OverClock X2 4400+

Twist86

Twist86

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So I planned to buy a x2 6000+ for my gf rig but decided to wait for a while and get a quad.
SO I over clocked the X2 4400+ socket AM2 with a Freezer 64 Pro.


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everything look good? Temps idle are 27c yet to see high load. This is my very first overclock so you can imagine the "omg did I break it" feeling going through me with the excitement of not screwing it up.

I only increased the FSB from 200 to 210. I didn't wanna go to nuts just get a little more performance outta the X2 till upgrade time :)

I will wait till my room is 80F before I try anymore. My goal is 2.5ghz. Enough to make sure her 8800GT doesn't bottleneck because of it.

Oh yeah forgot rig is
X2 4400+ 2.3ghz (OC to 2.4ghz)
8800GT 512mb GPU (PCI-e x16)
250gb HD
2x 1gb G-skill pc6400 (buying 2 more)
MSI K9N SLI-F nForce 570LT Socket AM2+
vx450w PSU


Did high load room is about 75F Enemy Territory - QUAKE Wars 1024x768 ( I can't stand higher ) with x16 alias temp never reached above 35c. Sorta strange temp didn't rise much at all its about normal just like 1c difference.
 
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wow thats pretty good, but your not going far enough! the chip and obviously the cooling, are capable of reaching 3ghz. the motherbord might have some trouble, but i wouldnt know.

my advice though is to keep going as high as you can, it makes a pretty big difference.
 
Well I guess my chip thinks other wise. I woke up this morning booted up my rig and it says overclocking failed after 4 bad boot ups.
Then it reset back to 200. Any clue why it worked all night then after 10 hours of being off it screwed up?

Can imagine of the "shit I broke it" thoughts when I booted the PC and all that was running was the fans^-^
 
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I think you're supposed to lower your HT Link multiplier (if possible), as it can take very little OCing. Apparently yours is x5, lower it to x4 and you'll be good, unless your bus speed goes beyond 250MHz, which I don't think is gonna happen.
 
Yeh with a AMD you have to lower your ht link multiplier to 4x or lower depending on the oclock...if you don't it will go crazy.
 
Well x4 wasn't the best of ideas the chip no longer boots up. Going to try flashing bios and hope it fixes it.
Think I will live with it as is and just get a quad asap.
 
whoah flashing the bios? that is extreme and unnecessary unless AMD's are very very different from intels. all my old AMD required was that i reset the bios by taking the cmos battery out. the only reason you would have to flash the bios is if it was corrupted, which i think is unlikely.
 
Yeah thats what she ment she got the 2 mixed up. Not sure why but anything other than x5 and it shuts down.

Going to read up on this model some more see if I can't find the answers :)
 
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