dlewis23 Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 today i got my new heatsink for my amd 3700+, and ive been playing with the some of the settings in my bios and ive gotten my cpu to do a 20-25% overclock. using this heatsink http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835118115 Has anyone else overclocked there cpu? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 Wow, that is a sweet overclock. Is it stable at those speeds? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 those are the best heatsinks!! pure copper.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 18, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 Wow, that is a sweet overclock. Is it stable at those speeds? windows works well, i havent tried any games yet. those are the best heatsinks!! pure copper.. they are the best, and it is so much quiter then my stock amd heatsink. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 Try prime95 for a bit and see if you get any errors. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brock01 Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 very nice man, grats Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swimmer Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 Try prime95 for a bit and see if you get any errors. That would be an interesting test.. if it soild i would put it through a benchmark test just to make sure that it is going to stay stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
reno Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 You might also want to get a program that tells you your system haeting. Everest is good for that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 18, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 You might also want to get a program that tells you your system haeting. Everest is good for that. been using a laser thermometer to tell me what the temp is, im going to do prime95 and 3d mark 06 when i get this thing back to geather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 3g stable would be quite nice, all I could with this Venice was boot at that speed. Benchies wouldn't run. It's now running folding for testmy.net, at 2700 Mhz and 1.525v in BIOS. Here's a 24 hour prime screenie. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 If you could get that stable at 3ghz that would be sweet. I've only been able to get my opteron up to 2.8 stable, but I've got crappy ram and a poor stepping. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 18, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 IM running prime95 right now and it seems to be running good, the cpu is up to 42c, everything seems to be working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 18, 2006 CID Share Posted February 18, 2006 What is a safe voltage to use for overclocking? Is there a limit, or max voltage that I should avoid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTB Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 With 90nm, I wouldn't go over 1.55v 24/7. For benching, up to 1.65 will keep it safe. Air-cooling btw, for water and extremer cooling methods higher volts can be applied. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 IM running prime95 right now and it seems to be running good, the cpu is up to 42c, everything seems to be working. You would neet to run prime95 on it for maybe 10 hours - if it comes out without a single error it's stable.....i can load up my 3700+ at 3.3 but as soon as I run prime it crashes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 In the bios I set my voltage at 1.55, but it says its only at 1.47-1.49 in everest. Is my motherboard undervolting or is everest reading it incorrectly? When I go to pc health stats in the bios the voltage also is 1.55. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amc11890 Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 In the bios I set my voltage at 1.55, but it says its only at 1.47-1.49 in everest. Is my motherboard undervolting or is everest reading it incorrectly? When I go to pc health stats in the bios the voltage also is 1.55. My guess is that Everest is reading it incorrectly. Everest read the several things incorrectly when i tried it, but all in all everest is a good program Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 I don't know because I cranked the voltage up to 1.650 and everest says its about 1.50-1.52 and now Im stable at 2.9ghz, the bios also reports the voltage as about 1.5. Im kinda thinking its problem with the motherboard undervolting, could be my power supply idk. Hopefully somebody can give me some more information on this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 ok been running prime95 for about 6hrs now, and not 1 error, though i did get some crashes in BF2, i put the cpu to 1.71v and rased the PCEI and Ide voltage 4% and seems to be very stable. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 While im not an expert on overclocking by any means I think 1.71 is alot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dlewis23 Posted February 19, 2006 Author CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 While im not an expert on overclocking by any means I think 1.71 is alot. if you do it correct it is fine, ive seen people put 2v in a processor, it all depends on the about of apms, to many amps will kill anything. if you can regulate the amps, then your fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richcornucopia Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 So if I put 1.65 to my processor I should be allright? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trogers Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 I am using ASUS motherboard and use their AiBooster to overclock by only 15%. Readings are Memory - 2.55v, AGP - 1.60v Temperature - 49C after 2 hours, while room temp is 26C. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disturbed Posted February 19, 2006 CID Share Posted February 19, 2006 1) I think that 1.71 is a lot more voltage than you should put through your processor - the 90nm processors, like the 3700+ you are running, should not be at more than 1.65 volts - voltage kills ! - some amd cores, like barton will run at higher voltages than 2.0 - but ....i wouldnt advise you to do that on a sandy 2) If you would like to find out the true voltage of your processor/chipset - get out a voltmeter and find a guide that tells you where on your motherboard you can measure the effective voltage - in many cases not even bios will tell the correct vcore *my thoughts Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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