First time overclocker trying to breathe more life into a processor.
System contains
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2.2GHz
GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
Kingston DDR2 800MHz RAM 4GB
nVidia 8600GT (additional 8600GT to be added)
I'm hoping to achieve an overclock of 2.5 to 2.6GHz. Currently the CPU seems to be the weakest part of the build so getting a small improvement would probably be of some benefit.
I've run into troubles with regards to the BIOS of the motherboard. Despite being a Gigabyte board it's not what I'd call OC friendly and it's much harder to OC the CPU as it's not like it's an unlocked multiplier. I'm not going for record clocks here, just a small increase. I'm not really keen on adjusting the voltage either.
Any ideas, I can take pictures of the BIOS settings if that helps.
System contains
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+ Windsor 2.2GHz
GIGABYTE GA-M55SLI-S4 AM2 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI
Kingston DDR2 800MHz RAM 4GB
nVidia 8600GT (additional 8600GT to be added)
I'm hoping to achieve an overclock of 2.5 to 2.6GHz. Currently the CPU seems to be the weakest part of the build so getting a small improvement would probably be of some benefit.
I've run into troubles with regards to the BIOS of the motherboard. Despite being a Gigabyte board it's not what I'd call OC friendly and it's much harder to OC the CPU as it's not like it's an unlocked multiplier. I'm not going for record clocks here, just a small increase. I'm not really keen on adjusting the voltage either.
Any ideas, I can take pictures of the BIOS settings if that helps.