Overclocked succesfully but a problem

[Varinderpal Singh]

Hey guys,

I recently overclocked my athlon II x2 260 from 3.2 ghz to 3.35 ghz. With this overclock my pc has been quite stable. It has improved the performance. Inspite of cpu being overclocked, cpu-z constantly shows core speed 3.2 ghz. Also in general settings 3.2 ghz is shown. 

Is thar normal ?

[DrMacintosh]

well how did you verify that it actually overclocked? Could be a placebo. 

[Varinderpal Singh]

The bios exactly showed that. The processor was rated at 3.35 ghz rather than 3.2 ghz. Also, I made a guess from cpu temperatures, since I was using a stock cooler so i expected the temp to go up by 3-6℃ and temps went up.

[DrMacintosh]

Well what is the problem? Just a minor spout of OCD from what I can tell. 

[Varinderpal Singh]

3 minutes ago, DrMacintosh said:

Well what is the problem? Just a minor spout of OCD from what I can tell. 

As I said, after OCing when I run cpu-z, the core speed shown is 3.2 ghz rather than 3.35 ghz. Why is this so ?

[Kahir]

CPU-z shows only stock clocks.
Use built in CPU monitor (which you can find after pressing ctrl+shift+esc), push full load on your procesoor and then check your frequency

 

[Kahir]

If you used bclk to OC your CPU you have to use sth more advenced like HWMonitor cause windows monitor won't show it

[Varinderpal Singh]

4 minutes ago, Kahir said:

If you used blck to OC your CPU you have to use sth more advenced like HWMonitor cause windows monitor won't show it

New to overclocking. Can't get you. Mind elaborating ?

[Varinderpal Singh]

6 minutes ago, Kahir said:

CPU-z shows only stock clocks.
Use built in CPU monitor (which you can find after pressing ctrl+shift+esc), push full load on your procesoor and then check your frequency

 

Thanks

 

[Kahir]

1 hour ago, Varinderpal Singh said:

New to overclocking. Can't get you. Mind elaborating ?

There are two ways to overclock your processor. Changing CPU multiplier is easier and usually more efficient. For example if your multiplier is set to 32 your processor is clocked 32x100mhz=3200mhz (3.2ghz) but if you change your multiplier to 40 your processor will be clocked to 40x100mhz=4000mhz (4ghz)

There is another way. You can change your bclk. It's (on stock) usually 100mhz. Let's say your baisic multiplier is 32x so baisic frequency is 32x100mhz=3200mhz. By changing your BCLK to 107mhz you get 32x107mhz=3.424mhz (3.424ghz).

You should read a little bit about it, may give you a few additional mhz.

You can also combine both of this methods as I did. I've overclocked my G3258 from 3.2ghz to 4.4ghz by changing multiplier from 32x to 44x so it gave me 44x100mhz=4400mhz. I couldn't push my multiplier any further so i changed my bclk to 101.5mhz so i finally achived 44x101.5mhz=4466mhz (~4.47ghz).

[Kahir]

Note that the higer your multiplier is the bigger are changes to your CPU frequency after changing bclk frequency. So don't push your bclk to 115mhz while your multiplier is set to 44x cause it'll give around 5ghz and won't be stable for shure.

[Varinderpal Singh]

1 hour ago, Kahir said:

There are two ways to overclock your processor. Changing CPU multiplier is easier and usually more efficient. For example if your multiplier is set to 32 your processor is clocked 32x100mhz=3200mhz (3.2ghz) but if you change your multiplier to 40 your processor will be clocked to 40x100mhz=4000mhz (4ghz)

There is another way. You can change your bclk. It's (on stock) usually 100mhz. Let's say your baisic multiplier is 32x so baisic frequency is 32x100mhz=3200mhz. By changing your BCLK to 107mhz you get 32x107mhz=3.424mhz (3.424ghz).

You should read a little bit about it, may give you a few additional mhz.

You can also combine both of this methods as I did. I've overclocked my G3258 from 3.2ghz to 4.4ghz by changing multiplier from 32x to 44x so it gave me 44x100mhz=4400mhz. I couldn't push my multiplier any further so i changed my bclk to 101.5mhz so i finally achived 44x101.5mhz=4466mhz (~4.47ghz).

Since my cpu has locked multiplier so I maxed it to 16x and changed bclk from 200 to 210 hence giving me 210*16 = 3360 mhz or 3.36 ghz. Note that system is stil stable.

[Kahir]

That sounds fine. Try pushing your bclk a little bit more

[DildorTheDecent]

6 hours ago, Kahir said:

CPU-z shows only stock clocks.

No...no it does not....

 

I can tell you with absolute certainty that 4.7GHz is not stock clock. 

[Varinderpal Singh]

47 minutes ago, DildorTheDecent said:

No...no it does not....

 

I can tell you with absolute certainty that 4.7GHz is not stock clock. 

Your overclocking is done by increasing multiplier and I overclocked by increased bus speed. I guess this might be the only reason that cpu-z does not show overclocked speed.

[Varinderpal Singh]

4 hours ago, Kahir said:

That sounds fine. Try pushing your bclk a little bit more

Yeah I tried to push bclk to 212 but system became unstable intially but later on it continued to be stable upto 220 mhz with temp just under 53℃. I'll try to OCa bit more than 220 mhz.

 

[SpaceGhostC2C]

7 minutes ago, Varinderpal Singh said:

Your overclocking is done by increasing multiplier and I overclocked by increased bus speed. I guess this might be the only reason that cpu-z does not show overclocked speed.

Same thing, CPU-z reports base clock, multiplier, and resulting clocks accurately even if you OC (I have OCed both ways and it always shows actual values).

Can you share a screenshot of CPU-z? Maybe you successfully increased the base clock, but your CPU idles at less than its max mutiplier, hence why the clock you see at idle is 3.2

[Varinderpal Singh]

3 hours ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

Same thing, CPU-z reports base clock, multiplier, and resulting clocks accurately even if you OC (I have OCed both ways and it always shows actual values).

Can you share a screenshot of CPU-z? Maybe you successfully increased the base clock, but your CPU idles at less than its max mutiplier, hence why the clock you see at idle is 3.2

Quite amazing.... Last time I used cpu-z it showed only stock clocks even after OC, but this time it showed overclocked value.   @Kahir   @DrMacintosh . I kept on pushing my bclk keeping an eye on temp until system finally became unstable. Take a look. It seems to me that temps are all fine.

What do you think ?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

That's a hefty overclock, but you will know whether it's stable and not too hot when you test it under load (there are stress test programs you can use, or you can simply do the most CPU-intensive activity you normally do with your computer to check).