AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition compatibility with Corsair XMS3

stormy13 said:

Called "CPU Ratio" in the bios on that board,

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Oh yea, I found it. And which one should I choose ?

Considering your 955 has a multi of 16, I'm guessing what they showed in the manual is just for reference. Unless you plan on overclocking the CPU I would just leave it on auto. If you do plan on overclocking leave the "CPU/HT Reference Clock" at 200, and bump up the CPU Ratio by .5 at a time, testing for stability till it either crashes or won't load Windows. Then bump up the vcore a bit and try again and see if stable, and if not go back to the last stable multi.

stormy13 said:

Considering your 955 has a multi of 16, I'm guessing what they showed in the manual is just for reference. Unless you plan on overclocking the CPU I would just leave it on auto. If you do plan on overclocking leave the "CPU/HT Reference Clock" at 200, and bump up the CPU Ratio by .5 at a time, testing for stability till it either crashes or won't load Windows. Then bump up the vcore a bit and try again and see if stable, and if not go back to the last stable multi.

Will try it now, Thanks

epportal3 said:

stormy13 said:

Considering your 955 has a multi of 16, I'm guessing what they showed in the manual is just for reference. Unless you plan on overclocking the CPU I would just leave it on auto. If you do plan on overclocking leave the "CPU/HT Reference Clock" at 200, and bump up the CPU Ratio by .5 at a time, testing for stability till it either crashes or won't load Windows. Then bump up the vcore a bit and try again and see if stable, and if not go back to the last stable multi.

Will try it now, Thanks

Yes I bumped up 1st time to 3.70Ghz = Worked perfect, then next time I tried to 4.00GHz = Crashed after a while when loaded Windows (On the Desktop).. I've set HT to 200 but after restart it went on 210 and RAM from 1600MHz to 1680Mhz is it OK ? Then another thing, where I should bump up the vcore ? is it the one which is on Auto now ? or it's voltage....core something ?

This is my 2nd time overcklocking and it's stable at the moment for the last 30min
AND NOW IT'S IS RUNNING AT ACTUAL 3.90GHz :)