I bought a MSI AMD AM3 ATX motherboard and it has a nob that you can turn to over clock the system and I was able to over clock 30mhz but if I went any higher my screen would turn blue and it would dump the memory or something like that before shutting down and I was wondering if 30mhz is high or if I have a bunch of other problems going on.
[color=#ffffff][b]AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition[/b][/color]
GeForce GTX 285 video card
water cooling
No offense, but you clearly do not know enough about Overclocking to be going about doing it. I for one have noticed that all those "overclock automatically" systems don't do a damn thing they are supposed to. You are better off going into the Bios and doing it yourself. Maybe a Bios update would help, but of course there is no guarantee that is the issue anyway, and it's a pain in the ass. The reason I suggest Bios update is because I had a similar issue with my 790i, and it was fixed by a Bios update.
No, it's ok I know I am a noob when it comes to overclocking. Just I dont understand why it goes to the blue screen when playing video games. I have gone into Bios but the temps dont seem like they are getting to the point of being high. could it be the video card that over heating or would that have nothing to do with the blue screen?
Also every now and then when I turn on my computer it has the start up screen (where it tells you if your mouse and keyboard are detected) and my hard drive activity light will stay on and it seems like it freezes so i reboot and after the reboot it will work for a few more days
It sounds like a bad overclock. Is there a knob to turn up CPU voltage as well? Because if you just turn up clock speed without matching the voltage properly then you'll have a bunch of problems with Windows and starting up.
Just do it through the BIOS.
30mhz is equal to nothing.
I suggest you try to google this:
Phenom II x4 955 black edition overclock
And or google just "overclocking" to learn some basics.
Also, dont ever use auto clock functions.. Anyone can make a high clock if you give it horrible amount of volt to the cpu, which will shorten the lifespan of it drastically.. (Which is what the auto-clocks are doing)
Learn something about clocking, then use the BIOS.
Also, golden rule:
If you can't afford a new one, don't overclock. (Unless you really know what youre doing)[color=#ffffff][b][/b][/color]
I have found that there is no way to ruin a CPU though overclocking. I mean obviously you could shave a few years off the life of a CPU, but who doesn't upgrade anyway?
my dad XD his computer takes 15-20 minuets to load before you can even open up a program
oops quoted wrong one, meant to quote "who doesn't upgrade anyway"
What on earth? This sounds terrible I got a 500Mhz overclock with my old athlon 5000+ Just by changing the multiplier. Either your motherboard is a bad one, your CPU came from a bad batch, or your BIOS is out of date. Or you just aren't doing it properly.
yeah unless you have a truly ass motherboard you should at least get 100-400 mhz without needing to overvolt at all.
I think a bios update will fix this.