Hello. I have an AMD Phenom II x3 720BE with some AS5 on a Gigabyte GA-MA790X-UD4P at the stock 2.8ghz. From my observations, it runs idle around 32 degrees and just under 50 degrees at full load. I'm wondering if this leaves me any wiggle room for some light overclocking on the stock HSF. And if so, in what order does one go about OCing - do you raise multipliers before clock, or clock before multipliers?
I have an X3 720 BE with a tuniq tower. I can clock the thing all the way up to 3.8 Ghz with a 19x multiplier and run 3dmark without a hitch, but it blue screens on me as soon as I use prime95 or OCCT on it. (Temps never over 50C.)
I haven't messed with the stock cooler, but that seems very warm for running stock clocks.
I run 3.32 with 4 cores. I'm using a pretty much generic HSF tower `cause it was on the old system and 4 heatpipes are better than none. With 3 cores I'm stable at 3.6 and temps are 28c to 48c OCCT/Prime either way. I got everything the way I liked it with the multi then tried to squeeze a tad more from the bus. Bus treaks are also limited because I have two different matched sets of RAM.
MISRy, your OC temps seem to be insanely cooler than my stock temps. I tried unlocking the 4th core, but Vista won't stay alive for more than a few minutes with it unlocked.
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