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Can't budge a 3000 (939) one bit.

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NOBEL

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I just got an A8N-SLI Deluxe and a AMD 3000 (939) CPU; I heard a lot of great things about the processor in reagrds to overclocking.
Now I am as new as a newbie can get when it comes to overclocking, but I have read quite a bit on how to do the process (slowly increase FSB, lower the multiplier, small increments of voltage).
Along with the board here is the rest of my setup.
Sapphire X800XT PE
1024 Megs DDR (Generic Samsung cas 2.5)
Seagate 80 Gig SATA & 20 Maxtor IDE 2048k
450 Watt PSU
AMD 3000 Winchester.

I wasn't looking for FX-55 speed, I was looking to push it somewhere in between the 3200 and the 3500.
I know my memory isn't the greatest, but I felt sure I could get a bit of juice out of the setup I have now.
Is there anything I could do (or something I am not doing) to increase it even a little.

Thanks
 
U read the "overclock guide" < first thread? great thread i think.. u know there is always a chance u got a "dud"..
A cpu that just wont overclock...(but thats probably not it, winchesters should clock greatl usually)
The samsung memory im not sure about, i believe i read somewhere that is sucks for overclocking, but i could be wrong...

Have u tried to set the "cas-latency" to 3 instead of 2.5?

And up the voltage on your memory? (important)

Usually memory is to blame when overclocking fails....

U have some sort of "cool n' quiet" option in your bios? If so and its enabled, u should definately DISable it...(it throttles cpu down, who needs that?)
 
"U have some sort of "cool n' quiet" option in your bios? If so and its enabled, u should definately DISable it...(it throttles cpu down, who needs that?)"
I had NO idea about the Cool n Quiet issue, now how big of role can that play in inhibiting the OC of a system(I'm not sure, but I doubt it is substantial).
I have been able to increase the frequency, but upon Windows startup, it freezes.
My guess also is the memory.

 
Set the memory to "AUTO" in bios, this will keep memory at less than 200mhz, once you pass 217. In the jumper free section start with 218hht, this will force you memory to less than 200
 
strange enough when i put mine on auto and bumped my fsb to 250, it kept the memory at 208. considering this is kingston valueram im not sure if its stable lol
 
You dropped the HTT multi, right? 9 times out of 10, when someone has problems OCing a winchester, it's because they forgot about the HTT.
 
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