754 Clawhammer oc'ing

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:25 pm

Yes, an older processor, but still worth overclocking.

I've currently got it at 10x205 for 2050. Just a little oc, I'm just starting out after all.

A few things I'd like to know if others can help, what's the common max temp for ocing? 50 degress? And what's a good program that will tell me that, without me having to go into my bios to check?

I've downloaded Prime95 for stability tests, how many tests should I let it finish before deciding it's stable, and how often should I do it while increasing the fsb? It'd be a pain to do it every 1 mhz increase of the bus, but if I have to, I have to.

I'm about to download SuperPi so I can test the progress of my overclocking, too, so wish me luck!

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:31 pm

Ok, I downloaded SuperPi mod v1.5, and I get 45 seconds even for 1m.

I'll keep posting as my oc increases and my times (hopefully) increase.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:04 am

good luck highest I saw was 2.45ghz on that proc but average was more like 2.26 or so. if the ram can handle it you should be able to just watch the temps and I hope you have better luck that I did with my recent time.

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:57 am

Well, I got 10x209 for now, got SuperPi to 44.76, a little better. Gonna prime it.

(Slow and steady wins the race!)

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:43 pm

Stable through the 10k test, but I'm gonna get better cooling before I try any more speed, temps reaching 50 degrees celcius.

pharmd24 · Post by **pharmd24** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:07 pm

What are you system specs?

I have had a 3200+ newcastle to 2.5ghz with water and have a 3100 pairs at 2.25 24/7 in a media tower. Socket 754 is still a good sold performer!

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:39 pm

yeah don't let it get any hotter than that lol but looks like you could get more speed with a better cooler for sure.

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:49 pm

My specs are the same in my sig, except for the processor and the mobo. The mobo is an MSI K8N Neo v2.

I'm gonna get a Big Typhoon, I think, until I find the funds somewhere to go water, which I will do sometime.

I've tried 10x210, but it's unstable with vcore at 1.55 in bios (1.6 in cpu-z

). I'm typing on it now, but it just doesn't feel right. I'll back it down to 209, but it should be able to do a lot better than this!

My ram is holding me back, I think, it originally being 166. I'm surprised it works ok at 200.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:51 pm

you could try increasing ram voltage a bit , or changing the ram time to 266 and ocing it from there back to its 333 speed giving you more headway with the fsb.

The Black Pumpkin · Post by **The Black Pumpkin** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 11:00 pm

To be honest, this board doesn't have great options, I don't think I could get it to go out of sync with the bus.

Since this set seems to work ok at 200, I'll trade it with a set of Corsair pc3200 and try again on that.

dgood · Post by **dgood** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:14 am

usually there is a spot in most boards to change ram speed hell I had one on my athlon xp board to change the speed, you have to in order to set the speed of the ddr ram you are running.

funkflex · Post by **funkflex** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 7:55 am

well my CPU is Clawhammer too but the 2800+ version

My oc is.. well see the picture

It is tested with Prime and Memtest. 2410 was the highest oc of mine (stable)