Overclocking Help

[Aaron]

It should be fairly straight forward - What motherboard do you have? And are you running a stock AMD cooler?

The most important thing when overclocking is to keep an eye on the temperatures!

[mac124]

Depending on the rest of your system you could get quite a nice overclock, i run my opteron 148 at 2.7ghz regularly and had it running at 2.9ghz (wasn't FEAR stable at 3ghz :evil: ) though some will do 3ghz.

You need to give us more info mate, ie mobo make, ram make and speed etc etc.

First things first do you know where the bios reset switch is?

Sorry the piccy is a bit big :shock:

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y1/mac124/screenies/superpi32mstable.jpg

[jamie191817]

hmm, not quite.

the switch is right next to the flat round battery on your motherboard.

you put the jumper on the other 2 pins, out of the 3. knock on computer , let it not boot. turn off computer, then put back the jumper, and then your computer will be at stock settings again.

as for guides, jus google it. the thing is with amd boards, is that you can use a memory ratio, so still get quite respectable overclocks without using really nice ram. the key is to try get the HTT(FSB) speed as high as possible, as thats the main thing which controls performance.

so get you started, the HTT(FSB) speed, registered in that image above, is the speed beetween the onboard memory controller , and the processor core. and has little to do with teh speed of the actual memory.

if you've never overclocked before , then i suggest you read a athlonxp ( socketA ) guide before reading a amd64 overclocking guide, cos it can get VERY complicated, i warn you. you feel good when you've cracked it tho.

[Firerat]

[quote:85bb86e35b=\"jamie191817\"]hmm, not quite.

the switch is right next to the flat round battery on your motherboard.

you put the jumper on the other 2 pins, out of the 3. knock on computer , let it not boot. turn off computer, then put back the jumper, and then your computer will be at stock settings again.

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you could rig up a nice long lead so you can clear the CMOS with out fiddling around in the case.

Also a little known feature is you can usually set the FSB settings to stock by a key combo after turning on, If memory serves me its CTRL+SHIFT+INSERT, ( might even be CTRL+ALT+INSERT ) but may depend on the BIOS. do the combo just after you see the Keyboard light up.
can be very handy if you have tweaked it too far and it fails to get to POST
It keeps all your settings but Boots up at stock, you can then tweak down whatever it was you tweaked up without having to re-enter all of the settings ;)

[matt_2k34]

Easy peasy - your on an ASUS :)

Go onto asus' website, type in your product on the left hand side and click go...

Click your mobo, click downloads go to utilities - get the latest versions of \"Ai Booster\" (if available) and \"Asus Probe\" (if available) I know they are there for intel but not sure about amd,


Aibooster is a dynam overclocking tool :)

Probe keeps eye on temps and fan speeds.. good tool ;)

[matt_2k34]

IF it crashes then your doing it too much :)

Mine crashes when it gets to about 3900mhz

Its got predefined - but they crash on me - do it manually :)

[Jip]

my 2.4 intel is at 3ghz, it ran there happily for 2 years on stock cooler

it eventually started to overheat so i got some watercooling, its still happy at 3 :)

[matt_2k34]

Nice one Jip :)

my stock cooler was damaged on package entry - ran it only held on with 4 pins and couldnt control temps - intel wanted 2 week turn around (week pickup and week return) for me to have it replaced with a new chip and h/s...(without me paying of course) :)

But i needed it there and then - so bodged it until i got some watercooling -

never been happier ;P