K8N Neo2 lov'n

[Novablade]

The more I play around with this board, the more I'm lov'n it. I'm now running at 264 x 9.5, HTT x 4, Mem 1:1, 1T, 3-4-4-10. vcore @ 1.60, vdimm @ 2.70. Idle temps are 41C, not sure yet what full load is hitting. But considering this is the faster I've ever been able to get a system yet.... I'm impressed! :lol2: Below is a snip from my CPU-Z saved file... Can't get a screen shot for some reason.. User error I suppose. :retard:

CPU-Z version 1.23.2
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CPUID Output
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Number of CPUs 1
APIC ID 0
Name AMD Athlon 64 3800+
Code name NewCastle
Specification AMD Athlon(tm) 64 Processor 3800+
Family/Model/Stepping FF0
Extended Family/Model F/F
Brand ID 1
Package Socket 939
Core Stepping DH7-CG
Technology 0.13µ
Instructions Sets MMX, Extended MMX, 3DNow!, Extended 3DNow!, SSE, SSE2, x86-64
Clock Speed 2507.9 MHz
Clock multiplier x9.5
HTT Bus Frequency 264.0 MHz
L1 Data Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L1 Instruction Cache 64 KBytes, 2-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Cache 512 KBytes, 16-way set associative, 64 Bytes line size
L2 Speed 2507.9 MHz (Full)
L2 Location On Chip
L2 Data Prefetch Logic yes
L2 Bus Width 128 bits

[Viral]

Very nice, good to see some people are having luck with the board, that's a very nice FSB and in 1:1 too. What kind of memory bandwidth are you getting with that in sandra or whatever?

[camelot]

Have you tried running 250 x 10 with tighter timings? A64s seem to run better that way.

[Riptide]

Good to hear you've had some success. It's to bad my machine wouldn't cooperate. :cry:

BTW, if you use half dividers (9.5, 8.5, 7.5, etc.) you will lose some bandwidth. I don't know why this is but from what I've seen it's true.

250x10 would probably work better as camelot suggests, but your RAM may not run at tighter timings. Some PC4000 is meant to run at, and ONLY at, 3-4-4 timings. My Mushkin would freak out if I tried anything other than those timings and their tech told me it would.

[Novablade]

Thanks guy's. The 264 is really more of a test, as so far, thats the highest clock I've ever gotten out of a system, this being my 7 comp I've built. Sandra bandwidth scores are in the very high 6's, just over 6800. But something funky was going on with the results... It show my FSB or HTT as being 2x32 = 64. I'm guessing it didn't know how to read the 9.5.... Because Corecenter also saw it as 9x279. I can run at 9.5x253 stable in Prime95, as well as everything else I've thrown at it. 10x250 is also stable, but I'm trying different combo's to see what my max best scores is going to wind at. Also, maybe it's just me, but it seems the longer it burns in, the more I'm able to push it.

Edit: Oh, and tighter timeings are basicly a no go. As tight as I can get is 1T, 3-4-4-9 at this speed. This ram was tested by Maximum PC and able to hit 525Mhz, but it poop'd out at high than that. I was hitting 528, so I guess I'm pretty lucky to be able to get that far. :nanahump:

[Novablade]

Good to hear you've had some success. It's to bad my machine wouldn't cooperate. :cry:

BTW, if you use half dividers (9.5, 8.5, 7.5, etc.) you will lose some bandwidth. I don't know why this is but from what I've seen it's true.

250x10 would probably work better as camelot suggests, but your RAM may not run at tighter timings. Some PC4000 is meant to run at, and ONLY at, 3-4-4 timings. My Mushkin would freak out if I tried anything other than those timings and their tech told me it would.


You are correct. Running Sandra with 10x250 resulted in almost the bandwidth as 264x9.5 With 10x250 scoring 6781. Hm....