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[Thor.]

Hey guess what i managed to overclock my Phenom to a whopping 3570mhz, originallly at 3ghz, one step closer to 4ghz

i also posted this in the Perfect frames per second club

http://thenexusforum...howtopic=120150

[AlmostWhatIWant]

That isn't all that high for a Phenom II, but GJ anyway I suppose.

[Thor.]

Im at 4ghz now yay after trial and error.

wonder if a can get it to 5ghz, i heard someone managed to get it up to 6ghz once, maybe thats a possibility

[IamBatosai]

I wouldn't overclock much more beyond 4 Ghz unless you have either a top of the line air cooler. Or more preferably, a good water cooler. Otherwise you can serious damage to the CPU and the motherboard.

[Thor.]

I have a really good heatsink, when ever i do i always check my temps with speedfan or in the bios. Man its a fast one , nothen beats a Phenom overclcoked.

I am keeping it at 4ghz for safety reasons lol.

SPeedFan reads a temp on the heatsink around -128c not sure if thats accurate but thats Very good. Also the core is around 0c stable.

One thing though that can decrease my performance is my vid cards they read around 50C, i should do something about that.

[waxrock]

I have a really good heatsink, when ever i do i always check my temps with speedfan or in the bios. Man its a fast one , nothen beats a Phenom overclcoked.

I am keeping it at 4ghz for safety reasons lol.

SPeedFan reads a temp on the heatsink around -128c not sure if thats accurate but thats Very good. Also the core is around 0c stable.

One thing though that can decrease my performance is my vid cards they read around 50C, i should do something about that.

1) Those temps aren't even close to being accurate
2) 50C for a video is NOT hot at all.
3) There's more to overclocking than just the temperatures.

[Thor.]

I know the bios says other wise lol, but the core was accurate thanks to the heat sink, but other then that your right.

[IamBatosai]

Neither of those CPU temps should be correct. 0c is the freezing point. So unless you have some liquid gas or something on it keeping it that could.

[Thor.]

I know its the freezing point lol, i have a lcd read out on in case as well, and its pretty close , i once had a water cooling unit and it leaked on me , but when i had it up and running it was around 3C very close to the freezing mark, its ment to do that. The Heatsink works somewhat the same way.

remember i was talking Celsius

Somewhat off topic

Do you ever wonder why the ps3 stays as cool as i does? a heatsink, not to mention huge.

[waxrock]

Too bad it's impossible for the temps to read lower than ambient unless you have ln2 or some other extreme form of cooling.