How high can an AMD Athlon be overclocked?

LOLZpersonok · 02-16-2011, 11:30 PM

I am just curious. My processor is an AMD Athlon X2 Dual Core Processor 4000+ clocked @ 2.11 GHz.

What is the highest, stable, clock speed I can get it up to? Just curious.

foothead · 02-17-2011, 11:08 PM

It's impossible to say. The highest clock speed depends on lots of factors, such as cooling, power stability, motherboard, memory, and even the chip itself.

Just go for it. As long as you keep voltages and temps within safe range, it's hard to hurt anything.

LukaszR · 02-18-2011, 12:36 AM

What "foothead" said. Overclocking is different for everyone. It depends mainly on your hardware and your cooling choices. Someone may reach 4.00GHz and someone else may only reach 3.60Ghz. Its all how you do it, and how good can you do it.

LOLZpersonok · 02-18-2011, 12:40 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by foothead

It's impossible to say. The highest clock speed depends on lots of factors, such as cooling, power stability, motherboard, memory, and even the chip itself.

Just go for it. As long as you keep voltages and temps within safe range, it's hard to hurt anything.

Okay...well how can I do it? I can't get into my bois on my computer bacause of a dual boot of the same thing...I would get rid of it if I knew which Windows folder my computer ran off.

I am not sure of my system cooling, and the chip but my computer has 4 GB RAM and an AMD Athlon processor...AuthenticAMD

02-16-2011, 11:30 PM	#1
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02-17-2011, 11:08 PM	#2
foothead ಠ_ಠ Join Date: May 2009 Location: 'Murica! Posts: 9,037	Re: How high can an AMD Athlon be overclocked? It's impossible to say. The highest clock speed depends on lots of factors, such as cooling, power stability, motherboard, memory, and even the chip itself. Just go for it. As long as you keep voltages and temps within safe range, it's hard to hurt anything. __________________ Desktop: PII 955, 4GB DDR3 1333, M4A79T, 250GB 7200.10, HD 5770, 3x HG281D Laptop: Q9000, 4GB DDR3, DV7 mb, 40GB Hitachi, HD 4650M, 23" AOC LED backlit panel Netbook: Pink ASUS 1005HAB, Atom N270, 1GB DDR2, 160GB HDD, Intel 945G, 63 Whr battery

02-18-2011, 12:36 AM	#3
LukaszR Fully Optimized Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 2,833	Re: How high can an AMD Athlon be overclocked? What "foothead" said. Overclocking is different for everyone. It depends mainly on your hardware and your cooling choices. Someone may reach 4.00GHz and someone else may only reach 3.60Ghz. Its all how you do it, and how good can you do it. __________________ Desktop - DualBoot: Fedora 15/Windows 7 64bit Netbook - Windows 7 Professional www.Cyber-Talk.ca League of Legends and Gaming Community

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