I didn't run Orthos very long, because I didn't feel like dedicating a few hours to run Orthos. But, from most of my experience, if it doesn't error in the first minute, it's most likely stable.
I can probably overclock farther, but I didn't feel like feeding it more voltage.
Wonderful, I think i'll buy an opteron. though they aren't getting cheaper ((,
and I've seen X2 4200 EE AM2 drop like 50 bucks at a local store, its at $170 now.
nice results, I would have gotten the 1212 myself, but I really wanted an asus crosshair, so I got the 4000 instead. I am hitting a wall @ 2.95 (can hit 2.8 with stock, 2.95 with 1.4-probably less, never tried lower). Any suggestions? I am guessing its because of my crappy zalman cooler, but I can't afford a tuniq tower right now, so any suggestions will have to be cheap
wow. I have the same exact chip and I'm having huge problems. I can't get mine stable at 2.6 GHz. I've been having random restarts for absolutely no reason.
Both of us use air, but he has a much better aircooler than me. If you are using the stock heatsink, than at least apply some as5 or mx-1 to lower temps and oc higher
Also, try upping the voltage (not to much though) that usually heolps. If none of that works, then I'd say you got a bad stepping
any way some of you overlcocked guys could help me out and possibly do some quicik benchmarks? maybe superpi and pc mark 2005?
i was all set to order a 1212 then newegg jacked the price up on the 1210 and 1212 and then sold out a few hours later of just about all the AM2 opterons.
so now im wondering if its worth the hassle of trying to track one down or jsut do a C2D system with a E6300 instead
Well, to tell you the truth, you are far better off with a 6400 build (6300 is not worth the money) than an am2 build. I have gotten my amd cpu now to 2.99ghz, but an extreme kills it, and the 6400 can surpass an extreme if you oc it, which is why I'm kinda having regrets about going am2 now. But I still love my build regardless, as it has far surpassed my expectations of am2 on air (maybe I'll end up with phase change just so I can finally reach a respectable core 2 oc 8O )
i really wanted to go AMD, and one with a 2x1mb l2 but no way im payin what the eggs askin for opterons now... they got the 1212 at $358 and the 1214 for $241, go figure.
hopefully once some of the 65nm athlons hit the retail market the prices will come down a bit on the 90nm (since theres no apparent performance difference)
I love my Opteron and its way plenty fast, but I do wonder what it would've been like having a C2D. Oh well, I guess I'll have to at least wait for Barcelona before I even think of getting a new computer.
I'd like to disagree with that, the 65nm actually have slower caches from what I've found out, and they are slower in general as they are simple a test subject to prepare the way for k8l
Why not go 4000 for the cache, that's what I use (finally got it up to 3.05ghz with a lot of tweaking, time to celebrate wooo hooooooooooo ) I think that zipzoomfly still sells them, but their service is horrible from my experiences
nice results, I would have gotten the 1212 myself, but I really wanted an asus crosshair, so I got the 4000 instead. I am hitting a wall @ 2.95 (can hit 2.8 with stock, 2.95 with 1.4-probably less, never tried lower). Any suggestions? I am guessing its because of my crappy zalman cooler, but I can't afford a tuniq tower right now, so any suggestions will have to be cheap
I had to boost the voltage to 1.45v to get 2990 mhz. Even at that voltage, my Zalman 9500 keeps a loaded temp of about 50c, while it idles as low as 38c. I don't think its the Zalman cooler that's holding you back. You might need another case fan or two so the case interior temps go down a bit. That should bring the cpu temp down and make life easier on the Zalman.
) I think that zipzoomfly still sells them, but their service is horrible from my experiences