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is it possable to oc the amd 5000+ athlon x2?
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5000+ amd oc how?
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is it possable to oc the amd 5000+ athlon x2?
Yes, it is possible to overclock them, but the quality of your overclock will depend on what chip it is, your motherboard, voltages, and cooling. What cooler do you currently have? Download CPU-Z and CoreTemp, open them and post a screenshot.
killadoob
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It should be possible. No idea how to though
Wow helpful you are
.Don't see the point in overclocking amd at the moment to be honest, you get maybe 300mhz overclock which seems pointless for your system to become unstable.
is it possable to oc the amd 5000+ athlon x2?
yes anything is possible.if it's the black edition it's should be easy.
Wow helpful you are
Don't see the point in overclocking amd at the moment to be honest, you get maybe 300mhz overclock which seems pointless for your system to become unstable.
Like I said, it depends on the chip. The 3800+ can overclock pretty well. One should easily be able to achieve 2.6GHz with it. I know that the 5xxx CPU's also clock decently.
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Yes, it is possible to overclock them, but the quality of your overclock will depend on what chip it is, your motherboard, voltages, and cooling. What cooler do you currently have? Download CPU-Z and CoreTemp, open them and post a screenshot.
its not the standerd cooler it came with.
my motherboard is an Abit AX78, AM2+ processor
Amd770/sb600 chipset.
the cpu is an amd Athlon x2 64 5000+ (not black edition)
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will I be able to OC and if so would it make that big of a difference?
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Depends on what you are using it for, if gaming what gpu do you have (possible bottleneck)
That chip should be able to reach 3Ghz with ease. Try upping the FSB in the BIOS. Slowly and very carefully increase the VCore voltage a little bit for stability. (Too much voltage WILL fry your CPU, so be careful). Start by increasing the FSB in very small increments and see how far you can go. I wouldn't go over 3Ghz though.
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thanx man will do it
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My 4600+ standard runs at 2.4ghz, pushed it up to 2.8ghz. Furthest I can go. Seems that's the limit of the CPU. Even after maxing out the vCore, it still bugs out. So yeah, you should be able to go past 3ghz. Using a Zalman cooler, highest temp I've gotten is around 45 C. Good ventilation is key 
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My 4600+ standard runs at 2.4ghz, pushed it up to 2.8ghz. Furthest I can go. Seems that's the limit of the CPU. Even after maxing out the vCore, it still bugs out. So yeah, you should be able to go past 3ghz. Using a Zalman cooler, highest temp I've gotten is around 45 C. Good ventilation is key
oky thanx I don't have the Zalman cooler but I have a similar cooler the cooler master one. but do I only change the vcore? or is there something els?
Kuga
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Ok, I'm gonna tell you step by step on how to overclock your AMD
1: First thing you do is go into your BIOS and find where you increase FSB etc
2: Lock your PCI-E frequency to 100mhz. The default is set to Auto, now when you increase your FSB, other frequencies increase as well, and your PCI-E you don't want increased.
3: Find your DRAM timing frequencies. Usually this requires you pressing CTRL + F1 together in the BIOS. Now you want to drop the DRAM frequency by 1 step. I.E. If you are running DDR2 800mhz RAM, you drop it one step to 667. Reason for this is as your FSB increases, so does this too. Can't remember the exact calculations for this. But yeah you need to drop it 1 step.
4: Find your Hyperthreading multiplier. Usually requires pressing CTRL + F1 as well. It's default setting is set to auto. Change it to x4. Reason for this is that your Hyperthreading has to run closer to 1000mhz. So default it's 200 x 5 = 1000. So if you increase your FSB to say 230, then it would be 230 x 4 = 920. It's safe for it to be 100mhz off either side of 1000.
5: Now, with everyone the way it should be. You can start incrementing your FSB. I usually start off by jumping to 230. Most would say start off by doing steps of 2 or 4 mhz first. But I know from experience any AMD can just hop to 230 first and then start incrementing in steps. You will most likely need to increase your vCore to stabilize the system. My CPU's default is 1.2v, and is cranked up to 1.35v. But you will see.
As your increase your FSB, if it doesn't POST or you get a BSOD while entering Windows, increase your voltage. If voltage increase works, then you can push it further. Depending how far you want to push it, there will be a certain point where no amount of extra voltage will work, that is the physical limit of your CPU. Once you have successfully booted into Windows with your new overclock, download a program called Orthos. Run that and see if you get any errors. If you don't get any errors immediately, it's safe to say your pc is stable. However, you might want to run it overnight, and see if it is 100% stable. If you do get errors, drop your FSB by 1 step. Run Orthos again. Rinse and repeat.
Hope this helps.
1: First thing you do is go into your BIOS and find where you increase FSB etc
2: Lock your PCI-E frequency to 100mhz. The default is set to Auto, now when you increase your FSB, other frequencies increase as well, and your PCI-E you don't want increased.
3: Find your DRAM timing frequencies. Usually this requires you pressing CTRL + F1 together in the BIOS. Now you want to drop the DRAM frequency by 1 step. I.E. If you are running DDR2 800mhz RAM, you drop it one step to 667. Reason for this is as your FSB increases, so does this too. Can't remember the exact calculations for this. But yeah you need to drop it 1 step.
4: Find your Hyperthreading multiplier. Usually requires pressing CTRL + F1 as well. It's default setting is set to auto. Change it to x4. Reason for this is that your Hyperthreading has to run closer to 1000mhz. So default it's 200 x 5 = 1000. So if you increase your FSB to say 230, then it would be 230 x 4 = 920. It's safe for it to be 100mhz off either side of 1000.
5: Now, with everyone the way it should be. You can start incrementing your FSB. I usually start off by jumping to 230. Most would say start off by doing steps of 2 or 4 mhz first. But I know from experience any AMD can just hop to 230 first and then start incrementing in steps. You will most likely need to increase your vCore to stabilize the system. My CPU's default is 1.2v, and is cranked up to 1.35v. But you will see.
As your increase your FSB, if it doesn't POST or you get a BSOD while entering Windows, increase your voltage. If voltage increase works, then you can push it further. Depending how far you want to push it, there will be a certain point where no amount of extra voltage will work, that is the physical limit of your CPU. Once you have successfully booted into Windows with your new overclock, download a program called Orthos. Run that and see if you get any errors. If you don't get any errors immediately, it's safe to say your pc is stable. However, you might want to run it overnight, and see if it is 100% stable. If you do get errors, drop your FSB by 1 step. Run Orthos again. Rinse and repeat.
Hope this helps.