Suggestions for BETTER OC?

RadiclDreamer

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Im wondering, how much of an OC people have been able to get with this cpu and what they used in their settings. Just curious as to how much i can expect out of it

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TheRyuu

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Is the 1.52v a corrent reading?

That seems like way too much voltage to reach 2.4ghz. Any Dual Core Opty should reach 2.4ghz on stock voltage easy. 2.5+ is normally when the extra voltage comes into play.

Mine is at 1.5v @ 2.75ghz.
 

RadiclDreamer

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Originally posted by: wizboy11
Is the 1.52v a corrent reading?

That seems like way too much voltage to reach 2.4ghz. Any Dual Core Opty should reach 2.4ghz on stock voltage easy. 2.5+ is normally when the extra voltage comes into play.

Mine is at 1.5v @ 2.75ghz.

Not sure, its what it defaulted to, I'll check
 

RadiclDreamer

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Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: wizboy11
Is the 1.52v a corrent reading?

That seems like way too much voltage to reach 2.4ghz. Any Dual Core Opty should reach 2.4ghz on stock voltage easy. 2.5+ is normally when the extra voltage comes into play.

Mine is at 1.5v @ 2.75ghz.

Not sure, its what it defaulted to, I'll check

Ouch, nice catch. I checked and it was set to a little over 1.5 by default!
 

TheRyuu

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Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: RadiclDreamer
Originally posted by: wizboy11
Is the 1.52v a corrent reading?

That seems like way too much voltage to reach 2.4ghz. Any Dual Core Opty should reach 2.4ghz on stock voltage easy. 2.5+ is normally when the extra voltage comes into play.

Mine is at 1.5v @ 2.75ghz.

Not sure, its what it defaulted to, I'll check

Ouch, nice catch. I checked and it was set to a little over 1.5 by default!

See how much you can go on stock (1.4v?) and then increase in small incriments from there doing about 5 minutes of Prime to see if it's stable. Continue doing this while ramping up clockspeed and increasing the voltage (in small incriments).

Try to stay below 1.5v (like 2.8ghz on 1.45v is better over 2.9ghz on 1.5v, the extra voltage isn't worth it).

When you do reach a nice final speed (for the time being...) do a nice 12-24 hour prime in small, large, and mixed (for true stability), other wise just do the small.
 

RadiclDreamer

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I'm hitting a wall with one of my cores at anything close to 2.6. I upped the voltage to 1.475 and still wasnt stable. Hads the HTT at 3x and multi at 11 and FSB was 235 with mem @ 333. Anyone have any suggestions for getting it to 2.6? This is my goal.
 

krotchy

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I have heard that the 175 experiences poor overclocking, so perhaps 2.6 is your max, sadly. But still an FX-60 for half the FX-60 price. Every overclock is different. If upping the Vcore and upping the FSB slowly past 2.6 doesnt work, this could be your wall.

However, there is a slight possibility that if your ram timings are incorrect (too slow or too fast) sometimes this can cause errors in prime which are the rams fault and not the CPUs fault. So try to keep your ram as close to spec as possible while your upping the FSB. Or you could drop your CPU down, and just run a RAM OC to determine a range of stable RAM operrating points