Newbie Overclocker Needs Help!

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Hi all,

I'm thinking about over clocking my computer, i've read the newbie instructions and still have no idea on what i'm doing.

This is my rig:

Gigabyte GA-MA69VM-S2

And the processor is a 'AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+'

1)Basically, is there any way to over clock it with out installing additional software, like through bios?

2) Is the motherboard I have any good?

I just want safe over clock speeds that won't **** everything up.

Thanks.
 
Go into the bios, and then there will be settings in there, you will need a guide on what to do. But generally, i would say up the base clock to 205first, check if everything is stable if so, up it a bit more, till the point where you get instability, then its time to start upping voltages.
 
BigBruiserAl said:
Go into the bios and try Ctl & F1 at the same time should unlock hidden advanced menu's
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Just tried CTRL + F1 and it brings up a help menu with what the buttons do. This is my BIOS screen:

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I've had a through look through all the options and the load optimized defaults turns the cores from 3.0 GHZ to 3.02 GHZ and that's it.
 
Oops just found out the overclocking thing.

This is what i've done:

Advanced chipset features then I get:

DRAM Configuration [Press Enter]
HT Link Control [Press Enter]
IGX configuration [Press Enter]

SB600 Spread Spectrum [Disabled]
CPU Clock Ration [Auto]
CPU Host Clock Control [Auto]
x CPU Frequency (Mhz) 200

Basically what I did was set the Host Clock Control to manual and then set the CPU Frequency to 250, restarted the computer and then it sort of failed to boot. Held the power button and it booted up with some screen saying going into Safe Mode or something.

Would anyone be able to post what speeds I should have/what to do?

Thanks.
 
I used to have an Athlon 6000+ X2, tbh these chips aren't very good for o/cing, although you should be able to squeeze an few hundred MHz out of that chip though.

Like Shakeel said, raise the Host Clock in 5MHz increments, then boot into Windows and use something like Prime95 to stress your system to see whether it is stable or not, if it is stable, go back into the BIOS and raise in another 5MHz and test again.

Once you get to a point where it becomes unstable, you can try increasing the Vcore a little bit to supply more voltage to your processor, this should help give you a stable o/c.

When I had my 6000+ I used to run it at 3.5GHz, from what I can remember I needed to have the Vcore set to 1.45v or thereabouts.

I wouldn't go higher than 1.5v on that chip though.

These chips are known to run extremely hot, so you need a decent HSF to keep the temps down.

IIRC you don't want the temps to exceed 63c on these processors.
 
pretty sure you cant change the vcore on these boards there auto and will run the chips really hot. i would expect no more then 3.2 with this combo IMO
 
DavyBoy said:
I used to have an Athlon 6000+ X2, tbh these chips aren't very good for o/cing, although you should be able to squeeze an few hundred MHz out of that chip though.

Like Shakeel said, raise the Host Clock in 5MHz increments, then boot into Windows and use something like Prime95 to stress your system to see whether it is stable or not, if it is stable, go back into the BIOS and raise in another 5MHz and test again.

Once you get to a point where it becomes unstable, you can try increasing the Vcore a little bit to supply more voltage to your processor, this should help give you a stable o/c.

When I had my 6000+ I used to run it at 3.5GHz, from what I can remember I needed to have the Vcore set to 1.45v or thereabouts.

I wouldn't go higher than 1.5v on that chip though.

These chips are known to run extremely hot, so you need a decent HSF to keep the temps down.

IIRC you don't want the temps to exceed 63c on these processors.
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Don't mean to bump but how do I increase V-Core? I've just downloaded Prime95 64-Bit and i'm about to give the processor an OC.

Thanks.
 
Just a bit of advice before you go to far - make sure you know how to reset your CMOS. If for some reason you cannot boot back into your PC just reset the CMOS and all will be back to stock speeds.

It will probably be a jumper that you need to change for a few seconds, but it's good to know this before you get that sinking feeling when it does not want to start up and you can't get back into BIOS.
 
jbs said:
Just a bit of advice before you go to far - make sure you know how to reset your CMOS. If for some reason you cannot boot back into your PC just reset the CMOS and all will be back to stock speeds.

It will probably be a jumper that you need to change for a few seconds, but it's good to know this before you get that sinking feeling when it does not want to start up and you can't get back into BIOS.
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Yeah i've checked how to do it so i should be O.K. I've got it over clocked to 3.16 GHz but I still don't know how to increase the voltage like someone said to do further up the thread!
 
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