How do I overclock any AMD Opteron CPU?
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Overclocking Your Processor\nWARNING: Overclocking of any kind voids all manufacturer warranties and can depreciate the life expectancy of your component.\nWARNING: Overclocking is dangerous and can result in a dead/fried processor.\nCAUTION: Take it slow, overclock in subtle amounts, and always check the stability of your current overclocked settings through a benchmarking/stability utility.\nWith those warnings out of the way, Welcome to the Overclocking Guide for Processors! Most likely you won't fry your processor, but it does happen, and increasing the frequency of your processor by too much can result in a dead processor. Be sure to always monitor the temperature of your CPU during overclocking and don't exceed the manufacturer's recommended operating temperature. Remember, the temperature will increase with activity and strenuous programs, so I suggest downloading a program that will load your computer while monitoring the processor temperature (e.g. Prime95). Replacing the stock heat-sink/fan with a good $50 heat-sink/fan will drastically reduce your processor temperatures.\n\nTerms to Know:\n\nCPU Clock/FSB: This is the frequency of your processor.\nCPU Ratio/Multiplier: This is the multiplication factor used with the CPU Ratio/FSB to determine the end processor frequency.\nHTT Multiplier/FSB Multiplier/LTD Bus Frequency: This is the multiplication factor used with the CPU Ratio/FSB to determine the operating FSB frequency. Standard factors are 5X/1GHz, 4X/800Mhz, 3X/600MHz, 2X/400MHz, 1X/200MHz.\n\n\nA note: This tutorial is guided for AMD 64-bit processors. They are the most complicated to overclock, so if you can overclock an AMD 64, you can overclock anything. Remember though that not every processor is overclockable, AMD and Intel alike. Also note that many Intel processors have a locked CPU Ratio/FSB Multiplier.\nLet's Get Started:\n\n1) Max Memory Speed\n\nThe first step is to determine how fast your memory can go. This is done so that when overclocking we know that an excessive memory speed isn't what is causing instability problems.\n\nA) First drop down your CPU Ratio/Multiplier down two spots. (If at 11X, drop it to 9X)\n\nB) Set your AGP/PCI lock to 33/67 respectively if you have this option in the BIOS.\n\nC) Set the HTT Multiplier/FSB Multiplier/LTD BUS Frequency to 4X/800Mhz. This multiplication factor multiplied by the CPU Clock's FSB cannot be greater than your motherboards FSB specification. So if your motherboards FSB is 1000MHz and your CPU Clock/FSB is at 200MHz and your multiplier is at 5X your at 1000MHz. But if you raise the CPU Clock/FSB as we are going to while keeping the multiplier at 5X, we will be over the 1000MHz limit and we will run into stability issues.\n\nD) Disable the Cool n' Quiet feature prevalent on AMD boards if it is enabled.\n\nE) Disable Spread Spectrum\n\nF) Save your settings and boot to Windows.\n\nG) Using ClockGen, let it raise your memory speeds automatically or do it manually at 5Mhz increments (If at 200MHz, set it to 205MHz.).\n\nH) Do this until it locks up or artifacts appear. Record this number.\n\nI) On lockup, reboot your PC into BIOS.\n\nJ) Set you CPU Clock/FSB to the number prior to your recorded number. (If doing 5MHz steps, 5MHz less than your recorded number.\n\nK) Save your settings and boot to Windows.\n\nL) Run all tests on Memtest86 one time to check for errors. If you get any errors they will present themselves as red lines at the bottom of the window. Upon seeing these lines, reboot into BIOS. Go to step M). If you don't see these lines, go to step N).\n\nM) Lower your CPU Clock/FSB down by 3MHz, save and boot into Windows. Then run Memtest86 again. Do this until you receive no errors. Skip step N).\n\nN) Raise your CPU Clock/FSB up by 1 MHz, save and boot into Windows. Then run Memtest86 again. Do this until you receive an error. Upon receiving the error, lower the CPU Clock/FSB down to its prior stable state. Recor
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Check out Tom's Hardware Guide. They have a special article called "The Mother of All CPU Charts". This should help you find what you're looking for.
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You need to go into the bios (bash del during initial startup)\nFrom here you can go into a section usually called 'frequencies' or something like that.\nTo overclock it you increase the frequency of the front side bus. FSB.\nSave, and restart. \nIf the system is stable after playing some games and such then turn it up some more.\n\nNOTE: Overclocking a CPU on standard cooling voids any warranty, and can damage the chip.
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on newer mainboards no settings have to be changed. assume you want to upgrade from a Pentium 4 630 (3GHz) to a Pentium 4 660 (3.6GHz), the mainboard recognize the new CPU automatically due to the CPUID (this is an identfication code within the CPU). The multiplier of the clock frequency will then automatically be set from 15 to 18 (x 200MHz).
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I believe te fastest processors are clocked between 3 - 3.4 GHz. I have however seen machines being overclocked to run at 4 GHz. This however is a surefire way of shortening the life of your processor and cooling a system that running so hot is a pain in the butt. \n\nYour best bet would be to look at an Intel Pentium Dual Core Pressler chip the speeds range from 2.6GHz to 3.4GHz. I know AMD has the FX series that come in that range of speed.
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Your best bet to get the most of your processor is to install it. Then boot it up. If it's a respectable motherboard, it will detect the difference and offer you a chance to set it up. Choose the specs that match your new CPU, and it'll give it the best chance of running the longest.
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You can only overclock a processor if it is built to be overclocked.  In your case your Pentium 4 will have to be a Pentium 4 HT (HT= Hyper-Threading).  My best advice would be to not overclock it.  If the manufactor thought it would run stable at a higher speed they would have sold it at that speed.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/atitool/\n\nUse that to overclock ATI cards. What I do is that I make a new file for overclock. Then, I click the button on the screen saying "Max Memory/Core" and it overclocks automatically that way. Then I save, and then I minimize it.\n\nJust if you're wondering, only certain cards have thermometers. So if it doesn't display a temp, mine doesn't either because mine is also a 9600.
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In order to overclock you need to have a motherboard that allows u to do that in 1st place.  With that type of motherboard one can change the settings in the bios (at startup ur computer might say something like "press F2 to enter setup").  once in the bios seetings (for an Intel processor based system) you increase the Front Side Bus (FSB) frequency and that will turn ur 2.8 GHz cpu into a 3.1 GHz cpu or possibly even higher.  upside is better/faster performance for no cost, downside shorten life of cpu and can cause ur computer to be unstable.
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u cna go to bios setting and change the clock timeings. well be carefull when u do that. its always goood to use a additional fan for the processer, just in case if u want to increase the clocktime of the processer, to avoid over heating.
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ati drivers \nhttp://ati.amd.com/support/driver.html
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The term 'overclocking' describes the process of running your CPU at a clock and/or bus speed that the CPU hasn't been specified for - logically, that speed is usually higher.\n\nThe tempting idea behind overclocking is to increase system performance at very little cost. In many cases you only need to change a few settings on your motherboard to make your system run faster. In other cases you only have to add a few components (usually for cooling) to achieve the performance increase.\n\nAlthough there are millions of tales of damaged CPUs and other system components, in most cases overclocking is completely harmless. There are, however, a few things to take into consideration.\n\nYou can read more on:\nhttp://www.tomshardware.com/1997/01/02/overclocking_guide/\nhttp://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/cpuoverclocking/index.html
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Check your bios. There is a numlock setting there.
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you can turn it off and then it will be extremely slow or you can turn it on and it will be fast and working lol.\n\nSeriously the BIOS should let you over clock it but its not a good idea :)
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is that a complete question?\n\nwhich proc?  intel, amd, power pc?\n\nthe x86s each have power management for clocks (Intel SpeedStep, for example)...\n\ncare to expand the question?
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First and foremost excessive heat will kill your cpu - make sure you have a cooling fan that can handle extra heat as well as both an intake and exhaust fan in addition to the one on the power supply as heat build-up also kills motherboards.  Overclocking can be done many ways - some of it is dependant on your bios - increasing the core power (not usually a good idea), increasing the clock speed, etc.  For a idea of how to do this safely go to TomsHardware.com and see what he says.
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processor instructions