Discussions about AMD Processors and overclocking. Need help with that new AMD CPU or not sure which one to buy? Like to void your warranty? This is the place for you! Please keep the topic on Processors only!
After buying an athlon x2 3800 which runs at 2ghz I have been thinking about overclocking. The thing is every overclocking forum/post I read, a really good cooling system is stressed on, and for people overclocking their cpu's by 500-1000 ghz I can understand why. I personally would like to over clock mine to about 2.2 maybe 2.3 ghz and I was wondering if I could just use my stock heatsink + fan.
If not, then to what degree can you use your stock heatsink + fan?
Since i don't want to by a cooling system this month or the next and since people stress about this I am seeing this as a dilemma.
main problem is that the most amds are 90 nm which tend to heat up. best thing you can do for cooling. is pick up some arctic silver 5 (w/o breaking the bank wise) u could take it to 2.2 gigs w/o having to rly worry about temps.
Arctic silver is just the thermal interface material between your heatsink and processor, if this works better then your heatsink can dissipate more heat. Just changing to AS5 (though i would recommend AS ceramic) will usually knock 1-3oC off the CPU temperature.
I would have thought that the stock cooler would be able to handle a 200Mhz OC. The only way to find out is to do it and monitor your load temps with Coretemp. If you are happy that its not too high then leave it, but if it bothers you then just go back to stock.
Will start as soon as my 90day warranty dies hehe.. I wonder why people pay 200-300 extra dollars for an extended warranty.. chances are nothing major will ever happen and if something does.. you can use the money you would have spent on the warranty to buy a new mother board or w/e it is you need.
vicaphit wrote:couldnt you go 100mhz at a time, then when you get close to your core temp max just scale down to 5 or 1?
just being a smartass
That is how I did mine...
First I found a max acceptable vCore (vCore is the major determinate of your temp because it regulates the voltage across your cpu) then went 1&2 mHz at a time to squeeze the most out of that vCore...just don't forgot to underclock you're RAM during the process.
I doubt you need any program if your not over-clocking.. I wont get one until sometime this summer.. my pc is still fairly new and isn't a bit slow.. and i still have 180 gigs free... :D
but if you really want to.. i am pretty sure most up to date programs will support your cpu if it isn't too old