Phenom II X4 Overclocking Masterclass [Guru3D.com]

Phenom II X4 Overclocking Masterclass - Poor some LN2 on it The professional overclocker's scene and it's a demographic that Guru3D will be following more closely. It's the extreme side of overclocking...

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2 X HD4870X2?! For?!

 

Ah enthusiast overclocking...10.733 s for 1M Super Pi at ~6.4 GHz...my old junkpile just did it in 49.234 seconds at ~2.2 GHz. I see progress.

 

Masterclass or justneedcash?

 

Thanks for the article, OldScarface

I wonder how LN2 blocks differ from ones for water cooling, except for being open.

 

Great Article, hoping to see more of these Extreme OC'ing articles looks like great fun. Who knows, maybe one day i'll get to play around with this stuff too

 

I liked the article.

 

really nice

but is that mobo the best one for overclocking ?
better than GA-790FXTA-UD5 ?

and 1.5v ? is not it too low ? for 6.5ghz ?

1.8v with liquid helium would be insane

 

6.5 is only 1 core active hence the 1.5v

it clearly states this.

 

:thumbup:Great article , awsome reading in there guys. Hope to see more of this in the future of Guru3D , after all ,this is where all start it for me as an overclocker.
2 Thumbs up for SarFace and Hilbert , thank you guys.

 

That review was awesome! read every word. Great overclock and results as well! Really enjoy reading this kind of stuff Thanks so much Hilbert and old scarface!

 

These may seem pointless to the uninitiated, but it's the nutcases like this grinding hardware into the dirt which lets the rest of us noobs know what our limits are.

Random, but anyway... paper towels? Sham wow. Anyone else think that's a good idea?

 

That was a nice read. I like hearing about insane o/c's. Jeez, I guess I forgot the liquid helium is only 2c above absolute 0. Thats kind of cool just thinking about that. 6ghz+, thats pretty fricken sweet.

 

Very nice to see an extreme cooling article on here. Seems there is always more to do with your puter parts.

Thanks HH and Old Scarface

 

Hey! i was wondering about somthing when i read that you disabled one core to get higher clocks?

I have the exact same motherboard but cant find any options like that anywhere. I did have a "Downcore" function on my old Nvidia 780a motherboard but i didnt think the AMD motherboard had functions like that?

Very nice read btw.

 

you have to activate ACC and use core control

 

I quess i could try a newer bios. I have installed v.1105 and if i mess around with the spesific core control, i only have the option to chose witch 3 or 4 core available. This unlocking function has been improving alot with each new bios update so it may well be the case.

Thanks for your reply.