Phenom II OverClocking Essentials

[Krow]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

[damngoodman999]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

Which cabinet in iball are u using ??

Then do u apply thermal paste over thermal sticker in the Stock cooler ??

[desiibond]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

hey
keep that 120mm on the side panel of cabinet. in my pc, the temps came down by nearly 10degrees after installing CM 120mm fan

[damngoodman999]

I'm getting Idle core temps of 48-52 and load temps of 62-66!!! I'm gonna get new thermal paste and I also added an 80mm fan which is 3 years old. Came with my old iBall Cabby!It doesnt seem to have much of an effect though! I'll get a CPU cooler and try to turn the 120mm back panel fan inward and c what happens... Will keep u posted ppl...

I got the solution : in the BIOS the Vcore watts is 1.39 something Set it to 1.35 then the Temperature will be less , with 1.39 u can OC to 3.3Ghz to 3.5Ghz

Actual Vcore watts is 1.25 for normal Phenom 2 940 3ghz , with good CPU cooler put the Vcore to 1.45 & OC to 3.8Ghz to 4Ghz

[desiibond]

wow. that's a great piece of info. Let me try to push it to 3.5GHz. first time that I am seeing that decreasing vcore voltage is resulting in better overclock

[damngoodman999]

^^ i dint find that by self , i just searching about the mobo info i found in some forums

[Krow]

I got the solution : in the BIOS the Vcore watts is 1.39 something Set it to 1.35 then the Temperature will be less , with 1.39 u can OC to 3.3Ghz to 3.5Ghz

Actual Vcore watts is 1.25 for normal Phenom 2 940 3ghz , with good CPU cooler put the Vcore to 1.45 & OC to 3.8Ghz to 4Ghz

I'll try nw that u told me! I'll try 1.25V 1st. Got DUAL BIOS so no need to reset CMOS every time I fail! GIGABYTE rocks!

[damngoodman999]

I'll try nw that u told me! I'll try 1.25V 1st. Got DUAL BIOS so no need to reset CMOS every time I fail! GIGABYTE rocks!

Ur motherboard is wonderful board especially for phenom 2 , Get F1 bios ,,

[Krow]

Which cabinet in iball are u using ??

Then do u apply thermal paste over thermal sticker in the Stock cooler ??


Ur motherboard is wonderful board especially for phenom 2 , Get F1 bios ,,

I have CM Elite 334. Old one was iBall Grabit. I dint put any thermal paste yet. M gonna buy that before the CPU cooler. Is it great if I remove the Thermal sticker pad or whatever that was stock and apply only the Thermal Paste? Btw, The inversion of the stock cabby fan made a change of 2-3 degs.

I suppose I'll update the BIOS too. I thank topgear for mobo selection. He recommended it to me. The best thing is that 4 SATA2 ports are at right angles and 2 are vertical, which isnt the case in GA-MA790GP-DS4H.

[Krow]

Okay... So I already have F1 bios. I'm updating to F2 as F3 is still beta (F3A). Then I'll lower the vcore to 1.25 and i'll report.

[desiibond]

I'll try nw that u told me! I'll try 1.25V 1st. Got DUAL BIOS so no need to reset CMOS every time I fail! GIGABYTE rocks!

True. When one OC failed on my dual bios gigabyte board, the backup got copied to the primary BIOS and the system was up and running as if nothing had happened. No need to reset BIOS manually and no need to remove battery

[desiibond]

I have CM Elite 334. Old one was iBall Grabit. I dint put any thermal paste yet. M gonna buy that before the CPU cooler. Is it great if I remove the Thermal sticker pad or whatever that was stock and apply only the Thermal Paste? Btw, The inversion of the stock cabby fan made a change of 2-3 degs.

I suppose I'll update the BIOS too. I thank topgear for mobo selection. He recommended it to me. The best thing is that 4 SATA2 ports are at right angles and 2 are vertical, which isnt the case in GA-MA790GP-DS4H.

Better remove that Thermal sticker and clean both processor and heat sink. Then apply thermal paste.

[Krow]

^^^ Okay... I'll buy thermal paste 2mrw.

Idle core temp came down to 43/44 @ 1.25V. Its 46 nw, but my comp has been running for almost a day n a half nw.