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AMD Athlon 64 x2 3600+ and Overclocking

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axs2007

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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.
 
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.
 
You would need to change the motherboard to do any meaningful overclocking. Dell's BIOS dosen't allow overclocking.
 
Hmm, seems from the later responses that it might be better to drop the idea of overclocking the Dell E521.

Thanks for response folks.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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