Overclocking an AMD X2 4400+

[Jie]

Heyas,

Just recieved a new 4400+ from Newegg this afternoon and plan on giving it some OC when I get home. I'm curious as to how high people have OC'd this CPU using watercooling. I have a rather excessive custom water cooling kit, so I'm hoping for a stable 2.6ghz. Anyone achieve this?

CPU: AMD X2 4400+
Ram: Corsair XMS Dual Channel (PC3200) 2 gigs (3-3-3-8 )
Mobo: DFI Lanparty nf4 SLI-DR

Should I burn the chip in for a bit before going for an OC or is it relatively safe to OC out of the box? This will actually be the first "new" chip I have ever OC'd. All the otehrs I had owned for more than a few months.

Thanks for thelp!

 

[krazyIvan]

I just OCed my +4400 X2 to 2.530 GHz (230MHz) on air with VCC @ 1.45V. I wasn’t able to go any higher even at 1.5V and heat wasn’t really a problem.
Ht mult is X4 (920MHz) and RAM divider is 333MHz (383MHz).

 

[Moximus]

Good settings man, works well.
2.53hgz

 

[Flakes]

I just OCed my +4400 X2 to 2.530 GHz (230MHz) on air with VCC @ 1.45V. I wasn’t able to go any higher even at 1.5V and heat wasn’t really a problem.
Ht mult is X4 (920MHz) and RAM divider is 333MHz (383MHz).

try lowering the voltage a litle, i have mine at 2.5 with slightly lower voltage(1.375).

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=101494

to the OP on watercooling these chips can easily get to 2.7Ghz without much trouble but it also seems to be the limit.

 

[krazyIvan]

Unfortunately, I can’t go below 1.475v VCC without an error cropping up after 9+hrs on each core running Prime95. And for me only 100% stability will do.

 

[Moximus]

Yeah i have also lowered my voltage now aswell, stops it getting so hot,

 

[famine]

I hit 2.6 ghz on my x2 4400+ at 1.38 volts on a Zalman 7000B(and its prime stable-8 hours)
I tried hitting 2.8 and upping the volts to 1.4 but it does not boot. If you have a soluton please feel free to email me or reply.

 

[hammerhead2008]

I haven't overclocked my 4400 X2 yet

Getting water cooling soon so I can clock the heck out of this small beast.

This beast gets quite hot when my computer boots and the fan isn't at full pelt.

It goes up 40C but comes down to 30C

One day it is going to get too hot!!

I need water cooling!!

 

[funnyman06]

well i hope u can get a better OC on your CPU, i had a X2 3800 that does 2.6 on air with an Artic cooling Heatsink on it. But if u really wanted to OC you shoulda got an Opty. But if you mess with your voltages u should be able to get 2.6 on that thing. A way that i go about doing things on the AMD64's is see how high everything can go. So set your HTT to the lowest setting, set your CPU multi to the lowest setting and ram multi to the lowest, then start upping your FSB.

Once u hit a bumb up your NF4 voltage or whatever your running, and try again i wouldnt go much higher than like .2 volts over stock its a lot of power and can really heat things up.

Then you go about and see how high everything can go when it is not limited by any other system, so see how high your ram can go, then your CPU, then see how high u can have everything running together. FYI HTT does not like being higher than 1000Mhz so dont shoot for the moon on that guy, anything close is good. And see what you can do. On an AMD64 i wouldnt go above 1.5 volts for everyday use, 1.4 - 1.45 shouldnt be to bad. Even on watercooling 1.5 i would say is the limit, unless you dont mind your proc commiting sucided anytime soon. SO good luck see how high it can go...

 

[TallTxnMo]

I've got a X2 4400+, Asus A8N-E m/b, 2x1gig. I've got mine up to 2970Ghz stable. Can't quite get 3Gig out of it. And this in on air. Got ram running at 166Mhz, FSB @ 271. HTT = 4. Stock voltage.

 

[promo123]

I have mine set at 2.8Ghz, Memory is Corsair XMS2 1066Mhz, 10x280, HTT running at 1400 on a Gigabyte MA440 DS3. I have it running AMD Overdrive to check how stable it really is. I suggest not using Vista x64, BSOD every few hours. Wasn't able to go past 3Ghz yet, and the max temp is 50c running a Zalman cooler. Oh yeah, i got around 9 fans in my Antec 300 case, if i didn't the max temp would be at LEAST 60c..