overclocking a AMD phenom 2 with MSI OC genie

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VickerC

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Hi

I just activated the OC genie on my MSI motherboard and guess what, the CPU frequency went from 2.8 to 3.3Ghz with just one click of a button.

Now I wonder, is this guaranteed without concequences? I mean, an 18% increase, just like that...

Great feature, thx MSI
 
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http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database, that board is not the best for overclocking for the reasons listed in the database.

But it should be able to handle a oc to 3.3ghz, but any higher may cause issues as in vrm failures.

To reach 3.7ghz, i used the overclock utility on my crosshair IV motherboard, the turbo evo extreme tweaker utility, did all the oc for me. it went up in like .5mhz every time stress tested for like 15 sec and eventually bsod/reset around 3808mhz and reset back to 3.7ghz. Im assuming if i tweaked it myself i could get 3.8ghz or 4ghz but i dont need to go any higher.

So with a better board i would do what my utility did small increments until u hit a wall and then tweak voltages and...
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Thx for the reply. I see you tweaked your same CPU to 3.7Ghz. How do you seek those limits. Trail and error? Once it starts freezing/locking you know you have gone to far...

The board as a MSI870A-G54, PSU is 600W, GPU is GTX680 of gigabyte, cooler of CPU is Scyhte mugen 3 + 2 case Fans. Normal HDD and one SSD and 8GB RAM.

regards

 
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http://www.overclock.net/t/946407/amd-motherboards-vrm-info-database, that board is not the best for overclocking for the reasons listed in the database.

But it should be able to handle a oc to 3.3ghz, but any higher may cause issues as in vrm failures.

To reach 3.7ghz, i used the overclock utility on my crosshair IV motherboard, the turbo evo extreme tweaker utility, did all the oc for me. it went up in like .5mhz every time stress tested for like 15 sec and eventually bsod/reset around 3808mhz and reset back to 3.7ghz. Im assuming if i tweaked it myself i could get 3.8ghz or 4ghz but i dont need to go any higher.

So with a better board i would do what my utility did small increments until u hit a wall and then tweak voltages and stability to find a sweet spot
 
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VickerC

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Thx. Clear answer.

So tweak in small steps untill you hit the wall and then return to last stable frequency. Sounds easy enough.

For now I am happy with the 3.3.

regards
 
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