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Oh lord, overclocking nightmare.

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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.

Help?
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Mine goes BSOD at 3.4 as well when I overclock just by raising the multiplier. Just letting you know that ur not alone


Im confident that you know the basics of overclocking?
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Mine goes BSOD at 3.4 as well when I overclock just by raising the multiplier. Just letting you know that ur not alone


Im confident that you know the basics of overclocking?
Then why does your sig claim its at 3.8?

And, yes, I do.
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he changed other settings as well,
go read up on some overclocking guides
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Originally Posted by FatalityxZ View Post
Then why does your sig claim its at 3.8?

And, yes, I do.
umm by raising the multiplier and not messing with any other setting on BIOS...

Thats what i thought u meant by that.

Hell it BSOD at 3.3 if I only raise the mutiplier and nothing else like increasing voltages etc laadadadaa

You were a bit ambiguous there

Anywho, what are your system specs?
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umm by raising the multiplier and not messing with any other setting on BIOS...

Thats what i thought u meant by that.

Hell it BSOD at 3.3 if I only raise the mutiplier and nothing else like increasing voltages etc laadadadaa

You were a bit ambiguous there

Anywho, what are your system specs?
Oh.
But even with voltage bumps it still BSODs.
Specs are in sig.
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hi,

i got a x2 550 , when overclocked to 3.6ghz with 1.35volts it BSOD in 10 minutes or so.

then i upped the voltage of the CPU-NB VID to +.025 solves the stability issue.

give it a go
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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
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Originally Posted by youra6 View Post
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've had it for about 6 months.
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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

and if all fails, flash the BIOS
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Then why does your sig claim its at 3.8?

And, yes, I do.


LOL
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umm by raising the multiplier and not messing with any other setting on BIOS...

Thats what i thought u meant by that.

Hell it BSOD at 3.3 if I only raise the mutiplier and nothing else like increasing voltages etc laadadadaa

You were a bit ambiguous there

Anywho, what are your system specs?


Not true
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jimibgood what is your problem? Are you saying that you know my computer better than I do?

Please do us all a favor and stop trolling
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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.
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jimibgood what is your problem? Are you saying that you know my computer better than I do?

Please do us all a favor and stop trolling

He's not trolling; he's just not the brightest bulb out there


Enjoy his posts.
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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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