Vista - OC help...

furryferret7888 · 01-26-2009

i did a search and didnt find anything useful...
can anyone tell me what i can do to squeze some more power from my system
i have

AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6400+ AM2 (3.2GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 1066 FSB)
OCZ Vendetta Triple Heatpipe PWM Universal CPU Cooler
Windows Vista Home Premium - 64 bit
LEXA BLACKLINE Mid Tower Steel Gaming PC case - Black
750 Watt - Apex Power Supply SLI Ready (or maybe 800w??)
MB-MSK9NNEOFV3 MSI K9N NVIDIA nForce 560-SLI Chipset
8 GB OCZ Reaper 800MHz DDR2 Memory (4x2GB Modules)
NVIDIA GeForce HD 9600 GT 512M OC 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 1900MHz PCI Express x16 HDCP SLI Video Card

thats just copypasta from my reciept (custom built)
i have maybe a 5 (from 1-10) about computers....i think

you will prob show me i have a 2

anyway thanks for the help

**Everlong18** · 01-30-2009

You won't get a huge increase overclocking an Athlon 6400. Athlon x2s don't really overclock that well, and I only ever really put my 2.6GHz 5200 to 2.8GHz and it ran fine.

All you do to overclock is basically up the bus speed. It'll be at 200MHz default, and with the 16x multiplier your CPU has, 200x16=3200. You might be able to just up the bus speed to 213MHz and that will give you 3.4GHz, without having to worry about voltages.

If you want to go higher than that, then you're going to have to lower the FSB (do this by dropping the multiplier from 16 to 15) to keep it within 900 to 1100MHz (safe zone) and start upping the voltages, and also underclocking your RAM, as when you raise the bus speed, the RAM speed gets upped as well with the FSB. Though to work out how much the RAM has been overclocked, you just take the amount you upped the bus speed by, so say you put it to 213MHz, you increased by 13MHz and you just double this number and add it on to your RAM, so at 3.4GHz, you RAM will be at 826MHz (I think, I could be wrong).

01-26-2009	#1 (permalink)
furryferret7888 vista home prem 64 1 posts	OC help... i did a search and didnt find anything useful... can anyone tell me what i can do to squeze some more power from my system i have AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual-Core 6400+ AM2 (3.2GHz, 2MB L2 Cache, 1066 FSB) OCZ Vendetta Triple Heatpipe PWM Universal CPU Cooler Windows Vista Home Premium - 64 bit LEXA BLACKLINE Mid Tower Steel Gaming PC case - Black 750 Watt - Apex Power Supply SLI Ready (or maybe 800w??) MB-MSK9NNEOFV3 MSI K9N NVIDIA nForce 560-SLI Chipset 8 GB OCZ Reaper 800MHz DDR2 Memory (4x2GB Modules) NVIDIA GeForce HD 9600 GT 512M OC 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 1900MHz PCI Express x16 HDCP SLI Video Card thats just copypasta from my reciept (custom built) i have maybe a 5 (from 1-10) about computers....i think you will prob show me i have a 2 anyway thanks for the help
My System Specs

01-30-2009	#2 (permalink)
Everlong18 Windows 7 x64 1,287 posts	Re: OC help... You won't get a huge increase overclocking an Athlon 6400. Athlon x2s don't really overclock that well, and I only ever really put my 2.6GHz 5200 to 2.8GHz and it ran fine. All you do to overclock is basically up the bus speed. It'll be at 200MHz default, and with the 16x multiplier your CPU has, 200x16=3200. You might be able to just up the bus speed to 213MHz and that will give you 3.4GHz, without having to worry about voltages. If you want to go higher than that, then you're going to have to lower the FSB (do this by dropping the multiplier from 16 to 15) to keep it within 900 to 1100MHz (safe zone) and start upping the voltages, and also underclocking your RAM, as when you raise the bus speed, the RAM speed gets upped as well with the FSB. Though to work out how much the RAM has been overclocked, you just take the amount you upped the bus speed by, so say you put it to 213MHz, you increased by 13MHz and you just double this number and add it on to your RAM, so at 3.4GHz, you RAM will be at 826MHz (I think, I could be wrong).
My System Specs