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Altanore

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Since I got my new heatsink cooling, I want to try going to 2.4ghz again. Since my motherboard has the "219 bug", I have to overclock via windows useing clockgen. When I do find out if it is stable at 2.4ghz, i can set the program to automatically set the cpu to that clock when windows boots.

I'm just wondering if it's very good for the cpu to be doing a sudden jump to 2.4ghz from 2.0ghz all the time when I loads into windows. Default for the cpu is 2.0ghz (AMD Athlon 64 3200+).

Also, for the cpu voltage, at what point normally would the voltage increase start becoming dangerous? Its set at 1.4v although CPUZ is reporting 1.3xx volts. Max I took it was 1.5v when trying for 2.4ghz... but the temp was going above 50C and it was unstable.. so i was hoping it's a temp issue. Didn't want to go above 1.5v

Thanks in advance.
 
Altanore said:
Since I got my new heatsink cooling, I want to try going to 2.4ghz again. Since my motherboard has the "219 bug", I have to overclock via windows useing clockgen. When I do find out if it is stable at 2.4ghz, i can set the program to automatically set the cpu to that clock when windows boots.

I'm just wondering if it's very good for the cpu to be doing a sudden jump to 2.4ghz from 2.0ghz all the time when I loads into windows. Default for the cpu is 2.0ghz (AMD Athlon 64 3200+).

Also, for the cpu voltage, at what point normally would the voltage increase start becoming dangerous? Its set at 1.4v although CPUZ is reporting 1.3xx volts. Max I took it was 1.5v when trying for 2.4ghz... but the temp was going above 50C and it was unstable.. so i was hoping it's a temp issue. Didn't want to go above 1.5v

Thanks in advance.
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Well, since your going to overclock at any speed, it's a good ideal to have good cooling anyway, so getting a better cooling system isn't a bad Ideal.
 
I tried getting the latest bios possible, but the bug is still there. Seems like MSI is the only manufactuar who is unable to resolve the issue :(
 
Altanore said:
Also, for the cpu voltage, at what point normally would the voltage increase start becoming dangerous? Its set at 1.4v although CPUZ is reporting 1.3xx volts. Max I took it was 1.5v when trying for 2.4ghz... but the temp was going above 50C and it was unstable.. so i was hoping it's a temp issue. Didn't want to go above 1.5v

Thanks in advance.
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thats a good indicator. unless you want to melt it all over the mobo, dont try to increase that a whole lot more.
 
haha dont scare him... that cpu should o/c just fine. its the 939 version so it should have 90nm making it nice and cool.. o/cable to lets say... 2.8ghz? haha some have gotten that far. whatever you do don't just raise voltage BEFORE the comp starts getting unstable. read cpu101 and o/c101 it'll tell you that SURE clockspeed will raise heat, but voltage raises heat more than frequency.
 
I'm at a stable 2.2ghz right now. Also got a stable 2.3ghz but the memory speed was too low. The voltages seem funny though... if I increase it to 1.5v via clockgen.. cpuz reports an average of 1.4v....

When the setting is on 1.4v(normal).. cpuz reports 1.320v to 1.360v. Anything above 2.3ghz is unstable... but the voltage won't go to 1.5v according to cpuz.. so which one should I trust?
 
use a memory divider and a lower hypertransport multiplier.
one will be like "200mhz, 166mhz, 133mhz, 100mhz" for the memory divider, you'll probably want to change it to 166mhz... and as for the hypertransport multiplier its probably something like "5x, 4x, 3x, 2x, 1x" although i think some offer like 3.5x or 2.5x which is weird but... that'll help you find it in the bios. :) make sure you watch your heat and take all other alternatives before raising voltage!
 
I've already know and done all that :P Just wondering why when I change the voltage, it does not appear to be what it should be in CPUZ. Temps are fine. On load, it only reaches 39C.
 
you only raise voltage if the system won't startup or restarts by itself. if one or two steps up worth of voltage doesn't help, then you may have gotten as far as you can.
 
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