Can't overclock worth a DAMN!!!

[SureStoreX]

I am not asking for help on how to overclock, I know there is a sticky on how to do it.
And trust me I have tried many ways and times, but i get nothing.
I am not looking to get FX-57 sppeds, just something modest.
I mean the best I can get is 1.9 Ghz on my Winchester 3000+.
So now I am trying to play process of elimination, and I am curious as to what item may be halting the clocking process.

Asus A8V-E Deluxe
AMD 3000 Winchester
2x 512MB Generic RAM
450W Nspire Power Supply
Sapphire X850XT PE Pci Express
Seagate 80 Sata

Again I am not trying to break any overclock record, so I don't "see' why I my components would not be "good" enough.

Thanks

 

[MBrown]

it might have been that last batch of winnies that you have. I got a 3500 winnie(one of the ones that couldnt overclock well) and I can only get to 2.4ghz from a 2.2ghz.

 

[SureStoreX]

I bought the CPU last year late January, so I don't think it is too bad.
Is the motherboard I have a crappy one, should I change it?

 

[lyssword]

Try loosening ur memory timings like this : 9 4 4 4 and 3 cas latency

 

[Zap]

Your motherboard... isn't that a VIA chipset board? Those are not known to be good overclockers and indeed some of them don't even lock the various busses. Another potential problem is the SATA drive. Some boards that are overclockable don't have a locked SATA controller. Final problem may be the power supply. Never heard of Nspire, but if it's anything like Aspire, then they are not the best.

You also may need to lower the HT multiplier to 4X and lower RAM speeds a notch (5/6 or 166/333).

 

[Unkno]

yea, there are many problems/obstacles in your attempt to overclock. your motherboard's busses are probably not locked, try setting HT to 4x (or 3x if your motherboard supports only 800mhz on the HT) and set a higher ram divider. As mentioned by zap, it could also be your psu...

 

[SureStoreX]

As you can tell I am quite green when it comes to overclocking.
Now the readings on my PSU are well above spec ie; 12.34V, 3.32V, etc, so I know the supply is providing enough power, but does that really matter in this case?

 

[GML3G0]

Originally posted by: SureStoreX
I bought the CPU last year late January, so I don't think it is too bad.
Is the motherboard I have a crappy one, should I change it?

I bought my old Winchester around that time, too. It was a CBBID 0504, a notoriously bad stepping. I managed to get 2250MHz out of it at reasonable voltage (~1.43v), but anything more required way too much voltage for my liking. If that's what you got, then you're out of luck. You can pop off the heatsink and check the stepping.

Did you lower the HTT/LDT multiplier?

 

[SureStoreX]

I'll check the stepping, and I did not drop the HTT/LDT multiplier.
I'll try again later.

Thanks

 

[Pyrokinetic]

I also own an A8V-E Deluxe and I am here to tell you they overclock just fine thank you, but you have to know what you are doing. First off, lets walk through the settings (not sure how much experience you have so forgive me if some of this seems basic):

Use the 1008 BIOS as I found 1009 to have problems. (1011 is very recent but unknown)
Make sure Cool N' Quiet is disabled.
Under the Chipset Menu set LTD Bus Freq to 1 GHz.
Under DRAM Configuration, set DRAM frequency to 166 Mhz (DDR333)
Since you are using value ram, use loose timings such as 2.5-4-4-8
Set to 1T memory timings vs 2T

Under PCI PnP set Plug & Play O/S to [No]

Under Jumperfree Configuration, set Overclock Profile to manual.
Set your CPU multiplier to 9 (the max available I presume for your processor)
Set Hammer Vid control to 1.500v (to start anyway)
Regarding the CPU Vcore adjustment, I have my hammer vid control set at the max
(1.5625v) and set the Vcore adjustment to +200mv. This gives me Vcore reading of
1.63v. Strange, but it allows me to push my 3700+ to a stable 2.8Ghz. I would
recommend leaving yours at the +100mv setting for the time being.
Under Frequency Configuration, disable spread spectrum.
Disable PCIEx clock sync to CPU, leave at auto-detected speed of 100Mhz.
Disable PCI clock sync to CPU, leave at auto-detected speed of 33.0Mhz.
CPU clock: the board will not boot past 266, (A known issue with the board) and since
you have a stock multiplier of 9, I would try for a 245 CPU clock setting which would
give you a 2.2GHz CPU speed. This, using the 166 memory divider, would keep your
memory at DDR400 speed (9x245=2205; 2205/11=200.45 or DDR400).

In theory, this should work. Good luck.