Overclocking help

[rockleez]

I'm still new to overclocking so need a lil help , I have a Phenom II x2 550 and i don't know how to overclock it to its best or do anything in the BIOS, could someone guide me what to do?
BIOS pic below:

Thankyou

 

[timta2]

Did you try Googling "Phenom II+overclock"? That's probably where you want to start. There are a million overclocking guides out there and a lot of them are aimed at people new to overclocking.

 

[fullinfusion]

I'm still new to overclocking so need a lil help , I have a Phenom II x2 550 and i don't know how to overclock it to its best or do anything in the BIOS, could someone guide me what to do?
BIOS pic below:

http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm154/rockleez/BIOS03.jpg


Thankyou

First of all set the AI overclock tuner from auto to manual, that will display more clocking options... play with your bus speed... its set to 200MHz

Try setting it to 210MHz and see if its stable... if so bump it again by 5mhz till it fails...

then when you tell us what it bsod'd at we can go on to the next step... leave the voltage alone for now... just take baby steps and you'll be clocking like this..

 

[Athlon2K15]

First of all set the AI overclock tuner from auto to manual, that will display more clocking options... play with your bus speed... its set to 200MHz

Try setting it to 210MHz and see if its stable... if so bump it again by 5mhz till it fails...

then when you tell us what it bsod'd at we can go on to the next step... leave the voltage alone for now... just take baby steps and you'll be clocking like this..

http://img.techpowerup.org/100827/heck.jpg

really? i see no point for him to put 1.6v into his proc especially to get a measly 4.5ghz.Its pointless and just degrades the cpu

 

[fullinfusion]

really? i see no point for him to put 1.6v into his proc especially to get a measly 4.5ghz.Its pointless and just degrades the cpu

Silly boy, I said take baby steps, (I never said to raise the voltage did I?) and thus learning what each setting does will yeild a nice clock as I and others have. I never said he can clock that high, i just meant It takes time!
And with that said, with time and patience YOU CAN GET GREAT CLOCKS

How long you think it took me to get that stable clock on my X6?

Plus 1.6v is no problem if cooled enough... water +tec's give me nice and low temps haha....

 

[Athlon2K15]

 

[streetfighter 2]

really? i see no point for him to put 1.6v into his proc especially to get a measly 4.5ghz.Its pointless and just degrades the cpu

, yeah I'm pretty sure he wasn't saying, "go nuts!".

If subby cares AMDs max voltage and temp for the 550BE is (source):
1.425V
70C

or if you have the none black edition 550 (source):
1.4V
70C

It's relatively safe to exceed the max voltage by a small amount but I wouldn't exceed the max temp (see electromigration). There are tons of really spectacular guides on overclocking/unlocking for your chip. Just look up "Phenom II overclocking". Don't make me type "LMGTFY" twice...

 

[rockleez]

First of all set the AI overclock tuner from auto to manual, that will display more clocking options... play with your bus speed... its set to 200MHz

Try setting it to 210MHz and see if its stable... if so bump it again by 5mhz till it fails...

then when you tell us what it bsod'd at we can go on to the next step... leave the voltage alone for now... just take baby steps and you'll be clocking like this..

http://img.techpowerup.org/100827/heck.jpg

right ive changed it 210 and its 3.25ghz at auto voltage which seems to be 1.387 or something like that, should i set the voltage?

 

[fullinfusion]

right ive changed it 210 and its 3.25ghz at auto voltage which seems to be 1.387 or something like that, should i set the voltage?

you can manually set the voltage to 1.3875 volts to lock it there...
Have you set the memory timings to auto? do so if your going to push the bus speed up... you can leave the bus speed alone @210mhZ now and raise the cpu multi up a notch and see how it works.

 

[rockleez]

you can manually set the voltage to 1.3875 volts to lock it there...
Have you set the memory timings to auto? do so if your going to push the bus speed up... you can leave the bus speed alone @210mhZ now and raise the cpu multi up a notch and see how it works.

When i set voltage manually it never boots I put the multiplier to 17.5 and has achieved 3.675ghz and in amd overdrive it says 1.35V but in CPU Z it says 1.46V? which ones right?

 

[fullinfusion]

When i set voltage manually it never boots I put the multiplier to 17.5 and has achieved 3.675ghz and in amd overdrive it says 1.35V but in CPU Z it says 1.46V? which ones right?

cpu-z is the one to read, AOD is way off...
I set the voltage in the bios to for instance 1.60v and AOD shows 1.3250 volt
did you leave the ram on auto?

 

[streetfighter 2]

When i set voltage manually it never boots I put the multiplier to 17.5 and has achieved 3.675ghz and in amd overdrive it says 1.35V but in CPU Z it says 1.46V? which ones right?

The BIOS.

After changing any frequencies/voltages always go into the BIOS and check your sensors to make sure everything is kosher before attempting to boot Windows. You could skip this step but I wouldn't recommend it until you get more comfortable OCing.

 

[rockleez]

cpu-z is the one to read, AOD is way off...
I set the voltage in the bios to for instance 1.60v and AOD shows 1.3250 volt
did you leave the ram on auto?

Nope set it to 1333mhz 7-7-7-24 command rate 2T and set the voltage and that booted fine

 

[fullinfusion]

Nope set it to 1333mhz 7-7-7-24 command rate 2T and set the voltage and that booted fine

Ok buy raising the bus speed your also raising the memory clocks, thats why I said to set the timings to auto so you dont confuse a BSOD to the cpu clocks...

Ok first rule... everything must be set to auto/ voltage,timings.

1. raise the bus speed to find the max frequency.

2.drop the bus back to 200mhz and now use the multiplier to find the max clock.

*make sure to write that stuff down for future reference*

3.now set the cpu voltage to 1.35-1.40 and try and find a balance between bus clocks which intern also raise memory frequency/ HT and NB speeds.
The multi will just clock the cpu and nothing else, so reallly what you need to do is find a nice blend between the CPU/Memory/and better yet the Memory NB.

 

[fullinfusion]

Nope set it to 1333mhz 7-7-7-24 command rate 2T and set the voltage and that booted fine

Can you run the memory in 1T mode?
those sticks you have should easily run that command vs your current 2T setting.

also I cant believe there isn't hardly anybody helping you on this.

PPl must be getting real lazy to help or just rather say Google the shit or look at previous threads.

I personally like you started this thread, mabey we can keep it just to that... Help to oc PII X2 550 with out all the other off topic crap that's been choking the threads lately :shadedshu

 

[rockleez]

Can you run the memory in 1T mode?
those sticks you have should easily run that command vs your current 2T setting.

also I cant believe there isn't hardly anybody helping you on this.

PPl must be getting real lazy to help or just rather say Google the shit or look at previous threads.

I personally like you started this thread, mabey we can keep it just to that... Help to oc PII X2 550 with out all the other off topic crap that's been choking the threads lately :shadedshu

Well i ran it on auto before but saw in CPUZ it said 2T so i set it manually in BIOS