Need help with Phenom II 965 BE overclocking

Alphawolf154 · 8 May 2010 at 17:43

Hello, I would like to overclock my processor (model is stated in the title) to around 3.8 GHz from the stock 3.4, not sure if I want to try going any further since I'm inexperienced in this area and don't want to cause some major system instablility. My question is would I need to modifiy the Vcore to a higher value? Or could I possibly get away with keeping it at its stock level when pushing it by the additional 0.4 GHz?

At the moment, cooling wise, I'm using a internal water cooling system from Thermaltake, the Bigwater i720 I think it was. My CPU usually sits on about 30-ish on idle at the minute so I don't think its too unreasonable to push it a bit more.

Thanks in advance for any help anybody has to offer!

Martini1991 · 8 May 2010 at 17:45

Can you give me a print screen of your HW monitor please?
HW monitor is a software like CPUZ.

Alphawolf154 · 8 May 2010 at 17:53

Right, here it is, this however isn't entirely accurate with temperatures since I've just been gaming for around 4 hours or so, so its been under stress and I've only just downloaded and installed the program, hope it helps though.

Alphawolf154 · 8 May 2010 at 17:53

Apologies for the size, didnt realise it would add it at full resolution.

Martini1991 · 8 May 2010 at 17:56

Put the Vcore to 1.425, multiplier to 19, and the CPU NB Voltage to 1.2.
That should be stable.

Alphawolf154 · 8 May 2010 at 17:58

Alright, thanks a lot, will test it out and run it through some stress testing in 3D Mark and give some feedback in a bit, thanks again.

Alphawolf154 · 24 May 2010 at 21:38

Sorry about the late reply but I've been waiting on replacing my power supply for a while so I can crossfire my extra 4890 before I actually went ahead with the overclock. I tried the values you recommeded (Martini1991) and it appears to be unstable so I'd just like to ask someones opinion on what to tweak and in what sort of direction.