I had the Gigabyte GA-990XA-UD3, Socket-AM3+, combined with the FX8350 and the good old VapoChill LS from 2005, still producing 50 degrees below zero (@ max 200w), but I tried overclocking, without any results.. AND, every time I changed something in bios and clicked on save and restart, it shut down the pc. Very frustrating!
At that time I only had a geforce 210 3dcard, and a Corsair CX 600M, psu since I only use linux (Ubuntu 12.04LTS with Gnome classic) .... I read that 600w psu should be plenty.
After only one month I bought another mainboard.. the ASUS SABERTOOTH 990FX R2.0 AM3+ and you know what.... OC wasnt really happending there either!
And then..... after a while... (using F@H and reading about Pyrit and CAL++) I bought a used XFX 7990 with some watercooler block from ebay.....and I had to upgrade my psu, at least thats what forums said.... so I bought a xfx 850w psu... this: XFX ProSeries XXX Edition 850W PSU
Feel free to browse trough some pictures from my upgrade to new psu, watercooled 3d card, etc......
http://www.tjuetre.com/pc/
(I didnt find any import picture button her.)
And finally... my whole point.. OC, either the gigabyte or the asus, really doesnt work for my part.... I mean, on the asus, I have managed to boot on 5.6Ghz, but whenever I do some stresstesting, system freezes... I tried at 5.4 and 5.2 and 5.0 at different voltages... nothing works... the vapochill went from minus 50 to 0 in less than one minute, and then shut down the pc.
AND I used maybe 3-4 hours trying to find a stable oc, but nothing. Now I am back on 4ghz without turbo mode on. Everything is on auto in bios. Now its prime95 stable and I can compress bd movies in handbrake without blackscreen and kernel panic. Some forums said I could put the cpu to 4.4 with stock voltage, but I dont care. I guess the colder the cpu is, the better it is.
And regardless the new gpu, I still cant get the folding@home to work properly. But I guess I have to find another thread about that....
Greeting Norway.
Daniel....
PS! My OC record with the Athlon XP 4800 is 3.4ghz... with this vapochill....
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=147839
Ah, it reminds me about the DFI mainboards.. I miss them! I actually OC my DFI Lanparty to death, and got a new one for free!
