Opteron 170

[Clarity]

I've changed an order to the Opteron 170 b/c of it's OC potential. I'm going to do 2.6 ghz on air. Any air cooling suggestions?

 

[vimka]

First off, read this: http://www.arcticsilver.com/arctic_silver_instructions.htm

Secondly, get a very good heat-sink. Something like a Thermaltake Sonic Tower (be sure to get a 120mm fan), a Zalman CNPS 7000B, the Swiftech MCX6400-V (you'll need an aftermarket fan here, too) - you get the idea.

As for a case, you'll want something with very good air-flow and lots of room for cable routing. The Gigabyte Aurora is amazingly good. The Thermaltake Armor series is also quite nice, as is pretty much anything by Lian-Li.

 

[Akrita]

I have the same CPU. I overclocked it since I open the box @ 2.6
No voltage change no nothing, just the bus speed 260Mhz.
Now, the thing is I am using water cooling and I am getting 37C on load and like 30C normal. I really don't think the stock cooler gona give you problems as long as you stay at the default voltage 1.35v.
I am looking forward to get 2.8ghz or 3 ghz @ but 2.6 is still awsome. 8)

 

[Covered_in_bees]

Pretty much the same story. I managed 2.6GHz without any voltage mods. I'm using a Zalman CNPS9500, and temps stay just below 50C under full load (both cores).

The stock hsf is very good quality, and you should be able to achieve 2.6GHz on that without any problems. If your still keen to get a better hsf, I can highly recommend the Zalman CNPS9500.

 

[WOWchamp]

I really dont think its OC ability is any better then the 165. It may be slightly cooler then the 165 but both shouldn't get far past 2.6ghz and even with water cooling it isnt likely to hit 3 ghz on either unless you get lucky and get a good opty.

165's should easily get to 2.6 on air as well.. possibly with comfortable temps with the AMD stock heatpipe cooler.

The only advantge IMHO is the higher mulitplier. If you have a board that doesnt like or doesnt let you get neigh on 300FSB then the higher multi will help out.

 

[Dresden]

You'd be surprised how much a goddamned mulitplier helps. I got my opty 170 up to 2.6 right now, but I have volt modded it to 1.45, but I didn't even try with it at stock volts. Anyways, I'm gonna take it further, because I'm like f()*kin positive I can get it to 2.8gigz. But, for this, I must sacrifice my 1:1 memory divider ratio 🙁 I got DDR500 OC'd to DDR520, and it WILL NOT OC any further.

Argh.

Oh yea, so a more robust multipier would be real sweet, cause then you don't have to worry so much about memory divider. I've also heard that the 1:1 ratio is the best ratio, and offers the most performance. Can anyone vouch for this?

 

[PDH-NicFury]

I have my Opteron 170 at 3GHz (fsb [htt] at 300) with a 3:2 memory divider, and works well enough if I keep my room temperature at 67F or below... Exception being stress testing Prime95 and Memtest86, fails both. Can do CPU Burn In also, gotta do 2 simultaneously to get both cores going 100%. Idle is 35-36C and load is 42-43C at 1.39volts, tops out at 45F/ resets (quick BSOD, restarts) if room temp goes above 70F.

Wish the multiplier went higher like my FX-53 (up to 25), would try to drop my htt (fsb) and get a 5:4 or 1:1 mem divider. Might just grab DDR600 memory and see how it does with 1:1 mem divider at 3GHz, see if it solves my problems.

PDH-NicFury :twisted:

 

[Untug]

Alright I am a total newb to my NF4 Mobo NB / SB Sli . I am looking in my Asus A8N32-Sli Deluxe and I have no idea how to OC this thing. I have OCZ PC4000 2gig Ram to do 250 FSB, but I cant seem to get my prossesor to go up. My ram reads as 250mhz in CPUZ but my core is 2ghz. I am so confused can anyone shedd some light on this NB / Sb speed and stuff. Please. Thanks in advance. And sorry for the newb question.

 

[a1ien]

I have my Opteron 170 at 3GHz (fsb [htt] at 300) with a 3:2 memory divider, and works well enough if I keep my room temperature at 67F or below... Exception being stress testing Prime95 and Memtest86, fails both. Can do CPU Burn In also, gotta do 2 simultaneously to get both cores going 100%. Idle is 35-36C and load is 42-43C at 1.39volts, tops out at 45F/ resets (quick BSOD, restarts) if room temp goes above 70F.

Wish the multiplier went higher like my FX-53 (up to 25), would try to drop my htt (fsb) and get a 5:4 or 1:1 mem divider. Might just grab DDR600 memory and see how it does with 1:1 mem divider at 3GHz, see if it solves my problems.

PDH-NicFury :twisted:

It fails both Prime95 and Memtest86? Then what's the point of having it at 3Ghz....?

 

[WOWchamp]

I may just be selling my freezer 64 pro... apparently I thought it performed right up there with the 9500. From a review from short media forums its nowhere even close.

The 1 digit increase is good if you didnt invest in a nice premium overclockers board like I did (DFI LanParty UT nF4 Ultra-D).

My motherboard can handle HTT speeds well in excess of 300... and 300x9=2700 so I should have no issues getting this thing to 2600 lmao.

 

[Dresden]

Yea, a1ien is right. It's purty cool you got it to 3GHz, but damn, if it can't perform underload, you got a unstable setup. Drop it down to between 2.8-2.9GHz and play around with all your other settings at those speeds and see if you can make that work. I've hit 2.8gigz on my 170, but it rebooted right when I logged in to Windows...lol...faster than 13 year old's orgasm.

My mobo sucked the life outta me though, I've had enough with it(ASUS A8R32-MVP*cough* a POS*cough*). Hopefully the DFI I ordered is a stable board with a better chance of non-problematic OCing.

 

[illicitsc]

bump the vcore higher so u can keep that 3ghz and brag

 

[Covered_in_bees]

Alright I am a total newb to my NF4 Mobo NB / SB Sli . I am looking in my Asus A8N32-Sli Deluxe and I have no idea how to OC this thing. I have OCZ PC4000 2gig Ram to do 250 FSB, but I cant seem to get my prossesor to go up. My ram reads as 250mhz in CPUZ but my core is 2ghz. I am so confused can anyone shedd some light on this NB / Sb speed and stuff. Please. Thanks in advance. And sorry for the newb question.

What's happening is that the motherboard is automatically dropping the cpu multiplier.

To manually set the multiplier on this board, you need to set the FID/VID Change parameter to 'Manual'. This can be found on the Jumperfree Configuration screen.

Once this is set to manual, you will be able to manually fix the multiplier for the cpu. This also requires that you set the Vcore manually also.

For the NB/SB speed, reduce these to 4x with a FSB at 250. Your basically trying to keep the speed as close to 1000 as possible, so if you go much over 250FSB, drop them to 3x.