I've got a AMD Phenom(tm) II X4 B45 Processor, it' sthe unlocked X2 545, running at 1.43v with NB of 1.25 to keep the ram stable (at 1600).
I can pass any ram/memory test, stress tests work fine too. I've ran prime for over 24hrs straight so I know this works well. I've got it at stock speeds, 3GHz, I can run it at ~1.45 @3.6GHz but don't due to seeing no point in the gain. I haven't had any hardware failures, crashes, no corruption, the only thing I ever dealt with in the last 3x or so years of doing this is 5 bad sectors in my 640G HDD. They weren't bad either, just corrupt, forced writes in linux and a new format later and it reports everything clean in SMART. I haven't checked it in a while but I'm sure it should be close to the same, I could do a quick check if anyone wants to see the info on it. It's a ASRock m3a770de motherboard, 3 hdds, two over 5 years old and still going strong (the third is the newish 640G). I'm running a GTX460, bios mod to increase voltage but can only do that in windows (due to lack of OC tools released in linux). I can't think of any other background history on the PC that should be relavent, BIOS is latest, that about sums it up.....
The problem is I keep getting MCEs, or minor kernel errors output to terminal through syslog. I've currently disabled syslog to keep the messages out, as they seem to happen randomly. Days go by, nothing happens, some days it's every seccond flooding my terminal. You can see why it's annoying. The thing is, they are all related to the CPU or the data bus. I haven't bothered to log them all, too lazy, though I wonder if this is related to my unlocked cores. My thoughts on this is that the cores require higher voltages, they don't require the 1.43v that I have. I can get away with the 1.425 (or whatever) and it runs fine stable there. 1.4v doesn't seem to work, so I figure if 1.42 is good I'll bump it up the one above just in case. I should also mention they only started happening with newer kernels, if I revert back to before 2.6.38 ( I believe?) they do not appear.
Now everything runs fine as I said, I was just wondering if there is a more elegant way of suppressing the messanges. I also have a concern about failing chipset (MB) or CPU, though it seems to run everything just fine with no crashing. I'll take the off chance that it'll fail sooner than later, I paid $80 for a quad core when they had just come out (C2 revision, I know it's a first model). My other thought on it was that it might be the IPC, since it has troubles with the RAM at 1600 and that's why I upped the NB to 1.25... Any thoughts on this? If it's failing slowly, I don't care, within a year I'll probably go AM3+ and get a Phenom II x6, I don't see the reason currently to buy a BD or anything else when games play accepably on this now. Maybe in 2-3 years, I just don't see games utalizing threads enough to say I need an x6 right now and a Phenom II x4 is still a nice chip.
Oh, I forgot, idle temps are generally at 32C max runs around ~50C.
Edited by mushroomboy - 6/29/12 at 4:13pm
I can pass any ram/memory test, stress tests work fine too. I've ran prime for over 24hrs straight so I know this works well. I've got it at stock speeds, 3GHz, I can run it at ~1.45 @3.6GHz but don't due to seeing no point in the gain. I haven't had any hardware failures, crashes, no corruption, the only thing I ever dealt with in the last 3x or so years of doing this is 5 bad sectors in my 640G HDD. They weren't bad either, just corrupt, forced writes in linux and a new format later and it reports everything clean in SMART. I haven't checked it in a while but I'm sure it should be close to the same, I could do a quick check if anyone wants to see the info on it. It's a ASRock m3a770de motherboard, 3 hdds, two over 5 years old and still going strong (the third is the newish 640G). I'm running a GTX460, bios mod to increase voltage but can only do that in windows (due to lack of OC tools released in linux). I can't think of any other background history on the PC that should be relavent, BIOS is latest, that about sums it up.....
The problem is I keep getting MCEs, or minor kernel errors output to terminal through syslog. I've currently disabled syslog to keep the messages out, as they seem to happen randomly. Days go by, nothing happens, some days it's every seccond flooding my terminal. You can see why it's annoying. The thing is, they are all related to the CPU or the data bus. I haven't bothered to log them all, too lazy, though I wonder if this is related to my unlocked cores. My thoughts on this is that the cores require higher voltages, they don't require the 1.43v that I have. I can get away with the 1.425 (or whatever) and it runs fine stable there. 1.4v doesn't seem to work, so I figure if 1.42 is good I'll bump it up the one above just in case. I should also mention they only started happening with newer kernels, if I revert back to before 2.6.38 ( I believe?) they do not appear.
Now everything runs fine as I said, I was just wondering if there is a more elegant way of suppressing the messanges. I also have a concern about failing chipset (MB) or CPU, though it seems to run everything just fine with no crashing. I'll take the off chance that it'll fail sooner than later, I paid $80 for a quad core when they had just come out (C2 revision, I know it's a first model). My other thought on it was that it might be the IPC, since it has troubles with the RAM at 1600 and that's why I upped the NB to 1.25... Any thoughts on this? If it's failing slowly, I don't care, within a year I'll probably go AM3+ and get a Phenom II x6, I don't see the reason currently to buy a BD or anything else when games play accepably on this now. Maybe in 2-3 years, I just don't see games utalizing threads enough to say I need an x6 right now and a Phenom II x4 is still a nice chip.
Oh, I forgot, idle temps are generally at 32C max runs around ~50C.
Edited by mushroomboy - 6/29/12 at 4:13pm
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