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lol what OCs did you do ^^ and what stepping is the X2 3800+?

lol

Lucky ass getting jerk

lol

LMAO, wow. That did make me laugh.


I actually haven't been OCing it at all lately. I don't exactly know what I'm doing, to be honest. =P

Its not that hard really, the biggest things are knowing your bios settings.... some call them slightly different things and some boards like mine and the asus boards have a ton of features.

Im thinking of installing my freezer 64 PRO and trying to OC again. I may put 1.55V through it but no more. I want 2.6ghz stable and I shall have it. FX-60 FTW

dont install freezer 64 pro unless youre having temps hitting the 60s trying to get 2.6GHz on the stock cooler. its just not worth the change, youll probably notice an even lower temperature change than i did, and i didnt notice much more than 6C. ive mounted it three different times now, once using the HUGE amount of MX-1 preapplied, then again with MX-1 spread using my fingers and a sandwitch bag, and then again putting a blob in the middle and squeezing the HS on. no difference between them, so im quite certain the low temperature change is not due to mounting issues.

Im not going to have temp issues at all. This opteron is a dud in the biggest sense of the term. It wont post at 2.6ghz at all... unless I go above 1.55Vcore and im not going to. Ill live with 2.4ghz I guess... im sure I could squeeze the extra 100mhz out but is it worth jumping the vcore .1 ??? I dont think so.

I may end up just selling the freezer 64 pro, 20$ is 20$.

whats wrong with a high Vcore?? how many stories have you heard of a CPU dying of a high Vcore when they have adequate cooling? the hard drive would probably die before the highest OCed, adequately cooled CPU does

Anyone wanna help me OC? I always hear about people finding the max FSB of their mobo and RAM first, and I'm so confused.

yeah they do, but i dont, but lets do what they do XD

to find max FSB:
set the CPU multiplier to the lowest possible, if you do not have this option that means Cool & Quiet is on, turn that off. you should set the CPU voltage to 1.35V too
go to the memory timings settings page and "Memclock Limit" the RAM to the lowest possible divider, which is probably '100MHz'
then raise your FSB by 10, to 210FSB
boot into windows and check stability with two instances of prime (if you dont have that, google SP2004 and download) for at least 10 minutes. run one doing the Blend setting and the other doing Small FFT, set their affinity to different cores, 0 and 1.

if it doesnt fail in 10 minutes reboot and set the FSB up by 10, to 220, and so on. keep going until it crashes XD, you should be able to do 300MHz just fine. and i dont know why you would ever need anything higher than that, so stop there if you want. and thats youre max FSB

max of RAM:
CPU multiplier on lowest, you could just run at 200MHz FSB and like.. make the divider higher but thats stupid, do the same thing you did with the FSB but this time keep the RAM divider at 200MHz (1:1 ratio)

Dont OC your ram, its not worth it.

yeah i guess you can say that.. i mean theyre already about 5.7GB/s transfer at 2GHz, thats over twice the RAM's total capacity! the only program i noticed that changes due to RAM is WinRAR benchmarking, it's score improves SO much if the RAMs at low timings, so it would be best to run a divider to a lower clock and try and get CL2

FUCK. Why am I running at 46C under a full load at stock timings and everything?!? I pulled the heatsink off and cleaned it, and put the correct amount of thermal shit on this time (just like you said, 2005), but it's still running hot. WTF.

WHAT THE HELL? NOW IT'S AT 49C, STOCK!!!