My AMD Opteron 165 OC on Asus A8R-MVP

[Kooldino]

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<!-- / icon and title --> I got it up to 2.53Ghz or so, but in order to do so, I had to sacrifice RAM timings.

However, this is my highest OC so far with agressive memory timings.

My OCZ Memory from newegg was apparently rated at 2-3-2-5, but I can't get it to run at any faster than 2.5-3-2-5. Even the SPD says it;s 2.5-3-2-5. Sounds like false advertising to me.

I'm using a Big Typhoon HSF, a CCBWE Opteron 165 from Mwave, OCZ Platinum Memory from Newegg, an an Asus A8R-MVP.

Max CPU Temp I saw (on an open case) was 118*F. I as running 1.4x Volts on the core, ~2.8V or so on the RAM.

Also, I'm not sure if it affects performance or anything, but I had to run the HT link at 800Mhz. When I put it to 1Ghz, I wasn't having very good luck.

I stress tested my setup by running Prime95 along side of the SiSoft Sandra Burn in Wizard for 8 hours.

Anyway, without further ado:

 

[atticus1398]

not to shabby, now you just need to buy my water cooling set up so you can get that thing up to 3ghz!

 

[Kooldino]

not to shabby, now you just need to buy my water cooling set up so you can get that thing up to 3ghz!

Haha, and MUCH better RAM if I wanted to go that crazy.

The highest I've seen out of an Opteron 165 was 2.8Ghz, and that was on Water.

Being that this benchmarks three times faster than my current system, I'm pretty happy.

 

[atticus1398]

yeah, the opterons oc very nicely

 

[Kooldino]

yeah, the opterons oc very nicely

Especially when you have a nice HSF...

pictured left to right

my Big Typhoon HSF, the stock AMD HSF, an old Socket 7 HSF, a quarter

 

[warrier04]

i've been messing w/ overclocking recently. i have a pentium d 840 rated at 3.2 GHz.

never really done any overclocking before, but i've been reading the ExtremeOverclocking forums a bunch.

congrats on the oc.