Hi guys, I really hope you can help me out a little on this one.
I have just purchased a MA785GM-US2H Gigabyte motherboard and 550BE Phenom II.
Now I have been tinkering with the OC and unlocking for some time to try and figure out
A: If the extra 2 cores are stable when unlocked or if something is holding me back
B:What a few of my temps are in various monitoring tools.
First up, I thought that unstable cores during prime95 testing would lock the system up, however it just keeps shutting off. Which made me think it was a temperature problem? Is this so? Ive had no lock up, ive had 2 blue screens and several shut downs but no lock ups.
Also the blue screens were when the CPU was back in dual core mode and overclocked above 3.7Ghz.
Im aware the phenom 2 cpu temp monitor doest work once quad core is enabled so was working out my temps. From what I can gather using easy tune, CPUID HW & Riva tuner with everest plugins The only way is to monitor the socket temps which I believe is TMPIN2 in CPUID HW, CPU TEMP in rivatuner. Easy tune seems to report my CPU temp differently to AMD overdrive and CPUID HW when in dual core. How can I accurately tell whats what?? Any ideas? But Easy Tune CPU temp does correspond to TMPIN1 in CPUID HW. Im completely beffuzled :S
Also, two more things.
Could it be that my PSU is no where near enough on the 12v rail? I know its dodgy as hell with cheap PSU's but really cant get one yet. Its only a 450W. I noticed that in easytune its showing that im at 11.668v Whilst rivatuner is reporting a nice 12.52.
And lastly, ive heard that gigabyte boards under volt the CPU. Ive set CPU V to 1.45 but its being reported in everything as 1.40
Sorry for the long post. Any help would be awesome guys.
Thanks
I have just purchased a MA785GM-US2H Gigabyte motherboard and 550BE Phenom II.
Now I have been tinkering with the OC and unlocking for some time to try and figure out
A: If the extra 2 cores are stable when unlocked or if something is holding me back
B:What a few of my temps are in various monitoring tools.
First up, I thought that unstable cores during prime95 testing would lock the system up, however it just keeps shutting off. Which made me think it was a temperature problem? Is this so? Ive had no lock up, ive had 2 blue screens and several shut downs but no lock ups.
Also the blue screens were when the CPU was back in dual core mode and overclocked above 3.7Ghz.
Im aware the phenom 2 cpu temp monitor doest work once quad core is enabled so was working out my temps. From what I can gather using easy tune, CPUID HW & Riva tuner with everest plugins The only way is to monitor the socket temps which I believe is TMPIN2 in CPUID HW, CPU TEMP in rivatuner. Easy tune seems to report my CPU temp differently to AMD overdrive and CPUID HW when in dual core. How can I accurately tell whats what?? Any ideas? But Easy Tune CPU temp does correspond to TMPIN1 in CPUID HW. Im completely beffuzled :S
Also, two more things.
Could it be that my PSU is no where near enough on the 12v rail? I know its dodgy as hell with cheap PSU's but really cant get one yet. Its only a 450W. I noticed that in easytune its showing that im at 11.668v Whilst rivatuner is reporting a nice 12.52.
And lastly, ive heard that gigabyte boards under volt the CPU. Ive set CPU V to 1.45 but its being reported in everything as 1.40
Sorry for the long post. Any help would be awesome guys.
Thanks