completely new at this, and almost no idea what im doing

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

so i have an AMD athlon 64 x2 5200 (2.6ghz) and an asus m2n-e mobo with 6 gb of ram, whats the most stable OC settings i can apply and keep without worrying about my computer overheating or causing major issues, i ask because some of the games i play are a bit cpu intensive, and i don't have the money for a new cpu right now, i would like to be able to get it to 2.8-3.0 ghz, but im afraid to try without somebody who actually knows what they are doing giving me some input on the matter

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

depends what heatsink you are using. what are your current temperatures under full load?

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

not sure what heatsink i have, or how to check really... i was usuing a crapy laptop for gaming for the past 5 years, im newat this... but i can run prime 95 and real temp to check the full load temp

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

go for it. report results.

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

will do, i heard to run prime 95 for a few hours, is that right?

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

not really required. your cpu will heat up pretty fast and prime runs hotter than anything else. just run it until the temperature stabilizes.

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

kk, will do

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

something just occured to me... does it matter if i have amd cool and quiet on?

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

i dont know much about it

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

ah ok, it lowers the multiplier and voltage to save power,supposed to make it really unstable during overclock

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

oh, that shouldnt be an issue right now. should clock your processor up and stay there under stress.

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

ya, prime95 is just started test 4, its still hovering around 56-62, max temp for both cores is 62 right now

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

im not seeing much wiggle room for overclocking

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

ya, doesn't seem so... the specs for the cpu say max temp 62 celcius, so that really doesn't leave a lot to work with...

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

to be fair, nothing heats a cpu like prime. there is a chance you could get away with a slight overclock and still have safe temps during normal operation.

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

maybe, but i use dolphin emulator a lot,which is a gamecube/wii emu, normaly i use OpenCL texture decoding which offloads more of the heavy texture processing to my gpu rather than the cpu, and since im using a gtx 660 that would be the prefered option, but in the lastest build, openCL causes crashes at startup, and using the older builds still relies heavily on CPU processing even with openCL on, suppose the only thing i can really do at this point is look for a quad core that will fit my mobo that won't cost me an arm and a leg. thx for all the help, gald i came here rather than making a foolish mistake

neon neophyte · Apr 17, 2014

run that and check your temps ;p

robertltf · Apr 17, 2014

which dolphin?

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