Complete noob to oc, need help

Last Kronin · 8 Mar 2006 at 14:50

I have tried various utilities to try and overclock my cpu but none seem to work on my mobo, so only choice left is try to do it thru my bios but ive no idea how thats done. Heres a pic of *** cpuz said about my cpu

as you can c its not even running at 2ghz.

Last Kronin · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:03

Also forgot to mention in the bios it has a cell menu, ive gone into there and set the cpu ratio to manual and tried to set it a x11 and x12 however when my system boost back up its reset its self bac to x10.

Explicit · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:12

Last Kronin said:
Also forgot to mention in the bios it has a cell menu, ive gone into there and set the cpu ratio to manual and tried to set it a x11 and x12 however when my system boost back up its reset its self bac to x10.

Your multipliers are locked. Only the FX series have unlocked multipliers. So you have to do your overclocking with the HTT.

Here's a great guide
http://forum.overclockersonline.com...74&start=0&S=a28b674848e02cdd6eb4c12eefb1f3d5

Read it a few times and then try it out.

Last Kronin · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:33

That could be a problem i dont c anything im my bios that will allow me to change the HT

A.N.Other · 8 Mar 2006 at 15:34

Have a read of as many guides as you can find - make sure you know what you're doing before you start! BTW overclocking in the BIOS is far safer than doing it in Windows - less chance of corruption of files etc. Don't be scared of the BIOS, as long as you don't change things randomly and then save the changes, you can't really go wrong.

So... although this is very simplified...

Find in the BIOS the HT multiplier (this may also be called the LDT multi - it is on mine). This will give options for 5x (default), 4x, 3x etc (these may be put as 1000, 800, 600 ...). Knock this down to 4x.

Find the RAM settings in the BIOS (do a google for you specific board - I don't know how it will appear on this BIOS) and find the RAM divider settings. Drop the divider.

Next, increase the FSB speed. Do this in 10MHz increments (or find what others have got to on that CPU and go to just below this figure and then do it gradually). Make sure that the FSB speed multiplied by the HT multi is 1000 or less - if it isn't drop the multi again. Watch you RAM timings to make sure they don't go to far over 200MHz (drop the RAM divider if they do).

If you get instability, try increasing the VCore a bit through the BIOS.

Try to find what other people have done with this CPU - it's by far the easiest way of doing things. Make sure you know how to reset the CMOS (there will be a jumper on the board allowing you to do this). Apart from that, good luck!