A64 O/Cer's

[K8MAN]

Hi I just thought I'd post this here as I've never seen it mentioned. Those of you who remember back when the Winchester 90nm A64 came out there were quite a few cpu deaths when used with high voltage memory(3V+). 0.13 chips did not suffer from this as they had a fairly high stock v-core. This problem still exists today with the venice and SD stepping A64's and X2's but not to the same extent as most people have switched to high clocking TCCD or TCC5 bases memory that requires no more than 2.8V. If u ever OC with BH5 mem or any other high voltage ram for that matter, DO NOT leave your v-core stock. You MUST increase it even just a little bit to give the CPU the electrical resistance to continue running and prevent it from being killed. So if your new X2 run's @ 1.35V by defaults and o/c's to 2.6 on the stock volts and your running BH5 or similar with high volts, increase the voltage to 1.375 or so and you wont have to worry about your chip dying for a long time. This info came from AMD and DFI if anyone is wondering and I felt it would be some useful info to spread.

 

[mpjesse]

Shouldn't this be in the overclocking section?

-mpjesse

 

[K8MAN]

If a mod wishes to move it then there'd nothing wrong with it. I just think its some good info that should be spread around.

 

[mpjesse]

No argument there.

 

[Ned_Flanders]

Nice post, Scammy will be pleased.

 

[Crashman]

Yeh, you're going to have to lead into that by saying this only applies to DFI boards though, or you'll confuse people.