Post your FX-55 Overclocking results!

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Hey guys, I know A LOT of you have ordered those cheap FX-55's at newegg!

So now post your overclocking results!

I got mines in today, and overclocked it right away with my biostar tforce6100 board which is soon to be traded for a DFI SLI Expert board from a fellow Hardforumer.


Anyways, so far I have 3ghz with a 15x multiplier easy with 1.45vcore prime stable for a couple hours so far.
 
Well it is a thermaltake silentboost which is a tad bit better than the stock non heatpipe ones.

Replacing it with an Arctic Cooler Freezer 64 Pro tomorrow, hopefully fedex comes late for me to sign it, and hopefully Monarch Computers will stop requiring people to sign for things that cost $20. :)

Load temps with the voltage mentioned above is 45c, idle is 29c

With stock speed and vcore, idle is 22c and load is 35c, again with the silentboost.
 
yep, mine gets here thursday. THREE GIGAHERTZ FOR ALL!





(even if we only got one core, at least we got unlocked multis!)
 
I'm not sure why you all are all hyped up over this chip. It's $200, yes, but the overclock is only 400mhz. Why not get an Opty 165 for $50 less, have two cores, and still be in the near 3ghz range?

I realize that not all Opty 165s will reach that point, but if you just spend a day or two on the forums you'll find one.
 
Mine ran at 14x (2800mhz) on stock voltage for a while. No changes at all other than upping the multiplier.
 
no the thing is, we bought the san diego FX for 139. so less than a retail 165 and basically less than 165's are being sold for in general. speaking for myself, thats cheap enough to have a nice shot at 3ghz or higher AND with a unlocked multi. all of my 4-5 opterons lasst year and early spring this year all cost more than that. so yea we not getting 2 cores and all that but, there has never been a viable FX chip that has been near that cheap. cheaper than EVERYTHING basically.
 
week 22 ('05) CABCE, 12x250. it is stable w/ 1.488v

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CABCE- 3.06Ghz- 1.475V

All I have done so far is bump the voltage 1.475v and set multi to 15. Oh, I did up the htt a tad to 204, but was not able to really see what it can do yet. This was also with a lame Thermaltake HSF, not tried the Freezer Pro or Mach 2 yet.
 
got mine today:

CABYE 0524 VPMW

eeaaaaaarrrrrrly stepping. we'll see how it does after i get a chance to put it in n clock er up
 
I've got a stupid compaq with the bios locked so no overclocking that way. However after searching the net for hours I found someone who had the same computer as me and overclocked his (a 3500+ venice) using ClockGEN. I obviously followed his directions and overclocked mine. sold the 3500+ to purchase the fx-55 and did the same thing.

here is my screen shot. again I don't know if this is dangerous but my cpu score in 3dmark05/06 go up so it's prob working. Is it safe (ocing via clockgen)?
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I took the plunge because I am running a XP/Vista dual boot over two 36GB Raptors and needed that 250GB drive.

Anyway I got a CABCE 0516 stepped FX-55. Was hoping for 3Ghz chip but alas... no dice. 2.835 (270 x 10.5) with 0.1VDC extra juice. Temps at 36C idle and 56C load with supplied HSF.

Replaced a 3200 clocked at 2.4 and I'll tell ya, everything is smoother. I was thinking of replacing my 7900GT but now I am maxed at 63FPS @ 1280x1024 with 4xAA and 16x AF in Quake 4 multiplayer. Couldn't do that with the old 3200. I'll wait for DX10/Vista now for sure before a VC upgrade.

I am satisfied with the chip and space for $199!
 
Nice....

. man I guess I was one of the lucky ones to hit 3ghz and above with an FX-55... always thought it was a given to get 3ghz with a 400mhz overclock . . .
 
Well... I don't have any of the processors in front of me, but I am building (3) mid level gaming computers for each one of my (3) kids. I found a pretty awesome deal on Ebay for (2) FX-55's and (1) Opteron 152 (basically the same processor as the FX-55 as both run at 2.6ghz and both have 1mb L2 cache. The Opteron has a multiplier of 13x and not completely unlocked like the FX Chips).

Auction #1
Auction #2
Auction #3

Anyways, I should get the chips in hopefully before next weekend. Give me a few weeks to acquire some decent ram (need three (1gb) sets and (3) power supplies).. I will post the pics and screen shots for each computer.. I will be happy if I can clock in at 13x223 = 2899 on each computer ...We shall see! I already have the HSF's (Coolermaster CMHK8-8I22A-A2 Pictures & Article About This HSF ), (3) Coolermaster Centurion 5 ATX Cases, (3) DFI Lanparty nF4 Ultra mobo's..

Did I mention how expensive it is to build (3) computers at once! ..LOL!
 
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ummmmmmm right . . . .

GJ with linking the ebay links that are NOT FREAKING OVER. I bet they are yours too.
 
LOL.. Well, if it's an FX-55 processor that you are looking for, and don't mind a used chip, check out there prices. I can't vouch for this seller yet, but their prices seem very reasonable! ...I'm sure he is a reseller of used AMD processors and has all kinds of 939 chips for sale! See here for yourself: Fair Priced Ebay FX-55 Processors

PS.. yes, the 3 links on my other post are ALL of my winning bids from this seller.. LOL!
 
Well those do seems like good prices, especially the 148's :) But O well I hope mod doesnt close this thread b/c of the links, but w/e my fx-55 was sold anyways... *weeps*
 
Yeah.. I don't see why they would close the thread.. This thread is for FX-55 related topics. We aren't advertising or selling anything. I only linked the ebay stuff, showing where I found MY FX chips at for a reasonable price. I'm sure there are plenty of other places that have decent prices, but I couldn't find them any lower than $125.

I am soooo excited about building 3 computers at once! They are pretty much ALL the same.. (except for the one computer having an Opty 152 vs the FX-55 chip).
 
I too think dual core would be better. The price difference is not much. My opteron does 2910mhz but I would love to have a dual core instead.
 
This thread is about FX-55 SINGLE CORE PROCESSORS... Not dual core processors. I own a few dual core's.. I purchased 3 single cores because I am building 3 computers at once ..If I had the extra $200+ dollars laying around, I would have gone with dual cores..
 
yeah it would be cool to build 3 for my non-existant kids.


3 builds will all OCs and all DFI boards would be great. Most of my clients dont want to spend the money on DFI they dont understand why they should pay more for "just" a motherboard :)

they should all OC nicely.
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damn was looking on newegg for some cheap value 512x2 kits but everything is $100+

ram is getting expensive
 
Adidas4275 said:
yeah it would be cool to build 3 for my non-existant kids.

3 builds will all OCs and all DFI boards would be great. Most of my clients dont want to spend the money on DFI they dont understand why they should pay more for "just" a motherboard :)
they should all OC nicely.
damn was looking on newegg for some cheap value 512x2 kits but everything is $100+
ram is getting expensive
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OMG! That's one obsticle that I have yet to overcome! Now that I plan on overclocking my kids computers, I need decent ram. I was thinking PC4000.. That's what I am using in my computer (See Signature). But, with the FX chips, I will ALREADY be sitting at 2.6ghz.. I'm very confident that I can get a 200mhz overclock on "value" pc3200 ram. 300mhz, hmmmmm.. Ram is crazy right now. I can't find ANY decent ram (2x512) that is quasi overclock friendly below $100! Anyways, 2.8ghz would be acceptable but 2.9ghz + would be sweeeeeet!

I used to be one of those guys that constantly upgraded my whole computer. Ever since the days of the Pentium 90mhz. I was quickly educated about overclocking and prolonging the life of one's current computer system.. It just took someone with a little knowledge about computers to "talk" sense into me about overclocking.. The rest, as they say, is history!

Does building overclocked computers for my kids for Christmas make me just about the "geekiest" dad..haha. Nevermind, don't answer that! ..lmao!
 
HMMMMM you can have ddr266 ram if you want, FX-55 = Unlock multiplier :) heheeheheh
 
aZn_plyR said:
HMMMMM you can have ddr266 ram if you want, FX-55 = Unlock multiplier :) heheeheheh
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:rolleyes: Just because the divider is set to 266 (or whatever), doesn't mean that is the effective speed.

It's more like.

a = (266/400) = .655
Effective speed = "FSB" * a
 
el rolio said:
holy shit. an fx under a mach II. this is gonna be a fun thread!
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dude, this is old :eek: . Back 2 years ago when the FX55 came out I had my FX55 under phase, and then my FX57 as-well. These chips suck for OCing on air, but under phase there really good. FX55 under phase using 1.7Volts went to 3.3+, and the FX57 scaled to 3.5GHz using I think around 1.64Vcore.
 
Arcenite said:
:rolleyes: Just because the divider is set to 266 (or whatever), doesn't mean that is the effective speed.

It's more like.

a = (266/400) = .655
Effective speed = "FSB" * a
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I meant the FX-55 has unlock multiplier.... which means 13x 14x 15x so you can overclock it regardless of ram speeds. :rolleyes:
 
You lucky bastards, I bought a FX-55 For 700 Bucks when it was new, (i was pretty much of a noob then and tought it was the coolest thing in the world) anyway now a few days ago i was trying to overclock it for the first time (Trying to get a little more power to hold out till the 8800 gets here, planning to upgrade then) come to find out that my 700$ super CPU was a fkn 130nm chip so my overclocking results were about 2.7 with major blue screen issues. (and this was on a helluva expensive water cooling) :mad:
 
Does building overclocked computers for my kids for Christmas make me just about the "geekiest" dad..haha. Nevermind, don't answer that! ..lmao!
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My 9 year old has a athlon 2600+ overclocked to 2475mhz on a dfi motherboard running bh5 ram at 240fsb. Guess I am up there with you. lol
 
gplracer said:
My 9 year old has a athlon 2600+ overclocked to 2475mhz on a dfi motherboard running bh5 ram at 240fsb. Guess I am up there with you. lol
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awesome, no geeks here, just smart people that now how to save some money ;)
 
Well so far I have a dud. I have only hit 2.80 with any stability and the temps were considerably higher than my 4000+ running at 2.88. Im still playing with it, but I have week to return it and if I cant hit 3.0 by then, Im sending it back and probably going dual core. This is the second cpu I bought to achieve 3.0 and Im done spending money chasing that dream. Had I got a decent fx55, it would have been different and I would be here praising it as well, but as it stands right now... :(
 
aZn_plyR said:
I meant the FX-55 has unlock multiplier.... which means 13x 14x 15x so you can overclock it regardless of ram speeds. :rolleyes:
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Assuming you meant "FSB" speeds and not RAM speeds (RAM dividers make that argument moot), yes, this is true. But usually this is only a problem if you do not get a motherboard that is designed for overclocking. I'd rather have the two cores any day :cool:
 
I just received my FX-55 0516 WPMW.

This will be put under water (DD block, DD BIXIII with 6 Yate Loons) on a DFI SLI-DR when I get home tonight.

Should be quite interesting.
 
AceGoober said:
I just received my FX-55 0516 WPMW.

This will be put under water (DD block, DD BIXIII with 6 Yate Loons) on a DFI SLI-DR when I get home tonight.

Should be quite interesting.
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If that stepping is a san-diego core, with a your water setup, you should more then likely get 2.9ish...... Temps are really bad with these chips, however all my FX chips always loved VOLTAGE :D
 
newls1 said:
If that stepping is a san-diego core, with a your water setup, you should more then likely get 2.9ish...... Temps are really bad with these chips, however all my FX chips always loved VOLTAGE :D
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I disagree with your statement though I realize that many other factors come into play (i.e. location, ambient temperature, humidity, etc)

System Config:

Motherboard: DFI SLI-DR
Memory: OCZ Platinum Rev. 2 (2x512)
Hard Drive: Western Digital Raptor 1500
Video Card: BFG 7800GTX OC

AceGoober3004MhzTempLDTx5.jpg


Under a moderate load, it gets about 34c. Under a full 100% CPU usage load, it gets about 38 to 40c.

This is without my heater running nor having any other heating sources in my apartment. My apartment has great sealing around the sliding glass doors, windows and front door so this will be a contributing factor. I never have to use my heater because of the aforementioned. :)
 
I know this is a noob question but...

How are you guys taking these screen shots? I want to post mine later on tonight after i install my 55, but i dont know how your doing that!

Thanks!
 
Another question, i see most have either changed the multipler, or the FSB, but not both... can you do both?

thanks!
 
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