Was tempted to add this to the thread by azemsiB whose question is almost exactly the same as mine, but I'm assuming hijacking someone else's thread is frowned upon.
I'm doing almost exactly the same thing - trying to overclock for the first time, a 5600+ athlon64 x2. Only difference is this is Brisbane core (2,9Ghz) not Windsor.
Asus m2n motherboard.
Am using freezer 7 pro cooler, which I know is the cheapest non-stock cooler you can buy so presumably isn't great, but it was very cheap and _does_ give me temps nearly 20C lower under load compared to the stock (@ stock speeds - temps were hitting 60C now are hardly above 40C) so it surely has to be good for some degree of overclocking?
Also, have good case cooling with 4 12cm+1 8cm case fans.
Have installed prime95, want to be sure any o/c is stable. Firstly, which option for 'torture testing' in that program do I use? How long should I run it for? One source on the web says to only start testing with prime95 once you reach a 10% overclock, but 10% is pretty much my target o/c, because I want to get the RAM to the point where its running at the correct speed.
Because of the way the multiplier works for Brisbane cores by default the memory is significantly underclocked at normal bus speeds, by my calculations I can increase the bus to 220 (and CPU to 3.2Ghz) before the memory even reaches its 800mhz rated speed. So that's my target. Given which I'm assuming I don't really need to worry about testing the RAM?
So far I've only tried a very timid 203Mhz. My hope is to at least be able to overclock enough that the memory is running at its rated speed - which would mean 220mhz bus.
Is it really essential not to let HT speed go over 1000? At the moment with the bus of 203 its very slightly overclocked @1015 - does prime95 test this factor?
I'm doing almost exactly the same thing - trying to overclock for the first time, a 5600+ athlon64 x2. Only difference is this is Brisbane core (2,9Ghz) not Windsor.
Asus m2n motherboard.
Am using freezer 7 pro cooler, which I know is the cheapest non-stock cooler you can buy so presumably isn't great, but it was very cheap and _does_ give me temps nearly 20C lower under load compared to the stock (@ stock speeds - temps were hitting 60C now are hardly above 40C) so it surely has to be good for some degree of overclocking?
Also, have good case cooling with 4 12cm+1 8cm case fans.
Have installed prime95, want to be sure any o/c is stable. Firstly, which option for 'torture testing' in that program do I use? How long should I run it for? One source on the web says to only start testing with prime95 once you reach a 10% overclock, but 10% is pretty much my target o/c, because I want to get the RAM to the point where its running at the correct speed.
Because of the way the multiplier works for Brisbane cores by default the memory is significantly underclocked at normal bus speeds, by my calculations I can increase the bus to 220 (and CPU to 3.2Ghz) before the memory even reaches its 800mhz rated speed. So that's my target. Given which I'm assuming I don't really need to worry about testing the RAM?
So far I've only tried a very timid 203Mhz. My hope is to at least be able to overclock enough that the memory is running at its rated speed - which would mean 220mhz bus.
Is it really essential not to let HT speed go over 1000? At the moment with the bus of 203 its very slightly overclocked @1015 - does prime95 test this factor?