[Mooncatt]

hi all just need a bit of advice.
heres the story
after feeling my amd 4200 2.2gig was bottlenecking my quad sli setup i decided to buy a new cpu, i bought an amd 64 fx55 2.6gig, now i wish i hadnt done as the 4200 is better because of the dual core and i didnt realize the the fx55 was only a single core. i ran 3d mark and my 4200 scored 915 (i know thats nothing compared to the cpus these days) i then swapped back to the fx55 which scored 838.
annoyed at myself for making such a stupid mistake i decided to overclock my 4200 to 2.6gig and it seems to be stable with the temp holding at about 44degrees.
so my questions are..
1. i feel im walking on egg shells by overclocking this cpu so much...do u think it will be ok?
2. how much of a temp increase will i get running say...cod4 etc?
3. if i swap back to the fx55 and overclock that would it be better than the 4200?
as always requested, system specs
nforce 4 sli mobo
quad sli 7950gx2
2gig OCZ ddr400 ram
1000w psu
amd 64 x2 4200 2.2gig OC to 2.59
SB audigy se+

[Mooncatt]

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[Jackiefrost9]

Sell the FX55. Your dual core is better. A 400MHz overclock is not that much, those CPUs can do that easily. To find out if your system is stable, run orthos on priority 9 for about 10 hours. If you get no errors then you're fine. If you do get errors then you're going to have to tweak your settings a little bit. I'm not too experienced with overclocking AMD CPUs, so I'll let someone else give you specifics there.
Orthos:
http://www.overclock.net/downloads/138142-orthos.html

Temps should be below 60 degrees Celsius.

If you don't want to overclock and you want better performance, why not spend some money on a 6400 X2:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819103228

I've heard of people getting those to 4GHz. If you want to be serious about it, get a quality heatsink too.

[Mooncatt]

thanks for the reply. i have a 939 socket, the cpu you suggested is an am2 socket, wont the mean getting a new mobo too

[brite750]

Originally Posted by Mooncatt

thanks for the reply. i have a 939 socket, the cpu you suggested is an am2 socket, wont the mean getting a new mobo too

yes and all new ram also

[Jackiefrost9]

Oh ok, I didn't know what socket you had. Good 939 CPUs are hard to find now. In that case just stick with the 4200 until you're ready to do a large system upgrade. I doubt it's bottle necking your graphics cards too much, I think the best thing you can do to improve performance with those cards is to make sure you have the latest drivers installed for your cards and the chipset. You can throw a little overclock on it if you want, or order an aftermarket heatsink and overclock a little more. You can just google a tutorial on overclocking AMD CPUs if you wanna learn, then just play around with it.