- Jul 3, 2013
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Hi all,
I just recently did an overclock my Athlon ii x2 270. I increased the fsb by 30mhz to make it 3.91ghz. I tested it with prime95 for an hour (and yes, I know this isn't long enough)
Anyway now performance has gotten worse on my system. (I think this is a stability issue.) so, what can I do? I thought of a few options.
A. Bring back to stock settings and leave it there.
B. run a long prime95 test on the current overclock.
C. Do a complete windows reinstall.
D. Lower oc and test.
So what do you guys think? I'm sort of leaning towards the complete windows reinstall option since that'll fix anything I screwed up in windows.
Just to tell y'all that I over clocked it using ntune and I think that was a big mistake. I was very careful, however and I think I haven't damaged the CPU at all.
I just recently did an overclock my Athlon ii x2 270. I increased the fsb by 30mhz to make it 3.91ghz. I tested it with prime95 for an hour (and yes, I know this isn't long enough)
Anyway now performance has gotten worse on my system. (I think this is a stability issue.) so, what can I do? I thought of a few options.
A. Bring back to stock settings and leave it there.
B. run a long prime95 test on the current overclock.
C. Do a complete windows reinstall.
D. Lower oc and test.
So what do you guys think? I'm sort of leaning towards the complete windows reinstall option since that'll fix anything I screwed up in windows.
Just to tell y'all that I over clocked it using ntune and I think that was a big mistake. I was very careful, however and I think I haven't damaged the CPU at all.
i have been able to get it to 4.1, but then i would get a blue screen within 5 min, and prime95 would get an error immediatly. the highest i got that was 100% stable with increasing the fsb by 22, and you cant get much higher than that because you cant increase the voltage. i also saw a performance decrease when overclocked past ~3.9, most likely because it was unstable.
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