Thread: AMD Athlon 2 x III 440 Overclocking CPU & Component

Hello everyone at last purchased Athlon 2 x III 440. It has unbarred to a Phenom ii x iv b40. But can anyone either point to a instruct or explicate about overclocking. I am fresh to overclocking. I might need to overclock a triple core. Because unlocking to the Phenom II x iv does not look stable at the time. VID is fix to 1.4v. But in HW Monitor its wattage is functioning at 137. Is this secure? I do not really need to up the voltage too much. Its temperature is at 34 degrees Idle. Whilst my triple core idle at 17 degrees.

If is is not balance it could well be that your additional unlocked core was unfit because it is worse. It may too only be that the core leaks power, in which case you will acquire an excellent overclock without it.
If you can choosiest disable that core and maintain the chip unlocked, you acquire to maintain the 6MB of L3 cache which I imagine for most individual is more utilize than a 4th core. Are you utilizing the heat sink & fan that the central processing unit arrived with?

Handled to bump up the voltage to 1.45 and acuire the FSB to 225 and it is balance at the time. I thought Athlon 2nd can bump up to above 3.6ghz though...? Its pointed 3.4ghz at the time. And is so cold, never goes past 35 degrees utilizing Prime95

Be careful when overclocking and appearing for secure temperatures. AMD boards/CPUs do not read the "CPU TEMP" perfectly. The reading you need to assume observe of is TMPIN0 or TMPIN1. 35C looks fairly low for an overclocked, voltage bumped Athlon. I may be wrong and you may have a cool chip though! 17 too seems so low for idle as idle will be at least 2C above your room temperature.

The temperatures are from the BIOS also. My former Athlon 64 x2 5600 plus was about 55 degrees. I have afterward altered the heat sink and fan to a Zalman CNPS 5X, which had nice trying answer at cooling. And as my Athlon II is not high end the HSF is actually good.

I have acquire a pair of guides bookmarked at home, I will test and remember to attach them when I miss from function. I will too post my settings (voltages/multipliers/clocks etc). I have been fairly lucky to acquire my X3 to 4.0, but the multiplier on yours is 15 instead than my 16 so if through luck my perfect settings function for you then you will be at 3.75 GHz.