Page 1 of 1

Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 3:24 pm
by garyallen349
Hi All

I have an AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition Quad Core CPU attached to an ASUS M4A77TD Pro motherboard. The CPU currently runs at 3.4GHZ with a mutiplier of 17. I attempted to use an overclocking program which was on the driver cd that accompanied the motherboard. This increased the processor to 3.6GHZ with a multiplier of 19 however this made my system unstable and produced a BSOD. My question is can this CPU be over clocked. My OS is Windows 7 Home Premium, I also have 4GIG of DDR3 1333 memory.


Cheers

Gary #-o

Re: Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Wed Nov 24, 2010 6:50 pm
by Major_A
If memory servers me correctly you need to start adjusting the CPU voltage on the AMD chips around 3.6GHz.

Are you running the latest build of Overdrive? Or are you talking about something else?
http://game.amd.com/es-es/drivers_overdrive.aspx

Re: Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 3:15 am
by garyallen349
I am running a version of AM D Overdrive which came on the drivers cd accompanying the Asus mobo. I'm not sure if this is the latest version. The cpu is presently running at 1.39volts.

Gary

Re: Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Thu Nov 25, 2010 10:30 am
by lordvic
It would be better to use the newer version of Overdrive found directly on AMD's site. The lateest version is ver3.2.3.
http://sites.amd.com/us/game/downloads/ ... rview.aspx

I've never done any overclock with Overdrive before, so I can't give any tips/comments about it.
Good Luck :drinkers:

Re: Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Mon Nov 29, 2010 6:30 pm
by garyallen349
Hi All

I downloaded the latest version of the AMD Overdrive Utility from the AMD site. When I go to the system overview page in the advanced mode the CPU multiplier is set at X17 and I am unable to increase this, the slider is at the maximum position. The auto clock feature takes the multiplier to X19 but my system crashes and reboots at this multiplier. Can this CPU which is the AMD Phenom II Quad Core 965 be overclocked clocked faster than the stock 3.4GHZ. I use the FSX flight sim and would like to getr the CPU to above the stock 3.4GHZ.

Cheers

Gary

Re: Overclocking AMD Phenom 965 Black Edition

Posted: Tue Nov 30, 2010 9:23 am
by Major_A
Overclocking your computer 200MHz isn't going to help much. Read this article and see if it helps.
http://www.ocia.net/articles/k10overclock/page1.shtml