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AMD® Phenom™ II Overclocking Thread

The chips seem to be getting better and better. Time was you were a crazy lucky bugger if you could get anything above 3.8. 4 seems to be the standard now.
 
eddyc said:
The chips seem to be getting better and better. Time was you were a crazy lucky bugger if you could get anything above 3.8. 4 seems to be the standard now.
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yeah newer chips seem better than old ones but some are only doing small bench runs i see.

do 20 runs ibt not 5 ;) i can pass a 5 run at past 4 but i dont consider 5 nothing
 
What would you guys recommend as the max overclock on the stock AMD cooler for a X2 555? I dont want a crazy overclock i'm just curious if it's advisible to overclock at all with the stock cooler even by .10 or .20 increments for example
 
AssaTM said:
What would you guys recommend as the max overclock on the stock AMD cooler for a X2 555? I dont want a crazy overclock i'm just curious if it's advisible to overclock at all with the stock cooler even by .10 or .20 increments for example
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Is the stock cooler the one with heat pipes or not ??
 
From what I remember from installing it, it's just the standard heatsink grills unfortunately, i'm thinking about buying a fairly priced CPU Cooler just to overclock it a bit and make it a bit quieter when it's under load, I guess that will be the better way to go about it?
 
AssaTM said:
From what I remember from installing it, it's just the standard heatsink grills unfortunately, i'm thinking about buying a fairly priced CPU Cooler just to overclock it a bit and make it a bit quieter when it's under load, I guess that will be the better way to go about it?
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Hyper 212+ for £15...
 
I just picked up a xigmatek hdt s963 for £11 delivered from the bay if your case is a little on teh smaller size otherwise the hyper 212+ is a better bet especially for £15
 
It's a Zalman z7 plus so the Hyper 212+ should hopefully fit fine, and for £15 it sounds like a great deal, I think i'll be picking that up thank you :)
 
Cookeh said:
With the stock fan?

That's not too shabby at all - still got 4'c to play with :)

Wonder what it's like with other fans? 2000rpm can be noisy :p (How does it compare to the stock fan noise wise?)

Sorry for the millions of questions!
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Cant hear the fan even under load with the stock fan, It hit 58.c as I was running prime and burn test together. With just prime it Just about gets to 52.C.. My case has quite good airflow with 3 120mm fans surrounding the cpu..

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So my overclock from post 2344 has just gone completely unstable. It was rock solid for over a week (have been using it for encoding pretty heavily) and then suddenly it is BSODing in normal web browsing etc. Crashes after only a minute or so of Prime. Not changed any settings at all.

Any ideas? Why would that happen? Gutted.
 
No BIOS flash. Not installed anything new. Just a couple of video encoding programs (I was trying to get a decent setting for videos on my e71) but I would not have thought that would screw it up.

I put the settings back to stock and it seemed fine. I have just rebooted and put the OC settings back on again. Currently priming. Seems okay so far.

Would resetting CMOS be better do you think?
 
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