Phenom II 965 OC 4.2

[PP Mguire]

Yea I figured it would. My guess would have been jump straight up to 78c actually.

Technically the 965 can handle a bit warmer but for any CPU my rule of thumb is 75 unless you got a backup. Those volts at those temps for long periods of time can cause some serious degradation and power dependence.

 

[KJamesJR]

Dropped my multiplier down to 20 and voltage back down to 1.36. At 4GHz running prime95. So far it hasn't gone past 51c.

 

[PP Mguire]

Sounds like a winner. If you only game, not much sense in generating all the extra heat for no increase.

 

[KJamesJR]

Speaking about gaming, im going to thread Jack my own thread... im running a 5770, I can only hit about 915MHz before the card crashes. The temps are only hitting 63c when this happens. Any thoughts?

 

[PP Mguire]

Needs more volts. I had to bios mod mine to hit over 1000 sadly.

 

[KJamesJR]

Needs more volts. I had to bios mod mine to hit over 1000 sadly.

Just dl`d afterburner. I figured it had something to do with voltage. Running some tests on it currently at 1.27v ive been able to max my core clock now without it failing.

 

[PP Mguire]

Yea they run rather cool for being 5000 series. I probably shouldn't say this, but for any card I have I max the voltage straight off the bat. I then just raise that core until it can't anymore. I was so disappointed I couldn't do 1Ghz that I just modded the bios to up the voltage limit. Then it started getting hot.

 

[KJamesJR]

The max voltage afterburner will allow is 1.35v maybe I should dip into my BIOS... or do you think I wouldn't hit 1GHz with this GPU... I mean, its not even getting hot with the Kombustor test.... like 51c max on the GPU so far.

 

[PP Mguire]

I don't recommend modding your GPU bios. It's way different than overclocking via your motherboard bios.

 

[KJamesJR]

Okay. Im going to see if I cant get my RAM boosted now.