Phenom II x4 965 BE OC help please

habbyster · 21 Dec 2012 at 15:37

First time overclocker, here my specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 965 BE 3.40GHz
Gigabyte 78LMT-S2P
8GB GeIL Black Dragon RAM
Antec 550W PSU.
ATI 7850 2GB OC TWIN FROZR III
Coolermaster 430 Elite Case
Coolermaster 212 Evo

How will I go about overclocking? I saw the stickied thread but don't fully understand, if anyone have step by step instructions that'd be great

Elfmeister. · 21 Dec 2012 at 16:55

We did have a massive thread on overclocking Phenoms by Big.Wayne but my searching skill are failing me, unless the Mods have deleted it.

SeraphX · 21 Dec 2012 at 18:07

Voila!

habbyster · 21 Dec 2012 at 20:29

SeraphX said:
Voila!

I found that thread very confusing, it doesn't have a step by step guide. Like I said, I am new, and I don't fully understand all the voltages and stuff :c

SeraphX · 21 Dec 2012 at 21:19

Of course there is no step by step guide, Each chip and motherboard is very very different, It's up to you to find what works for your motherboard and chip, Read through the thread, find the generic info that applies to you in this case would be
Max voltage: 1.55V
Max temps: 62c (ideally keep it between 55-60)

To get you started, When i had my own Phenom II 955 quad I started with upping the multiplier at stock volts, It stopped being stable at 4Ghz @ 1.42V.

So in your case, up the multiplier on your chip to say 19? pretty sure 20 will give 4Ghz or there about.

Boot the machine, if it refuses to boot, back into the bios, lower the setting to around 18 or so, try again, if successful, run prime for a little while, keep an eye on temps with HWMonitor, ignore the core readings and concentrate on the TMPIN1 and or TMPIN2, either one of these will be your Cpu temps, If either of these read past 65c within seconds, shut prime down, the one that heads north in a fairly rapid style will be your cpu reading

A good chip and board will usually do something like 4Ghz with volts very close to if not under 1.4v, if yours is one of these, keep going! but again watch the temps, unless you have your chip under some very nice custom water, temps are going to be the limiting factor

~>Dg<~ · 21 Dec 2012 at 21:58

depends on what revision c2 or c3

most people on c2 run at 3.6-3.8 24/7
most people on newer c3 run 3.6-4.0

c3 tend to oc 200mhz (forget about people posting 4.2-4.4 rarer than rocking horse **** that are actually game stable)

also you need capable heatsink

i would keep under 55c myself and not go over 1.5v for 24/7 use.

those who use higher are normally for epeen benchmarks and suicide runs.

habbyster · 21 Dec 2012 at 23:06

Does this help anyone?

Jay85 · 21 Dec 2012 at 23:41

it's really easy with AMD, just knock up the multiplier and your voltages 1 bit at a time. try for 3.6ghz and test for stability, if not then just increase voltages until it is and keep going until you hit the voltage limit 1.52v i believe or thermal limit above 62c.

Jay85 · 21 Dec 2012 at 23:42

my old c3 chip could manage 3.8ghz but needed a lot of volts

habbyster · 21 Dec 2012 at 23:50

EDIT: Okay so my CPU Voltage seems to be default set a 1.45 and my TMPIN2 max temp. at 3.6GHz is at 61 degrees

SeraphX · 22 Dec 2012 at 01:09

are you running the stock cooler? if so, just don't bother with clocking for now, the stock cooler is gash in general, invest £20-30 notes and buy a decent cooler to improve ya headroom

Things like:
Titan Fenrir
Coolermaster CM 212+
or if you have a bigger budget:
Thermalright Silver Arrow
Noctua NH-D14 etc etc

habbyster · 22 Dec 2012 at 01:24

SeraphX said:
are you running the stock cooler? if so, just don't bother with clocking for now, the stock cooler is gash in general, invest £20-30 notes and buy a decent cooler to improve ya headroom

Things like:
Titan Fenrir
Coolermaster CM 212+
or if you have a bigger budget:
Thermalright Silver Arrow
Noctua NH-D14 etc etc

As said in op, I have coolermaster Evo 212. I am reaching a stable 3.8Ghz at 1.49voltage right now. I just switched to 4gh and I got BSOD

SeraphX · 22 Dec 2012 at 01:48

Whoops sorry i glazed over it tbh lol

Looks like a pretty bad chip tbf
It's almost like AMD are rebadging the old C2 stepping chips as C3 lol

Well, if thats the case, it's probably about it for you then friend, Unless you seriously up the cooling, i don't think you'll get much more from it

Davedree · 30 Dec 2012 at 01:05

~>Dg<~ said:
depends on what revision c2 or c3

most people on c2 run at 3.6-3.8 24/7
most people on newer c3 run 3.6-4.0

c3 tend to oc 200mhz (forget about people posting 4.2-4.4 rarer than rocking horse **** that are actually game stable)
Care to be proved wrong??
also you need capable heatsink

i would keep under 55c myself and not go over 1.5v for 24/7 use.

those who use higher are normally for epeen benchmarks and suicide runs.