opteron overheating help please!!!

[notsobig]

Just for your info, this is my current memory timings. My memory is crucial but it's also 3-3-3-8 and timing is quite loose so I think it should work.

http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/5099/timing1rb1.jpg

[manwithnoname]

Before you take a sledgehammer to it all, are you sure your fan on the CPU is working?

[pablo2]

Hehe!
CPU fan is definately working. Tried both stock cooler and freezer 64 pro with similar results.

pablo

[pablo2]

This is the email i have received from gigabyte:

AMD Opteron 165 CPU had been shown 1.42V in Easy Tune 5, but we’ve tried to measure exactly voltage on GA-K8NMF-9.

The voltage is 1.40V, which means in normal range.

Sorry but there is no BIOS option to change CPU’s voltage.



BR,

Ken


Are they correct in saying the board is supplying the voltage to the opteron within the normal range? Mine is supplying between 1.42 and 1.45V

pablo

[pablo2]

Given up on the gigabyte and now i have a new PSU the dfi board is working well. Not bad for under £30!!
Thanks for all the help in this thread.


pablo

[frazered]

good to hear it is sorted, i am amazed the gigabyte board does not allow the vcore to be adjusted !

[notsobig]

This is the email i have received from gigabyte:

AMD Opteron 165 CPU had been shown 1.42V in Easy Tune 5, but we’ve tried to measure exactly voltage on GA-K8NMF-9.

The voltage is 1.40V, which means in normal range.

Sorry but there is no BIOS option to change CPU’s voltage.



BR,

Ken


Are they correct in saying the board is supplying the voltage to the opteron within the normal range? Mine is supplying between 1.42 and 1.45V

pablo

If that's what they told you I'm very disappointed. Vcore for opty165 is 1.30-1.35v. Give these link to Gigabyte and see what they say.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/cont...docs/30417.pdf
page 41

also

http://fab51.com/cpu/guide/opn-s939-e.html

[manwithnoname]

Given up on the gigabyte and now i have a new PSU the dfi board is working well. Not bad for under £30!!
Thanks for all the help in this thread.


pablo

Glad to see you have sorted something out pablo2 what are your temperatures using the DFI M/B?

(Just interested to see if your chip does run a bit hot in general or if it was your gigabyte board slowly toasting it?)

[pablo2]

Thanks for asking. It was indeed the gigabyte playing up.

With the DFI board i am running 317FSB, CPU @ 1.52V,
clock speed 2.85 giving me 30C idle and 44C under full load (Orthos on both cores).
I've got the feeling i can clock a bit higher than this but don't know what to do with my ram timings in the bios as i am fairly new to overclocking.

pablo