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| 631314 | 2008-01-17 23:51:00 | Hey i have a AMD Athlon 64 x2 4000+ and i have 1gb of ram. I do a bit of gaming and i downloaded nTune and i was wondering if i was able to overclock it to get a performace boost. It has the stock AMD smart fan and i was wondering if that would handle any overclocking. Any ideas?:confused: |
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| 631315 | 2008-01-18 01:19:00 | Should be fine, I'm currently running an x2 4400+ at 2.6ghz on the stock fan with no issues. The main thing to remember is to work your way up in small mhz increments, and right at the start drop your HT multiplier to 3x, a lot of motherboards have major issues if the HT bus gets to high |
lagbort (5041) | ||
| 631316 | 2008-01-18 01:37:00 | hey i have pumped it up to 2.4ghz and its sweet as so far, is your pc stable at your speed? like has it crashed or done anything silly? its a AMD smart fan so it will speed up and slow down | password (5384) | ||
| 631317 | 2008-01-18 02:13:00 | Overclocking Athlons is a waste of the time the gains offer minimal returns and increase the chances you'll break things. You wont notice any gains in iTunes and if your video card is relatively low end it will be more of a bottleneck than the CPU. If you insist on overclocking then there is a very good overclocking thread over at OCNZ that explains all the basics well. |
Pete O'Neil (6584) | ||
| 631318 | 2008-01-18 02:24:00 | Yea i have a 265mb Nvidia gcard and when i sped it up my games went much better! =) | password (5384) | ||
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