Asus AM3+ motherboard
ASUS M5A78L-M Plus/USB3 DDR3 HDMI DVI USB 3.0 760G MicroATX Motherboard
CPU Phenom II x4 975BE
8gb AMD radeon DDR3 1866
Radeon HD3650 PCIE 512mb (OC 750/400) pathetic I know but just base video till I can upgrade to a r9 390x
problem is the system bus underclocks to 199.5 mhz x18 multi, cpu 3590 mhz and yes all spread spectrum funtions are disabled and bios lists HT link as 200
Possible solution raising system bus to 201 multi still 18 as my HS/F is not up to any major OC but does a good enough job @ stock
This actually results in a mild oc as CPU-z reports the system bus at 200.5 x 18, 3609 cpu
I know the difference in 3590 and 3609 is trivial but still I like to get the full speed out of it.
question is should this mild of an OC just to get essentially the speed I paid for affect temps very much, and can the moterboard tolerate .5mhz higher reference clock for extended use. (when I actually get a better heatsink and truly OC I'll be using the multi as thats the most effective on a black edition chip).
OS is windows 7 home premium x64 (dont care for the bloat and inbuilt spyware of win 10 not to mention the issue of app incompatibility)
I realize this probably seems like a pathetic oc, but as I said when the new heatsink arrives I'll kick the multi up to 20 at first, and see how it goes. I'd actually like to push it to 4.0 or maybe a bit more if all goes well with the new cooler.
I'm not new to this by any means. I been overclocking AMD chips since the 486DX series amd graphics cards since the radeon x850. I overclocked my 3650 by adding ramsinks and the cooler off an old dead 3850 then editing and flashing the bios with radeon bios editor to run at 750/400 and 1.3v instead of 1.25, still a weak card but the improvement is clearly noticeable.
the only reason I ask about the possibility of such a wimpy oc damaging motherboard components, is it also very slightly overclocks the 2000 HT link and the pcie bus as well and I know that can lead to trouble (though I doubt it with such a slight increase) That's why I usually just up the multi but this is the first board I've seen that ran the main ref clock under spec by default with all spread spectrum disabled.
ASUS M5A78L-M Plus/USB3 DDR3 HDMI DVI USB 3.0 760G MicroATX Motherboard
CPU Phenom II x4 975BE
8gb AMD radeon DDR3 1866
Radeon HD3650 PCIE 512mb (OC 750/400) pathetic I know but just base video till I can upgrade to a r9 390x
problem is the system bus underclocks to 199.5 mhz x18 multi, cpu 3590 mhz and yes all spread spectrum funtions are disabled and bios lists HT link as 200
Possible solution raising system bus to 201 multi still 18 as my HS/F is not up to any major OC but does a good enough job @ stock
This actually results in a mild oc as CPU-z reports the system bus at 200.5 x 18, 3609 cpu
I know the difference in 3590 and 3609 is trivial but still I like to get the full speed out of it.
question is should this mild of an OC just to get essentially the speed I paid for affect temps very much, and can the moterboard tolerate .5mhz higher reference clock for extended use. (when I actually get a better heatsink and truly OC I'll be using the multi as thats the most effective on a black edition chip).
OS is windows 7 home premium x64 (dont care for the bloat and inbuilt spyware of win 10 not to mention the issue of app incompatibility)
I realize this probably seems like a pathetic oc, but as I said when the new heatsink arrives I'll kick the multi up to 20 at first, and see how it goes. I'd actually like to push it to 4.0 or maybe a bit more if all goes well with the new cooler.
I'm not new to this by any means. I been overclocking AMD chips since the 486DX series amd graphics cards since the radeon x850. I overclocked my 3650 by adding ramsinks and the cooler off an old dead 3850 then editing and flashing the bios with radeon bios editor to run at 750/400 and 1.3v instead of 1.25, still a weak card but the improvement is clearly noticeable.
the only reason I ask about the possibility of such a wimpy oc damaging motherboard components, is it also very slightly overclocks the 2000 HT link and the pcie bus as well and I know that can lead to trouble (though I doubt it with such a slight increase) That's why I usually just up the multi but this is the first board I've seen that ran the main ref clock under spec by default with all spread spectrum disabled.
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