Should I increase NB Voltage?

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Danbuscus25

Danbuscus25

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ok, so I want to OC my cpu, and I have an athlon II x2 270 3.4ghz cpu with a locked multiplier, so I have to increase the fsb, which is 200 at stock with a multiplier of x17. so, when I raise the fsb, i lower the ht link to keep it as close to 2000mhz as possible, lower dram speed to counter the speed increase, I cant raise the cpu voltage past the stock of 1.4v, and im not sure if I need to raise the NB voltage. do I? and if so, how much? I know i dont have good hardware for OC'ing, so I wont be running OC'ed all the time, I just want to do some benchmarks.
 
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drtweak
Only really need to raise the NB/SB/DRAM voltages if you are having stability issues with the overclock.

I have a Q9550 which is 2.83 @1333 FSB and i have it overclocked to 3.5 GHZ. Had to raise my vCore, DRAM, NB, and SB voltages up to keep it stable all the time. If its stable you will be find with just upping the vCore a bit. If its not stable then increase DRAM and NB little by little. Now only do one thing at a time and test it. If you do two things and once and its stable you don't know what one caused it to be stable. You don't want too much voltage going to something that doesn't need it.
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Only really need to raise the NB/SB/DRAM voltages if you are having stability issues with the overclock.

I have a Q9550 which is 2.83 @1333 FSB and i have it overclocked to 3.5 GHZ. Had to raise my vCore, DRAM, NB, and SB voltages up to keep it stable all the time. If its stable you will be find with just upping the vCore a bit. If its not stable then increase DRAM and NB little by little. Now only do one thing at a time and test it. If you do two things and once and its stable you don't know what one caused it to be stable. You don't want too much voltage going to something that doesn't need it.
 
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