SOLVED Athlon II X2 270 How much can i take it too!

[Banjozvin]

How so i started playing the game called "Black ops 2" wich is pretty cool and my FPS is around 50-100 when alot is happening. But the CPU usage is at 100% all the time and that makes the game do some lag spikes some times. So today i said "Let's overclock this CPU" so i started slowly, and here's is where i am now!








My motherboard is called "ASRock 990FX Extreme3. i don't know if "Ram" has anything to do with this BUT i got 4gb DDR3 HyperX ram NB Freq = 2200

How long can i go with this and what do i need to do to go even longer!

Hope i gave enough info!

 

[manu2b]

Well, you certainly could go higher with a better cooling: I see you hit 61°C max which is already well over the advised 55°C max.

Good news are that your vCore tops [email protected], so you gave still something like 0.08/0.09v and that your CPUS is a C3 stepping one.

So, better cooler, 1.45/1.46v max, 55°C max, and you might be able to reach 4GHz...

 

[Banjozvin]

But isn't the 61°C the highest it has ever reached?

Because it's said 61 even before i overclocked so it might be long time, there was a period where one of my cabinet sides weren't on it could be from there.

 

[Banjozvin]

Btw
http://www.overclock.net/t/1284404/amd-athlon-ii-x2-270-does-4-1ghz-stock-voltage

He says he gets it to 4.1 with stock voltage. Not sure if he is using Stock cooling but.

 

[manu2b]

4.1 with stock voltage is:


Lol! no way!!!! Unless he runs LN2 (and even, I doubt he could hit such high freq@stock vcore).

To answer your question, nope, it's the max temp since you've started HWmonitor.

What you need to download is prime95.
It's a stress test that will take your CPU to its max load and temp.

Have a (long and deep) look at this guide:
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/showthread.php?t=596023

It's for PhenomII's, but Athlon's OC the same way.

 

[Banjozvin]

Thanks! I hope my english didn't make it too hard for you to understand me
Still working on it But thanks again

Cheers!