Overclocking - Part 2

I worked on over-clocking my rig this past weekend. I was able to balance memory and CPU speeds to get a stable performance boost. The AMD 4200+ is an amazing deal! Currently, you can get this processor for around $65. Out of the box it is clocked at 2.2GHz. There is so much give in the clock speed, that makes this such an amazing deal. From the article I posted in the last post, they were able to get to 3.0GHz!

I was able to get mine to 2.85GHz and set my memory timings from 5-5-5-12-2 @ 800mhz to 4-4-4-12-2 @ 555mhz. This balanced out the performance and made the system stable. I pushed the voltage up on the CPU to 1.5v and the memory to 2.0v.

I tested out the stability with a round of Crysis.

I set all settings to VERY HIGH. The game ran with a few little hiccups in framerate. Over all it was almost playable on VERY HIGH. This was a huge jump from the original settings. I wasn't even able to get it to load with VERY HIGH settings. The loading screen took less time, also.

I am very pleased with the performance I am getting now. Startup is a lot faster, windows snap open, applications load faster. I can't believe I waited this long to over-clock the CPU this much.