How is my overclock?

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Rygorn

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I just overclocked for the first time last night, my temperatures are below 40 and my vcore is only at 1.40. I did not expect it to go this smoothly so I am thinking I must have done something wrong. I attached my CPUID to this message however if that did not work I am using a phenom x2 that is unlocked to a three core and I am overclocking to 4.02ghz

Also because I unlocked one additional core I cannot read my core temps, my mother board (gigabyte GA870) allows me to read my CPU temps but are these readings accurate?

One last thing should I go further with my overclock until my temps get into the 45 range? or would this be pushing it?
 
your motherboard temps you are getting from your BIOS I assume? If so, you will be seeing 45 degrees idle, but not know what you are getting under load (ie when stress testing/doing something CPU intensive).

Lock the 3rd core again and get your temperature monitoring software up (if you don't have one, I'd recomend HW montior) and run prime 95 as a dual core with the settings you have now and see what sort of temps you are getting
 
yea it didn't stay stable using prime 95 only lasted an hour. I booted down to two cores at 3.8ghz and ran prime95 stable for eight hours, temps stayed around 42 degrees the whole time while using prime.

After this I went back to three cores and only ran prime stable for 3 hours at 3.8ghz but turned it off after this because I could not read my temps. I have read that while running extra cores you run about 5 degrees higher, but I would like to know for sure. Is there anyway I can do this?
 
Rygorn said:
yea it didn't stay stable using prime 95 only lasted an hour. I booted down to two cores at 3.8ghz and ran prime95 stable for eight hours, temps stayed around 42 degrees the whole time while using prime.

After this I went back to three cores and only ran prime stable for 3 hours at 3.8ghz but turned it off after this because I could not read my temps. I have read that while running extra cores you run about 5 degrees higher, but I would like to know for sure. Is there anyway I can do this?
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Because your temps were very very good for stress testing with the overclock you have on it as dual core, tricore temps should be absolutely fine (so long as you aren't putting up the voltage massively when you do so to get it stable).

You won't have a way to know for certain what temperatures you are running at, but lets say worst case scenario you are running say 15 degrees hotter. Mid 50s stress testing is a perfectly fine temperature

And if it passed 3 hours prime 95, you can say for near certain that it is stable too, so you got a good OC there :good: only thing you could change is knock the voltage down by the smallest increment and try again until it becomes unstable. When that happens, bump it up 1 notch above the unstable voltage, and you will have your CPU with a decent OC at the lowest possible voltages, which is ideally what you want :)

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