955 BE and Twin Frozr 460 Overclock help?

[Kaori Cpu]

I would please like assistance on over clocking my Phenom II x4 955 BE Cpu. I am using a thermalTake Frio cooler with Tuniq TX-4 Thermal paste. I am new to overclocking. My motherboard is ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 AMD 890GX HDMI SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Motherboard
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I was curious on what is a good Overclock for my 955 with my cooler and thermal paste. what values do I increase? Also, I have a MSI TWIN FROZR 460 GPU. What is a good overclock for that ? What values do I increase? Thank you guys

 

[wiinippongamer]

You should be able to hit 3.6ghz on multiplier alone, that increases my 3dmarkoç06 score from 17600 to 20000+, ao it's a pretty good increase, going to 3.8ghz doesn't give much of an increase though, just more heat, voltage and power consumption, from 20000 to 20800 points in my case, trying to get 4ghz is useless as to performance, it'll just lower the lifespan of your chip, that's scaling for you.

1.45v gets you stable at 3.8ghz for most chips, even less if it's a C3 chip, for 3.6ghz just leave everything at stock and test with prime for awhile. You should also disable Cool n' Quiet whn overclocking, it's known to cause instability in some cases.

Can't talk much about the 460 as I don't have it but I'm pretty sure someone else will, alot of people can hit 800+mhz easily though.

 

[Kaori Cpu]

You should be able to hit 3.6ghz on multiplier alone, that increases my 3dmarkoç06 score from 17600 to 20000+, ao it's a pretty good increase, going to 3.8ghz doesn't give much of an increase though, just more heat, voltage and power consumption, from 20000 to 20800 points in my case, trying to get 4ghz is useless as to performance, it'll just lower the lifespan of your chip, that's scaling for you.

1.45v gets you stable at 3.8ghz for most chips, even less if it's a C3 chip, for 3.6ghz just leave everything at stock and test with prime for awhile. You should also disable Cool n' Quiet whn overclocking, it's known to cause instability in some cases.

Can talk much about the 460 as I don't have it but I'm pretty sure someone else will, alot of people can hit 800+mhz easily though.

Thank you for you help. Should I just increase my multiplier then and leave the voltage with what its at or change it to 1.45?

 

[wiinippongamer]

For 3.6ghz just leave it as is and test with prime 95 for stability.

 

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