mean6 Posted May 14, 2005 Posted May 14, 2005 Help somebody please. I have been reading up alot on this forum, and I am noticing some incredible overclocks with just air cooling. I have an fx-55, and I cannot seem to go past the 2.8 mark. It is running at 215x13 with 1.525 volts. The ram which is corsair twinmx 1024 3200XL running at 2-2-2-5 at 2.8 volts. I have tried different multipliers, but doesn't seem to work. It crashes before the windows logo screen on XP shows up. I am using the XP-90 heatsink with a 92mm Panaflo fan. I don't think its a CPU heat problem. It is idling at 37 degrees as we speak. Can someone give me some settings to try, or possibly some samples please. I did my research before buying this entire system, and from what I got the FX-55 was the best processor on the market as of then, but so far, I haven't been impressed with the overclocking ability. I used to have a 2.8 P4, and I overclocked it to 3.5 no problems. After seeing some of the benchmarks on here, I feel like I wasted my money on this CPU, and I should have bought a 3000, or 3200 winnie! Someone please help. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomee Posted May 14, 2005 Posted May 14, 2005 got same issue as you mate - same memory too albiet an FX-53 processor which i believe is a 0.13 chip just like yours. i could get 250x10 2500/Mem500 (due to cpu limitation @2580mhz) on my old MSI Diamond board no probs with exact same setup- but on this board it refuses to boot when I use the x10 mutiplier - and attempts using different FSB combinations havnt gone far at all..... Do a search under my name and u should find a post called FX-53 overclocking assistance or somat - it has some recommendations on that to try allot of peeps recommend Data drive strength settings of 8 for the FX-55 - doesnt do anything for my FX-53 currently running @ stock - :( bigtime :( PS - Bear in mind a 2.4 AMD FX chip gives about the same as a 4Ghz Pentium - to get 2.8 out of a 2.6 AMD is quite good too - thats like a 4.4 Pentium or something to that degree..... PSS - Most wincchester chips only have 512kb level 2 cache - whereas the FX's have 1MB - so it sort of levels out with the extra Mhz the winchesters get....me tinks hope this helps.....zoomee Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdminRUFF Posted May 15, 2005 Posted May 15, 2005 there is an easy way to overclock the FX 55. just ship me your chip and ill ship you my chip:) even swap Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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