I am currently toying with overclocking my AMD Athlon II X2 240 processor. I have tried to read as much I could on the net but there are still a few things I don't get.
I have a Biostar mcp6pb m2+ mother board, the 240 processer with the stock heatsink and fan. 4 gigs of PNY optima memory, 9800GTX+ video card and windows 7.
After messing around and fiddling with settings I managed to push the processor to 3.5 gigs. I played with the other settings until I got them close to stock I got the HT bus freq. to a little under stock (3500) and the memory a tad over stock. In order to do this I had to set the K8-NB width to 8-8 instead of auto or 16-16.
I am going to be honest here, I have no clue what that setting does lol. Is this an ok setting, or would I be better off putting it back in auto and backing off my clock setting until it boots and runs well?
Mean I like the fact that it "says" 3.5 gigs, but if by lowering the k8-NB setting I some halfed my performance it seems kind of pointless.
Any information would be greatly welcome.
Paul
I have a Biostar mcp6pb m2+ mother board, the 240 processer with the stock heatsink and fan. 4 gigs of PNY optima memory, 9800GTX+ video card and windows 7.
After messing around and fiddling with settings I managed to push the processor to 3.5 gigs. I played with the other settings until I got them close to stock I got the HT bus freq. to a little under stock (3500) and the memory a tad over stock. In order to do this I had to set the K8-NB width to 8-8 instead of auto or 16-16.
I am going to be honest here, I have no clue what that setting does lol. Is this an ok setting, or would I be better off putting it back in auto and backing off my clock setting until it boots and runs well?
Mean I like the fact that it "says" 3.5 gigs, but if by lowering the k8-NB setting I some halfed my performance it seems kind of pointless.
Any information would be greatly welcome.
Paul
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