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overclocking amd sempron
Name: tmlboy78 Date: March 11, 2008 at 13:46:13 Pacific OS: windows xp pro CPU/Ram: 1 gb
Comment:
can you overclock an amd sempron 3400 am2? if so how? my game requires a 2.4 ghz processor and currently mine is 1.80 ghz
Name: adz929 Date: March 11, 2008 at 14:14:20 Pacific
Reply:
Have you tried installing the game at all?
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Response Number 2
Name: jam Date: March 11, 2008 at 14:19:45 Pacific
Reply:
Overclocking a Sempron is the same as overclocking an A64, but it would help to know what motherboard & RAM you have. Knowing the video card would be helpful too...no amount of overclocking will make up for a crappy card. And if your game states 2.4GHz, does it say whether that's a P4 2.4GHz? If it does, you've already got it beat with your 3400+.
Assuming you have an overclockable motherboard & DDR2-800 RAM, try this:
- increase CPU freq from 200MHz to 300MHz - set the CPU multiplier to 8.0x - lower the LDT multiplier from 4x (800MHz) to 3x (600MHz) - lower the RAM setting from DDR2-800 (400MHz) to DDR2-533 (266MHz) - lock the PCI-e at 100MHz - lock the PCI at 33MHz - disable Cool n Quiet - disable ALL Spread Spectrum settings - increase the CPU voltage at least 0.025v over default
Try this at your own risk...there are no guarantees. Hopefully you'll know how to recover if your system becomes unbootable.
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Response Number 3
Name: tmlboy78 Date: March 11, 2008 at 21:15:25 Pacific
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yes the game is installed and its test drive unlimited. motherboard is m2v-mx se and the graphic card is an ati hd 2400 pro 256mb and ram is at 1gb ddr2
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Response Number 4
Name: tmlboy78 Date: March 11, 2008 at 21:16:43 Pacific
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and yes it does say p4 2.4 ghz
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Response Number 5
Name: adz929 Date: March 11, 2008 at 22:21:41 Pacific
Reply:
Then you should be fine, if you really want to overclock it, jam has provided some sound advice.
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