odin673

I have an AM3 Gigabyte board. Works just fine for unlocking

Fitzbane

I'm sure unlocking works with some of the gigabyte AM3 boards, but as far as the 790XT I don't think there is a bios for it yet.

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RAZER MAMBA. 5600 DPI. NUFF SAID.

Sleeping Giant

Yeah, I had to update my BIOS to get the ACC option.

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LiLBlueNinja

thlnk3r, Thanks.

I should have stick with the Gigabyte X as to the more expensive XT board. I wonder if the F5 bios will work for the XT board. Does anyone know?

TIA.

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staryoshi

This is my first AMD desktop CPU. As such, I'm a n00b when it comes to OCing. So far, everything I've done has been from changing the multiplier and the voltage. So my question is this: Am I able to raise the bus speed or HT or whatever (in which case, WHAT should I raise) to take some of the burden off of the chip and let me scale back the CPU voltage a bit?

I'm working with stability at 3.7Ghz quad right now, crashed under prime earlier after 15 mins but stable in everything else @ 1.408-1.440v (varies), which is already high and I want to hit 3.8Ghz.... (prime has been OK for about 15 mins this time so far... doing prime small)

Here are my results so far btw, so you can see how well it scales with more cores and higher clock speed. Most benches are from the everest suite, and a few are from 3dMark06 CPU tests. The scores are low because I've taken out my GPU and am waiting to replace it, running benchies on integrated right now :P (HD3300 isn't too bad, interestingly enough)

Check it out

On a side note, I'm playing around with my e8500, too... sitting at 4.2Ghz but it's cost me 1.312v :P

edit: Passed first 14 tests in 14 minutes, so i'm ready to try 3.8 and more voltage... gulp... unless you guys can show me how to raise HT or w/e :P

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thlnk3r

Staryoshi, you most certainly can raise the HTT (reference clock speed). That technically won't really take burden off the processor. When you raise the reference clock speed or bus speed you're still overclocking the processor. In my opinion the reference clock speed is great for refining an overclock. Raising the processor multiplier sort of limits you when you're looking for that extra 20Mhz. Raising the reference clock speed also puts more stress on the chipset. Luckily you have an unlocked multiplier so that should help you out quite a bit. If you have time I recommend reading over the Phenom II Overclocking Guide. It's extremely helpful and should answer some of your questions. Check it out by going here: http://www.overclock.net/amd-general...ing-guide.html.

Good luck

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staryoshi

It mostly just confirmed things I suspected (have a general idea of things from OC experience) but thanks for the link I was a misguided youth when I asked that question

thlnk3r

Staryoshi, no problem. Just let us know if you have any more questions. We'll be here

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Radiopools

I don't really have anything to add, just wanted to say that this thread has been extremely informative in helping me choose a processor as well as other parts for my first PC build. I'd give the whole thread +rep if I could

Korak

I just bought AMD Athlon x 2 7750BE two months ago and got it nice with stock cooler http://img413.imageshack.us/img413/226/oc3200.jpg . But today, I just bought Noctua NH-U12P CPU Cooler, and suddenly got me thinking "what the hell, Im not gonna change the new cooler into "old" CPU, and I order AMD Phenom x2 550BE"

Can´t wait that to come this week... I let you know whats the OC.

Anyone have an idea if its possible to open the cores with my mobo http://www.asus.com/Product.aspx?P_ID=5tWNOaMAxGs1FXIQ Asus M4N72-E