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Overclocking 5000+ 2.6ghz

spleenharvester

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So I'm trying to overclock my 5000+ (Older 65nm AM2-based version), I know these don't overclock well but I'm heavily bottlenecked by the CPU and can't get another one for some time yet.

Stock settings are:
FSB 200 (2600mhz)
1.2V
DDR2-667
HT Link AUTO

OC'd settings I'm using atm (Stable) are:
FSB 219 (2842mhz)
1.32V
DDR2-400 (Limit 450)
HT Link 800mhz

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If I go past 2.9GHz it appears stable under normal and gaming use, but under P95 gives a garbled image and restarts after a few minutes.

Any ideas on how to push this further? Specs are in sig.

Cheers!

EDIT: Whoops wrong section
 
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I agree with that advice. Unlike DDR, DDR2 suffers from a much smaller hit when timings are slackened and it can help a lot with the overclock. I wouldn't worry going to 5-5-5-15 T2 if it helps you get an extra 100mhz or so.

That said I don't recall those chips being especially good overclockers. You may not be able to get a lot more out of it.
 
Have you got anything pushing air over the chipset heatsinks? I imagine they'll be quite toasty on that board.
Can you manually set the HT link? What are the options?
You'll be lucky to get much further I think, 2.9 is quite a decent clock.
 
i was running just over 3.0 on air FSB set to 230
with everything else on auto

i did have memory on T2 again everything on auto.

i found that i couldnt go much higher as temps became problematic

during the cold spell i was able to get 3.15 was -17 outside mind you and pc is close to the window
 
Nice OC mate ;) don't have the 5000+ anymore but all I can say is, lower your HT to as near to 1000MHz as you can get it, preferably under not over, and get your NB to as near to 2000MHz as you can, preferably over not under. Up your volts and you should be able to push it forward more. Try 14x Multi too.
 
thegooner84 by any chance is you mainboard the hybrid sli mobo? If so it's the same as mine and the auto oc gives me 2986 MHz @1.4 any higher it locks up. Had one case of the oc deciding 4ghz was a good number and promptly crashed never did figure out why it did that :P
 
found the HT link is 5 times the fsb in another thread cant see any option to knock it down though a multiplier

yeah was a bit unstable after a while, around 45 -60mins of prime, you could hardly touch the northbridge. however since sticking a fan over it theres been no problem and its on pretty much 24/7.


looks like i pretty lucky


yeah but i never got the auto oc to work and at the time i wasnt really bothered.
started to do it manually and got around 2.9 but temps were the killer after that your talking seeing high 30s, low 40s for idle :eek:
 
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