- Joined
- Oct 12, 2011
My Specs:
600W Diablo Tek Dual Rail PSU
Foxconn A7VML/A76ML
Amd Athlon II x3 3.2GHZ Stock Cooler
4GB(2x2) DDR2 1066MHZ Hyper-X Memory
512MB Asus Amd Radeon 4850
Additional: 750GB Samsung 7200RPM HD, 250GB Seagate 7200RPM HD, OLD Cyberhome IDE-Dvd Burner
To Overclock I Have Disabled Spread Spectrum (my motherboard manual said to do so when OC'ing). Then I Underclocked the Memory from 1066MHZ to 800Mhz.
I pumped the reference clocked up to 220MHZ causing my cpu to go from 3.2GHZ to 3.52GHZ, HT Link 2000 to 2200, Memory 400 to 440 (880).
When I tried to do 230 it was unstable, 225 loaded into windows to where I could open some things, but then would also be unstable.
So far 220Mhz is the highest ref clock I've attempted that was stable.
So far everything I've done has involved Stock Voltages. I haven't touched any voltage settings in the motherboard.
I've seen a lot of places underclocking their ram to 667MHZ, is this a smarter idea? How much do you think I should OC this machine? I can run all games I throw at it at Max settings in 1920x1080, except for crysis which I get a "playable framerate" after OC'ing with all settings maxed except I have 2X AA and no AF. Prior to the OC crysis was still playable, but would stall for 5-6 seconds at a time in intense spots.
EDIT: Forgot to mention after gaming I've never seen my cpu temperatures higher than 39 degrees C.
600W Diablo Tek Dual Rail PSU
Foxconn A7VML/A76ML
Amd Athlon II x3 3.2GHZ Stock Cooler
4GB(2x2) DDR2 1066MHZ Hyper-X Memory
512MB Asus Amd Radeon 4850
Additional: 750GB Samsung 7200RPM HD, 250GB Seagate 7200RPM HD, OLD Cyberhome IDE-Dvd Burner
To Overclock I Have Disabled Spread Spectrum (my motherboard manual said to do so when OC'ing). Then I Underclocked the Memory from 1066MHZ to 800Mhz.
I pumped the reference clocked up to 220MHZ causing my cpu to go from 3.2GHZ to 3.52GHZ, HT Link 2000 to 2200, Memory 400 to 440 (880).
When I tried to do 230 it was unstable, 225 loaded into windows to where I could open some things, but then would also be unstable.
So far 220Mhz is the highest ref clock I've attempted that was stable.
So far everything I've done has involved Stock Voltages. I haven't touched any voltage settings in the motherboard.
I've seen a lot of places underclocking their ram to 667MHZ, is this a smarter idea? How much do you think I should OC this machine? I can run all games I throw at it at Max settings in 1920x1080, except for crysis which I get a "playable framerate" after OC'ing with all settings maxed except I have 2X AA and no AF. Prior to the OC crysis was still playable, but would stall for 5-6 seconds at a time in intense spots.
EDIT: Forgot to mention after gaming I've never seen my cpu temperatures higher than 39 degrees C.