Anyone get FSB higher than 149 on 8KHA+?

[zodder]

Has anyone been able to get their FSB higher than 149 without doing a voltage mod on their 8KHA+? I know I can get more out of my 1700+ and I'm pretty sure it's the Vcore that's holding me back. It just refuses to be stable over 149. I have Corsair XMS PC2400, so I know it's not that. Anyone........?

 

[gaidin123]

I have the 8kha+, 2 256MB sticks of Corsair PC2400 RAM running at 154Mhz FSB with my soundcard holding me back. If I take the SBLive out of the system I can get up to somewhere around 160Mhz stable with the Turbo RAM timings/the best RAM timings recommended on amdmb.com's forums.

Have you tried pulling all your peripherals and leaving your case open to see how high you can go?

Gaidin

Edit: Have you unlocked your CPU? Try lowering the multiplier to something really low and figuring out the max stable FSB without having to worry about your CPU holding you back.

 

[zodder]

Thanks for replying. I do have an SBLive in there. I wonder if that's the problem. I'll try taking it out and see what happens. Any idea what's the best overclocking friendly soundcard out there?

 

[gaidin123]

No idea. One of my SBLive's got up to around 158Mhz FSB stable under Win2k while it could only do around 154 in WinXP with the earlier drivers (I might try for a few more Mhz when I install the newer drivers). With my old KK266 I tried using the onboard Cmedia sound and got a few extra Mhz out of that, but crappier sound.

Gaidin