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Question

Is My PSU providing enough wattage for overclocking?

Feb 25, 2018 12:53AM PST

Hello Guys. I am new to asking on communities and all so forgive me if I provide less or wrong info.

So I have been wanting to overclock my CPU for quite a time now and wasn't sure if my PSU would provide enough wattage for overclocking. My processor is the only thing NOT upgraded in my PC. My PSU is stock as well. Else everything is upgraded for average gaming. But, I want some better performance so I wanna know if I could overclock my CPU or not. All the specs are provided below:-

CPU: AMD Athlon ii x2 240
GPU: Nvidia GTX 650 2 GB
RAM: G Skills Ripjaws 4x2 GB DDR3
MotherBoard: ASUS m4n68t-m le v2
Gaming Keyboard and a Standard Mouse

My PSU is a stock PSU and was inbuilt when I had bought the PC. (It wasn't a gaming PC back then). I have attached a picture of my stock PSU. All the info is on there. Don't know how to read all that. Grin

I did try to overclock my CPU and by default the HT ref was 200. I changed it to 242 as I had seen in some of the tutorials for Athlon overclocking. But, to my surprise on doing the Stress test, my cpu shut down just after 2 mins. On restarting it stated that the overclocking was failed and that I should revert back to default settings. I have attached my Bios settings as well if anyone wants to take a look. Let me know what all things should I change for better performance.
BTW, Only 1st 6 options are changeable. Others are all set to AUTO be default.


Any help would be greatly appreciated and just let me know if you require any other info. Again sorry if anything is missing or not written properly. Still new to all this.
Thank You!!!

PSU Picture:-
https://prntscr.com/ijfm3e

Bios Settings:-
CPU Config:- https://prntscr.com/iinwdp

JumperFree Config:- https://prntscr.com/iinwti
https://prntscr.com/iinwxt
https://prntscr.com/iinvzj

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Clarification Request
This PC looks to be about 6 years old.
Feb 25, 2018 1:46PM PST

So here's the deal. Overclocking works best on new/near new PCs. At this age the electrolytic caps in the PSU and all boards are tired. This means you can't guess where the failure is at. You would have to replace item by item with new to find out what part wasn't playing along.

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Answer
No
Feb 25, 2018 6:12AM PST

Even if you could overclock it you won't see much benefit from it and your cpu will run hot.

2 things you can do.

Swap that gpu for a gtx 1050.
Scrap that machine and start over.

Your playing around with an old mobo and cpu and trying to get it to run above stock speed will be a fight.