FA_Crazy-Canuck Posted June 12, 2007 Posted June 12, 2007 Man I seem to be making a number of posts lately. Can someone post the neccesary steps to safely overclock my AMD 3700 + 1 GIG of cache on the side? I have never done this and I would like to know how to do it and what level I can safely take it. Sorry posted this in the wrong place. Thanks [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
KingC Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 Well in a sense there's no such thing as a safe overclocking, but it can easily be done without any damage to components. You should make sure that you have sufficient cooling equipment and then there are few methods for it. Firstly you may have an overclocking porgram so you can do it through windows, but it's not as good as overclocking through manually modifying BIOS parameters. I haven't overclocked mine too much, and cannot remember good guidelines for relatively safe overclocking regarding increase of frequency and voltages. You might find plenty of information regarding it from dedicated sites.
urze Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 To bring this thread back to topic (Screenshots and Movies): http://video.google.de/url?docid=-30364231882738272&esrc=sr1&ev=v&q=extrem+overclocking+nitrogen&vidurl=http://video.google.de/videoplay%3Fdocid%3D-30364231882738272%26q%3Dextrem%2Boverclocking%2Bnitrogen&usg=AL29H20D5_9WTOHuvQwDlOFWnA1Dx0-6hw A step by step video documentation how to overclock.:D Leftside Limited - ideas and solutions
Starlight Posted June 13, 2007 Posted June 13, 2007 Man I seem to be making a number of posts lately. Can someone post the neccesary steps to safely overclock my AMD 3700 + 1 GIG of cache on the side? I have never done this and I would like to know how to do it and what level I can safely take it. Sorry posted this in the wrong place. Thanks Well, I have an AMD San Diego 4000 processor, socket 939, 1MB cache (not 1 Gig!!! ;) ) running at 2400 MHz stock speed. (200 Mhz x 12) I clocked it up to 3.2 Ghz (320 Mhz x 10) and it performs as an AMD 5200+. But to reach such speeds you must have a suitable CPU (they do not all perform the same) and the right motherboard (I use a DFI Nforce4 Ultra) and if you want to run it sync you must also have the right RAM. basically to overclock a -939 processor you must - lower the Hyperthread link multiplier (default is 1000 Mhz, given from 200 Mhz x 5). The result should not exceed the Ghz, so if you overclock your FSB to 300 Mhz you must lower the multiplier to 3x, so you have 900 Mhz - rise the CPU voltage from stock to a higher value, usually around 10% higher, I brought mine from 1.37v to about 1.44v - rise the CPU frequency and/or multiplier (in small steps, you check stability at each step and then if it's ok you can try a bit more) but you must be careful and know what you're doing. If you play with those things without knowing anything, you're likely to fry everything at you very first try... no second chances here ;)
FA_Crazy-Canuck Posted June 19, 2007 Author Posted June 19, 2007 Thanks for your time. Starlight would you be able to meet me on comms and give me a crash course so I can make some notes? I promise not to hold you liable. If I blow it up, oops honey I need a new computer.:music_whistling: I could see myself welcoming that problem.:thumbup: I would certainly take a cautious approach. I will have to find out if my mother board is and if my processor is a Venice, San Diego etc. If memory serves it is a Venice. I do have a 939 socket with 4 gigs of Buffalo Ram. Of course I found out the hardway that xp pro doesn't recognize 4g ram, oh well. Thanks again. [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC]
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