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I've been experimenting with a little light overclocking. I've got a Phenom II X4 960T in a Gigabyte GA-M61PME-S2P ( http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3262#ov ).
Obviously, it's an old AM2 board, so I'm not expecting any miracles- I was just curious as to what I could get out of the stock cooler and a crap mobo. I tried a small OC to 3.4GHz, which seemed alright- until I threw Prime95 at it. I watched my temps climb to almost 60C (and still rising steadily) before I stopped the run. Given that at stock (with 3.4GHz boost, I might add) it stopped at a stable 49C, I figured something was up. So I ran Prime95 for a bit again, and found my problem - according to CPUZ, my motherboard was putting over 1.5V through my CPU! D: (At stock it was doing about 1.35V, max.)
I can't find any settings in my BIOS to let me set voltage manually, even under the advanced settings. Does anyone know of anything else I can do? Or should I just abandon even trying to OC this thing?
Obviously, it's an old AM2 board, so I'm not expecting any miracles- I was just curious as to what I could get out of the stock cooler and a crap mobo. I tried a small OC to 3.4GHz, which seemed alright- until I threw Prime95 at it. I watched my temps climb to almost 60C (and still rising steadily) before I stopped the run. Given that at stock (with 3.4GHz boost, I might add) it stopped at a stable 49C, I figured something was up. So I ran Prime95 for a bit again, and found my problem - according to CPUZ, my motherboard was putting over 1.5V through my CPU! D: (At stock it was doing about 1.35V, max.)
I can't find any settings in my BIOS to let me set voltage manually, even under the advanced settings. Does anyone know of anything else I can do? Or should I just abandon even trying to OC this thing?
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