First Overclock Amd Athlon x4 750k

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Thesloth

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This will be my first time overclocking, I also just picked up a new Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO - CPU Cooler with 120 mm PWM Fan and installed it for to help it cool for the overclock. I was just wondering some basics as to how to prepare, as well as to what GHz is a good number to shoot for.

Here's my specs
-Rosewill CHALLENGER Black Gaming ATX Mid Tower
-Kingston HyperX Blu 8GB (2 x 4GB)
-AMD Athlon X4 750K Trinity 3.4GHz Socket FM2 100W
-SAPPHIRE 100358L Radeon HD 7770 GHz Edition 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 CrossFireX Support Video Card
-MSI FM2-A55M-E33 FM2 AMD A55 (Hudson D2) HDMI Micro ATX AMD Motherboard with UEFI BIOS
-Seagate Barracuda ST1000DM003 1TB 7200 RPM
-Cooler Master i500 - 500W Power Supply
 
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clutchc
In BIOS, raise the CPU's clock multiplier one step at a time. See if it will boot to Win7. If so, run a stress testing pgm like Intel Burn Test or prime95 and watch the CPU's thermal margin in the new version of AMD Overdrive: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4645-amd-overdrive.html
If all looks good, go back into BIOS and raise the multiplier another step, repeat. Eventually, the temps will get to high or the stress test will fail or you may not even be able to boot to Windows. At that point you can either back off and live with what you have, or you can try raising the vcore a slight bit in BIOS to make the processor stable again.

But if this is your first OC'ing experience, I'd recommend going with the clock multiplier alone...
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In BIOS, raise the CPU's clock multiplier one step at a time. See if it will boot to Win7. If so, run a stress testing pgm like Intel Burn Test or prime95 and watch the CPU's thermal margin in the new version of AMD Overdrive: http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4645-amd-overdrive.html
If all looks good, go back into BIOS and raise the multiplier another step, repeat. Eventually, the temps will get to high or the stress test will fail or you may not even be able to boot to Windows. At that point you can either back off and live with what you have, or you can try raising the vcore a slight bit in BIOS to make the processor stable again.

But if this is your first OC'ing experience, I'd recommend going with the clock multiplier alone... for now. Besides, that MB isn't designed for heavy OC'ing. It doesn't even have a heat sync over its VRMs.
 
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cnegroni24

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youre mb is not going to overclock your cpu too much. if youre mb has an OC Genie button in the BIOS, click it. it will automatically oc your memory and cpu to a stable point. with my MSI A78M-G45, my Athlon is oc'd to 4.03GHz and my memory to 1866MHz from 1333MHz ALL WITH OC GENIE
 
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