AMD x4 830 overclocking

[Bman123]

Well I did not see a guide and I have no clue what all is involved when overclocking a AMD cpu, the last cpu I did was a E8400 LOL.

I have a new x4 830 cpu which I put a x4 970BE huge heatpipe cooler on. I don't know what to expect here in terms of overclocking honestly but I figured i could get a little something out of this cooler since it is designed for a 125watt cpu and mine is only a 95 watt.

would be nice to get this thing up to 3.2ghz or more on this cooler. Any input would be appreciated

 

[richierich1212]

Try HTT clock 218, vcore 1.32v. CPU-NB 1.25v. DDR3 memory near 1333 as much as possible.

 

[richierich1212]

No more G530? lol.

 

[richierich1212]

My bad I accidentally typed in 840 instead of 830 when checking the stock multi. Try HTT 228 with my above settings.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Just keep bumping fsb +5 and test in Prime95 and OCCT. I can do about 3.2Ghz on stock volts, 3.5Ghz on 1.4v.

 

[Bman123]

Just keep bumping fsb +5 and test in Prime95 and OCCT. I can do about 3.2Ghz on stock volts, 3.5Ghz on 1.4v.

Yeah what cooler are you using tho?

 

[Gigantopithecus]

I've picked up a few 830s from Microcenter and like you, paired one with a 125W AMD stock heatpipe hsf. At stock volts I got it up to 3.33GHz but it was not stable. I dropped the bus back down to 229MHz (3.2GHz) and it's been fine every since. Not bad for a $50 CPU!

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Yeah what cooler are you using tho?

Xigmatek Loki. 90mm single fan. Nothing special. With the heatpiped phenom cooler I believe you will be fine even with a mild overvolt. Just watch your temps in HWmonitor or whatever utility you like. Don't exceed 60-ish celcius and you are good. This chip is low stress and high yield for the $$.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

Oh yeah, might want to run a quick memtest just to be sure your ram is O.K. with the new speeds. Or limit DRAM in bios. Either way.

The ram i have is 1333 as well. I don't limit it, but run loose timings. At 250 on the fsb and an extra 10 mV it's running above 1600. YMMV.

 

[Bman123]

I left the voltage at 1.280 and changed the bus to 225 and it's running at 3.15ghz right now. I didnt change anything else in the bios. I am such a amd noob that I dont get the bios with all the different options.

 

[Bman123]

No more G530? lol.

LOL not anymore. I wanted a quad and couldnt afford to drop the cash on a intel quad at the time. So I ended up selling my g530 and h61 board and got a new x4 830 and new 780g board for only $73. It cost me a whopping $9 to go from the g530 to the x4 with the new board so I figured what the heck I could use the extra 2 cores gaming..

 

[maniac5999]

OK, start by setting the multiplier low (like X8) and set the RAM to run at DDR3 800 speeds. then walk the HTT up in 5mhz increments until you BSOD, then go back and use the last good setting. (test for stability there for at least an hour) Once you've done that, you've found the maximum HTT clock. Then start to walk the multiplier back up to it's X14 maximum in increments of 1 or 2 until you start crashing. Don't be afraid to add voltage. Phenoms respond well to voltage, the simple rule is that you shouldn't excede 1.5v, or about 65*C while stress testing. Once you're done there, bring the RAM speed back up, but remember that it will actually be running it faster than you select. For example, I have DDR2 1066 RAM, which will run fine up to about 1100, but because my HTT is at 250, I have to set my board to run it at DDR2 800, which means that it's actually running at 800 * (250/200) =1000mhz

I know that it's just one datapoint, But I'm limited by my board. The HTT on this cheapo mATX board i use can't go above 250, but I only need 1.325v to get there.