Thanks for your patience i hope that my mobo arrives this week to start testing everything i've been learning here..

About my ram's, i've already set them to 1066mhz with 2.2v.. they worked ok but sometimes i get bsod and i notice that when downloading files the files became corrupted.. i've tried to mess with timings but with no sucess.

drfedja wrote:

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Ok, you can raise NB/L3 frequency trough the BIOS, but can't raise HT link speed. Frequency of HTT link can't be higher than frequency of NB/L3. Frequency of the memory controller and/or L3 cache is much more important for performance. HT link frequency you can also raise with the AMD overdrive tool, using Windows XP/Vista operating systems.
If you want to raise NB/L3 up to 2.4 ghz on the rev. B3, you must set up voltage up to 1.4v for NB/L3. Also, you can leave default value for HTT link voltage.

I'm amazed with the results i'm getting, to be honest i was thinking that i never going to get something like this.





Now i'm going to do it on the cpu

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does the "diamond polish" really matter? what do you think about it right now?

you can get more stable CPU when it is overcloked by achieving "diamond polish". This is almost always consequence of lower temperature when CPU is working at overcloked frequency so if you achieved "almost" stable working conditions at, lets say, 3.4GHz, but temperatures in some occasions get too high for few degrees, then you can try with "perfect polishing" procedure to solve the problem.

One key factor in achieving stable day-to-day maximum overclock is good cooling solution but you already have that. Other key factor is motherboard and overall quality of its components: BIOS, power unit etc. You will most definitely get that with M3A79-T Deluxe.

So at the end it comes to your exact CPU and its overclocking limits. Maybe you got lucky and got good "specimen" but on the other hand it might not be the case.

As for "diamond polish". If you have spare time, while waiting for mobo to arrive, you can polish cooler and cpu. It won't hurt anyone.

and finally after some more work the cpu...



i'm tired for polishing today, the cpu need a little bit more.

Keep up the good work m8 ... it would be a shame to use perfectly polished cooler on not so perfectly polished CPU


When mobo arrives?

Thanks man, now i understand why is so important to have bright and shining cooler and cpu..
I have very good news.. right now i'm using a ASUS M2N-VM HDMI (loan) wich is a very poor mobo, but better than nothing i was able to manage some overclock.. 3.0ghz at 1.3v.. total amazing temperature.. 30º idle/42º load running prime torture test i'm starting to feel that i'm gone archive a little more of my cpu

I think my new mobo arrives next week, i bought it from germany (coming to Portugal, Azores islands) wich takes a little more time.

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Keep up the good work m8 ... it would be a shame to use perfectly polished cooler on not so perfectly polished CPU :)


When mobo arrives?

Well, finally the mobo arrived yesterday... right now i'm trying to fix raid 0 setup from the other mobo, until now only sucess by cloning to stand alone hdd in ahci.. i've tried a little little bit of overclocking, i've tried 1.5v and the temperature is dangerous, right now i'm getting 50º idle, i don't know how is temp under load because i refuse to give it a try.. i think that is time to change to water cooling, air cooling is not enough.
I will post as soon as i get this working.

It doesn't make much sense. Have you applied thermal paste in very thin layer. Now when you polished cooler and CPU there is no need for thick layer of thermal paste. Update BIOS to latest version.

What is temperature of CPU in IDLE when you set it identically as on previous mobo? It should be the same or lower.

I'm getting identical temps under 1.5v, under 1.4v i see that temps are a bit lower.
I have latest bios, i have applied a very thin layer of paste, everything seems to be ok. I think that my cooler is no good for that high voltage, what do you think?
Right now i'm at 3.2ghz with 16x multi, 1.4v core but it's unstable. I'm still learning to work with this bios, settings are a bit different to what i'm used too.
I'm trying to understand how do i raise northbrige voltage, i have 2 options under northbridge voltage: HyperTransport voltage and Core/PCIe voltage, i'm a little confused maybe you can help me.

At this time this is what i can get: 3.1ghz stable running 44º idle/56º load

My bios settings:
FSB Frequency: 200
PCIE Frequency: 100
Processor Frequency Multi: 15.50x
Processor-NB Frequency Multi: 10x
CPU-NB HT Link Speed: 1.8Ghz

Processor Voltage: 1.40
Processor-NB Voltage: 1.40
DDR Voltage: 2.1
Northbridge Voltage: Manual
HyperTransport Voltage: 1.28
Core/PCIe Voltage: 1.28
Southbridge Voltage: 1.28

CPU VDDA Voltage: 2.7
Auto Xpress: Enabled
CPU Tweak: Enabled
PLL1 Spread Spectrum: Disabled
PLL2 Spread Spectrum: Disabled
AI Clock Skew for Channel A: Auto
AI Clock Skew for Channel B: Auto

Under CPU Configuration everything is disabled except:
ACPI SRAT Table
Advanced Clock Calibration (my cpu likes it)

I've tried a lot of configs, even i manage to reach 3.4ghz at 1.5v (with acc on), windows loads but crashes after a while.
I managed 2400mhz with NB but 3dmark06 crashes... i think that has something to do with voltages.
I need help with voltages, i'm afraid to go up without help.

After all weekend trying diferent settings, raising cpu multi using htt 200, lowering cpu multi and raising htt, different voltages, 2 entire days working on this.. the only stable mark i archived is 3ghz with 2200 nb.. looks like my cpu is not a good piece for overclocking by the time i'm writing this, prime is running for 30min with temps reaching 59º at 1.375v.

I hope i can get some help with bios settings posted yesterday.