Lower base clock for Overclocking

[silverjay928]

Hello I was wondering when I am over clocking an AMD cpu it always as a base clock of 200, if I change it to 100 and start over clocking will that help, hurt or make no difference?

[GirlFromYonder]

4 minutes ago, silverjay928 said:

Hello I was wondering when I am over clocking an AMD cpu it always as a base clock of 200, if I change it to 100 and start over clocking will that help, hurt or make no difference?

it would help if the base clock will be higher, but i dont know if you should change the base clock. if the base clock is tied with other thing (like the southbridge). your system will not boot

[silverjay928]

1 minute ago, DeezNoNos said:

it would help if the base clock will be higher, but i dont know if you should change the base clock. if the base clock is tied with other thing (like the southbridge). your system will not boot

OK thanks I was thinking that.

[GirlFromYonder]

Just now, silverjay928 said:

OK thanks I was thinking that.

but you can try, and then resett the cmos i think

[PrinzyXX]

The AMD CPUS bclk wont go down to 100. I believe 185 is the lowest it will go anyways. What AMD processor are you running?

[PrinzyXX]

13 minutes ago, DeezNoNos said:

it would help if the base clock will be higher, but i dont know if you should change the base clock. if the base clock is tied with other thing (like the southbridge). your system will not boot

Also if he changes the bclk the south bridge and north bridge will automatically scale up the frequencies since the bclk controls practically everything from ram to the bridges and buses.

[GirlFromYonder]

1 minute ago, MysticalRainXIV said:

Also if he changes the bclk the south bridge and north bridge will automatically scale up the frequencies since the bclk controls practically everything from ram to the bridges and buses.

thus he should not touch the baseclock

[PrinzyXX]

Well if he changes the CPU multiplier higher as well he needs to change the multipliers on the North and South Bridge respectively, and the bclk is a fantastic way to squeeze out every last MHz from the cpu. there will be no detrimental effects unless he fails to provide the proper voltage. I did similar things to my 8320 before I upgraded. I think mine is one of the 8320s up there in the Cinebench doc, not including the ones with exotic cooling.

Edited August 21, 2016 by MysticalRainXIV
Changed CPU model to 8320 oops