Overclocking my old AMD Athlon 64 x2 5400+

[burningcow]

Yeah, I really want to get the best out of this CPU.

Motherboard MSI MS-7309 ; CHIPSET: NVIDIA MCP61

4 GB RAM DDR2 800 MHz

CPU - AMD Athlon 64 X2 5400+

850 W , stock cooler, MYRIA case.

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This is the first time I OC this processor, so please help me with good values so that my CPU won't burn after 2 days. Haha

Thanks

 

[burningcow]

bump

 

[pkw4]

To get the best out of it you would need a better board, you will be lucky to get 3ghz with 220mhz fsb, after that theres a high risk the board will burn something out. you would have to drop the HT clock to 800mhz as its not recommended to run it beyond 1000mhz. its been a long time since i overclocked a brisbane cpu, i do remember having a 4000+ 2.1ghz @ 2.5ghz but that was on an nforce 5 chipset.

 

[burningcow]

Okay, thanks. Unfortunately I don't find any OC settings in Bios. I really don't know what's happening.

 

[schmuckley]

It's not an overclockable board then.Finding a good board to OC those chips can be hard.
I went through 8 of them before I found a good one.
3 options:
gigabyte 790fx ddr2 board
Biostar TA785
DFI 790fx m2rs

A lesser board that looks like it should be good is m3a32 mvp-deluxe.