First Time OCer Question

[Deleted member 76813]

My bios has an option to automatically overclock my processor 10%. I have an Asus A8N-E and an Athlon64 3800+ (2.4GHz), so that would put me at about 2.64GHz. Is this 100% safe to do on the retail heatsink/fan, and can I leave it that way 24/7? Or would it be better to enable the option to let it automatically overclock itself 10% under heavy loads? Thanks for your help in advance.

 

[kaluminati]

My bios has an option to automatically overclock my processor 10%. I have an Asus A8N-E and an Athlon64 3800+ (2.4GHz), so that would put me at about 2.64GHz. Is this 100% safe to do on the retail heatsink/fan, and can I leave it that way 24/7? Or would it be better to enable the option to let it automatically overclock itself 10% under heavy loads? Thanks for your help in advance.

I did that with mine, and I used cool n quiet as well. No problems. It's not pure OCing though, from what I'm told. I had nearly the same setup as you.

 

[Arcygenical]

Should be totally fine.

10% isn't much of an overclock really...