Athlon II X4 630 basic overclock question.

[supermaughan]

I know this has been asked before but I haven't found a good answer yet. I just bought a Asus M4A785TD V EVO motherboard, 2 X 2GB Corsair DDR3 1600 (CM3X2G1600C9DHX), and a Athlon II X4 630 CPU. I plan on using the stock heat-sink and fan and putting everything in an old case that I'm adding a few fans to. And I will be using the on-board video for now. I don't play a lot of games. I do use photoshop a lot and have a AVCHD camcorder and I want to be able to edit the videos.

My question for you overclockers is, what is the best performance I can get out of this set-up without buying any other cooling options? Or in other words, how far can I push the Athlon II X4 630 with stock cooling? And how do I get the most use out of my DDR3 1600 memory?

I know everyone said not to buy 1600 DDR3 but it was some of the cheapest DDR3 memory.

 

[OvrClkr]

then go into the BIOS and change the Frequency from 800 to 1600Mhz....

 

[supermaughan]

I understand that and that works if I leave the CPU alone. If I overclock the FSB at all it fails to boot with any other setting besides 400 for the RAM (800Mhz). As stated before I have opted to run my CPU @ 3.2Ghz instead of OCing the memory because I can't do both and be stable.

 

[OvrClkr]

I understand that and that works if I leave the CPU alone. If I overclock the FSB at all it fails to boot with any other setting besides 400 for the RAM (800Mhz). As stated before I have opted to run my CPU @ 3.2Ghz instead of OCing the memory because I can't do both and be stable.

Ok, if you are going to overclock the CPU you need to lower the frequency to 1333Mhz and start raising the FSB, but you also have to raise other voltages/values depending on the overclock. What are you looking for? 3.2/3.3/3.4Ghz?

 

[supermaughan]

Well, I'm using the stock cooler on my Athlon II X4 630 so I don't want to push it very far. Right now I have it running at 3290 Mhz and everything seems to stay cool. I haven't run Prime95 for very long but I been using it this way for a while and haven't had any problems. I think is is probably enough for me. So I guess the answer is 3.3Ghz.

Raising other voltages and values is where I kind of get stuck. I'm not experienced enough in overclocking to know what I'm doing and I'm to poor to risk screwing something up.

I have tryed setting the memory to 666 and it works until I get to about 210 FSB. After that, no boot.

 

[OvrClkr]

did you give the CPU some voltage? If you leave all your other voltages on AUTO you will hit a wall... You need to adjust most voltages and values to get a stable system..

 

[supermaughan]

If I can overclock the CPU with voltage set to auto and ram set to 400Mhz (800), then how is increasing the cpu voltage going to allow me to overclock with the ram set anything other then 400Mhz? Do you mean I need to adjust the ram voltage?

 

[OvrClkr]

No, if you are raising the FSB it will raise both the DRAM freqency and the CPU clock. When the CPU clock is raised over 400/500Mhz you normally have to raise the CPU voltage as well so it can keep up with the rest of the system. If you do not raise the voltage at least a notch or two you will not find stability. When I have my x4 at 3.4Ghz I at least give the CPU 1.38/1.39 or 1.4v. Not all chips will require the same voltage, just don't leave most values on AUTO if you are looking for extra speed =)

 

[TerrySmith]

Hmm, question how could all of this overclocking of the (gloriously almighty powerfull) amd athlon x4 630 be possible with a inspiron 570 4GJJT motherboard?

 

[TerrySmith]

Hmm, question how could all of this overclocking of the (gloriously almighty powerfull) amd athlon x4 630 be possible with a inspiron 570 4GJJT motherboard?