It's time to OC my 4400

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It's time to OC my 4400

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I've been playing Supreme Commander a bit lately, and realize that I need more juice out of my pc. It's about a year and a half old, and I havent OC'd it yet, but I think it's time. I bought the RAM and the CPU cooler specifically to OC, so it should do pretty well.

Part of the reason I havent OC'd is because I have no idea what to do. I OC'd my p4 in the past, but it's been a while, and I dont recognize the Bios commands for this AMD setup.

Can someone give me (the uber noob OCer) some step by step instructions?

here's the pertinent info on the system:



DFI Lan Party NForce4 SLI-DR Audio/GB-LAN
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Dual-Core 1MB
Zalman CNPS7000B-AlCu Silent CPU Cooling
2 GB (2 pcs 1GB) OCZ dual channel platinum DDR
HD SATA3G Western Digital Caviar SE 250 GB 16mb cache


I can get to the Bios....heh. After that, what do I do?

Thanks!

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this can be helpful.
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DFI, cool, I like those boards (all one that I've owned...)
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thanks flip!
After reading that article, I dont think I'm cut out to OC...bleh. It was so easy with my old pentium.
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Time to upgrade. ^_~

You should consider buying a computer with a Core 2 Quad processor... or Core 2 Extreme QX6850 (if you can afford it =P). Also, get a GeForce 8800 GTX. You know you want to. ^_~ Anyone have any idea when \"Penryn\" is supposed to debut?
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I was actually wondering what the fastest processor I could get for my current MB...just a cpu upgrade would be relatively cheap.
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Ah I remember the thread when I helped u pick out all the parts for this PC =)
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ReadyMan wrote:I was actually wondering what the fastest processor I could get for my current MB...just a cpu upgrade would be relatively cheap.
It might still be possible to find a 939 pin X2 or Opteron dual core, you might have more luck on ebay than retail at this point though.
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Post by MD-2389 »

An Opteron would work fine as long as the BIOS supported it. I'm running a 165 in on my Asus A8N5X right now and it works great!

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Just make sure your BIOS supports higher than E4 stepping chips.
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