AMD 965 4ghz

KING_OF_SAND

KING_OF_SAND

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can anyone tell me what i am missing here?! i have a AMD 965 clocked at 4.01ghz and 1.48v and my NB is at 2.66ghz with no voltage increase. but if i go up any more on the CPU clock it crashes. i have uped my volts to 1.5v and that didnt work, then i tried 1.52v, all the way up to 1.6v and everything in between, and still no luck. im am using a corsair H50 to cool it and i have PLENTY of room to go higher, right now at 4.01ghz with 1.48v my temps never exceed 46c and i idle at about 32c. what can i do, my goal is 5ghz or when ever my corsair H50 stops giving me safe temps which ever comes first.

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Yeah its really simple. The chip can not do any more matey. You have found its limit. Which I might add for a 965 is fairly good
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That's bang on really, you're lucky if you can get 4GHz stable from a 965 to be honest. Only the chips with a VID of 1.375 or less seem to be able to manage it reliably. You could probably really bump up the volts on a 1.400 VID chip and get there, but it probably wouldn't be a 24/7 clock.

Comparitively, the new 6-core Phenoms reach 4GHz with a lot more ease, plus you get two more cores! You know where I'm going with this....!
 
well that is one of the downsides with AMD is that it a REALLY BIG crapshoot when it comes to overclocking. dont get me wrong i love AMD, but they are no where near as good as intel processors is terms of reliability, overclockabilaty and speed, intel is less of a crapshoot. now that does not mean intel processors are worth the money either. i think the are WAY overpriced, there 980x should not cot 5x more than the 1090t, i dont care what anybody says. but i am happy with playing the most intensive games at 90+FPS lol.
 
Hmmm.....i can get my i7 930 stable at 3.8ghz at 1.23v

3.81 and it crashes, no matter how many volts i give it. I went all brave and gave it 1.43v and still 4ghz was not prime stable, so i called it a day.

Guess i got me a "bad" chip, its still 50-50 with intel on which chips you get. I can get my 965 Be stable at 4ghz but with 1.49-1.5v.

I personally know a guy getting his 965 BE on 4.2Ghz with 1.42v. We even have the same mother board and PSU, he got a "lucky" chip.

He is thinking to go H2O and see if he can get 4.7Ghz, he got 4.5 stable on air at 1.52v but running 60-61C on air, that was as far as he could push it.

anyway, just because a few people get xxx Ghz from a chip,, doesnt mean you can do the same even if youre setup is exactly the same as theirs.
 
Alfa_Male said:
Hmmm.....i can get my i7 930 stable at 3.8ghz at 1.23v

3.81 and it crashes, no matter how many volts i give it. I went all brave and gave it 1.43v and still 4ghz was not prime stable, so i called it a day.

Guess i got me a "bad" chip, its still 50-50 with intel on which chips you get. I can get my 965 Be stable at 4ghz but with 1.49-1.5v.

I personally know a guy getting his 965 BE on 4.2Ghz with 1.42v. We even have the same mother board and PSU, he got a "lucky" chip.

He is thinking to go H2O and see if he can get 4.7Ghz, he got 4.5 stable on air at 1.52v but running 60-61C on air, that was as far as he could push it.

anyway, just because a few people get xxx Ghz from a chip,, doesnt mean you can do the same even if youre setup is exactly the same as theirs.
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Are you only jacking the vcore up? Because that is not the only thing you change to stabilize a clock.
 
Alfa_Male said:
Hmmm.....i can get my i7 930 stable at 3.8ghz at 1.23v

3.81 and it crashes, no matter how many volts i give it. I went all brave and gave it 1.43v and still 4ghz was not prime stable, so i called it a day.

Guess i got me a "bad" chip, its still 50-50 with intel on which chips you get. I can get my 965 Be stable at 4ghz but with 1.49-1.5v.

I personally know a guy getting his 965 BE on 4.2Ghz with 1.42v. We even have the same mother board and PSU, he got a "lucky" chip.

He is thinking to go H2O and see if he can get 4.7Ghz, he got 4.5 stable on air at 1.52v but running 60-61C on air, that was as far as he could push it.

anyway, just because a few people get xxx Ghz from a chip,, doesnt mean you can do the same even if youre setup is exactly the same as theirs.
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do you have a cheap motherboard?
 
Alfa_Male said:
Hmmm.....i can get my i7 930 stable at 3.8ghz at 1.23v

3.81 and it crashes, no matter how many volts i give it. I went all brave and gave it 1.43v and still 4ghz was not prime stable, so i called it a day.

Guess i got me a "bad" chip, its still 50-50 with intel on which chips you get. I can get my 965 Be stable at 4ghz but with 1.49-1.5v.

I personally know a guy getting his 965 BE on 4.2Ghz with 1.42v. We even have the same mother board and PSU, he got a "lucky" chip.

He is thinking to go H2O and see if he can get 4.7Ghz, he got 4.5 stable on air at 1.52v but running 60-61C on air, that was as far as he could push it.

anyway, just because a few people get xxx Ghz from a chip,, doesnt mean you can do the same even if youre setup is exactly the same as theirs.
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4ghz is very broad you can get there in many different ways, but basically check your mem speed and timings (if you havnt set this up manually you need too) and then its down to ICH volts, and probably the main problem will be setting up the QPI VOLTS and the UCLK speed (needs to be twice the mem speed basically)

Really does just sound like you have most of the bios on Auto settings, and for a decent clock you need to get in there and learn what does what
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