AMD Athalon 64 x2 4400+

Can anyone assist me in overclocking my AMD Athalon 64 x2 4400+ 2.3Mhz?

I wanna get it to around 2.6 if thats possible?

If you need anymore system info to help I can include it

I havn't found a game that I really want that needs more than I have, I can play things I didn't think I could like NFSro Street and i'll be getting Assassins Creed soon and I want it to play well :confused

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Right then it now strikes me as obvious that you guys do need alot more system info to be able to help

So here is everythingthing I could get on my system...

Motherboard: MSI K9VGM-V , 1000MHz FSB, AM2, Dual Channel DDR2.
RAM: 1x 1GB DDR2-667
Central Proccessing Unit: AMD Athalon 64 X2, 2300MHz, AM2, 640KB CACHE, 65w
Power Supply: Colorsit 600 Watt, ATX 12V
Graphics Card: GIGABYTE Nvidia GeForce 8600GT, GV-NX86T512H, 512MB, GDDR2
Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edotion (5.1 Build 2600)
BIOS: Phoenix-Award WorkstationBIOS v6.00PG

Thats all the system info I could find and thought was relevant.

Oh one last thing PC Alert 4 tells me that even after 48 hours my PC is only 31.C (CPU) and 30.C (System) so I seem to have descent cooling with only 1 system fan? :cool

If anymore system info is needed I will be happy to provide it. This may be a frustrating thing to do but I will only reqire it once and i'm sure other with the same CPU will benafit from this.

From the Overclocking guide I tryed to overclock my CPU and I failed
I need one thats more instructional than informative. But any help will be apreciated.

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to play assassins creed, you should probably want to upgrade your ram to 2 high quality 1GB sticks

 

More like need. For your system, overclocking your video card and adding ram will improve your gaming performance way more then overclocking your CPU would. In your system the primary bottleneck is only having 1GB of ram (running only in single channel mode) after that would be your 8600. You CPU is more then enough to feed your videocard while gaming.

 

Recommended
- CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ / Intel Core 2 Duo 2.2 GHz
- System Ram: 2 GB
- Operating System: Windows XP / Vista
- Drive Type: DVD Drive
- Free Disk Space: 12 GB
- Video Card: 512 MB DirectX 10.0–compliant video card or DirectX 9.0–compliant card with Shader Model 3.0 or high
- Video Card Features:
- -Video Ram: 512 MB
- -Video Card 3D Acceleration: Required
- -Video HW Transform & Lighting: Required
- -Vertex Shader Ver: Required - 3.0
- -Pixel Shader Ver: Required - 3.0

From this the only bootleneck is your RAM,8600 is enough to play the game.I run "pro street" with Galaxy 8600 gt 512mb on MAX,and never have problems of any kind.

 

ace... i got almost the same exact system now... just 2gbs in dualchannel.... and lemme tell ya, it's plenty fast, even with an 8600GT.


Yes, you can overclock it, but at this point, gaining 5-10% cpu performance will be anti-climactice compared to getting a pair of matched DDR2-800 sticks and slapping them in there like I have. That'll give you more speed boost than anything. Easily a 25-30% boost in speed, especially gaming.

 

TollhouseFrank,can you write what brand of memory do you have,cos from what I can see this mobo doesn't support some ddr2 800 sticks,due to voltage problems.
http://www.msicomputer.com/product/p_spec.asp?model=K9VGM-V&class=mb
This way they can know what to buy.

 

Believe it or not, I just went and got a 2gb ddr2-800 kit at a local mom-n-pop pc store for like $29 bucks. They use Viking or Kingston most of the time. I believe mine were just some standard issue basic Viking DDR2-800

 

Hey people sorry it's been a while since I used the MG forum, but i'm back now

I did get another 1GB DDR2 667 RAM and Assains Creed worked perfectly on that setup. But since I saw my exact processor as a recommended spec I realized I needed to upgrade before I was... leaft behind rolleyes.

So last monday with my birthday money :-D I decided to upgrade my Motherboard and Processor .

I got ASUS M3A mobo to replace my MSI K9VGM-V both good boards in my opinion but the MSI board didn't really suport the processor I wanted, the AUSUS board has more of everything really :-D:

AM2, AM2+ HT3 Quad Core Phenom CPU spuuort (next time I won't have to get a new mobo hopefully)

DDR2 1066 support and double the RAM space X4 slots rather than the X2 on the MSI board

X4 SATA2 ports to the MSI's X2

Basically a relatively cheap upgrade which is far better :-D

And the reason for the whole new board..

AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+, 3000MHz, L2 Cache 1024KB, Sytem Bus 2000MHz compared to my old CPU

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+, 2300MHz, L2 Cache 512KB, System Bus 2000MHz
A good CPU that used to run at 2000MHz :confused but I managed to OC it to 2550MHz


And thats It for my upgraded PC but now playing Colin Mcrae DIRT I have a new problem, required graphics card Nvidia 8800 with around 768MB compared to my Nvidia 8600GT 512MB. Crap! ah well it's a never ending process perfection on a budget lmao!

I don't understand how Colin McRae DIRT requires 8800, when Race Driver GRID a later game with better graphics and gameplay (Physics exepmt) I can run fine on top spec :confused, and that was on my old mobo + processor. Sometimes computers baffle me :confused.

Anyway thats my update on this thread :-D. Thanx for reading, any comments please do I am open to advise/criticism lol

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"And thats It for my upgraded PC but now playing Colin Mcrae DIRT I have a new problem, required graphics card Nvidia 8800 with around 768MB compared to my Nvidia 8600GT 512MB. Crap! ah well it's a never ending process perfection on a budget lmao! "

Thats not to say I can't play Colin McRae DIRT, I just re-read that and it comes across that was to me :confused

I can in fact play it with all settings top/Ultra but I get a terrible Frame rate , So I lowered the settings to High and it plays fine, I also turned the driver detail down to low, tryangle face FTW!

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