What's a typical NB overclock on a Phenom II

[wizzlebippi]

I have a Phenom II X6 1090t BE that I've started overclocking simply because I can. At stock voltages I hit 3.6GHz core and 2.4GHz NB perfectly stable (all multi) and under the stock cooler. I'm currently testing 2.6GHz NB under prime 95 blend, but that took 1.25V. I'm just wondering what do people seem to hit on NB overclocks, volts and speed?

 

[philologos]

I actually managed 2.5 GHz NB on stock voltage (1.15v) with my 1055t. This was stable for 24 hours of Prime95 blend stress testing.

If you look through the forums on overclock.net under AMD CPUs and AMD Mobos, you will see tables of stable overclocks provided by the members there, which gives you some idea of what is possible. Of course, YMMV.

For performance you want the NB frequency to equal 3 to 4 times your memory frequency. Ex:

666 MHz RAM (1333 MHz DDR) ~ 2000 MHz - 2666 MHz NB
800 MHz RAM (1600 MHz DDR) ~ 2400 MHz - 3200 MHz NB

 

[wizzlebippi]

Ok, so 2.6GHz is a good speed for my DDR3 1333 RAM. I still have a while until I'm satisfied with prime 95, it's only been running for 4 hours.

Until I get better cooling, this is probably all the faster I can go.

Thanks.