Gonna OC this old rig

[Star Knight]

I've got a 2+ year old AMD Dual-core 7750 BE in my rig I want to OC. In payment for selecting parts and building a family friend's comp, he's ordered a new cpu cooler for me. Cooler link. Thought I'd post on here before googling for info.

I know since it's an AMD I can OC from amd's overdrive, or just do it from the bios(prolly bios). The only thing I'm not sure of is how much should I oc? Little by little and checking the temp? How much voltage to add if I BSOD? What temperature to NOT hit? Tips?

With the stock cooler it idles 18-26 C, and 36+ on games such as TF2/L4D2[Few months ago it would go as high as 50 C in game, but a bios update and a few cooling fixes I did cooled it down].

Thanks in advance

[Kirby]

I like using Overdrive because you can start with stock clocks in BIOS @ boot, and then when you inevatably lock it up, you won't need to worry about having to go back into BIOS and lower them then reset again.

Plus it's faster that way.


Just keep bumping the FSB up by like 5MHz increments until it becomes unstable, once you unstable it, bump up the voltage by the smallest increment you can, rinse and repeat.



This is why I love having a CPU that overclocks itself.