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After about 10 hours of tweaking I'm at 3.25GHz.
I wonder if the CPU is holding me back.
I would think that at stock voltage . . . the voltage is holding you back. And with any increase in voltage, the heatsink would be holding you back. Also, by most accounts 3.2GHz or so is the wall at stock settings.At this OC I can only run IntelBurnTest once as the temps go through the roof with the stock cooler/thermal paste.
I would think that at stock voltage . . . the voltage is holding you back. And with any increase in voltage, the heatsink would be holding you back. Also, by most accounts 3.2GHz or so is the wall at stock settings.
id also say raising the NB voltage will help get the ram above ddr3 1333.. but on stock cooling i wouldnt really recommend it.. from my experience the NB voltage has a huge effect on cpu temps..
Tom's said:The MSI 785GM-E65 couldn't boot our Mushkin XP3-12800 at 1,600 MT/s using relaxed 9-10-10-25 timings, even though this memory is sold as a 1,600 MHz 7-8-7-20 kit. Once again, we know that it's difficult to get AM3 CPUs working with memory speeds faster than 1,333 MHz, and we appreciate that MSI doesn't push this as a board that can handle 1,600 MHz memory. While we did find a small 1,600 MHz overclocking claim on the back of the box, the manual lists 1,333 MHz as the highest compatible memory frequency.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-785g-motherboard,2441-16.html
I think it's worth a shot. As I said, I have seen some pretty impressive numbers.I guess I need to shell out for a better cooler if I want to go any further. But with the crashes happening so quickly after starting testing at a given level, I'm not so sure.
I think it's worth a shot. As I said, I have seen some pretty impressive numbers.
From the article linked above.... said:The one thing that the Athlon II has in abundance is overclocking headroom. Our stock sample 2.6 GHz part was able to hit 3.9 GHz on air. And maybe with better cooling, more time and some fine tuning, overclocking to 4 GHz and beyond might be obtainable.
To us it seems that the L3 cache on Phenom II processors hampers the clock speeds quite a bit. We used the same motherboard that we overclocked the Phenom II with; it only managed a few megahertz extra FSB to increase in speed. But with the Athlon II, we managed to clock things right to the max, as we had to rely on FSB as the multipliers were locked.
AMD Athlon II is a cheap overclocking CPU that really isn't worth it at stock, the real gem of this CPU is the ability to overclock. If you're going to stick only to stock clock speeds go with the Phenom II, but for overclocking take the Athlon II and clock it through the roof.
Yeah, I tried;
-- All Auto, except RAM
-- All Auto, except RAM and CPU VCore at 1.425V (this was the value in software, higher in BIOS settings 1.43xV? which was reported even lower in the BIOS report (I think 1.3xV.))
-- And then a mix of various bumps up from Auto for everything I listed above. 15+ iterations. The BIOS on this MB shows "Not Recommended" values i.e., too high or too low -- in RED, so I tried to keep everything just below that level when I was pushing FSB to 270~280.)
The Auto value for CPU VCore is 1.384-1.392
Almost every crash happened within seconds of starting IBT/Prime95/OCCT, though a few boots made it to a minute or two. I read somewhere that a screen freeze is typically not enough CPU VCore, and BSOD's are something else. That seemed to be the case with my testing.
With my current settings it seems to be stable, as far as I can test it anyway. But it's been running for a couple days solid with some testing thrown in every now and then. The CPU-Z screen above shows a low CPU VCore as I have C&Q enabled. The last thing I did after settling on the current settings was to re-enable it, and it didn't affect anything at this level OC.
I guess I need to shell out for a better cooler if I want to go any further. But with the crashes happening so quickly after starting testing at a given level, I'm not so sure.
I got my 620 to 3.3ghz pretty easily. RAM is running at 667mhz. I ran a torture test for 6 hours with no errors.
I'm going to try to bump the fsb mhz up to 260 and try to get the CPU over 3.5ghz.
whats the BSOD error? if its machine exception error then that is cpu voltage.. thats the only thing that would cause that bsod error.. memory you will usually the IRQ not equal or what ever crap.. typically you will get the machine exception error bsod if you are really close to the stable voltage.. if you arent then it will usually just crash and restart..