maverik-sg1
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Hi Dave,
One of the issues present by certain AMD cpu's is the dreaded cold bug. This means that once the cpu is cooled below subzero it stops working properly.
Drop in here the text written on the IHS of the cpu and we will be able to tell you if your cpu will suffer or thrive under these cold conditions - it will be no comfort to you to know that operons are more cold bugged than any other 939 cpu.
It's one of the first things things phase boys look at when buying AMD processors. I am sure that there are cold bug free cpu's around here that you could buy or swap for your current 150 that being the case.
As for settings etc - I think you will find in the motherboard section Mav''s DFI BIOS settings, use this a your guide to overclocking the BIOS of your DFI.
I know you are using a chilly one cooling head - please also make sure that the donut (large rubber seal) is intact - its a great method to provide an easy to achieve seal around the cpu, but any damge through the walls of the donut itself presents an opportunity for condensation to occur - the bain of all phase cooled machines (usually kills the motherboard).
Providing the CPU is not cold bugged - u should be able to see 268x12 for 24/7 and uup to 275x12 for benching.
FX series cpus are much loved as instead of raising the FSB of the CPU you can in fact use the muliplier to get higher clocks (e.g. 200x17) and also set the ram to run at a multiplied frequency which reduces the bandwidth bottleneck normally associated with multiplier only overclocking.
Good luck my friend - exciting times.
Mav
One of the issues present by certain AMD cpu's is the dreaded cold bug. This means that once the cpu is cooled below subzero it stops working properly.
Drop in here the text written on the IHS of the cpu and we will be able to tell you if your cpu will suffer or thrive under these cold conditions - it will be no comfort to you to know that operons are more cold bugged than any other 939 cpu.
It's one of the first things things phase boys look at when buying AMD processors. I am sure that there are cold bug free cpu's around here that you could buy or swap for your current 150 that being the case.
As for settings etc - I think you will find in the motherboard section Mav''s DFI BIOS settings, use this a your guide to overclocking the BIOS of your DFI.
I know you are using a chilly one cooling head - please also make sure that the donut (large rubber seal) is intact - its a great method to provide an easy to achieve seal around the cpu, but any damge through the walls of the donut itself presents an opportunity for condensation to occur - the bain of all phase cooled machines (usually kills the motherboard).
Providing the CPU is not cold bugged - u should be able to see 268x12 for 24/7 and uup to 275x12 for benching.
FX series cpus are much loved as instead of raising the FSB of the CPU you can in fact use the muliplier to get higher clocks (e.g. 200x17) and also set the ram to run at a multiplied frequency which reduces the bandwidth bottleneck normally associated with multiplier only overclocking.
Good luck my friend - exciting times.
Mav
