BigIan88 AMD Overclocking Log

All photos are included on the HWbot page if the links dont work for you
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After seeing what condition other people's susanoo arrived in, in comparison to mine - I spent around 40 mins dismantling my bench rig, straightening the pipes and fins the best I can and ive reseated it with the heat pipes near the memory instead. It overlapped the edge of the motherboard tray a fair bit which suggests its supposed to be mounted the other way round but a heatsync on the board obstructs the heat pipes.

Will provide photos later tonight
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my apologies for lack up of updates in the last day or so, i seem to be having issues with the board recognising keyboards atm
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ive tried every USB slot, a ps2 keyboard and a 2nd usb keyboard to be certain - at the moment its sitting here with the battery out to see if that helps anything when i come back to it tomorrow
 
Update - It started recognising keyboards again last night and I had a tinker for about half an hour before going to bed (was around 11.45).

Cant seem to push past the 4.5Ghz barrier without losing stability during boot, even when only using 1 core.

Below tests were ran with both single and quad core:

Test 1

Multi 23

FSB 200

Core +200

NB +40

Memory 1333

Crashes on windows logo load

Test 2

Multi 23

FSB 200

Core +250

NB +40

Memory 1333

Crashes on windows logo load

Test 3

Multi 22.5

FSB 202

Core +200

NB +40

Memory 1333

Crashes on windows load (cursor load)

Test 4

Multi 22.5

FSB 202

Core +250

NB +40

Memory 1333

Crashes on windows load (cursor load)

I`ll be testing high FSB/low multi over the next day or so and see if I can break the barrier that way.

Im hoping to move on from the highest OC next week and try and find the highest stable OC so I can crack on with some other benches
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Update,

Took me quite some time to install TinyXP so it would work properly but I seem to be up and running so im ready to rumble - i`ll be tinkering most of the day so watch this space
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finally broke the 4.5Ghz mark, not by much but im chuffed I was able to overcome it after all the time ive spent tweaking.

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Im going to go for 4.6 tomorrow then thats it for max OC, i`ll get some of the other benchies done
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I cant OC any further regardless of volrages or method, ive hit the proverbial wall with the CPU as far as im concerned.

Had a manic week this so far ans I have a busy week until the weekend - so i cant test any more till then but expect a fair few benchies to be nailed by Monday night
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As im off tomorrow and monday, i`ll be hammering through as many benchmarks as possible.

My apologies for lack of updates recently, been crazy busy
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Highest stable overclock I could get on 30 min prime run, it took me all day to nail this little bugger hehe

+520mhz OC

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Not as bad as you might think
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I wont be using those voltages for a 24/7 folding run though
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Im off work on thursday so i`ll be working through some more benchmarks then
 
A massive apology for the lack of updates, its been a very very busy 2 weeks in work and i have been hammering the overtime as much as possible as i go on holiday with the gf on wednesday so trying to get a decent wage to pay off the debt ive put myself in when i get back.

Im home today so i hope to do as much as i can as my mate is borrowing my spare (bench) card to troubleshoot a womans PC that isnt working atm and i wont be here for a week from wednesday.

sorry again guys, i`ll make it up soon
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Im back off holiday and got my gpu back off my mate on saturday, I tried to run PCmark4 & 5 and AFAIK it ran without errors or skipping tests however an error message came up at the end saying there was an error and my score came back as "0".

Any ideas lads?
 
If you look in the results window at the details it will tell you but I'm going to guess that 4 failed the grammar test and 5 needs media encoder 9.

5 you should be able to get working but 4 is hit and miss,strawbs and I tried everything without luck and pctwin and chudley got it to run so going off us as a test group you have a 50/50 chance.
 
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