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What is a better way to overclock?

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December 29, 2011 12:08:08 AM

I have an AMD Athlon II x3 455 and I would like to overclock it a little bit. My Motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3. I have the program easy tune 6 and I could also do it through my BIOS of course but which is a better way of overclocking? I have never overclocked before so which ever one way of overclocking is better I need a guide on how to.

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December 29, 2011 12:33:14 AM

Since your are inexperienced the easy way for you is to use the Easy Tune 6 and follow the instructions from the Gigabyte owners manual. I'm not sure about which way is 'best' because the windows overclocking is relitivley new and being that it is dependent on windows for the ovewrclock makes it one more thing that windows has to deal with. I still prefer the bios way because I know how to do it and have never really gone too high.
If you want to try it and just go up a little then there would be no real problems or risk because you won't be adding voltage.
The way you do it is you take the multiplier and increase it a notch and save setting and exit and boot into windows. After determining that windows is stable you go back to the bios and increase the multiplier another notch , save and exit , boot into windows and verify stable. This process is repeated untill the boot into windows is not stable and this is the point where you would stop and reduce the multiplier or add a notch of voltage . Overclocking is a slow and tedious process and you have to have a fair amount of patience. Since you want only a small overclock this is where you would stop or any point along the way that you would be satified with. Adding voltage would alow you to contiue as long as windows is stable but if you don't add voltage then there would be no cause for concern since only adding increases risk. Once you get comfortable with overclocking then you would be willing to continue and try overclocking higher.
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December 29, 2011 12:49:50 AM

inzone said:
Since your are inexperienced the easy way for you is to use the Easy Tune 6 and follow the instructions from the Gigabyte owners manual. I'm not sure about which way is 'best' because the windows overclocking is relitivley new and being that it is dependent on windows for the ovewrclock makes it one more thing that windows has to deal with. I still prefer the bios way because I know how to do it and have never really gone too high.
If you want to try it and just go up a little then there would be no real problems or risk because you won't be adding voltage.
The way you do it is you take the multiplier and increase it a notch and save setting and exit and boot into windows. After determining that windows is stable you go back to the bios and increase the multiplier another notch , save and exit , boot into windows and verify stable. This process is repeated untill the boot into windows is not stable and this is the point where you would stop and reduce the multiplier or add a notch of voltage . Overclocking is a slow and tedious process and you have to have a fair amount of patience. Since you want only a small overclock this is where you would stop or any point along the way that you would be satified with. Adding voltage would alow you to contiue as long as windows is stable but if you don't add voltage then there would be no cause for concern since only adding increases risk. Once you get comfortable with overclocking then you would be willing to continue and try overclocking higher.

Is there any risk of overclocking? I have also heard about unlocking cores in my type cpu, would it be better to unlock a core or to just overclock it?
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December 29, 2011 4:14:10 AM

It would depend on how many cores the cpu has and how many are currently unlocked , but you could unlock another core or two if you have the option. If you have a quad core then you want them all unlocked and then you could see if you have a performance increase. There is no risk to overclocking if you just want to go up a few notches on the multiplier , the risk comes when you start to add voltage and you are not going to be doing that. So the thing to do next is unlock those cores and then go from there.
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