Help Overclocking AMD 5600+ With Arctic freezer 64 V2

[crinagerulz]

Hey guys, recently bought myself an arctic freezer 64 pro V2 ready to overclock my CPU!!! cant wait i've been told i can get it from currently 2.8ghz to 3.4ghz! is this right?? If you wish to knwo what CPU i have its in my specs.

Well anyways thats the first question :P the second is how would i go about doing this, could someone be able to possibly write up a nice quick guide on how to go about it. As i know how to overclock but just not amazing at it :P

thanks in advance

[Black Light]

for a quick overclock just set the fsb to 215 in bois

the highest I have gotten mine is 3.3 with the multi at 13 and fsb at 254 v1.425 HT x4

[crinagerulz]

hey thanks, so you havent managed to reach 3.4 stable yet?? and could you possibly go a bit more in depth for me?? so what should i do first and values etc. if thats alright of course

[Black Light]

yeah I got it to 3.4 not stable though but with a bit of tweaking I believe I can but for now 3.3 is fine.


work up to the following and check you temps and mem frequency increase the fsb by 5 if it fails increase the volts


set the following and see if it works fsb 254 HT X4 V1.425 MULTI 13X set mem to 667

[cdawall]

have you read this?

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=22547

[Black Light]

let me know how it goes

[crinagerulz]

hey yer, i have read that thread but i was wondering if anyone coul dhelp me personally as people tend to explain things differently in walkthroughs whihc are easier but can be confusing :P

[cdawall]

drop your HTT down to 800mhz(4x)

raise your bus speed to 5mhz increments until you wont boot or your happy

raise your cpu volt to +.05 at the first no boot or instability

[crinagerulz]

yer i understand that ~:) thanks, will i need to alter my RAM speeds?? or is that alright

[Black Light]

yes to get to 3.2 or above you will

[crinagerulz]

how would i go about doing that may i ask???, i just went into my bios settings and into the advanced options and it came up with cpu, so i went into that and found jumperfree options?? which i set to manual and it allowed me to change the Mhz of the CPU, voltage, multiplier but wouldnt allow me to change the HTT. where can i find this option??

[Black Light]

it is in the cpu configuration in your bios which is on the same page as the jumperfree

[crinagerulz]

okay thankyou i will check now, so do i edit the jumperfree settings for OC??

[Black Light]

yes set frequency to 215 pci express to 100MHz and restart

[crinagerulz]

right ive done that, started alright, HTT is at x4, frequency is at 215 and pci expess at 100, the CPU is running at 36C with only the internet running and a fair few processes! whats next?? small increments of 5mhz on frequency?


Edit --- the temp is dropping slowly is now at 34C, also the thermal paste on the CPU cooler hasnt been run through yet as it needs a 24hour period, its only had 3 hours :P

[Black Light]

yes go up by 5mhz and switch the ram to 667 add voltage as needed

[crinagerulz]

how do i switch the ram?? and so up by 5Mhz until it crashes?? or is there a certain amount i should go to?

[Black Light]

in cpu configuration --->DRAM configuration ---> memory clock frequency


go up until it will not boot completely and then add voltage

[crinagerulz]

hehe right okay, i have done the Ram, so next is to go up by 5mhz until it stops booting, then add 0.05 voltage until it boots, ill then come back and report my values i have so far. when do i start to change the multiplier? currently at 3 ghz and its running at 35C

[Black Light]

you might not have to switch the multiplier you can try my settings see if it works for you

[crinagerulz]

okay i will try your settings of
-254mhz
-13x multiplier
-Voltage at 1.425




Edit -- Hasn't worked, the computer wouldnt load and had to reset the cmosbattery, on a side note to that the voltage you used i could not access on my bios i could only reach 1.3v, whihc may be the problem. Aswell as this my CPU voltage is currently set to auto, but i can change the option to range between 0.8 - 1.3, should i change the auto setting to a value and work off that?? or keep it as auto.

I currently have my frequency set to 235Mhz and still running cool, my processor is at 35C Unloaded. I will try 240 now.

[crinagerulz]

currently managed to get settings at 236Mhz, without crashing, but when i logged on messages of bios errors appeared which doesnt seem good :P not sure whats happening.

[Black Light]

you might not be able to reach 3.3 with those voltage restrictions what muliti are you at?

[crinagerulz]

right im currently getting 3.29 Mhz Speed, with the settings

13x Multiplier
235Mhz
Automatic Voltage, i just checked PC probe though and the voltage is at 1.55 which i thought is high for a CPU and a little dangerous, but i may be wrong.
4x HTT
667 Ram


Edit -- Also i can no longer use PC probe :P but my CPU is running at 35C according to NMonitor.

[Black Light]

run orthos to see how stable it is

[cdawall]

try andc drop your voltage down to 1.5v and check if its stable

[crinagerulz]

i cannot drop my volatage down to that amount it seems to have restriction of either automatic settings or 0.8V to 1.3

[crinagerulz]

Right was a failure at 235Mhz nothing would work so i had to change doown to :

-230Mhz
-Voltage at automatic still
-multiplier automatic
-running at 3.22Ghz (doing stability test now)

any ideas on where to go next if this proves stable?? like what to increase next etc. or change

[cdawall]

is there a voltage thing that allows %s? it will be labeled voltage something

[crinagerulz]

not that i know of i will check now for you!!, the programs used for stress tests said it failed at 230 because of something to do with 05 being greater than 0.4 :s lol

[crinagerulz]

hey the only options i have for voltage on my bios is to change it from 0.8 to 1.3 and intervals given, u cant manually input your own voltage at all. what should i do?? im currently at 228mhz and running a stability test.

[crinagerulz]

how long do the stress tests take on just your CPU?? cause it has been running for 15 minutes now and wondering if there is a limit or doe sit carry on until you manually stop it?

[Black Light]

you have to manually stop it most people like to run it 24/7 some 12hrs but who uses the cpu at full power for that long I say 3-6 hours should be fine but it depends on you

[crinagerulz]

what happens if it fails during the process on one of the tests? dp u change ur settings down and try again?

[Black Light]

yeah to the it stable you would have to lower the fsb

[WarEagleAU]

You seem to be running your memory on a divider, which seems good. The voltage settings on that board are a little odd as well. I wouldnt mess with them until you find your max Stable FSB (which is as high as you can go in your 5mhz increments with STOCK voltage before you have errors/bsods/crashes). I would start at 200 and work your way up, 205, 210, etc. Also you whole divider on your multiplier could cause issues as well. Some boards and procs work better together with half dividers (like 13.5 or 12.5, etc) Im gonna google your mobo and see if there is a bios update or some information on your voltage settings. You should be able to run your cpu voltage up to 1.6v give or take .5v.

[crinagerulz]

Hey thanks wareagle!!! I'm currently at a FSB of 228, it runs perfectly fine at a temperature of 23-25C unloaded and then up to 40-45C loaded (stress tests) the stress tests themselves passing and showing the setup t be stable.

Eventhough im at this currently i did manage to get to 230 with no crashes or bios errors etc. but the stress tests continued to fail, so i began lowering them to the highest FSB with a successful stress test!

Current Settings :-
HTT = 4X
FSB = 228
Multiplier = 14x
Voltage = 1.55
CPU Core now at 3192.87, this is a 14.03% increase.

Anyway any further help would be appreciated, like any ideas maybe dropping the multiplier adding some more FSB! try and push it up a little that way. After i have managed to do this succesful overclock i was thinking of writing a topic in a work log style for anyone else needing a bit for specified walkthrough of the overclocking procedure to the 5600+. Do you think this would be useful? or is there no point