Windows 7 - I think I found a stable OC!!!

I just got my Phemon II x2 3GHz@3.9GHz!!!

Here's what I got running for speeds atm... =) I bothered to see if I can get this stable now...

CPU:3.9
RAM:1400Mhz@1.6v
Chipset:2080Mhz@1.0v
HT:1580

Oh it makes me so happy! Oh I hope I can get this stable, that's an extra 900Mhz on each core, almost a 30% increase per core! Oh that's nice.

Hey MRB

What flavor of BSOD did you want again? <g>

btw you could tell us your system specs now and save the post bsod rush


Seriously

32bit or 64, what video, ram etc.

thanks and good luck

Phenom II x2 3@3750Mhz
Crucial 1G 1600 (though getting another stick soon)
Nvidia Geforece 8800GT
Segate 160G
ASRock M3A770DE Motherboard

I have to underclock the ram though as I didn't get the higher speeds, which I should have and just clocked them to 1700. =( I wasn't thinking at the time though, how lame. Also on a side note, I had to drop it down to 3750 as I don't have my coppter heatsink on atm and temps are causing BSOD's. ARRRRRG. I hate having to figure out all these numbers and what voltages should work ect... lol But I do like getting 3750 per core, It's at least 25% increase =) and the ram doesn't have to be messed with! lolz. It's at 1666 atm now.

[edit] For future notice, that motherboard does allow core unlocking, so if anyone wants to upgrade I'd recomend it as you can get a phenom II and at least try to unlock the cores, I had all cores unlocked but I'm guessing I have bad L2 caches as the disabled cores lock up under load. =( But it's a gamble, and at least you get the possibility to upgrade to x4 later!

Q9650 @ 4.5ghz = 50% oc.

daaam NICE

Welcome to the world of overclocking

Just when you think it's stable... BSoD

I know, I've done it over and over again lolz. It almost borders insanity.

lol, I did reach insanity.

My machine has been overclocked to varying limits for a year. It's passed 24hrs P95 /24hrs memtest/ 30-50 passes of IBT etc several times yet I still had varying degrees of BSoD instances.

A few days ago I had one BSoD too many, finally snapped and went right back to stock clocks.

The thought of starting it all over again just leaves me cold at the moment

30-50 passes of IBT is too much, you will shorten the CPU's life.

There is no need to run that many passes, 5 is the REC so say 10-15.

You seem to have tested it in all types bar 3D, I have seen PC's passes all Prime/IBT etc and fail in a Games or 3D Mark, same goes vice versa.

Yeah, I only did that many runs once or twice when I was frustrated. I ended up ditching it altogether because it was too harsh with no guarantee of stability anyway.

lol, that's where I 'truly tested' the OC's and got the vast majority of Blue Screens.

Some games worked without a hitch, others failed sporadically and some just crashed and burned straight away. The crash dumps were never conclusive.

I was literally tearing my hear out trying to work out whether it was hardware or a dodgy driver that followed me through different builds/OS'es.

I'm still not 100% sure, although I'm leaning towards h/ware. I probably pushed something too far for too long