OC'ing a 4800+ X2

[Koudelka]

I was just curious what everyone that has a 4800+ X2 has gotten a stable OC at on it.

Or, what's the max you've heard someone getting.

I keep hearing of everyone getting a stable OC at 2.8ghz easily with stock voltages and mem settings.

I just assumed there would be others who might have achieved higher.

Thanks!

 

[myocardia]

The max with 4800's are about the same as with the Opterons, up to 3.0 Ghz. Hardly anyone on this forum owns a 4800, though. Just 6-7 weeks ago, it cost more than the average mortgage payment.

 

[Pederv]

According to every monitoring utility I've tried, my motherboard is under-volting my CPU by default - so I don't get very far on default settings - 2496MHz. I've taken it up to 2664MHz, with an increase in core voltage (vcore of about 1.44). I'm running CnQ, so my motherboard will increase the vcore under certain curcumstances.

Edit: I'm running at stock, with my video card limiting my game play and my average daily usage hasn't even pushed one core to 100% (50% in Task Manager), I don't see any reason to overclock.

 

[Koudelka]

I thought CnQ was a bad idea if you're overclocking?

 

[adairusmc]

I have mine set at 2.7 Ghz, on air cooling, on stock voltage. Any higher than that and I start having problems, I think my memory is causing the issues though.

 

[Pederv]

Originally posted by: Koudelka
I thought CnQ was a bad idea if you're overclocking?

Since my system doubles as my bedroom TV, I have CnQ enabled. By using the +% options for over volting my CPU, it carries over into the power saving mode.
Example:
214 X 12 = 2568 MHz at full speed
1.31 + 5.5% = 1.38 volts at full speed

214 X 5 = 1070 MHz in power saving mode
1.07 + 5.5% = 1.13 volts in power saving mode

So my system stays stable. But like I said, I'm not over clocking at this time. I'll save it for later.