SwishaMane

Well, its gonna need 1.5vcore for sure, it failed 5 tests in at 1.475v, but got to 10+ at 1.5, so Im gonna leave it at 1.5v. Im 3.9 stable on air, w0mp w0mp! What do you guys think I should do with my fan setup? I'm in the NZXT Aluminum Lexa case. 120 rear, 120 side, 80 side, 120 front, and one 80 in bottom. HSF is setup horizontal, AM3 socket, and set to pull air from intake side fan and push air up. The fan on the hsf aligns center with side 120mm fan just above it, so when the side fan is blowing in, its being sucked up by hs fan and pushed thru fins, which I think is pretty decent, but air flow is proving to be not so great with the temp like they WERE. I'm just trying to gain as much air flow as I can wherever I can...Thanks!

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jimibgood

64 is not fine. Who told you that???

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SwishaMane

Well, my stable 3.8 went the the pooper today. IDK what happened, but all the sudden this rig just isn't stable. After trying everything i could think of, I simply went back to stock, and am currently working my way back up again. Im running AMD Overdrive just to test how far the fsb can go,a nd what it suggests as a highest freq to get an idea, hoping to get 3.6 at LEAST stable, if not 3.7. Thinking to put ACC to work, but since my prime is BSOD'ing instead of thread fails, its hard to figure out problem.

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youra6

Wait... Bios tells you how fast your cpu fan speed?? Im starting to wonder if mine isnt at 100% speed either.

Did you find the cpu fan speed on BIOS or on a program?


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Riou

With a 955, you should be able to get 3.6 GHz stable with 1.40 vcore on a multiplier OC.

SwishaMane

Using the cpu pin, the fan controller in bios only goes up to 87% or w/e... So Im on an aux fan port for 100%, its been life and death. I think ACC kicked my chip into gear, cause I just ran intense 3D for like 2 hours, and it didn't skip a beat, and Im on 1.375vcore still. The AMD Overdrive stability test ran 30 mins before playing game without problem, BUT I haven't ran prime... to me, its stable as long as it don't crash playing games, and dont randomly BSOD. Since I turn my machine off every night, I have every reason to believe this rig is good to go. Im gonna see just how far ACC lets me go tho, doubt it'll get 4 ghz stable.

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Succulent Pacifier

Hey guys,

thanks for the replies; i am in brisbane, outside temp here gets to ~32oC, and inside my room.....hahahaha...well....

so im fairly happy with idle of 38, at the moment I am running this, and will be doing a long stress tonight, its not much of an overclock at all:

First off, just want to say a HUGE thanks to all the other board members for sharing their system specs and general issues.

I also was having huge issues running these RAM initially, after lotsa readin and trial and error I realised I was the uber noob (as I had already realised earlier) and didnt know jackall. I know a lot of people have had issues and probably bagged the ram, but I think I somehow got it going.

Anyway, the system is as the title suggests

cpu: 3680
cpu volt: 1.45v
cpu multi: 16
fsb: 230
ht link: 2070
nb: 2070
nb voltage: 1.35v

8G Ram OCZ3P16002G
ram: 6-6-6-24-2T trc- 27
ram voltage: 1.9v
i think its the 6.66x multi on 230fsb, so...uuhhh....2x766mhz (1533?he he)

I hope didnt forget anything....

Anyway, it appears stable for now, survived prime for an hour and I stopped it, cause im kinda keen to share and hear some feedback before I leave it for longer (its been a while since ive had something....stable.....with this current setup....)

My question is this: I just want to use this system for audio production. Have I done the right thing with the system settings as I have described them (and provided it goes past an hour when I run a longer stress test)?

I am very very new to this overclocking business and I have tried to pick things up about the ram settings on this board (e.g. general settings, and the Tony? 1333mhz vs 1600mhz charts from OCZforum etc.) and from overclock.net about the amd cpu (remember seeing quite a few references to preference for higer fsb and lower multiplier compared to the opposite.)

Should I lower the multiplier to be slightly underlcoking the 1333mhz or better to keep it as is? I have tried 5-5-5-24 timings but prime won't last past the first 2 tests and crash.

Anyway, interested to hear any comments from anyone about any part of this mis-adventure

I have also had these RAM running at 7-7-7-24-2T trc-27 @1.9v and also stable for approx an hour when I stopped the test to try other settings.

Thanks again to all who have shared their system settings! Really appreciate it.