Easiest Way to Overclock on Asus A8V

[John Smith]

I have a lightly configured system w/considerable cooling:


Asus A8V, AMD X2/4200 CPU, 500 Watt PS, Antech P180 case w/3 cooling fans,
Thermalake
Big Typhoon Cooler, single SATA hard drive, Matrox fanless video card.

Asus Probe indicates a maximum current temps of 25c for the mb and 35c cpu
for the cpu.

I am not an expert in overclocking nor to wish to become one . Should I
simply use adapative overclocking and in what percentage increase?

 

[Paul]

I have a lightly configured system w/considerable cooling:


Asus A8V, AMD X2/4200 CPU, 500 Watt PS, Antech P180 case w/3 cooling fans,
Thermalake
Big Typhoon Cooler, single SATA hard drive, Matrox fanless video card.

Asus Probe indicates a maximum current temps of 25c for the mb and 35c cpu
for the cpu.

I am not an expert in overclocking nor to wish to become one . Should I
simply use adapative overclocking and in what percentage increase?

Get a copy of CPUZ from www.cpuid.com .

While booted in Windows and running stock, record the values shown on
the CPUZ screen.

Now, reboot, go into the BIOS and enable Adaptive Overclock 17%.

Boot Windows. Sitting idle in the desktop, again run CPUZ. Adaptive
should have turned the speed down, when there is no load.

Now, run a 100% load on both cores. (I'd use Prime95, but there might
be better apps for this now. Search on the keyword "affinity" and
"dual core", to get some ideas on how to assign a task to a given
core.)

When both cores are 100%, does CPUZ report 17% faster operation
than stock ?

That might give you some idea as to whether it works as expected
or not. If the computer crashes, you'll know the BIOS method
sucks and manual methods are called for.

There is a person here getting 2750Mhz on a 4400+ X2, just to give
you some idea how far real overclocking can go. His water cooling
might be marginally better than your Typhoon.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=73012

HTH,
Paul