help overclocking my system

t2dex · 20 Apr 2011 at 20:23

Hi All,

I have the following setup and cant seem to overclock it

Gigabyte M68MT-S2 motherboard with AMD Phenom II X4 840 3.20Ghz processor.

I have looked in the Bios but as soon as I change CPU Unlock to enabled it will not load windows 7.

What settings do I change in the Bios

Also EasyTune 6 does not change the speed it just reverts back to standard

Any help would be great

Cheers

Dex

Stretched · 21 Apr 2011 at 02:01

your trying to increase the multiplyer but its locked

only Black Edition CPU have unlocked multiplyer.

if you go into bios their will be a clockspeed somewhere that should be at a value of 200Mhz
if you increase this and set all the multiplyers to auto but leave the CPU multiplyer at defualt value then your CPU clock speed will increase the other compoments will automaticly be set to stay in a safe speed

a 3.6Ghz is good start for a OC 1st time overclocker

incres the clockspeed that at defult was 200 up by 5 then boot up into windows and cheek that the new set speed is stable.

if stable go back to the clock speed u just changed, and increase by another 5
repait the proces till you reach 225 and your CPU should be running at 3.6Ghz

any further OCing you should have the idea of what to do, but do cheek for a guide of safe voltage for your CPU (idealy the lower the voltage the better)

t2dex · 21 Apr 2011 at 07:31

help overclocking

Thanks for the help I will give it a go now

Dex

t2dex · 21 Apr 2011 at 08:18

Help overclocking

Hi Guys

I cant find anything in the BIOS

But can use easytune6 now
I have changed from 200 going upto 215 now
but when i run CPUID in shows a core speed and its jumping all over the place

It seeps the core speed and the vcore go up and down

is this normal ?

Driving me mad

Help guys

Dex

Stretched · 21 Apr 2011 at 20:46

t2dex said:
Hi Guys

I cant find anything in the BIOS

But can use easytune6 now
I have changed from 200 going upto 215 now
but when i run CPUID in shows a core speed and its jumping all over the place

It seeps the core speed and the vcore go up and down

is this normal ?

Driving me mad

Help guys

Dex

yes this is normal, its where you aint got it underload its going into a phase called "ideal" where it uses as litle energyas posible becouse u dont need its processing power, if you download prime95 you can put the CPU underload and you should see the CPU speed be around 3.44Ghz

Edit : the speed that your CPU should run at should be fairly close to the clock speed you changed x16 (i.e 215 x 16 = 3440Mhz/3.44Ghz)

t2dex · 27 Apr 2011 at 22:11

Help Overclocking Phenom II x4 840

Hi Guys

just got my watercooling sorted

I can change my voltage now but have a few questions and need help setting it

Bit of info first

VCore = +175

Easytune5 info

CPU 3328.00mhz
FSB 208 mhz
Ration x16
memory 1385mhz

Sys Temp 32c
CPU 20c

What would you change to make to CPU run faster and also what do you think of the temps

Any help would be great guys

Dex