My Opty's Arrived!! Woo-Hoo!!

[b0dge]

...It's a 146. Stepping CAB2E. Could've been better, could've been worse.

Now let the overclocking begin.... Oh s*i*, I'm going away for the weekend, I'll have to wait til Monday night!! AAAARRRRGHGGGHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Any bets on what I'll get out of it on an Asrock Dual-Sata2 (Sorrry Shumway, couldn't get holdof the VSTA!)With 1.5Gb Corsair Value Select DDR400?? I'm guessing not much, maybe 2.4Ghz? Any Advance on 2.4?

 

[hmammen]

the most ive seen with a similar setup was i think 2.56ghz......but im not sure how long it was stable.

 

[Shumway]

Any bets on what I'll get out of it on an Asrock Dual-Sata2 (Sorrry Shumway, couldn't get holdof the VSTA!)With 1.5Gb Corsair Value Select DDR400?? I'm guessing not much, maybe 2.4Ghz? Any Advance on 2.4?

Traitor!!!

Anyway's here's a couple tip's and trick's for that board to help you get the most out of it

 

[b0dge]

Hey thanks Shumway!

When I get back on monday, I'll let you know how it all goes...

 

[NosBoost300]

my opteron 146 easily hit 2.9 ghz without a divider on my ddr500.. i think you could do 2.8 with a divider easy... the max i went with voltage was only 1.56.. but that was to achieve above 2.8 ghz.. so good luck, and i know you'll love the cpu

 

[b0dge]

Good news: I'm posting this on my PC running an Opteron 146 (@2.2 so far...) and an asrock 939DUAL-SATA2. (Yay!!)

Bad news: I'm running in safe mode cos XP won't boot after a repair...

It booted the first time ok, so i proceeded to install the mobo drivers, then restarted... No bootio.. So I did a "Last known god config.." boot, and it was cool, but I had to install the drivers again. And now it won't boot again...

Any ideas?

EDIT: I just did a fresh install and everything's cool.

PS. I'm at 2.5GHz stable so far...

 

[b0dge]

Check me out!!

http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f44/b0dge/Overclock.jpg

2.8 on stock cooling straight from the box!!

 

[Lord AnthraX]

oops

 

[b0dge]

Hmmm, It's already at 1.45 in the BIOS (in the pic it's 1.472v)

I was wondering if it was gonna be stable, so i ran Prime95 for about twenty mins, and it was ok. ( I know, i should run it for 24 hours....)

Also, my 6800 won't oc anywhere near as much as it did before i changed the cpu and mobo, any ideas why? I'm still using coolbits to do it, but it wont go much above stock (450mhz)...

EDIT: Ah, I see you spotted the Vcore in the pic! Do you still think the 1m Pi time should be better though?

 

[The General]

Are they used or something? Why'd you get an Opteron?