- Joined
- Jun 5, 2009
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Firstly, being my first post, I'd like to say hi! =D. Anyway moving straight to business.
This is my hardware, specs, temps, etc.
Now. Firstly, OC'ing. You can see that my HT link is limited thanks to the budget AM2+ board I'm using. My 'lovely' board also only does increments of 50mv 100mv and 150mv in terms of vCore. So right now its on 50mv+ . Running stable at 3.4 ghz. 1.41 volts bugs me though, should be able to reach this at stock.. But I found that to be unstable. Hmm. (for the moment.. Only 'testing' I've done properly is play games for several hours, + render out a 3D Scene I created for tafe class, which utilises all cores at 100% load).
I was wondering if I'm very much limited in this OC due to my chipset/Mobo as it's fairly budget and isn't a proper AM3 board. I.e. is 3.4 probably the best I'm going to get at stable? (reference to above, concerning voltage, etc)
Anyway 3.4 is fine for me if I can't up it, but higher would be nicer.
What concerns me most, however, is the temp in Hardware Monitor: Nvidia nforce3 pro. Temps are 85 degrees (Idle). Everything else is fine however, my cpu temps are great, as are my gfx card. But this 85 degrees bugs me, I'm not 100% sure about its actual position on my board.. Can anyone help me with this? Regardless, is this 85 stable/safe? I only recently used hardware monitor and noticed this. But I've never had any problems thus far so I guess it's ok? Just want a bit of input. Ta guys.
EDIT: By the way, temps given under the AM3 X3 720 are around 20 per core. Is this counted as the 'CPU' Temp, or are the temps under TMPIN0 and TMPIN1 (i.e 30 odd degrees) the actual CPU temp? Also: I noticed something. The stock voltage for the 720 is supposed to be 1.325, correct me if I'm wrong, but on 'Auto' Setting in my Bios, (there's not standard option), it runs at 1.4, Why? ><. Even at 2.8 ghz stock. Stupid board >.>
Addition: Played with some more settings.. It's at 1.5v, sporting 210 fsb x 17, around 3.563 ghz. Seems stable, played games for a while, ran Cinebench several times.. *shrugs*. I'm a noob overclocker, so ya XD. I've started reading some of the guides here though.. But yeah, Cheers for any responses..
This is my hardware, specs, temps, etc.
Now. Firstly, OC'ing. You can see that my HT link is limited thanks to the budget AM2+ board I'm using. My 'lovely' board also only does increments of 50mv 100mv and 150mv in terms of vCore. So right now its on 50mv+ . Running stable at 3.4 ghz. 1.41 volts bugs me though, should be able to reach this at stock.. But I found that to be unstable. Hmm. (for the moment.. Only 'testing' I've done properly is play games for several hours, + render out a 3D Scene I created for tafe class, which utilises all cores at 100% load).
I was wondering if I'm very much limited in this OC due to my chipset/Mobo as it's fairly budget and isn't a proper AM3 board. I.e. is 3.4 probably the best I'm going to get at stable? (reference to above, concerning voltage, etc)
Anyway 3.4 is fine for me if I can't up it, but higher would be nicer.
What concerns me most, however, is the temp in Hardware Monitor: Nvidia nforce3 pro. Temps are 85 degrees (Idle). Everything else is fine however, my cpu temps are great, as are my gfx card. But this 85 degrees bugs me, I'm not 100% sure about its actual position on my board.. Can anyone help me with this? Regardless, is this 85 stable/safe? I only recently used hardware monitor and noticed this. But I've never had any problems thus far so I guess it's ok? Just want a bit of input. Ta guys.
EDIT: By the way, temps given under the AM3 X3 720 are around 20 per core. Is this counted as the 'CPU' Temp, or are the temps under TMPIN0 and TMPIN1 (i.e 30 odd degrees) the actual CPU temp? Also: I noticed something. The stock voltage for the 720 is supposed to be 1.325, correct me if I'm wrong, but on 'Auto' Setting in my Bios, (there's not standard option), it runs at 1.4, Why? ><. Even at 2.8 ghz stock. Stupid board >.>
Addition: Played with some more settings.. It's at 1.5v, sporting 210 fsb x 17, around 3.563 ghz. Seems stable, played games for a while, ran Cinebench several times.. *shrugs*. I'm a noob overclocker, so ya XD. I've started reading some of the guides here though.. But yeah, Cheers for any responses..
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