Help Overclocking Phenom II x4 3.0 ghz with asus m4a79 deluxe motherboard

this is 1st time build i have asus m4a79deluxe motherboard amd phenom 2 x4 black 3.0ghz Thermaltake CL-P0456 140mm CPU Cooler and 4 gig ocz pc2 8500 1066 2gig x2 and nvidia 9800 i want to build up overclocking until 4 ghz how do i do this should i use asus amd overclock software or do it through bios also what do i do i need to know all steps as i do nto want to burn up pc pleas help

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EQPlayer How are you running 8 gigs of 1066 on m4a79 board? You can only use 1066 on one channel. I could only find 2 2gig sticks, did you find 2 4gig sticks?

No, I run 4 2Gb sticks. I set the RAM to 1066 in BIOS. I can post a CPU-Z shot if you like.

Just because AMD likes to say you can't run it at 1066, and the BIOS defaults it to 800, doesn't mean you can't go in and manually set it yourself.

eh, what's 8 gigs of ram for?

4 gigs is the sweet spot, and there's a noticeable gain compared to 2 gigs in terms of what program you are using.\

Though, what program needs 8 gigs?

I use 8Gigs of ram for 1 reason..... People dont realize that Vista64 Bit is designed to use what your hardware has to offer. When I had 4gigs I would idle (after 8mins of background program checks and such) @ around 1.1 to 1.2 gigs ram. With 8gigs I will idle @ 1.5 to 1.6 gigs. Not saying 8gigs is the way to go, but Vista and the soon to arrive windows7 checks your system to see how efficient it can run on it. Its not a game thing just an OS thing. I do not and will not see a difference in 8gigs vs 4gigs as far as gamming goes.

As far as gaming same thing. You have 4 sticks especially in ganged mode. Each core uses all 4 sticks causing more communication. Even with 64bit, you will never use all that memory unless multi tasking and high memory applications which games will NEVER USE ALL THAT MEMORY. It is a waste. This is why I am just short of 3.7GHz and you are only 3.5GHz. You should easily get 3.6Ghz out of a Phenom II 940.

The memory is very much used. I have 2 monitors. I game on 1 and I use the other to check web, emails and burn music for my wife (sometimes the music) I even watch movies while I game (If i'm doing repeditive task or waiting on friends to come online). I have bounced off 5.8 and a few time with Blu-Ray 6.3 gigs. It never interupts my game. Sure the CPU is about 75-85% loaded if Blu-Ray is going with a game, but that is what a quad is for. I do everything with my rig. TV,movies,music,games and web stuff. The 8gigs is very much usefull. The only time you will ever see a difference in numbers from 800mhz to 1100mhz is in virtual benches. The human eye will never notice it. As long as ur GPU is at tops you will never see the difference unless you have 233mhz ram up against 1333mhz. then maybe, but I game side by side with my friends sometimes and 1 of them wishes he never spent the money on the I7 Intel, because he was able to see no difference at all. His ram is clocked at 1600mhz at that. Twice my speed but equal on the visual. If you want virtual benches then have fun, but a freakin cheap ass HP or Dell with the right GPU will game just fine. 3gig, 4gig, or 8gig. No one can tell the visual difference.

You are exactly right I have a Danger den setup W/ mc tdx block and 2 BI 240GTX rads and the d 5 pump and i can get stable at 3.8 at 1.585v load temp Prime 95 46c anything after that well you know what happens

phenom 2 940
asus m4a29d watercooled
ati 4870
4g dc xms2 1066 mem
750psu single 12v rail
640 wd 32 mb cache 7200 rpm
vista ultimate 64 bit

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