Phenom II/ATI 5850 PC Update

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[ThePCGremlin]

I noticed you are running 4 dimms of ram. I found out the hard way that running more than one dimm per channel causes stability problems with the phenom II. Does your computer crash at all? If so i would dump 2 ram sticks and put them in different channels. I know you cant run dual channel like that but unganged mode is faster anyway.

[Aaronage1]

@ThePCGremlin Yeah you're right, having four sticks really limited the potential of the 920. I played around with it before, was able to squeeze an extra 200MHz at lower NB voltage by removing two sticks. Also, doesn't help that this motherboard (ASUS M3A78-EM) can't handle high base clocks so anything above 255ish causes a crash.

I later upgraded to a C3 stepping 965 and it's been running 4GHz/2600MHz HT/NB since. Put off changing RAM because I want to go with AM3 and DDr3 in the future :)

[lizardmannnn]

What program do you use to edit your videos? Looks nice :]

[Aaronage1]

@lizardmannnn iMovie on the Mac (great software, but crashes like a mofo.... all versions of iMovie are bug ridden, at least for me lol)

[burninghalls]

dude its shouldnt become unstable at 60 degrees i have the way younger phenom x4 9950 black edition which most of the time idles at 50 degrees and in games gets abit hotter

as for my old soon to be replaced asus nvidia 8800gt for one of these ati 5850s

and that asus with replaced thermal compound yes i put some arctic silver 5 on my 8800gt and it will still go up to 80 degrees when playing games

my computer loves all games apart from cryfail

[Aaronage1]

@burninghalls

Great build, the 8800 is still a very good card even after 3 years! Nvidia did a great job with 8000 series :)

Phenom's are very sensitive to temperature i've found. It could be other factors to my system but with the 920 i was only able to get 3.6GHz when it was cool in the room allowing it to stay below 60c, with my new 965 and Noctua U12P i can get 3.9GHz at 53c but only able to get 4GHz when it's below 50.

It could be that original Phenom can take more heat I'm not sure :)

[Josh1901]

Very nice video, thanks.

[thirsokewl]

Cooler master storm scout thats the one i have.

[PGTMan]

Xilence (pronounced ecks-eye-lence apparently but I get it wrong all the time in my vids!) are great fans. I have a 92mm red wing in the back of my case (no space for a 120 unfortunately) and a 120 Blue LED in the front. They are, as you say, cheap but quiet - and effective too!

[Hekynn]

You should try the Corsair H50 great cooler from reading the reviews and you can do a push pull config with that red wing fan and the corsair fan the cooler comes with.