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Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

It is an ex-CPU. It has ceased to be. Its life force extinguished at
12.30am this morning, and while valient efforts were made to save it,
including but not limited to asking nicely, I pronounced at 1am.

21 months of overvolting (1.8v) and overclocking (2Ghz to 2.25) appear to
have done for it - even though it never got much warmer than 48 degrees.
May this be a warning for you all.

As I don't really feel like shelling out £60-odd for a replacement
equivalent (which would be a 2500+ barton), so what are everyone's thoughts
on the new Winchester 3000+ Socket 939 Athlon 64's? Any suitable
motherboard partners?
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

Get a MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum and your winchester at new egg. I did and it
rocks. Most people can get their winchesters to around 2.5 on air.
(Doesn't seem to matter what the original clock was.) Just don't get the
ThermalTake Silent Tower cl-p0025 to cool your chip. I did and while this
cooler kicks ass and keeps it around 40c, it is not oriented the way that I
thought it would be. The K8N Neo 2 Platinum motherboard has rotated the cpu
socket as well as the RAM slots 90 degrees. (Which is actually quite nice)
So instead of airflow being front to back like it should be, it is up and
down. (I just made some ducts so that the fan is pulling in cool air.) You
can do what I did, but there are other traditionally styled cpu heatsinks
that work great and don't assume your motherboard has a standard layout.

Multiplier is kind of locked on Athlon 64 chips. A while back i saw a
little strip of plastic that one could slip on the pins of a T-bred and that
would have the same effect as the conductive paint trick (completely
unlocking the multipliers) and I think it might be a good idea if some
company made a similar device for the Athlon 64 939 since we don't have
access to connecting bridges.

My specs
AMD 64 3000+ Athlon 64 939 90nm Winchester 1800mhz
ThermalTake Silent Tower CL-P0025
MSI K8N Neo 2 Platinum
OCZ PC3500 512x2 2.5cas (dual channel)

BFG Nvidia GeForce FX 5900xt OC

Lian Li aluminium case PC-V1000 (the best case in the world)

MGE 500w power supply psvg-500 rtl

Maxtor 160GB ATA133 x 2 (Raid - 0)

LG Combo drive

HP L2335 flat panel monitor

WinXP

DX9.0c


"Alex Crosby" <tma20@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:Xns959EA7A70D698fugnugly1@195.129.110.68...
> so what are everyone's thoughts
> on the new Winchester 3000+ Socket 939 Athlon 64's? Any suitable
> motherboard partners?
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

Thanks. I actually found this website the other day and was using it to oc.
http://www.dugu9tweaks.net/index.html
I thought it was well written.
So is anyone else out there using the msi k8n neo 2 platinum to oc? I'd
love to hear what bios settings people are using with their 939 chips!



"Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message
news:dAOkd.93041$bk1.13418@fed1read05...
> This article explains how to o/c it.
>
> http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-3100-oc.html
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

On 11 Nov 2004 16:28:53 GMT, Alex Crosby <tma20@hotmail.com> wrote:

> It is an ex-CPU. It has ceased to be. Its life force extinguished at
> 12.30am this morning, and while valient efforts were made to save it,
> including but not limited to asking nicely, I pronounced at 1am.
>
> 21 months of overvolting (1.8v) and overclocking (2Ghz to 2.25) appear to
> have done for it


RIP This one deserves Silicon Heaven


> - even though it never got much warmer than 48 degrees.
> May this be a warning for you all.
>
> As I don't really feel like shelling out £60-odd for a replacement
> equivalent (which would be a 2500+ barton), so what are everyone's
> thoughts
> on the new Winchester 3000+ Socket 939 Athlon 64's? Any suitable
> motherboard partners?


Bonobo
--
DutchDareDevil
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

My 1200 Tbird (the original 100 Mhz FSB) used to overclock 1500 Mhz at 2.1V
Vcore. Then one day it just died. I'm beginning to wonder if the Barton 2800+
which replaced it is dying too because I've had to up the Vcore to 2.1 V Vcore
as well to get it stable at 2350 Mhz. My Barton has a SLK900U while my old
Tbird had an SK7.


>It is an ex-CPU. It has ceased to be. Its life force extinguished at
>12.30am this morning, and while valient efforts were made to save it,
>including but not limited to asking nicely, I pronounced at 1am.
>
>21 months of overvolting (1.8v) and overclocking (2Ghz to 2.25) appear to
>have done for it - even though it never got much warmer than 48 degrees.
>May this be a warning for you all.


-Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email)
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

yep using the same mobo booted with 1.2 bios with winnie 3500+
512 ram 2x 256mb pc 3200 twinmoss bh-5 marked
updated to beta 1.36 got 2.5 mhz on stock cooler retail package
single 200 maxtor sata working fine and one 120 gb ide ibm deckstar
win xp pro with sp 2 and ati 9800 pro in lian li pc 7 case
upgraded from epox 8rda+ nforce 2 and upgraded the nforce drivers
without a hitch, loaded the nvidia sw ide drivers.....

"Roy" <a@a.a> wrote in message news:10p7iivsr9nvm1d@corp.supernews.com...
> Thanks. I actually found this website the other day and was using it to
> oc.
> http://www.dugu9tweaks.net/index.html
> I thought it was well written.
> So is anyone else out there using the msi k8n neo 2 platinum to oc? I'd
> love to hear what bios settings people are using with their 939 chips!
>
>
>
> "Ed Light" <nobody@nobody.there> wrote in message
> news:dAOkd.93041$bk1.13418@fed1read05...
>> This article explains how to o/c it.
>>
>> http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/sempron-3100-oc.html
>
>
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

Roy wrote:


> Multiplier is kind of locked on Athlon 64 chips.
It's a one way lock. You can only choose a lower multiplier but that's
what most overclockers do since higher fsb gives more performance than
higher multiplier if you assume that both end up at the same speed.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

yeah my default is 9 and i can go lower but not higher. I don't know if
semi-locked is the right term or half-locked.



"Ykalon" <ykalon@softhome.net> wrote in message
news:IKfld.121777$dP1.419010@newsc.telia.net...
> Roy wrote:
>
>
>> Multiplier is kind of locked on Athlon 64 chips.
> It's a one way lock. You can only choose a lower multiplier but that's
> what most overclockers do since higher fsb gives more performance than
> higher multiplier if you assume that both end up at the same speed.
 
Archived from groups: alt.comp.hardware.overclocking.amd (More info?)

Roy wrote:
> "Ykalon" <ykalon@softhome.net> wrote in message
> news:IKfld.121777$dP1.419010@newsc.telia.net...
>> Roy wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Multiplier is kind of locked on Athlon 64 chips.
>> It's a one way lock. You can only choose a lower multiplier but
>> that's what most overclockers do since higher fsb gives more
>> performance than higher multiplier if you assume that both end up at
>> the same speed.
>
> yeah my default is 9 and i can go lower but not higher. I don't know
> if semi-locked is the right term or half-locked.

The right term IMO (and the one I'm making efforts to use now) is
adjustable. The CPU is completely locked, in the sense that you cannot
change the configuration of the CPU (which is the startup multiplier and the
maximum multiplier, the "current multiplier" isn't a configuration
parameter). However, you can still adjust the multiplier in the range that
AMD allows you to (but obviously not outside this range). The FX series
isn't so much unlocked in the Athlon XP sense; instead it has a maximum
PowerNow multiplier of 25x (but you still cannot change either the startup
or maximum multipliers).

--
Michael Brown
www.emboss.co.nz : OOS/RSI software and more :)
Add michael@ to emboss.co.nz - My inbox is always open
 
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