AMD super OCers of the past

[PP Mguire]

In here!! So i was told if you want high clocks you need to lower your HT link. Ive been running at 4x this whole time. Would i get higher OC if i lowerd to 3x? Other sites suggest so but i trust you guys more.:grouphug:

[werty316]

Its recommend to keep the HTT at ~1000Mhz but no higher than 1200MHz so a HTT.

One thing to keep in mind is because the latency of the HTT is so small/short, you won't notice a performance difference with having the HTT at any frequency be it 600MHz, 800Mhz or 1000MHz.

And yes, setting the HTT to 3x could give you a higher overclock.

[PP Mguire]

Well i did that and i still cant get past 2.86ghz :/

[Goliath182]

Go way down and you may get a higher overclock. Generaly 3x is low enough for most overclocks, but you can try going down to 2.

[MtDew]

How many sticks of memory are you running? I could get better overclocking with my socket 939 4200+ with just 2 sticks in. When I went 4 sticks of matching memory I lost atleast 10% of my overclock.

[darkorb]

guess ur CPU cant go higher man

there is a brick wall, guess you hit it!

[PP Mguire]

Whenever i do an OC i take 3 sticks out leaving me with only 512mb of ram in slot one. Ill try going to 2 later on but i doubt it will help. Probably right, probably just a wall.

[Goliath182]

Phase change that beast and up it to 1.6 volts. :grin: Actually dont lol thats a little overboard, but better cooling will probably help you get a little higher.

[PP Mguire]

At 1.7v i still couldnt break the wall. When running 1.57v i never exceeded 53c with the blower sitting on my desk.

[Goliath182]

Try turning the PCI-e clock to 107.

[PP Mguire]

Isnt it bad to go above 100? And what does that have to do with CPU?

[Goliath182]

It will over clock your graphics card slightly so dont boot with them cranked. Ive seen a lot of people who when they turn that up to 107 can pull out a higher oc. I dont know how it works i just know it does.

[PP Mguire]

Well i use a custom bios on my cards to leave it stock at highest OC possible. I dont think thats such a good idea.

Tried both x2 HT and 107mhz PCI-E and didnt work. Guess im stuck with 2.86ghz. Lame OC.

[Goliath182]

You might get arties. Its not enough to fry your cards even if they are on the edge i was just saying to take off any OC so you dont get arties.

[PP Mguire]

Well i dont have any OC i use a custom bios instead. Im to lazy to OC my cards everytime i format (which is alot). Didnt work anyways.

[Ranzear]

I leave my CMOS battery out and store my BIOS to a USB drive, ASUS M2N32-SLI Deluxe. Just have to take ten seconds to reload it from the file and I can reset BIOS just by pulling the plug.

Everyone does it different, but I would reccomend your stock settings be in a safe range.

You have to consider that that chip was run off the same silicon as any 3800+ to 6400+, its just a matter of what the chip tested to. A 4000+ 'bin' is a chip that runs under any circumstance (extremes of heat, etc) at 4000+ settings, meaning it could not achieve the stock settings of a higher-rated chip. This is the idea if 'binning' chips. Think of some guy sitting in a room with a hot-swap socket for CPUs plugging one in after another and sorting them by how far he can overclock them (or more realistcally, what they can run at a given maximum theoretical temperature) and putting each into a rack of bins (hence the term). Though you can put non-stock cooling on a 5000+ and achieve 6000+ clocks, the quality of the chip has already been noted and priced, and the 6000+ will likely go far further in the same situation.

tl;dr you get what you pay for.

... unless you buy a $50 single core and put it under peltier and pull 3.6ghz out of it. 1ghz overclock, I was bored and had a goal.

[PP Mguire]

Lol i got a 1ghz OC out of my 3000+ on air.

[Viper08]

Do you pretty much OC everything you got????
Will you OC the new cards if you make a good trade?

[PP Mguire]

Yea i do, thats why im also a part of overclock3D. Besides why not? Pay less for better performance. And yea i will oc any card i get. If i could figure out a way id OC my phone to make it go faster too. And cooking.

[Viper08]

Yea i do, thats why im also a part of overclock3D. Besides why not? Pay less for better performance. And yea i will oc any card i get. If i could figure out a way id OC my phone to make it go faster too. And cooking.

LOL, There could be a way to OC your phone.