If your virus/spyware free, there are a couple things you can do get your computer working faster. If you using your computer for normal stuff and not gaming. You don't always need more RAM you just need to perform a few maintenance task.
Getting back on track and yes Hazar is very much correct in this case regarding CPU voltage even thou I will admit I don't have that much experience in that relm.... Adding more ram is not really worth it cause you hit a point where its just over kill I'd say that point is around 4 GB to 6 GB for 64 bit machines as well as 32 bit machines which only need 4 GB as thats all they can take... Ok I managed to get my AMD Phenom X4 965 BE up to 3.885 GHZ which is about as far as I wanna take her cause the limit I heard on the Overclocking forums was 3.903 GHZ sorry I don't think'll be able to hit 4 GHZ but I can always dream a little... Had to push the voltage up a little to make that happen thou cause it was at the stock voltage...
That's pretty decent. Keep in mind that AMD chips are very heat sensitive and start to hit a wall at about 55C
I kept the Smart safeties on thou and it was a little under 60 C but I don't want to burn out a CPU....
You are not gonna burn your cpu if you run it on 62c, 62 is recommended max so if you have 62c in load you be just fine ^^
True but I think I'll just keep it at what is right now even thou I already know I could take it a little farther n hit 3.903 GHZ from what I've heard on the OCing forums....
I my be wrong sorry in that case. What is the recomended core temp for AMD Phenom X4 965 then? I know a lot of people that run AMD Phenom X4 965 thay keep it around 60c.
I just heard that most Phenom II's start to crash around 55C core temp but core temp is normally higher than heatspreader temp
Keeping it really close to dangerous temps or instability point is very risky. What if the temperature of the room increases 2C?
@ hazar: I'm hittin 50-56 C regularly without much of a problem I haven't burned it in yet thou.... @ Burfadel: Keeping it that high is not a problem if you have the SMART Safety locks on so that makes so that once it hits 60C it won't do any damage to the Mobo or CPU... Pretty much means I'm not that worried at all.....
Regularly is not good, that should be like, your Prime 95 small FFT temp on an AMD. Maybe get a better cooler?
Got Intel E5300 to 3.5GHz with stock cooler but the temp was outrageous, currently stable at 3GHz & RAM at 920MHz all at stock !
The E5300 is a extremly good overclocker, with the right cpu cooler is 4.2ghz++ no problem "outrageous" = 90c+?
NO not 90C+ but the idle temp was 50C+(@ 3.5GHz) so without a decent cooler it would have been a gamble to move forward BTW the real bottleneck was my RAM it wouldn't go beyond ~1066 MHz & my mobo doesn't have an option to scale it down(just DDR2 800 to DDR2 667)