Highest OC on air for 4200+

[cube]

Hey guys - I have a 4200+ and it is currently running stable at ~2.96GHz with a sizeable 1.528v and 11x Multiplier - anyone got a higher clock for a 4200+ than this? If so, how did you do it and is it stable? Can get mine up to about 3.02GHz and it isn't too stable.

Cheers

[macgamesrule]

Few Athlons can do much over 3GHz... if you're on air, I'd say consider yourself fortunate to have gotten that far. I took mine up to 1.55V and couldn't get past 2.65GHz

[darkorb]

Wow thats awesome!!

on my X2 3800+, S939 that is, im at 270x10 at 1.5v. i could deff hit higher if my mobo would allow more volts than that

But honestly, thats a very nice OC, and if i were you, i would go for 3ghz. what are your temps anyways?

[cube]

To be honest I am not sure of the temps actually - I need some temp monitoring software if anybody can suggest some? The MSI application Dual Core Centre is not yet compatible with Vista... But yeah I will try to push for 3GHz - reached it before but it was unstable so it may require higher voltage.

UPDATE: 3.02GHz reached.

[darkorb]

Wow very nice.

Go download coretemp, or everest, u need to no ur temps or else GG

how many volts?

[Allargando]

nice work there

hopefully your temps aren't in the 50-60C range

I've only been able to get to about 2565 (270 x 9.5 @ 1.5V) on my x2 3800 s939

I've used both core temp and everest

core temp has a much smaller footprint, but everest tells you a lot more

right now everest seems to be reading temps a bit high compared to the other sensors I'm running (asus pc probe, AI booster and core temp)

[tuco]

Nice OC, I couldn't get more than 2.525 GHz out of my X2 4600. Probably because I had a dirt-cheap motherboard (ASUS M2NPV-VM) that wouldn't let me change the CPU voltage. That's what you get when you spend $102 on a motherboard...

[irtehbobert]

Hi. Wonder if you could all help me. I have the 4200+ and being the n00b i am i downclocked it. i have a gigabyte m55S-S3 mobo and just wondered what i need to get the most i can out of my processor without oblitorating it. i have a

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro V2 On it atm

help would be much appreciated.

thanks guys.

[cube]

Originally Posted by name='irtehbobert'

Hi. Wonder if you could all help me. I have the 4200+ and being the n00b i am i downclocked it. i have a gigabyte m55S-S3 mobo and just wondered what i need to get the most i can out of my processor without oblitorating it. i have a

Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro V2 On it atm

help would be much appreciated.

thanks guys.

Hey good to hear from you - I am by no means an expert - I suppose the OC you can achieve really is unique to each processor, as every one will clock differently. It seems I must have a pretty good chip to get up to 3GHz, but as I understand it the average OC for a 4200+ would be around the 2.6-2.7GHz mark.

The easiest way to do this would simply be to up the FSB (The HTT Link SPeed is the same thing) Leave the multiplier at 11x so you can achieve a higher clock with a lower FSB - Also I would suggest upping the voltage to around 1.45V or somewhere around that mark and up your case fans quite high to keep the chip cool.

If you want your memory running faster then drop the multi down to 10x and your RAM will get a larger dividend of the HTT speed and will run faster.

Tips basically are don't go too high if your hardware isn't up to the job (crap RAM will not OC well) and make sure you have enough airflow to keep it all cool.

Hope this helps.

[cube]

Originally Posted by name='darkorb'

Wow very nice.

Go download coretemp, or everest, u need to no ur temps or else GG

how many volts?

1.576 Volts I believe.