VarLordahl
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So I've done a few hours of research on the matter and I decided last night to try a mild overclock.
I have an Asus A8N-E Mobo w/ a 3800+ x2 (see the rest of my specs in my sig).
So in my bios I have "Jumperfree" which is a built-on overclocking thing.
So just to test the waters, I upped the clock frequency from 200 to 205.
Booted my computer, ran CPU-Z, showed my computer still running a 2.009 GHz.
Fine, I thought. Maybe it needs a little more kick.
Go back to Bios, set from 205 to 210. Restarted. Cpu-Z. same thing. 2.009GHZ.
So now just to see if I could get anything to change, I went back to Bios, set voltage to 1.45v (JUST TEMPORARY TO SEE IF IT WOULD "REGISTER," PLease, no one get your panties in a twist).
Load CPU-Z, still stuck at 1.36 v. I run some applications, encode an MP3 with CPU-Z running. Same ish. 2.009GHZ, 1.36v v-core.
So now I decide that if I can't get it to overclock, I'll see if I can crash the computer (Basically I wanted to see if the jumperfree setting were doing ANYTHING.)
So I up the clock speed to 250 and lower the voltage back to standard.
Computer won't boot. Freezes post-bios.
Put everything back to default, computer runs fine.
What am I doing wrong?
THanks guys.
Oh, and I forgot to include that I also tried lower the multiplier from 10x to 8x, and CPU-Z still showed it at 10x.
I have an Asus A8N-E Mobo w/ a 3800+ x2 (see the rest of my specs in my sig).
So in my bios I have "Jumperfree" which is a built-on overclocking thing.
So just to test the waters, I upped the clock frequency from 200 to 205.
Booted my computer, ran CPU-Z, showed my computer still running a 2.009 GHz.
Fine, I thought. Maybe it needs a little more kick.
Go back to Bios, set from 205 to 210. Restarted. Cpu-Z. same thing. 2.009GHZ.
So now just to see if I could get anything to change, I went back to Bios, set voltage to 1.45v (JUST TEMPORARY TO SEE IF IT WOULD "REGISTER," PLease, no one get your panties in a twist).
Load CPU-Z, still stuck at 1.36 v. I run some applications, encode an MP3 with CPU-Z running. Same ish. 2.009GHZ, 1.36v v-core.
So now I decide that if I can't get it to overclock, I'll see if I can crash the computer (Basically I wanted to see if the jumperfree setting were doing ANYTHING.)
So I up the clock speed to 250 and lower the voltage back to standard.
Computer won't boot. Freezes post-bios.
Put everything back to default, computer runs fine.
What am I doing wrong?
THanks guys.
Oh, and I forgot to include that I also tried lower the multiplier from 10x to 8x, and CPU-Z still showed it at 10x.