Phenom II 920 owners - What are your overclocking results?

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

Awesomeness.

So many 940 related threads I figured its time for a 920 thread. To all you 920 owners, what is your setup? What are your overclocking results? Lets see em!

r9 · Jan 23, 2009

Every one seems choosing 940 over 920 I guess it is BE thing.

PaulieG · Jan 23, 2009

I believe Kei is using a PII 920, and is getting good results. He's been posting in a couple of different threads about it.

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

I will be getting a 920 next week. I know Kei has posted his results, awesome results at that. I figured why not have a thread dedicated to just the 920. I'm hoping to get a decent overclock on my K9A2. My hopes are not too high though.

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

920 on its way. $180 SHIPPED. Damn good deal IMO.

erocker · Jan 23, 2009

Anyone have or try this board out yet with PII?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131361

I'm wondering the performance difference between just upping the multiplier or raising the HTT with these chips.

PaulieG · Jan 23, 2009

erocker said:
Anyone have or try this board out yet with PII?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131361

I'm wondering the performance difference between just upping the multiplier or raising the HTT with these chips.

I think I'm going to sell my 78-T and buy that board this evening. What I'm finding with the PII's is that the multiplier and NB speed mean significantly more than increasing the HTT.

1Kurgan1 · Jan 23, 2009

How do you raise the NB speed without raising the HTT? Also my guess on the amount of 940's vs 920's is the recent price drop. The 940's are going for what a 920 was just less than 2 weeks ago. So people had budgets to spend about $230 then they dropped the price so why not grab the 940. Not saying the 920 isn't a screaming deal at $180, because it is and is so tempting.

erocker · Jan 23, 2009

Paulieg said:
I think I'm going to sell my 78-T and buy that board this evening. What I'm finding with the PII's is that the multiplier and NB speed mean significantly more than increasing the HTT.

When I said HTT I meant the NB with it. Obviously increasing the NB frequency for overclocking the CPU will result in better performance than just raising the multiplier, I'm just wondering by how much? It's the deciding factor for me between the 920 and 940.

PaulieG · Jan 23, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
How do you raise the NB speed without raising the HTT? Also my guess on the amount of 940's vs 920's is the recent price drop. The 940's are going for what a 920 was just less than 2 weeks ago. So people had budgets to spend about $230 then they dropped the price so why not grab the 940. Not saying the 920 isn't a screaming deal at $180, because it is and is so tempting.

My board has separate multipliers for the NB vs. the HTT. I have to agree about the chips though, I'd go with the 940. You just have more flexibility.

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
How do you raise the NB speed without raising the HTT? Also my guess on the amount of 940's vs 920's is the recent price drop. The 940's are going for what a 920 was just less than 2 weeks ago. So people had budgets to spend about $230 then they dropped the price so why not grab the 940. Not saying the 920 isn't a screaming deal at $180, because it is and is so tempting.

NB Multiplier. :rockout:

erocker said:
When I said HTT I meant the NB with it. Obviously increasing the NB frequency for overclocking the CPU will result in better performance than just raising the multiplier, I'm just wondering by how much? It's the deciding factor for me between the 920 and 940.

Well, the way I see it is this. If your whole intention is to overclock chances are you already have a motherboard and RAM that will play well. Either one is going to give you awesome results. We all know that upping the clock multiplier only is NOT going to give you the best results when it comes to benching. Overall clock speed you might see it higher with the 940, but thats not what overclocking is about with Phenoms. It's about raising everything, the NB frequency, the HT link and the CPU clock. I personally like the challenge of not being able to change the multiplier. I just think I will have a good time with it. I didn't want to spend over $200 so the 920 fit the bill. I can put the extra money elsewhere.

1Kurgan1 · Jan 23, 2009

Ah, I was getting it confused with HT Link. I'm looking through CPU-Z and I don't see NB clocks anywhere, am I missing this?

batmang said:
I can put the extra money elsewhere.

I gotta agree, a brand new awesome processor and then going to get a lapdance with the money you saved, doesn't get much better than that

PaulieG · Jan 23, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
Ah, I was getting it confused with HT Link. I'm looking through CPU-Z and I don't see NB clocks anywhere, am I missing this?

Look under the memory tab, in the top right corner.

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

1Kurgan1 said:
Ah, I was getting it confused with HT Link. I'm looking through CPU-Z and I don't see NB clocks anywhere, am I missing this?

I gotta agree, a brand new awesome processor and then going to get a lapdance with the money you saved, doesn't get much better than that

The NB frequency is listed under the memory information because its related to the memory transfer.

Kei · Jan 23, 2009

Check this

erocker said:
When I said HTT I meant the NB with it. Obviously increasing the NB frequency for overclocking the CPU will result in better performance than just raising the multiplier, I'm just wondering by how much? It's the deciding factor for me between the 920 and 940.

Obviously everyone knows that Northbridge is important but many people don't quite understand exactly HOW important it really is when it comes to the Phenom.

I'm attatching two screenshots of the Everest Memory & Cache benchmark for you to ponder on that will shed a huge light on why the northbridge clock is so important in relation to everything else with the Phenom.

We all know that the Phenom II is faster than the Phenom I when at the same clock speeds and by a nice margin so it's an absolute NO BRAINER which is faster if you give the PII a .5Ghz extra advantage.

1. Phenom 9850BE 3.0Ghz

HTT 250Mhz
CPU 12.0x
Ram 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2T
HT Link 2000Mhz
Northbridge 2500Mhz

2. Phenom II 920 3.5Ghz

HTT 250Mhz
CPU 14.0X
Ram 1000Mhz 5-5-5-15 2T
HT Link 2000Mhz
Northbridge 2250Mhz

Now you'll see that the only differences in those two setups are the cpu multiplier and the northbridge multipliers. The PII gets a 500Mhz cpu clock advantage which is MASSIVE since clock for clock it's already hands down faster anyway. The PI gets a 250Mhz northbridge clock advantage which is a much smaller gap of course.

Look at the results and judge for yourself on how important the northbridge is...

Kei

Btw, of course I can go much much much faster on my Northbridge on the PII but I wanted to show how important it really is with just a small change in speed.

1Kurgan1 · Jan 23, 2009

Huh no wonder I cant find it, mine is greyed out :/

cdawall · Jan 23, 2009

trust me it makes a difference i gained ~20 points in scm2 using a 2.6ghz vs 2.2ghz

http://img.techpowerup.org/090122/Capture020.jpg

johnnyfiive · Jan 23, 2009

I too can vouche for NB making a huge difference. When I was quickly testing my results with my 9600BE I was gaining 100-200 kbs in the Winrar benchmark by having the NB at 2200+. High NB frequency's are awesome.

Baam · Jan 25, 2009

Best i can get is 3.64 on my 920 so far. Not sure if i can get much higher with windows 7 64 bit

Kei · Jan 25, 2009

Bam I use W7 as well and I've seen 3.8+ alresdy (3.7 on the stock heatsink) so just take your time.

I put it in dual core mode and saw 3.93Ghz with the available 1.552v limit i can go too. Air cooling as usual.

Kei

johnnyfiive · Jan 27, 2009

I JUST got mine installed 5-10 min ago. Heres where I'm at for now... this is too easy... it's kinda weirding me out. A Phenom taking 600mhz right off the bat with default vcore.. on a K9A2? WHHHAT?

johnnyfiive · Jan 27, 2009

I wanna see if it will do 3.5 on stock vcore, brb.

johnnyfiive · Jan 28, 2009

slight vcore increase. 3.6.

My HT link is 7 btw. Testing 3.7-3.8, brb.

johnnyfiive · Jan 28, 2009

Hrmm.. can't get it to fully boot at 3.7. Can anyone tell me what a good NB voltage is for an air setup?

johnnyfiive · Jan 28, 2009

Upped the vcore and nb voltage, im at 3.7 now.

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Phenom II 920 owners - What are your overclocking results?

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