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how do i overclock?

Post by Joejc »

I have a AMD Athlon 64X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+ and i want to overclock it, can someone help me with that?

not sure what info could be useful so heres a lshw

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    description: Desktop Computer
    product: GC673AA-ABA m8100n
    vendor: HP-Pavilion
    serial: CNX7210K15
    width: 32 bits
    capabilities: smbios-2.4 dmi-2.4 smp-1.4 smp
    configuration: boot=normal chassis=desktop cpus=2 uuid=80183DCD-F374-1210-9B03-F294B97DEB6D
  *-core
       description: Motherboard
       product: Nettle2
       vendor: ECS
       physical id: 0
       version: 1.0
     *-firmware
          description: BIOS
          vendor: Phoenix Technologies, LTD
          physical id: 0
          version: 5.09 (05/03/2007)
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 448KiB
          capabilities: isa pci pnp apm upgrade shadowing cdboot bootselect socketedrom edd int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification netboot
     *-cpu:0
          description: CPU
          product: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5600+
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 3
          bus info: cpu@0
          version: 15.3.3
          slot: Socket M2
          size: 2800MHz
          capacity: 3GHz
          width: 64 bits
          clock: 201MHz
          capabilities: boot fpu fpu_exception wp vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic sep mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush mmx fxsr sse sse2 ht syscall nx mmxext fxsr_opt rdtscp x86-64 3dnowext 3dnow pni cx16 lahf_lm cmp_legacy svm extapic cr8_legacy cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: c
             slot: Internal Cache
             size: 128KiB
             capacity: 128KiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: e
             slot: External Cache
             size: 1MiB
             capacity: 1MiB
             capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-cache:0
          description: L1 cache
          physical id: d
          slot: Internal Cache
          size: 128KiB
          capacity: 128KiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-cache:1
          description: L2 cache
          physical id: f
          slot: External Cache
          size: 1MiB
          capacity: 1MiB
          capabilities: synchronous internal write-back
     *-memory:0
          description: System Memory
          physical id: 25
          slot: System board or motherboard
          size: 3GiB
        *-bank:0
             description: DIMM
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 0
             serial: None
             slot: A0
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:1
             description: DIMM
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 1
             serial: None
             slot: A2
             size: 512MiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:2
             description: DIMM
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 2
             serial: None
             slot: A4
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
        *-bank:3
             description: DIMM
             product: None
             vendor: None
             physical id: 3
             serial: None
             slot: A6
             size: 1GiB
             width: 64 bits
     *-cpu:1
          physical id: 6
          bus info: cpu@1
          version: 15.3.3
          size: 2800MHz
          capacity: 2800MHz
          capabilities: cpufreq
        *-cache:0
             description: L1 cache
             physical id: 0
             size: 128KiB
        *-cache:1
             description: L2 cache
             physical id: 1
             size: 1MiB
     *-memory:1 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: MCP61 Memory Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: a
          bus info: pci@0000:00:00.0
          version: a1
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
          capabilities: ht bus_master cap_list
          configuration: latency=0
     *-isa
          description: ISA bridge
          product: MCP61 LPC Bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 1
          bus info: pci@0000:00:01.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: isa bus_master
          configuration: latency=0
     *-serial
          description: SMBus
          product: MCP61 SMBus
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 1.1
          bus info: pci@0000:00:01.1
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: pm cap_list
          configuration: driver=nForce2_smbus latency=0 module=i2c_nforce2
     *-memory:2 UNCLAIMED
          description: RAM memory
          product: MCP61 Memory Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 1.2
          bus info: pci@0000:00:01.2
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz (15.2ns)
          configuration: latency=0
     *-usb:0
          description: USB Controller
          product: MCP61 USB Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 2
          bus info: pci@0000:00:02.0
          version: a3
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=ohci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
     *-usb:1
          description: USB Controller
          product: MCP61 USB Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 2.1
          bus info: pci@0000:00:02.1
          version: a3
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: debug pm bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=ehci_hcd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=ehci_hcd
     *-pci:0
          description: PCI bridge
          product: MCP61 PCI bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 4
          bus info: pci@0000:00:04.0
          version: a1
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: pci ht bus_master cap_list
        *-multimedia UNCLAIMED
             description: Multimedia video controller
             product: Integrated Telecom Express Inc
             vendor: Integrated Telecom Express Inc
             physical id: 6
             bus info: pci@0000:01:06.0
             version: 00
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: vpd pm
             configuration: latency=2 maxlatency=200 mingnt=2
        *-firewire
             description: FireWire (IEEE 1394)
             product: VT6306 Fire II IEEE 1394 OHCI Link Layer Controller
             vendor: VIA Technologies, Inc.
             physical id: 9
             bus info: pci@0000:01:09.0
             version: 80
             width: 32 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=ohci1394 latency=64 maxlatency=32 module=ohci1394
     *-multimedia
          description: Audio device
          product: MCP61 High Definition Audio
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 5
          bus info: pci@0000:00:05.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: pm msi ht bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=HDA Intel latency=0 maxlatency=5 mingnt=2 module=snd_hda_intel
     *-ide:0
          description: IDE interface
          product: MCP61 IDE
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: e
          bus info: pci@0000:00:06.0
          logical name: scsi4
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: ide pm bus_master cap_list emulated
          configuration: driver=pata_amd latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD writer
             product: DVD Writer 740b
             vendor: HP
             physical id: 0.1.0
             bus info: scsi@4:0.1.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom2
             logical name: /dev/cdrw2
             logical name: /dev/dvd2
             logical name: /dev/dvdrw2
             logical name: /dev/scd1
             logical name: /dev/sr1
             version: FF24
             serial: [HP      DVD Writer 740b FF2405/07/15CNN45190
             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
     *-bridge
          description: Ethernet interface
          product: MCP61 Ethernet
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 7
          bus info: pci@0000:00:07.0
          logical name: eth0
          version: a2
          serial: 00:1b:b9:54:d9:c2
          size: 100000000
          capacity: 100000000
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: bridge pm msi ht bus_master cap_list ethernet physical mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd autonegotiation
          configuration: autonegotiation=on broadcast=yes driver=forcedeth driverversion=0.61 duplex=full ip=10.0.1.34 latency=0 link=yes maxlatency=20 mingnt=1 module=forcedeth multicast=yes port=MII speed=100MB/s
     *-ide:1
          description: IDE interface
          product: MCP61 SATA Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 8
          bus info: pci@0000:00:08.0
          logical name: scsi0
          logical name: scsi1
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list emulated
          configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
        *-disk
             description: ATA Disk
             product: WDC WD5000AAKS-6
             vendor: Western Digital
             physical id: 0
             bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sda
             version: 12.0
             serial: WD-WCAPW1845948
             size: 465GiB (500GB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
             configuration: ansiversion=5 signature=000cf473
           *-volume:0
                description: Primary partition
                vendor: Mac OS X (journaled)
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,1
                logical name: /dev/sda1
                version: 4
                serial: a717a411-2e25-367e-0000-000000e8f000
                size: 64GiB
                capacity: 64GiB
                capabilities: primary bootable journaled osx hfsplus initialized
                configuration: boot=osx checked=2009-05-09 06:47:26 created=2009-05-09 06:47:26 filesystem=hfsplus lastmountedby=HFSJ modified=2009-07-07 19:33:30 state=clean
           *-volume:1
                description: EXT4 volume
                vendor: Linux
                physical id: 2
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,2
                logical name: /dev/sda2
                logical name: /
                version: 1.0
                serial: 16dbeb75-489a-4d5c-aa12-3a8ea653a357
                size: 19GiB
                capacity: 19GiB
                capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2009-06-09 00:13:08 filesystem=ext4 modified=2009-07-18 04:05:00 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,errors=remount-ro,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2009-07-18 04:05:00 state=mounted
           *-volume:2
                description: EXT4 volume
                vendor: Linux
                physical id: 3
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,3
                logical name: /dev/sda3
                logical name: /home
                version: 1.0
                serial: 0e5a7e37-02e0-4c30-ac7d-1d1008f47209
                size: 271GiB
                capacity: 271GiB
                capabilities: primary journaled extended_attributes large_files huge_files dir_nlink recover extents ext4 ext2 initialized
                configuration: created=2009-05-09 13:34:32 filesystem=ext4 modified=2009-07-18 04:05:01 mount.fstype=ext4 mount.options=rw,relatime,barrier=1,data=ordered mounted=2009-07-18 04:05:01 state=mounted
           *-volume:3
                description: Linux swap volume
                physical id: 4
                bus info: scsi@0:0.0.0,4
                logical name: /dev/sda4
                version: 1
                serial: cd9f1b76-8343-4557-883e-4e90cd9dcc60
                size: 2000MiB
                capacity: 2000MiB
                capabilities: primary nofs swap initialized
                configuration: filesystem=swap pagesize=4096
        *-cdrom
             description: DVD-RAM writer
             product: DVDRRW GSA-H30L
             vendor: HL-DT-ST
             physical id: 1
             bus info: scsi@1:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/cdrom
             logical name: /dev/cdrw
             logical name: /dev/dvd
             logical name: /dev/dvdrw
             logical name: /dev/scd0
             logical name: /dev/sr0
             version: S856
             serial: [HL-DT-STDVDRRW GSA-H30L S85607/02/08��������
             capabilities: removable audio cd-r cd-rw dvd dvd-r dvd-ram
             configuration: ansiversion=5 status=nodisc
     *-ide:2
          description: IDE interface
          product: MCP61 SATA Controller
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 8.1
          bus info: pci@0000:00:08.1
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 66MHz
          capabilities: ide pm msi ht bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=sata_nv latency=0 maxlatency=1 mingnt=3 module=sata_nv
     *-pci:1
          description: PCI bridge
          product: MCP61 PCI Express bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: 9
          bus info: pci@0000:00:09.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          capabilities: pci pm msi ht pciexpress bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
        *-display
             description: VGA compatible controller
             product: GeForce 8600 GT
             vendor: nVidia Corporation
             physical id: 0
             bus info: pci@0000:02:00.0
             version: a1
             width: 64 bits
             clock: 33MHz
             capabilities: pm msi pciexpress bus_master cap_list
             configuration: driver=nvidia latency=0 module=nvidia
     *-pci:2
          description: PCI bridge
          product: MCP61 PCI Express bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: b
          bus info: pci@0000:00:0b.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          capabilities: pci pm msi ht pciexpress bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
     *-pci:3
          description: PCI bridge
          product: MCP61 PCI Express bridge
          vendor: nVidia Corporation
          physical id: c
          bus info: pci@0000:00:0c.0
          version: a2
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          capabilities: pci pm msi ht pciexpress bus_master cap_list
          configuration: driver=pcieport-driver
     *-pci:4
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] HyperTransport Technology Configuration
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 100
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.0
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:5
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Address Map
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 101
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.1
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:6
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] DRAM Controller
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 102
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.2
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
     *-pci:7
          description: Host bridge
          product: K8 [Athlon64/Opteron] Miscellaneous Control
          vendor: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD]
          physical id: 103
          bus info: pci@0000:00:18.3
          version: 00
          width: 32 bits
          clock: 33MHz
          configuration: driver=k8temp module=k8temp
     *-scsi
          physical id: 10
          bus info: usb@1:7
          logical name: scsi6
          capabilities: emulated scsi-host
          configuration: driver=usb-storage
        *-disk:0
             description: SCSI Disk
             physical id: 0.0.0
             bus info: scsi@6:0.0.0
             logical name: /dev/sdb
        *-disk:1
             description: SCSI Disk
             physical id: 0.0.1
             bus info: scsi@6:0.0.1
             logical name: /dev/sdc
        *-disk:2
             description: SCSI Disk
             physical id: 0.0.2
             bus info: scsi@6:0.0.2
             logical name: /dev/sdd
             size: 1910MiB (2002MB)
             capabilities: partitioned partitioned:dos
           *-volume
                description: Windows FAT volume
                vendor: MSDOS5.0
                physical id: 1
                bus info: scsi@6:0.0.2,1
                logical name: /dev/sdd1
                logical name: /media/disk
                version: FAT16
                serial: 2cb5-ee77
                size: 1909MiB
                capacity: 1909MiB
                capabilities: primary fat initialized
                configuration: FATs=2 filesystem=fat mount.fstype=vfat mount.options=rw,nosuid,nodev,uid=1000,fmask=0077,dmask=0077,codepage=cp437,iocharset=iso8859-1,shortname=mixed,utf8,flush state=mounted
        *-disk:3
             description: SCSI Disk
             physical id: 0.0.3
             bus info: scsi@6:0.0.3
             logical name: /dev/sde
  *-network:0 DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 1
       logical name: vboxnet0
       serial: 0a:00:27:00:00:00
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes multicast=yes
  *-network:1 DISABLED
       description: Ethernet interface
       physical id: 2
       logical name: pan0
       serial: be:d6:f4:d7:48:64
       capabilities: ethernet physical
       configuration: broadcast=yes driver=bridge driverversion=2.3 firmware=N/A link=yes multicast=yes
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optimize me

Re: how do i overclock?

Post by optimize me »

DrHu

Re: how do i overclock?

Post by DrHu »

Use bios settings to control bus frequency & multiplier rates for the processor(s)..
http://www.wikihow.com/Overclock-a-PC
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/can ... 455-6.html

You probably get more bang for the buck by over-clocking a graphic card
--since over-clocking is usually of interest to gamers..
lagagnon

Re: how do i overclock?

Post by lagagnon »

optimize me wrote:http://tinyurl.com/l2svfo
Great response optimize me. How did you do that?
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Re: how do i overclock?

Post by tinca »

lagagnon

I liked that as well.

What I did was to use the first part of the address, i.e

http://www.lmgtfy.com/?q=

I typed in my question and then it gave a link to copy and past, a bit further down.

Pretty nifty, as it seems much more polite than the usual "search Google"

Best regards Keith
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