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I have been overclocking my AMD Phenon II x4 955 BE and I'm getting stable results at 3.9 GHz and 1.5250 V without touching the NB. I really want to get it up to 4.0 GHz or a little above. I tried 4.0 GHz on 1.55 V (the highest BIOS allows) and it was extremely unstable. But here's the problem with the NB:
I can up the frequency only one step. If I increase it any more, Windows fails to load and whenever I restart, I get only a black screen. I need to wait like 5 minutes to turn the computer on again and reset the NB frequency. The same problem occurs if I increase the NB voltage at all.
Could it be a problem with my motherboard? It was a budget build and this one might be kinda cheap, but I don't know if that would have an effect at all.
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD
Thanks for any help-I'm pretty new to the overclocking thing, but I'm loving it
I can up the frequency only one step. If I increase it any more, Windows fails to load and whenever I restart, I get only a black screen. I need to wait like 5 minutes to turn the computer on again and reset the NB frequency. The same problem occurs if I increase the NB voltage at all.
Could it be a problem with my motherboard? It was a budget build and this one might be kinda cheap, but I don't know if that would have an effect at all.
ASRock M3A770DE AM3 AMD 770 ATX AMD
Thanks for any help-I'm pretty new to the overclocking thing, but I'm loving it