First attempt at overclocking my 1055T

[Bromhead]

Hi guys,

I have a 1055T, it's running at the stock 2.8 ghz and I'm hoping to dive head first into the world of overclocking which I'm going to start this week.

I've been reading, a lot, but I'll be honest there is so much information out there that I'm probably a little lost right now. I did come across a 'magic wand' and it was a program called "Turbo V" which does the oc for you and ensures its all stable.

Seems this is for asus mobo only though and I have a gigabyte one. I also have a stock cooler so, another thing on my shopping list this week I'll need to get from OcUK.

Can anyone point me in the right direction, possibly a program I can look at to play around with overclocking my CPU. And secondly can anyone spec me a cooler?

Thanks!

Adam


Edit - I forgot to add, I've also been reading about that you have to drop your RAM speeds? I think this is probably the point at which I became lost..

 

[snips86x]

I'd get the cooler before you start overclocking!

Your better doing it in the BIOS instead of using the installed programs. I'm sure someone can assist with that bit, will see what I can find!

 

[joeyjojo]

I've been reading, a lot, but I'll be honest there is so much information out there that I'm probably a little lost right now. I did come across a 'magic wand' and it was a program called "Turbo V" which does the oc for you and ensures its all stable.

The programs never do it as well as making the changes in the BIOS and testing them yourself.

And secondly can anyone spec me a cooler?

There are loads of threads each with several good options, e.g. this post.

Edit - I forgot to add, I've also been reading about that you have to drop your RAM speeds? I think this is probably the point at which I became lost..

Back to the reading for you! In the old days (lol), you'd overclock by raising the FSB. As the memory was being accessed at a ratio of the FSB frequency, called the divider (for example 1:2 means a FSB of 200 MHz gives a RAM speed of 400 MHz) this would also overclock the memory, and memory usually doesn't overclock far. The first thing you would do is underclock the memory by using a low divider, then overclock the FSB, raising the voltages if necessary and testing stability. In reality though it makes more sense to find a FSB and divider setting which give you stock memory speed, then see which CPU multiplier gives a good CPU speed.

 

[Bromhead]

After a lot of reading, I'm feeling more confident about attempting my first overclock. I think for the first time I will attempt to overclock without touching the voltages.

I also just came across this little guide which should be very helpful.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=18882576

The one part of this puzzle, which still has me stumped is the RAM? I have read up on this but honestly still confused. By overclocking the CPU by changing the multiplier/fsb this also overclocks the RAM? Which is bad because RAM doesn't overclock, so to compensate you must underclock it?

 

[Bromhead]

A second thing I have also come across. CPUs can of course overclock themselves in a turbo mode. Everyone who is OC'ing their CPU, be it an intel i5 or amd, is it wise to completely disable this feature?

 

[whiteshadow]

I've just upgraded my cooler to an Enermax ETD-T60-TB on my AMD 965 cpu.

Definately worth taking a look at.

Pro's.

Easy to install.

Great performance. (beats\matches some high profile coolers\watercoolers in benchmarks. I'm currently running at 24-27c on idle depending on ambient temps, although I do have good airflow in my case (CM Storm Trooper).

Can be used on both AMD\Intel cpu's.

Looks good.

Cons.

The cooler heatsink may stop you from using your 1st ram slot 'if' you use 'high profile' ram as the heatpipes will interfere. (Regular ram fits fine though)