AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+ and Overclocking

[axs2007]

Hi,

My first post here, so please point me to any existing thread for this, if there is a thread already on this topic.

I have a Dell E521 desktop with AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+ (1.9 GHz) processor and 3GB pc2-5300 667 MHz RAM. The PSU and heat sink etc should be stock Dell parts, as I have not changed anything. I am new to over clocking, so please bear with me.

My question is - can this PC be over clocked? If so, can someone provide me a step by step procedure or point me to an already existing thread. I have seen a thread for Intel dual and quad core processors, but couldn't find any on AMD.

Thanks for help.

 

[DrMrLordX]

You might get some mileage out of Clockgen. Check out the last post of this thread:

http://www.motherboardpoint.co...e-on-e520-or-e521.html

If you can learn to use clockgen, you can overclock your Dell E521

 

[o1die]

I wouldn't use any aftermarket software on a dell. You risk corrupting some windows files, and won't see that much performance anyway. I would leave it alone. I have worked at dell twice; they aren't designed for overclocking.

 

[Amaroque]

You would need to change the motherboard to do any meaningful overclocking. Dell's BIOS dosen't allow overclocking.

 

[axs2007]

Originally posted by: DrMrLordX
You might get some mileage out of Clockgen. Check out the last post of this thread:

http://www.motherboardpoint.co...e-on-e520-or-e521.html

If you can learn to use clockgen, you can overclock your Dell E521

I tried to find clockgen, but seems like it is temporarily unavailable. I will try later.

 

[axs2007]

Hmm, seems from the later responses that it might be better to drop the idea of overclocking the Dell E521.

Thanks for response folks.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Dells aren't "made for overclocking" but it can be done, sometimes even with the stock hardware. But, to do so, you're stuck with clockgen. You can find Clockgen 1.0.5.3 here:

http://www.filecluster.com/Sys...Download-ClockGen.html

As with any system, you will experience some small risk when overclocking (loss of data with an unstable OC), but you won't be overvolting or anything like that . . . just running up the HTT speed a bit. At worst you'll be forced to reinstall the OS after losing some or all of your other data off the harddrive. In other words, back up before you try anything.

 

[Amaroque]

Don't scare the guy. Data corruption is always a risk, but is not the norm...

 

[DrMrLordX]

He should still do a backup though. It's not likely that he'll get data corruption, but it's better to be safe than sorry, and he seemed worried already. Chances are the chip will OC a bit on stock vcore and everything will work fine.