Overclock with clockgen

Fothsn · 12 Feb 2007 at 19:00

Hey, I’m just messing about with clockgen at the moment due to my motherboard not able to overclock, is clockgen a reliable OC tool?

What’s the max/safe OC you would recommend? (specs in sig)

Options I can change,

Will_3rd · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:08

it's not a substitute for BIOS overclocking, I would personally not use it.

Jokester · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:09

Clockgen is an excellent tool for finding the max overclock for a given voltage, saves a lot of rebooting.

Jokester

simonnance · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:24

yeah, boot in at the voltage, clockgen up untill you get errors, then drop it down a touch and do some long tests. Of course, on the Dual-VSTA clockgen doesnt work...... which is an arse!

Fothsn · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:28

Thanks for the reply’s guys

Jokester so you would personally recommend Clockgen a safe tool to use to achieve a suitable overclock? So far I have it running at:

Ive ran numerous benchmarks and it seems to be ok

(prime, superpi, orthos sp? & 3DMark06)

Can I push this further? I have overclocked numerous AMD systems in the Bios and am a little wary of software OCing (a wuss I know

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Jokester · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:33

Main benefit of clockgen is that you can't permanantly change anything to cause it to refuse to reboot requiring a CMOS clear, so it's handy to find a max stable overclock before applying it in the BIOS.

Jokester

Fothsn · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:41

Ah ok looks like I will keep sliding that button and have no fear

(The worst part is waiting ages to test the OC

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Am I right in saying it’s bad for the PCI-E & PCI to rise? I haven’t got an option in the bios to lock these.

Will_3rd · 12 Feb 2007 at 20:50

Try and lock those if you can, PCI-E at 100mhz and PCI at 33mhz