ASRock N68-S overclocking

[flyboyovyick]

Hi

On sunday i bought a asrock n68-s motherboard and a AMD Phenom II X3 720 Black edition processor and i cant figure out how to overclock in the bios.

I have tryed increasing the multiplyer from x14 to x16 but then i restart and it doesnt boot.

The spec of the pc follows:
phenom II x3 720 2.8ghz
asrock n68-s mb with untied overclocking technology
2gb of samsung pc 6400 ddr2 ram
500w psu

can u help?

thanks

[Shadow_Nexus]

Instead of raising you multiplier, try to lower it 1 or 2 steps, followed by lowering your HTT multiplier, then set FSB:Mem freq = 1:1, then raise up the FSB by 10% of increasing number, if you can't boot try to raise up core voltage & northbridge voltage (becareful!!)..

First, you must know at how high your memory can run (both at tight timing & lose timing).. AMD platform usualy prefer tight timing to get better speed (at games of course..:D). It's your chioce, use tight timing at lower FSB, or use lose timing at high FSB..

P.S.
Some Phenom X3 can be unlocked to activate the other one core, so it will be recognized as Phenom X4 (not all X3 processor can be unlocked)..

[TalhaQasim]

Try to make some faults. Hehe. Go to Bios and set there. It will be probably there.

[flyboyovyick]

Since i bought the pc bit it keep shuting down randomly on its own. And i dont know why

Can you help?

[Shadow_Nexus]

Check temperature of processor, chipset, & memory (at idle & full load)... If everything is OK, make sure you have a good PSU, sometimes voltage dropping over 5% can lead to system failure..
Also check shutdown temperature (overheat warning) at BIOS, make sure it's not set too low..

[flyboyovyick]

Yeah ive checked the temps and stuff and there is no reason why it shouldnt shut down. Apart from POWER!!! But i have tryed 2 psu's and no luck

[thornwind]

Mine was doing the same.

I know you've tried 2 psu's but you didn't mention their power rating.

Also, often, cheap psu's lie.

I put an 800w one in, invested £30... it's running fine now.

[Kristaps-K9-Lv]

about the OC'ing - leave the multiplier alone (can you even modify those on amd cpus?, cause on intel theyre locked) increase the fsb if that doesnt work try lovering the memory speed and then increasing fsb(works for me)! (for me the OC goes like this - open bios > cpu level up > set to "crazy" :d now its 3.1GHZ from 2.4 - used to be 3.4 until I started to mess around with it!:D the max I can get (while ocing manually) is 3.8Ghz stable enough to boot and play crysis!!! :D BTW its a intel Core 2 Duo 6600 cpu!!:)
oh and you should think of getting a cpu cooler(with stock cooler I had about 70C when OCd now I have 39C), or maybe a gaming motherboard(yes theyre more expensive, but you'll have easier life with utilities which will OC it for you in bios)!!

Do you think its the your PSU fault (about shutdowns) cause im using: C2D 6600 , Asus Striker II Formula, 4 kingston ram modules (4gb in total), NV GF 8800GTS 640mb, a HDD, optical drive, 2fans, and cpu cooler with fan!!! -- al of that is running on a 480W psu without any shutdowns and problems like that!

[flyboyovyick]

Ye the motherboard i got is an special ocing board

And is there any other names for fsb cause its not listed in the CPU Configeration. I up'd the multiplyer to 3.0ghz (about x15?) and it wont boot.

Takes about 7 times switching on and off to get working again.

Can i put my memory up to 1066?

My cpu is stock 2.8ghz, which is what it is now.

flyboy

[flyboyovyick]

I sorted out the shutdown thing it was windows 7 beta had run out and was shuting down every 2 hours. But i went out and bought windows 7 last week.

[Kristaps-K9-Lv]

I sorted out the shutdown thing it was windows 7 beta had run out and was shuting down every 2 hours. But i went out and bought windows 7 last week.

I have dual boot system with WIN7 Ultimate and WinXp pro - didnt buy neither of them!! :D

Check this out http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/475649-amd-phenom-ii-x3-700-series.html look at those OC's if you can get all that stuf (fsb ...) in the same speeds then you can go pretty high with your cpu -- but dont overheat it - I reccomend a good CPU cooler like Zalman CNPS 9700 Led (I have one :p )!!! vut sometimes you cant get as high because of the mobo!!!