Overclocking my PC.

DWorrall

DWorrall

DWorrall

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Heres my specs:

AMD Phenom II x4 965
2 x 2Gb Corsair dominator 1600mhz
ROG Crosshair III Motherboard
Arctic Cooling Freezer Pro Rev 2 CPU Cooler
Kingston 64GB SSD + some normal HDD for storage
NVIDIA GeForce 9400GT Graphics (Rubbish i know)
NZXT Gamma Case
And a crap load of case fans :P

I see 33 - 34 Degrees idle atm @ stock. i was wondering if anyone could help me overclock this PC?
 
Tried, cant find anyone with a similar setup to mine. Well i found one and it didnt work, i tried changing a few things, but nothing.
 
el Kuarlos said:
Boo!

Same mobo and cpu so I can help there- is your cpu the 125 watt or the 140 watt though?

Going to assume its the same as mine which is the 125 watt.

First turn load line callibration off; if it is on I found my volts going totally crazy and above the limits for the chip. With it off your volts will drop under load a bit but that is better than with it on.

Second cool and quiet only works up to 3.7 for me, if you only adjust the processor multiplier adjusting the fsb for me makes things unstable, given my oc isnt too bad I think best leave it alone.

3.8 is what people say is the sweet spot so I am happy leaving it at 3.7. 1.375 should see you rock solid. If you do not care about power saving then 4ghz is the upper limit, but tbh consensus is that this is not worth it.

Temp wise 48 max is considered optimal, I have about 50 at times, 60 is your upper limit but you shouldnt be getting there.

Performance wise first thing to do is set the NB to 1.2 and 2400. Mine does 2600 at this but you may need 1.225-1.25 for that. This will directly affect any ram overclock- too few volts may make your system crash when ocing the ram- I blamed my ram for a long time till i realised I was undervolting my nb.

HT link will show no significant benefits and may affect stability. Some say it helps loading gpu textures but nothing is proven so best leave it imo.

Turn your ram speed to 1600, then lower the timings, mine is meant to run at 2000htz, I dont know if this means I have some extra headroom but 7-7-7-20 is rock solid through 48hrs+ of the most demanding games.
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I'll go try some of this, thankyou. oh you live in manchester, so do i. feel free to add my skype which is 'daimenw'.

EDIT: Sorry to be a pain but with those settings, it wouldnt even POST. :/
 
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