- May 1, 2015
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Hi Toms Hardware! This is my second overclocking attempt. The first one, I chickened out and only raised the multiplier about one degree or so. The second one, I came prepared with Prime95, HWMoniter, CPU-Z, and the ever-trusty ASRock BIOS. I'm currently using an A4-3400 on an A55M-VS motherboard.
So, here's the thing. I currently have a stock cooler. People warned me a lot that stock coolers are HORRIBLE to overclocking, but right now the nearest cooler shop is thirty kilometers away and they sell cheap ones, not ones designed for overclocking. So right now, I'm running on stock.
The first multiplier was only x27, which equaled 2.7GHz on 99.82MHz bus speed. Okay, so I'll put that up a notch, around x30. Then I ran Prime95 Small FFT tests to try the max temperature. Around twenty, maybe thirty sometimes. Please note that all temperatures are in CELSIUS, not FAHRENHEIT.
Then the next multiplier was x33. I go up recklessly, yeah. Then I ran small FFT for twenty minutes, to try again. Still around thirty degrees. What?
It went like that all the way up to x43, so now I'm on 4.3GHz on a CPU designed for 2.7GHz calculation. WHAT? Is that even possible? I read on the overclock forums every day, and people only get to 3.2GHz from 2.5GHz or so. How is this possible? Did I win the silicon lottery? Then I thought - wait, it's an AMD CPU. Don't they have a weird basis of calculating temperatures?
But, I tried HWMoniter, Cool Temp, AMD Overdrive (not that I would ever use this as a overclocking method - I'll use BIOS), and every single software spelled out the same amounts of temperature.
Now, people would be shouting "Faulty CPU thermal! Guarantee you", but before you say that, the temperatures fluctuate around a lot, and I've made sure I disabled all power saving features in BIOS and Windows. Things like Cool n' Quiet, CPU Thermal Throttling, that kind of stuff, all disabled. And I'm STILL getting max 33 Celsius, and temperatures generally stay at 25 Celsius.
Am I crazy?
EDIT: Okay. I'm still on x43, and Prime95 just burst through an hour small FFT. That CPU is STILL going strong and cool.
So, here's the thing. I currently have a stock cooler. People warned me a lot that stock coolers are HORRIBLE to overclocking, but right now the nearest cooler shop is thirty kilometers away and they sell cheap ones, not ones designed for overclocking. So right now, I'm running on stock.
The first multiplier was only x27, which equaled 2.7GHz on 99.82MHz bus speed. Okay, so I'll put that up a notch, around x30. Then I ran Prime95 Small FFT tests to try the max temperature. Around twenty, maybe thirty sometimes. Please note that all temperatures are in CELSIUS, not FAHRENHEIT.
Then the next multiplier was x33. I go up recklessly, yeah. Then I ran small FFT for twenty minutes, to try again. Still around thirty degrees. What?
It went like that all the way up to x43, so now I'm on 4.3GHz on a CPU designed for 2.7GHz calculation. WHAT? Is that even possible? I read on the overclock forums every day, and people only get to 3.2GHz from 2.5GHz or so. How is this possible? Did I win the silicon lottery? Then I thought - wait, it's an AMD CPU. Don't they have a weird basis of calculating temperatures?
But, I tried HWMoniter, Cool Temp, AMD Overdrive (not that I would ever use this as a overclocking method - I'll use BIOS), and every single software spelled out the same amounts of temperature.
Now, people would be shouting "Faulty CPU thermal! Guarantee you", but before you say that, the temperatures fluctuate around a lot, and I've made sure I disabled all power saving features in BIOS and Windows. Things like Cool n' Quiet, CPU Thermal Throttling, that kind of stuff, all disabled. And I'm STILL getting max 33 Celsius, and temperatures generally stay at 25 Celsius.
Am I crazy?
EDIT: Okay. I'm still on x43, and Prime95 just burst through an hour small FFT. That CPU is STILL going strong and cool.
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