Assassinator Wrote:Aren't the only ways of overclocking either increasing the cpu multiplier or increasing the reference clock (aka. FSB or whatever else it's called)?

If I decrease the reference clock instead, that would underclock everything else as well...

The multiplier is typically locked at a certain level, and, in fact, is probably the only distinguishing factor between the range of CPUs in the same family (ie, the difference between a ~$265 Core 2 E8400 and ~$415 E8600 is that the former is locked at a 9x multi, and latter is locked at 10x).
The Phenom Black Editions have an unlocked multipler, however.  Thus you typically overclock by increasing the core clock.
Can't remember how the AMD HyperTransport system works, but I think it's separate from the CPU core clock.  With Intel, the FSB is the core clock x4.

Assassinator Wrote:Something in the chipset reaching almost 70 degrees seems bad...

You can try Everest and see if it identifies more for you...  The BIOS may display some temp info too.

Assassinator Wrote:Power rating is 480W. Brand is unknown. Some generic brand I don't know. Hell, I can't really even figue out the brand. It's not like anywhere on the PSU. Got a model number... I guess I can websearch that.

Probably the brand.  Have heard that a lot of cheap PSUs, the power rating is sometimes completely made up.  My current Antec Earthwatts 430W seems to work a _lot_ better than my old 550W "generic" (Hytec) PSU (which also had a 12cm fan).

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EDIT: unrelated, but have you tried the new x64 builds of x264 yet?  I might give it a shot - 64-bit AVS plugins seem a little scarce, but most of the ones I use often can be found here.

(This post was last modified: 11/01/2009 05:47 AM by ZiNgA BuRgA.)