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MONSTER clock! Congrats!

How many 845 have you tested bro? I tested 3 and all have similar default Turbo VID at 1.475 - 1.4875V, Rather high compared to some other Kaveri athlons (except Godavari APU 7870k/7890k). Maybe these chips is already running close to its FMax? That would answer why AMD don't release K-version of these Athlon.

@flanker: That 4.6Ghz is SICK man! And Only 1.6V? Mine won't even pass 4.2 for cinebench at that VCore, let's see if I can push it more when there's dry ice around

Great one Allen!

Scaaaary CPU :D

Sad but true. That being said, if there's a method (like a 'wrapper' Splave said) to correctly determine the maximum CPU or GPU temperature during the benchmark is ran, in which the security cannot be compromised, and the temp sensor can be trusted, it will open up a whole new possibility of an oc competition. (specific temperature-limited competition that's not only XTU for example)

Great effort and work. Keep pushing it

Agree with Pieter. I think a lot of people just know Daniel as 'the guy with the best CPU'. Well those CPU won't be running at its maximum speed by itself right? Even as someone who overclocks daily and doing oc competition as part of my job, I sometimes struggled to put out good scores out of certain hardware configuration. It really took dedication to be pushing the hardware to its limit every single time, both in online competition and live competition - and in that regard Daniel excels in both I got the honor of sitting beside him on the Galax GOC, so I knew that his skill in preparation, setup and handling system is better than most competitive overclocker I've met, should be on the same class as top live bencher like XA and Vivi. Keep pushing it, @Dancop!

:eek: EPIC score as always man

That is amazing Fastest AFR ever? Great effort from memory master :ws:

Hahahahahahah just trying to guess how the klevv module will perform tomorrow under the time limit :p

So far, I don't find MSI Non-K BIOS with XP ACPI Support man. You might want to select MPS Multiprocessor mode during the install

@Massman: Question: Would you be able to tell us the OS that the contestant in the MOA Qualifier uses? Or there is no OS limitation and they can use whatever OS? Thanks!

Wuhan Survivor FTW! Congrats Andrew! :D

Just in case you guys wanted some reading material, I've just finished my short hands-on article about the X4 845(experiences, settings, thoughts, etc). Article Link Here It's in Indonesian, but I've checked that Google translate works ok-ish, and all the tables are in English anyway. Enjoy and hopefully that info is helpful

MOA 2016!! :eek: I soooooo wanna go there

Sub 11 Minutes, 4.3Ghz and 1.6Ghz NB :eek: What BCLK did you boot into OS?

Strong one! You beat me already LOL. Keep pushing it

FYI, running GPU-Z in the background while selecting 'max' on the logging has little to no performance disadvantages, but just in case you guys don't want absolutely anything ran on the background, after the test is done you can always 'load' the IGP by doing the GPUz render test (the '?' button next to the bus interface). Hope that helps

Just read this (the AMD guide for Family 15h Model 60-6Fh): http://support.amd.com/TechDocs/50742_15h_Models_60h-6Fh_BKDG.pdf On page 85, I saw that on this models AMD might already given some DDR4-2400 support on its DRAM controllers(DCTs). This would pose a problem though, DDR4 has been evolved quite quickly these days, and DDR4-3000 should be found quite easily. Would've been a shame if AMD only have DRAM Ratios up to 2400 while its competitions can do 3600+ daily, really hope for the sake of their APUs AMD support higher DDR4 clocks..

Is there any XP driver for Skylake IGPs?(wouldn't be too surprised if there weren't any hahah ) Or we have to play with win7/8/10 for that 01 stage?

I see, I didn't try turboV since my version is not working. This is under AHCI mode, I've managed to boot straight from BIOS at around 114Mhz though, but with 35x multiplier. On XP IDE, Highest I've boot into OS was 120Mhz, but with lower CPU multi and low memory multi. Based on that slide that said 16x PCIe 3.0 lane and 4MB total L2 Cache, it will be steamroller-based. Excavator only have 8x PCIe 3.0 and 2MB L2. I don't know if I had bad carrizo sample, but if hitting 4-4.1Ghz requires extra volts up to 1.55v, I might understand why AMD didn't make a K-series for Excavator athlons. This is like a mobile chip made into desktop, which not designed to hit big clocks. Not to mention this is similar 28nm process node as steamroller, further miniaturized by optimizing for density. This most likely hurts the overclockability and clock potential, the efficiency has a big price to pay it seems(not going to stop me from freezing this chip though ).

Both the CPU Multiplier and the NB are hard-locked, the only way you're increasing these is the BCLK, no other way. I found something strange though, in the BIOS version I tested on, the highest CPU Multiplier available is 35(not the 38x Turbo Multi). Since this would probably meant that the 38x is the Turbo state, I need to put AUTO in the CPU Multiplier, and OC BCLK from here. But larger than 109 Mhz BCLK, My CPU constantly dropped it's multi to 35x in OS, no matter what settings I put on. I even tried putting a pot and dropped the temp to 0C, no difference.

BIOS also noted it as 1.3Ghz on default, with 1.175 VID. Upper range on mine around 1400-1450Mhz is @ 1.35V VddNB, 1475-1500Mhz failed to boot. According to geekbench 3 memory scores, this NB affects memory performance greatly.

@Massman Just got back from the store binning some g4400 for Pro cup 32M stage, and found one X4 845 there Fastest in AMD 32M 5Ghz before Flanker come back with his better score hahah: http://hwbot.org/submission/3151415_lucky_n00b_superpi___32m_athlon_x4_845_11min_20sec_358ms I don't expect much overclockability from this design, IIRC AMD mentioned that CZ's design will sacrifice frequencies to made it more efficient in the lower TDP range. This one has it's turbo rated at 3.8Ghz 1.475V VID, and mine already need 1.5V to pass 105Mhz BCLK (4Ghz-ish), so the default 3.8Ghz could be it's optimal frequency range vs volt vs TDP already. Expect more test next week, need to write some other articles first