Can you help me get a better overclock?

Ste59w · 17 Sep 2009 at 16:19

Hi guys, I am in need of a bit of help overclocking my system. I seem to have hit a wall!

First thing's first, i use a Gigabyte GA-MA780G-UD3H AMD 780G (Socket AM3/AM2+) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard with 4gig of Kingston 1066 ram.

Currently the ram is running at about 900 in the bios.

Here is an image from CPUZ showing my current overclock.

And here's an image of my temps with an hour of stress.

As you can see i have altered my core voltage and my FSB speed. I have not touched anything else except reducing the memory multiplier so the memory runs less than 1066.

I have tried to raise the FSB higher as my temps are good, but cant POST successfully with anything higher. Firstly is there a way to raise the mutliplier higher than 13x? its the max in the bios...

Am i missing something, im new to this so im thinking its probably something simple

Ste59w · 18 Sep 2009 at 10:53

no ideas?

Garyj881 · 18 Sep 2009 at 13:42

The obvious thing to do would be increase the vcore, your temps are excellent no worries there. Try 1.40 on the vcore and try 254 fsb.

254 x 13 = 3.3ghz.

Then stress test until you're happy it's stable then try 3.4ghz (261 x 13)

Just make sure while increasing the fsb that your ram isn't overclocked.

Ste59w · 18 Sep 2009 at 15:14

thanks for the reply mate - ive tried increasing the vcore before to get more out of the FSB but it never seemed to post, perhaps i wasnt increasing it enough!

Garyj881 · 18 Sep 2009 at 15:40

Yeah maybe not enough vcore.

Reading up on the chip, people seem to stop at about 1.45, let us know how you get on

Pickett · 18 Sep 2009 at 16:14

Nice temps - what CPU cooler are you using?

Good luck getting a bit more out of it.

Ste59w · 18 Sep 2009 at 16:33

cheers, yeah im really happy with my temps.

I was getting 55.6 on all cores using the stock cooler under an hour of stress so i decided to replace the stock with a Arctic Cooling Freezer 64. https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=FG-000-AR

Will let you know how it goes when i push it further tonight. Any ideas what is the maximum im likely to get out of this chip?