andrey2pro
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Wil my ahtlon II x2 3.0 ghz overheat or break if i overclock it to 3.4 ghz stock cooling and play gta iv for 5 minutes?
Athlon x2 overclocking
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Thanatos
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Maybe. Probably. But you may want to try this:
Download this program: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html and post a screen shot while you are running this: http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ so we can see what kind of temps you are getting. With a very good cooler, I've gotten my Athlon II X2 250 up to 4 GHz.
Basically, if it goes above 60 degrees Celsius, you're in the danger zone.
Download this program: http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/hwmonitor.html and post a screen shot while you are running this: http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/ so we can see what kind of temps you are getting. With a very good cooler, I've gotten my Athlon II X2 250 up to 4 GHz.
Basically, if it goes above 60 degrees Celsius, you're in the danger zone.
jonnyp11
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on a stock cooler you might be able to get that if your room temp is low enough and the case has good enough air flow. The problem is that i'll bet this is a store bought computer, dell or hp or something like that right? you might not be able to overclock it at all on those motherboards.
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linkin
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Max voltage is 1.55v on the core, 1.3v on HTT/CPU-NB, maximum temperature is 71c for the athlons, it's FSB overclocking so remember that it also raises CPU-NB (which is good for performance in general, as well as memory performance) and HTT (you want this at stock speed) - you can manually adjust the other multipliers down, not up (unless it's a black edition CPU), to compensate for this. You will also raise your memory speed with FSB overclocking so make sure to adjust your memory dividers as well.
Install some monitoring software such as CPU-Z & HWMonitor. Also go for IntelBurnTest for stress testing, use maximum stress and do 5 runs or so for general stability and 50 runs for long-term intensive stability.
No go nuts
Install some monitoring software such as CPU-Z & HWMonitor. Also go for IntelBurnTest for stress testing, use maximum stress and do 5 runs or so for general stability and 50 runs for long-term intensive stability.
No go nuts
Athlons run very cool, that small overclock shouldn't make it overheat.
But we do need to know what board you are running? And does it have Vcore control? If you leave it on auto voltage, it usually runs more than necessary which makes extra heat.
As someone else mentioned, overclocked via the bus speed overclocks the ram and hyper transport clocks. So, we also need to know what ram you are running as well.
But we do need to know what board you are running? And does it have Vcore control? If you leave it on auto voltage, it usually runs more than necessary which makes extra heat.
As someone else mentioned, overclocked via the bus speed overclocks the ram and hyper transport clocks. So, we also need to know what ram you are running as well.