What is a safe overclocking speed for X2 4200+

[phatride69]

I have onle large fan in the back of the case pushing air out and one large one in the front pulling air in I think they are running about 2000rpm. Built in graphics card fan. And off course the stock CPU Cooler that came with it. My monitoring program tells me it's steady around 34C. What temp is bad to go above?

 

[theMan]

dont go above 55C.

 

[F1shF4t]

Myself i would not want to go above 55C, anything below 50 is good, for an overclocked dual core. Mine runs at 48 C full load dual prime.
Its safe to overclock with stock voltage as long as u controll the heat, then i dont think u will reduce the life of the cpu at all.

 

[phatride69]

so if I don't change the stock voltage then about how many GHz can I get out of each core? Safely.

 

[Unkno]

depends if you get a good chip or not.....my X2 3800+ (clocked at 2000mhz stock) could get up to like 2500MHz on stock voltage...

 

[imported_Tick]

Originally posted by: phatride69
so if I don't change the stock voltage then about how many GHz can I get out of each core? Safely.

You can not break a processor by overclocking at stock voltage, it will just not boot up. It is hypothetically possible, I suppose, but as long as you go slow you'll be fine. Just keep going up till you get stability problems. And of course make sure your heatsink is installed properly.