did i hit a wall?
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The_Other_One
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I'm still fairly new to overclocking, but what voltages are you running. Perhaps you should bump them up a little if you haven't already. And how about heat?
Backwoods166
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yah, always watch temps. The first thing I do after bumping up my CPU is to run 3 linpacks and watch temps. Then I run stability test. Which for me consists of running linpack until the cows come home
basically what you want to do is get your CPU as high as you can get it while still stable before touching any voltages. Once you hit a stability wall you start to tweak voltage while watching temps. I have never OC'ed an AMD chip so I am shy about giving detailed advice but overclock.net's AMD forum is a great place to ask questions and look for help.
Bacon
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yah, always watch temps. The first thing I do after bumping up my CPU is to run 3 linpacks and watch temps. Then I run stability test. Which for me consists of running linpack until the cows come home
basically what you want to do is get your CPU as high as you can get it while still stable before touching any voltages. Once you hit a stability wall you start to tweak voltage while watching temps. I have never OC'ed an AMD chip so I am shy about giving detailed advice but overclock.net's AMD forum is a great place to ask questions and look for help.
OCing an AMD chip requires the same precautions and steps as an Intel chip.
JareeB
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ya i tryed that and it didnt work
JareeB
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yah, always watch temps. The first thing I do after bumping up my CPU is to run 3 linpacks and watch temps. Then I run stability test. Which for me consists of running linpack until the cows come home
basically what you want to do is get your CPU as high as you can get it while still stable before touching any voltages. Once you hit a stability wall you start to tweak voltage while watching temps. I have never OC'ed an AMD chip so I am shy about giving detailed advice but overclock.net's AMD forum is a great place to ask questions and look for help.
ya i c i hit a wall with not bumping up the power, i tryed bumping it up and it didnt work is there anything else i could change?
JareeB
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i am doing it the right way by doing it in the bios, i am using the multiplier and i have try going from 1.52 (default) to 1.6 or 1.7
JareeB
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not sure what that is
There's no way default CPU voltage is 1.52v. I think you're looking at the wrong thing! Stock voltage should be 1.3xx or so. All ASRock motherboards I've had have a max CPU voltage of 1.55v, which is plenty for any air cooling.
I suggest actually using the ASRock OC tuner, because you can find out what the max overclock is without having to restart your PC fifty times, and then once you find whats stable go into the bios and set it for sure.
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If your bios is the same as my old ASRock board, in the CPU section it will say ''Overclock mode'' and it will be set to Auto. Go down to that one and select "CPU, PCIE, ASYNC''.
Since you have a BE cpu you don't need to mess with the bus speed, just the multiplier.
JareeB
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no i have an advanced tab and under that i go to cpu, ill try out the amd tuner thing
JareeB
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yeah how do i work it?
Yes I know it's in the advanced tab, I skipped that part thinking that was assumed. When you are in the CPU section, there should be ''overclock mode'' and it will be set to Auto. Change it to CPU/PCIE/ASYNC mode. And also like I said make sure AM2 boost is disabled and Cool and quiet is off.
JareeB
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well im just changing the muiltplier
I know I was answering your question about what Linkin93 said. "ASYNC" means unlinked.
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JareeB
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so i should do this? i know i have this option
It's worth a try.