Questions about Athlon 64 Overclocking

[ren97]

I'm pretty new to overclocking and I have a couple of questions I can't find answers too. I just bought an Athlon 64 3400+ 2.2ghz 1 meg cache. I know this is just an overclocked 3200+ but I will be able to sell it for more on ebay later when I upgrade. I know that I probably won't get it over 2.4-2.5 but what I am wondering is, if I am overclocking with cool and quiet and processor throttling still work. i.e. instead of throttling from 2.2 ghz down to 800 mhz will it go from the overclocked state of 2.4 to 1000 or will it just not throttle down. Also I heard that the multiplier is locked and that you can only set the multiplier lower that 10x by not higher then the factory setting. However, I have an asrock that uses the sis chipset and I recently flashed the bios. One of the new features is multiplier overclocking, how can this be if the multiplier is locked. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

dont no but u are right in saying the A64 multiplier can not be increased. i would hazard a guess that cool n quiet will still work, i had it enabled but then got sick of it not speeding the cpu back up when i was playing games....i probs never set it up right and now i cant be bothered lol! i have a newcastle 3200 (2.2ghz on 512kb cache)

no reason why it wont work..probs do jus wat u said. all cool n quiet does is reduce the multiplier, so if u over clock instead of goin to 800Mhz (mine goes to a 1000Mhz for some reason) it will go to like 900-1000mhz ...either way itll still be cool n quiet

 

[ren97]

If your not overclocking it probably clocks down to 1000mhz because you have the cg revision which also overclocks better. Thanks for the info that's what I wanted to hear. It's so wierd though that asrock would release a bios update that allows mulitplyer overclocking to like 35 times when you can't go beyond the factory setting. Cool and quiet also changes the vcore dynamiclly which is what scares me. I'll just have to watch it. Maybe just so you can set under and overclock that way, I suppose I'll try to set it over the default anyway. Thanks again.