Need help overclocking

[Doliork]

Hello there!! Following are some of relevant specs of my pc:
amd ii x2 270 3.4 ghz processor(with stock cooling)
ram- 2x2gb DDR2-800 kingston
motherboard- M68M-S2P(FC bios version)

Since few days i have been looking to overclock my cpu (after hearing from many overclockers that their system has been stable and that too for a long time), so i read some of the stable overclocked states of this processor and most of them went to 4ghz, so i tried increasing base frequency one by one, and i reached 204 till that everything was good, but when i went to 205 or above it, the system is not booting(i reset it to 200 to use the pc), and i have tried everything there like made ram multiplier to 3.33(so that it does not go more than 800mhz), tried incresing NB voltage and cpu voltage one by one and then both at the same time, the cpu multiplier was kept at x17 and nb multiplier at x10 and tried at x9 still nothing happening.
Any help will be appreciated

 

[MauveCloud]

Overclocking on stock cooling is rarely a good idea, but what temps were you getting before it failed, and what programs were you using for stability testing? I thought it was normal to get a BSOD during stability testing before it gets to the point of not POSTing.

 

[Doliork]

Overclocking on stock cooling is rarely a good idea, but what temps were you getting before it failed, and what programs were you using for stability testing? I thought it was normal to get a BSOD during stability testing before it gets to the point of not POSTing.

well on some of the overclockers review, they said they went to 228x17(on stock cooling, the thread is on this forum only), and before failing, (i.e. u must be saying on 204x17) i got 44 degree celsius max with prime95 stress test

 

[MauveCloud]

Must be better stock cooling than I figured, unless the monitoring program was misreading the temps. I think current CPUs like AMD FX or Intel Core i5 are rarely that cool when idle on the stock cooler. It probably didn't overheat then. What about the core voltage reading while running Prime95?

 

[Doliork]

Must be better stock cooling than I figured, unless the monitoring program was misreading the temps. I think current CPUs like AMD FX or Intel Core i5 are rarely that cool when idle on the stock cooler. It probably didn't overheat then. What about the core voltage reading while running Prime95?

while running prime95 at 204x17, from cpu-z: core voltages interchange between 1.424V and 1.44V(they keep interchanging, sometimes its 1.424V and sometimes 1.4V), from core temp: VID is constant at 1.4V
(and for temperature, the monitoring program was core temp)

 

[MauveCloud]

I found some other posts where Regor cpus were overclocked higher on stock cooling with load temps around 52 C, so 44 might not be as suspicious as I first thought.
I must admit I'm not that familiar with your cpu, so others might be able to help you better, but I can think of one other thing to check: what psu are you using, and what gpu? If you're close to the effective limit of the psu (which can be lower than its rated limit, especially if it's a few years old), increasing the load with your overclock could prevent the system from booting.

 

[Doliork]

I found some other posts where Regor cpus were overclocked higher on stock cooling with load temps around 52 C, so 44 might not be as suspicious as I first thought.
I must admit I'm not that familiar with your cpu, so others might be able to help you better, but I can think of one other thing to check: what psu are you using, and what gpu? If you're close to the effective limit of the psu (which can be lower than its rated limit, especially if it's a few years old), increasing the load with your overclock could prevent the system from booting.

lol like i said above were the relevant specs, bot the gpu and psu are new(i just wanted to upgrade this sytem for now, and buy another in few months), anyway if u want psu is corsair CX600(600watt psu), gpu is 650 ti boost(getting bottlenecked due to cpu obviously 😀), btw i am on 204 only right now and using the computer for playing dota, and all since few hours and the temperature hasnt gone above 42(played on max settings)..

 

[Doliork]

ok looks like i figured it out, since this is a pretty old board, it also had an option of 'cpu unlock' under 'advanced bios features'(if anyone else looks up this thread look at this option) and it was disabled by default, so i just unabled it and tried overclocking and it worked!!
although there is one new problem now, none of the temperature applications are able to show my core temps