Overclocking a ClawHammer...

[Disillusion]

I know, I know, it's a ClawHammer.

Anyway, I hear these things like to run pretty warm. I have a 3700 and want to know how well it will overclock. Can I get, maybe, 2.6 GHz or so out of it? I know all processors overclock differently, but I just want a rough idea.

Who here has overclocked a clawhammer? What did you get out of it and what kind of cooling system do you have?

I won't know anything about how warm mine runs until I get the mobo on Friday. Thanks for any help.

 

[turboFX55]

i have a fx-55 clawhammer, i have got mine up to 2.9 thats as far as I knew how to get it, but i know they will go farther!

 

[Disillusion]

i have a fx-55 clawhammer, i have got mine up to 2.9 thats as far as I knew how to get it, but i know they will go farther!

What temp is it running at idle and under a load? What cooling system do you have? 2.9 looks pretty promising. But, I don't have an FX-55...

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

You should be able to get 2.6Ghz with some aftermarket cooling.

 

[turboFX55]

i am using a danger den custom system, 38 on idle and 49 underload

 

[Disillusion]

It's alive! Got the mobo today and fired her up. All is working well so far. It idles at around 35 degrees at original 2.4 GHz, so I played with it a little and clocked it to 2.5 GHz and temp only went up to like 36 or 37. So, I'm guessing 2.6 or 2.7 GHz should be reachable with the cooling I have now. I will probably mess with it some more tomorrow and see what I come up with.

 

[C0RR0SIVE]

Man that is warm.... Once you hit 2.6-2.7 get aftermarket please.... lol

 

[Metal Chaos]

I too have a 3700 clawhammer, i heard that someone OC'ed their 3700 clawhammer from 2.4 to 3.6, i don't know if thats possible even with after market cooling, but if it is that would be bad a**.

 

[royalk4]

I got my clawhammer up to 2.6 easy and it idles at 32 and under load gets to about 40

Optical sent you a PM

 

[slick_tech15]

About what Sylus said, that is probably wth like some crazy cooling like phase change or something.