 3 \| youtube \| TwitchTV

May 27, 2009, 08:45 AM	#13
Alex Driverheaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 260 Rep Power: 45	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here I'll post some results today Hoping to see if I can hit 4ghz too!

May 27, 2009, 10:01 AM	#14
buburuza76 HH member Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Where you can`t make a life Posts: 347 Rep Power: 27	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Nice...numbers.Impresive. How can i have/win/test one of this kits?

May 27, 2009, 12:33 PM	#16
nicnik In the Land of Snow Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: London, UK Posts: 569 Rep Power: 46 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here to be honest i'm not impressed with the bios of this asus board, but i gather from reviews that almost all asus boards have a similar bios. So any of the other dragon kitters using windows 7?? __________________ Follow Me on Twitter Battlefield 3 \| youtube \| TwitchTV

May 27, 2009, 02:43 PM	#18
Alex Driverheaven Lover Join Date: Aug 2005 Posts: 260 Rep Power: 45	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here I've got similar results to you guys Even if I start turning things up just slightly I begin to get BSODs and failure to boot into windows... it is perfectly stable at this speed however.

May 27, 2009, 09:48 PM	#24
procupine14 Why is it Beeping!?!?! Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA, Missouri Posts: 1,400 Rep Power: 58 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Yeah, I'm pretty fond of 2-4 rails and that's it for me. Is there something you know that I don't? __________________ HTPC/file server: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom x4 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 800 (2x2GB) - 1TB WD Black - 4 x 1TB Hitachi DeskStar in RAID 5 - ATi TV Wonder Digital Cable Tuner - HIS Raedon 4850 512MB - ASRock N68C-S UCC mobo - OCZ ModExtreme Pro 500W PSU GF's Gaming PC: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit - AMD Phenom 9850 - 4GB OCZ DDR2 1066 - 500GB Western Digital GP - HIS Raedon 5770 1GB - ASUS M3A78-EM - Zalman 650W PSU Media Streamer: Win 7 Pro 64-bit - AMD Athlon x2 3200+ - 4GB SuperTalent DDR2 800 - 250GB SeaGate Barracuda - MSI K9N6PGM2-V2 - ASUS Raedon 5450 SILENT - FSP group 250W PSU

May 28, 2009, 02:21 AM	#28
Mac Daddy DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Ontario, Canada Posts: 7,950 Rep Power: 80 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here Was just the HT for me it lowered the strain on the memory and allowed a higher CPU speed. Either way just trying to help out guys some cool stuff __________________ "My mom said the only reason men are alive is for lawn care and vehicle maintenance." - Tim Allen

May 28, 2009, 04:57 AM	#30
SeraphicSorcerer HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Florida Posts: 2,295 Rep Power: 156 System Specs	Re: AMD kit winners - post your overclocks here I actually increased the Hypertransport to 5200, along with the CPU-NB and have notice good memory Gains, this is of course with my 955. Both are currently running 2600 MHZ ("FSB" is still stock) __________________