Overclocked my PC a little

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Frit0z

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So i decided to overclock my cpu a bit. I wiped my C drive and reinstalled everything. So starting clean pc wise and updated all mobo drivers and bios.

My cpu is an AMD Phenom II x4 940 Black edition
The multiplier is unlocked on the black edition so i was messing with that. My goal wasnt a huge overclock just a decent bump in speed.

The pic below is my results with 3dmark06 and some cpuz screens of my mobo, mem and gpu specs since im to lazy to type it all out.

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Cool. Have to let us know how it works out for you. Any in game gains (noticeable), Stability. I have the same CPU, but run it stock.
 
sadly i dont have any games installed right now. and i dont remember what i was getting for fps before but ill let you know what i get after i reinstall some. Mainly been tweaking since saturday
 
I overclock both of my machines over 1g each. both are liquid cooled and air conditioned. Though both of them are old as hell... they do ok ... if you have questions on overclocking I might be able to help.
 
That cooler is a beast and seems to get the job done. Liquid cooling will get you another 500mhz, Air conditioning will get you another 500mhz on top of that. The end all right now is a phase changer. It can run a overclocked processor at zero degrees celsius.
I use a Big water 760i and sytrin A/C case. I also run a seperate Liquid cooling for the video card.

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Liquid cooling
Phase Change
 
Be wary of getting on the verge of BSOD that means your close to the threshold of voltage/multiplier to the processor(for your current cooling setup). I have in the past pushed it higher after a BSOD boot and Have sucessfully booted though I ended up Melting a few processors doing this !!!!!

BSOD boot means go back down 2 steps, No audio means go back down 1 step.
 
i BSOD with just changing the multiplier the voltage is still at its base 1.35v maximum voltage is 1.5v however its been successfully stress tested at 3700MHz+ and at 1.55v
 
I would probably take what you got for now until you can or need to upgrade your cooling but you can push it way ...... past that . The multiplier increase over a certain amount will cause software incompatibilities. Hence BSOD. As I mentioned i pushed the multiplier higher after a BSOD and did get a good boot but had other issues with audio so i had to take it back down.
I imagine with the multiplier getting to unusual variables it would cause issues with the mathematical formula for the Software.
While I dont have a lot of money to attempt pushing a processor such as yours I would keep it where you have it. Since your not really playing any games or doing any large computing tasks.

Your overclocking set up looks quite good I would stay with it as long as your still stable. Although you could upgrade your ram DDR2 with a DRAM frequency of around 300 could be improved.
 
yea i figured my ram is my bottleneck right now but i dont want to spend the money when it runs everything i want just fine.
 
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