Athlon overclocking

Hardware Hub Overclocking
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I'm overclocking my athlon II x3 on my old ass gigabyte 790x I think it has like a 4 phase power design, I have a stock amd fan on top of the vrm heatsink and blowing on the vrms as well, I have a hyper 212, and a 400w psu with 2 20 amp 12v rails that apparently can work together to push 25 amps, I have another dell OEM psu with 2 18 amp rails, I also have a 6870 and 5400 2.5 drive in my current configuration I have the 400w plugged in the 24 pin and 4 pin with the dell oem one plugged I to the gpu and hddright now my Max prime 95 in line fft overclock is 226*15.5=3.5Ghz at 1.475v, tried  dropping the HT and NB multipliers does not net any more stability

 

can i change my setup any to get a higher oc or is my Board just too jank?  also I'm pretty much a bum so I can't really buy stuff so that's out

oh and I have 4x2gb 1600 9-9-9 1.65v ram.  also anyone have any am3/+ stuff or sandy bridge chips you want to get rid of (cheap), I have a z68 board I'd like to eventually use

 

on mobile so forgive formatting and random words

 

 

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It's not really worth it to buy a better motherboard for it.

 

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yeah that's why I can't really spend more than like 20 bucks, trying to get at least 3.7 for pcsx2 and dolphin

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You could always solder your own VRM on the board.

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I'd probably fuck it up, would disabling a core net me more headroom? like vrm wise, I'm like 44c Max on core temps

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Could help, allowing for more of the little headroom you have to be put towards fewer cores, but with higher yield.

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okay I only really need 2 anyway, I'll try this when I get home from work kinda wish I had a native x2 so each core would have 1mb L2 cache instead of 512kb

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AAAAND it neted me 100Mhz higher OC, welp looks like I better start saving in case someone sells a sandy chip cheap

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100mHz you didn't have before!

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that might cut it for standard gaming but for emulators you have to have full 60 FPS to be playable or else the game will physically run slower