AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+

Hi, i was looking at overclocking my cpu (stated above) but when i go into my bios and try to change the cpu multiplier i cant the maximum is 10x. my mobo is an msi K9NU NEO-V if any one could tell me my options that would be great.

~Thanks

10 is the highest you can go because that is the default multiplier of a 3800+. If you want a higher multiplier, you have to shell out some more cash and get a higher rated CPU.

The only way to overclock further is by raising the HTT speed..

I picked up an Athlon X2 3800+ recently too, not had a chance to properly clock it yet, so I'd be interested to hear how you get on.

The one thing I have noticed with clocking it, is that I have to lower the HT multiplier from 5x to 4x to keep things stable. I think that generally most folk have to do this.

Happy O/Cing!

i have heard of people ocing their 3800+ to around 2.4ghz though.... is there atleast the possibility of doing this or is it a big NO?

Yes, through raising the HTT link speed (analogous to the FSB on Intel systems).

Knock the HTT multiplier down to 4x or 3x (there isn't a big performance loss) to keep the HTT bus under 1000MHz (default is 5x200) to keep stability, and the rest should be pretty easy

allright thanks got everything going got bsod at 2.4 so i dropped down to 2.3 and everything seems fine

I had a 3800x2 got it to 2.8GHzm but heat was to much due to bad Cpu cooler so kept it at 2.7GHz


Multiplier@10
CPU Frequency@ 270mhz (Basically FSB)
HTT Multiplier@ 3X
VCORE Had to be set at 1.55 i think on my Gigabyte M61P-S3
I was using DDR2 800Mhz memory and i lowered the ratio down so the memory was set at 667MHz so overclocked it didnt go over stock speeds.