richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 What are those programs that like stress out your hardware to test if an overclock will be stable I can think of them right now? I've got my opteron at 11x250 with ease and want to see if it will be stable. I'm totally loving my cooling system too I'm booted into windows and its idling at a chilly 30c. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
php Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 I believe Prime95 is one... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 That sounds kinda farmiliar I think I'll try that, thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Here is a list of very useful programs to have when overclocking MBM - monitors voltages/temperatures CPUZ - a very informative program to have OCCT / SuperPI / Prime95 - Stress / Stability testing (CPU / Memory) Atto / HDTach - Hard drive performance testing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Hmm when I dont have it on stock I fail p95 almost immediately. Well I guess I can tinker around with some settings tommorow, im pretty sure its my ram though, I gotta save up and get some good tccd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 You have to pretty much start from scratch - work from stock settings on stock voltages and see where you can get - work on your processor first by putting your memory on a divider (something like 1/02), increase by 10-15mhz - go into windows, stress test with occt / super pi - keep doing that - increase voltage as needed - when you went as high as you wanna go or can go, drop ur processor on a low multiplier (something like 2.5, 3) and work up with your ram - increase the ram voltage and mhz accordingly - for ram testing the best program is MemTest when you think you found the max of both components - stress test for about 10 hours each component seperately - if each component survives prime95 for about 10 hours - you can call it stable - finally...after finding and testing the max of each component, put it all together that is the simplified version of overclocking i have the more detailed one in writing if you are interested Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Crap, I figured I would try to use the motherboards built in overclocking system to see what kind of results I could get and now I can't get into windows. Edit:Well I turned the pc off for awhile and tried it again now I can get to where you select os's but then I just see small blue rectangle, wtf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 i would never advise to use programs that overclock ur pc - those are nothing but bad stuff - clearing your CMOS would most likely fix whatever went wrong during that process Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Yea thats the last time im ever using one of the auto overclock programs, lol for some reason it had the vcore up to 1.6. I've got it at 215x11 at 40c with no errors. Now should I raise the ram timmings real high and try to up the cpu fsb more. What about the hammer fid control and ht frequency? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 would you like to see a really detailed o/c guide ? - it covers literally everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 I think im good for now, just upping the fsb and priming for a little bit each time to find the max. Right now im stable at 240x11 2.64 and under load with all fans on low it never goes above 40. Edit : Same thing for 250 Well 255 gets an error right away. Time to up the voltage a bit? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Thanks for all your help, Im gonna run p95 while I sleep and hopefully wont get any erorrs. I've got it at 1.5 volts, 260x11, 2.86ghz will be sweet hopefully its pretty stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 3, 2006 CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 yeah hopefully ...95% of the time there is no way to guess where you should be without testing - so, my prediction: it will fail prime hehe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 3, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 3, 2006 Well 14 hours now its been stable at 2.86 with the ram loose, so im pretty pleased with it for less than 250 I've got fx-57 speeds . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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