Trying to overclock my X3 720 on a Gigabyte MA-770.
The thing goes up to 3.4 on a purely multiplier based overclock, but after 15~ minutes or so of stress testing, it BSOD's.
I don't think its the memory, the memory is rated at DDR2 1000 but I'm running it at DDR2 800.
I don't think it's the board either, I've seen people with the same board and proc and they have it at least at 3.6GHz.
What are the:
-CPU voltage
-NB frequency and Nb voltages?
-HTT
-Ram timing
How long have you had this CPU chip? It is odd that you cant make it past 3.4. I can get to 3.6 very easily. But after that I hit a wall, and even more so at 3.7
Originally Posted by youra6
What are the:
-CPU voltage
-NB frequency and Nb voltages?
-HTT
-Ram timing
How long have you had this CPU chip? It is odd that you cant make it past 3.4. I can get to 3.6 very easily. But after that I hit a wall, and even more so at 3.7
Voltage: 1.325
NB Freq: 2GHz
NB Volt: 1.2
HTT: 200
RAM: CAS: 5
RAS TO CAS: 5
RAS Active time: 15
Row recharge : 5
Row Cycle: 25
I would say first bump up the cpu voltage a tiny bit. 1.35 or 1.375.
NB should be fine according to this chart
Memory timings seems good at 5-5-5-15...
Other than that, at 3.4 I wouldn't mess around with the other voltages. For me to get to 3.6 all I had to do was increase multiplier, increase cpu voltage to 1.425 and set RAM timings to 5-5-5-15
Voltage: 1.325
NB Freq: 2GHz
NB Volt: 1.2
HTT: 200
RAM: CAS: 5
RAS TO CAS: 5
RAS Active time: 15
Row recharge : 5
Row Cycle: 25
I've had it for about 6 months.
Like youra6 have said, you'll definitely need to bump your voltage. 1.325 is at stock and it's likely the chip won't do 3.4 GHz. I was overclocking my 720BE and it did 3.5 on 1.4V. Just a reference.
its a 720,ram the voltage to it.i unlocked mine.im only running it at 3.2 all 4 cores 1.375.if you want 3.5 on 3 cores you better go toward 1.475v and 17.5multi
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