I finished reading the guide to OCing and then tryed fiddling with my cpu and ram speeds but its getting confusing and its not stable. Im using the Athlon 3500+, an Asus A8N-SLI, and 512x2 Corsair Twin-X LL, i cant get past 2.3ghz without it freezing all the time. It says the voltage for my CPU is 1.5, so how much higher can i go without risking damaging anything, 1.8ish? Also, what is confusing me is when i goto the bios, it always says my Vcore is around 1.5V, but then when i use the Asus Probe, it says between 1.1 and 1.2. Thats what is making me scared to play with the voltage too much. Also when i goto the ram timings, i put the max speed of the ram to 433mhz or 466mhz, the fsb speed goes up automatically with it. So basically if anyone can tell me what a safe voltage would be to get to 2.4 or 2.5ghz or any other configuration settings id be very grateful. Btw i have a 460W (520max) Seasonic PS.
OCing problems.
- Thread starter Tokinbudz
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Hehe trial and error.
What PSU do you have?
Uh ... timing and clock speed are different ... as for "speed", since the memory controller is on the chip, it works at the clock speed. The memory speed is determined by the RAM divider
As for voltages, it'd be no fun if it was such an easy by-the-book thing now would it
Trial and error (as long as you take the voltage bumps bit by bit)Do you have the manual for this? Check the rated voltage stability.
(Also see that your power rails are not split left and right)