Opteron 144/146 Overclocking

[Binary Coder]

I was wondering who has either the Opteron 144 or the 146 and what Overclocked speeds they have reached and what cooling the have used. ie, water or air or even passive. I know there is an Opteron vs X2 thread but it doesn't have what im looking for.

I am thinking of getting the 144 and OC'ing on an Abit AX8 VIA K8T890 (Socket 939). Also would this memory work on my mobo? (G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB)

I would appreciate your feedback

 

[TheChef]

Check out this site of overclocked Opteron speeds:

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.cfm?catid=28&threadid=1732211

And yes, that RAM would work with the Opteron.

 

[MrBucket]

even if ur ram was PC1600 you could put PC4400 into it but it would only go as fast as ur mobo would let it go (prob just as fast as the PC1600) its the size that matters

 

[Binary Coder]

thanks for the link So the memory would be faster than say Corsair value 3200 because it has better timings?

 

[Praetor]

I was wondering who has either the Opteron 144 or the 146 and what Overclocked speeds they have reached and what cooling the have used.

I am thinking of getting the 144 and OC'ing on an Abit AX8 VIA K8T890 (Socket 939).

Had a 144 myself for a bit .. your bottleneck is gonna be the mobo there, VIA chipset not gonna be friendly with the OCs

Also would this memory work on my mobo? (G.Skill 2GB DDR HZ PC4000 (2x1GB)

Yep. Since you using S939, you dont need buffered memory

even if ur ram was PC1600 you could put PC4400 into it but it would only go as fast as ur mobo would let it go (prob just as fast as the PC1600) its the size that matters

The limit is imposed by the memory controller -- which is on the CPU -- not the mobo

So the memory would be faster than say Corsair value 3200 because it has better timings?

Depends on what you're doing and whether it benifits from timings or raw bandwidth

 

[Binary Coder]

what OC speeds could i get with the opteron 144, the g skill memory and the abit via board i have now, praetor?

 

[Praetor]

what oc speeds could i get with the opteron 144, the g skill memory and the Abit via board i have now, praetor?

OC 101. "Nobody can tell you your max OC speeds"

I would be surprised if you couldnt hit 2.7GHz tho ... but then again with a Via board I wouldnt put my hopes up too high : they DO OC better it seems, than normal run of the mill Athlon64s

 

[Binary Coder]

thanks for the reply praetor, all i want out of the 144 is 2.4ghz. That will be fast enough for me.

 

[Praetor]

Yeah I would imagine 2.4Ghz an easy spit for that processor but naturally i cant guarantee you can even get 100Mhz out of it