OCing my 4600+

lincsman

lincsman

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I have a new system with an X2 4600+, and I have a Zalman CPU fan and a large case fan. Right now it runs around 50 degrees under load. I am considering a better case for better cooling, or water cooling, but with my present situation how much would it be safe to overclock it to? it's 2.4 right now and I was hoping to do 2.8. Also I'm new to OCing so I could use some help with how to do it, I looked in BIOS and found nothing... I did read the OCing 101, or at least most of it.
 
lincsman said:
I have a new system with an X2 4600+, and I have a Zalman CPU fan and a large case fan. Right now it runs around 50 degrees under load. I am considering a better case for better cooling, or water cooling, but with my present situation how much would it be safe to overclock it to? it's 2.4 right now and I was hoping to do 2.8. Also I'm new to OCing so I could use some help with how to do it, I looked in BIOS and found nothing... I did read the OCing 101, or at least most of it.
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You can't manually overclock with an HP machine. I'm not sure how you would overclock that processor. There might be a software program. Don't use nTune.
 
lincsman said:
I have a new system with an X2 4600+, and I have a Zalman CPU fan and a large case fan. Right now it runs around 50 degrees under load. I am considering a better case for better cooling, or water cooling, but with my present situation how much would it be safe to overclock it to? it's 2.4 right now and I was hoping to do 2.8. Also I'm new to OCing so I could use some help with how to do it, I looked in BIOS and found nothing... I did read the OCing 101, or at least most of it.
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Dont know if you have the 65watt or the 89watt model, but the 89watt probably wont make it to 2.8. It will do 2.6 with a mild voltage increase. The 4600s I have installed would take a voltage of to 1.450-1.475 to be stable a 2.7. So i would say you would have to overvolt it like crazy to get to 2.8.
 
Is that 4600 a Toledo or Manchester?

A Manchester on stock cooling might hit 2.8-2.9ghz stable.

A Toldeo on stock cooling could pry go over 3ghz+.

But it also depends on alot of other things, but basically dont look for a huge OC with air cooling.

In your BIOS it would pry be under the advanded options tab or something of that nature and there will be a setting called CPU frequency.
 
Dual_Corex2 said:
Is that 4600 a Toledo or Manchester?

A Manchester on stock cooling might hit 2.8-2.9ghz stable.

A Toldeo on stock cooling could pry go over 3ghz+.

But it also depends on alot of other things, but basically dont look for a huge OC with air cooling.

In your BIOS it would pry be under the advanded options tab or something of that nature and there will be a setting called CPU frequency.
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Since he has 800mhz ram it AM2 not 939, they dont clock that well, Ive tried many of them.
 
MB: Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe WiFi Edition w/ DualDDR2 800, 7.1 Audio, Dual GB Lan, 1394, Dual PCI-E x16 SLI (the one with the snowflake).

according to CPU-Z:
the RAM is dual at 400mhz each - PC2 6400 Corsair
The 4600's name is... Windsor? Totally neither of the ones you mentioned, weird.
and it's at 1.488V right now.
I'm not sure if this is the exact model but I'm using the Zalman CNPS9500 AM2 CPU fan, pretty sure it's the same one with the green LEDs.
Thanks for the help.
 
They only make 2 AM2 4600s, a 65w and 89w model. The 89W is a ADA4600CU runs at 1.30-1.35 voltage, the 65W is a ADO4600CU runs at 1.20-1.25 voltage. But the 65W should clock alittle better. Your Ram is PC26400/DDR2800 it runs at 400mhz+Dual Data Rate = 800Mhz
 
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