Sempron question

[Shane]

Hi,

I just have a quick question reguarding what everest free edition reported..

I took a screenshot here and my Sempron 2800+ runs at 2000Mhz and says Maximum 3000Mhz....I cant believe that it would overclock to 3Ghz?

Is this just not possible for a Sempron? Thought you couldnt overclock semprons?

Please clear it up for me what it means.

Thanks

 

[Geoff]

You can overclock Semprons, in fact people can get them much higher then 3Ghz. But that doesnt mean you can overclock that Sempron to 3000Mhz.

 

[Shane]

Hi [-0MEGA-],

Im not gonna be overclocking mine but when i saw that i thougt wtf... Thats not possible for just a Sempy.

I didnt know you could overclock them.
The reason i thought you could not overclock Sempys is because there cheaper processors so i thought AMD would have locked them up or something so its impossible.

 

[Geoff]

I didnt know you could overclock them.
The reason i thought you could not overclock Sempys is because there cheaper processors so i thought AMD would have locked them up or something so its impossible.

No desktop processor is locked so you cant overclock it, the overclocking goes on mainly with the motherboard. However the multiplier is locked on all but the FX and Extreme series CPU's.

 

[Shane]

ahh alright,

Thanks for telling me mate.