Hello all
My friend recently upgraded from a Phenom 965 to an i5 3750k, and he gave me the Phenom to replace my aging Athlon that I've had for 3.5 years now. I wanted to overclock, so I bought a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ and ticked the Multiplier up to x20 with a base clock of 200MHz to hit 4GHz stable. I want to go farther (just to try it out), but my motherboard won't overvolt properly. If I go to the option to Overvolt and enable it, I get a default of 1.1v, so I start assuming that it doesn't display the voltage it'll add, but the voltage it'll end up with. So I go up to 1.3625 volts, set the multiplier to x21, and boot up. I blue screen before I even get to the login screen. So then I tick the multiplier back and leave the voltage up, same thing happens. Then I turn off overvolting, boot into Windows, fire up Overdrive, and get to 4.2GHz the exact same way with the same voltages. The problem is I don't want to use Overdrive, because it causes more problems than it solves. Anyone have any suggestions
If not, no big deal. I'm getting a 3770k at the end of the summer anyways.
Thanks,
Quincy
My friend recently upgraded from a Phenom 965 to an i5 3750k, and he gave me the Phenom to replace my aging Athlon that I've had for 3.5 years now. I wanted to overclock, so I bought a Cooler Master Hyper 212+ and ticked the Multiplier up to x20 with a base clock of 200MHz to hit 4GHz stable. I want to go farther (just to try it out), but my motherboard won't overvolt properly. If I go to the option to Overvolt and enable it, I get a default of 1.1v, so I start assuming that it doesn't display the voltage it'll add, but the voltage it'll end up with. So I go up to 1.3625 volts, set the multiplier to x21, and boot up. I blue screen before I even get to the login screen. So then I tick the multiplier back and leave the voltage up, same thing happens. Then I turn off overvolting, boot into Windows, fire up Overdrive, and get to 4.2GHz the exact same way with the same voltages. The problem is I don't want to use Overdrive, because it causes more problems than it solves. Anyone have any suggestions
If not, no big deal. I'm getting a 3770k at the end of the summer anyways.
Thanks,
Quincy
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