Overclocking my AMD 4000+

[zeppelinfan2009]

Well i have my amd 4000+ and at stock speeds and stock cooling it runs at 26 celcius idle and load 35 celcius.

How far do you think i should overclock this. Im new to overclocking processor also so any tips would be helpful, thanks!

 

[infiltrator7]

What do you mean? Overclock it until your system becomes unstable or the temps get too hot.

 

[zeppelinfan2009]

im a n00b at overclocking cpus, i looked at the guides but i have no clue whatsoever what to do

 

[infiltrator7]

oh ok. yeah i'm still experimenting too, and am by no means an expert. The basic idea of OCing is to raise your Front Side bus, and keep your system stable. Your FSB is multiplied by your CPU multiplier to give you your total speed. So if your FSB was 210 mhz, and you had a multiplier of 10, your cpu speed would be 2.1ghz. Sometimes you have to raise the voltage given to your cpu to get a faster speed.

That's the basic stuff, other people can get into all the stuff about memory dividers, and so on.

 

[zeppelinfan2009]

ok i guess it kinda makes sense, how much should i raise at once? 20 mhz?

 

[massacreinfallx]

i do 5, thencheck stability then rai\se another 5

 

[infiltrator7]

yeah do what ^^^ said. If windows doesn't boot then you know that you have to bump it down, or try raising the voltage a TINY bit. DO NOT raise your voltage from like 1.3 to 1.8. Do it in small increments such as 1.3-1.35, etc.

 

[Lord AnthraX]

Some one enlighten me.


Unless I sound crazy, wouldnt the smarter choice be to find the max of your RAM and CPU, and then add them up and find the sweet spot and play with the voltage until you hit that sweet spot?


Thats what I did and it worked beautifully.

 

[infiltrator7]

that sounds like it would work well. I've never done it that way, but maybe he should try it that way.

 

[zeppelinfan2009]

how would i find the max of the ram and cpu?