Confused still: OC'ing A64 3200+, Asus K8Vse, OCZ EL Plat 3200

[Grevious]

Hello All:
I did a search on and found a few threads that touch on OC'ing an A64 chip, however, I am still rather confused. I am confused as to what I should put my settings before I begin to OC. Here is my setup:
A64 3200+
Asus K8V Se Delux
2x512 OCZ EL Platinum PC3200 Ram (2x2x2x5)
Nvidia 6800 GT

Currently, I have the ram timing option set to Auto in the bios. Using cpu-id, it shows that it has them set to the lowest possible (2x2x2x5). Should I loosen these up a bit before I start OC'ing?

Also, I have set the ram voltage to 2.8 (highest it will go) and cpu voltage to 1.55. What should be my next step? Should I change the hypertransport ratio from 1:1 to something else? 5:3? 2:1? Or should I start upping the HTT? Should I lower the multiplier? (I have it set to 10 now...at least I think that is what I have it at. it displays 2000mhz).

Any help would be great! I am assuming I should be able to get good results with this setup, just a bit confused on how to start my journey! Take care and best wishes!

 

[drifter106]

just noticed your post... thanks for posting for I too am looking at the same type of system...
I will watch carefully at the reponses to your question...

good luck and thanks again

:thumbsup:

 

[KB]

I have a 2800+ and an ABIT KV8Pro board. I am not familiar with your ASUS board but expect that OCing it would be similar.

This is what you should do to get up to about 25 -30 MHZ FSB overclock. For double-this, just double the recipe.
Leave RAM timing at Auto.
RAM voltage does not need to be raised unless you are OCing the RAM. I don't recommend this, see below.
Up the Chip voltage to default + 0.1 : for me this was raised to 1.6 from 1.5
Set your hypertransport down one multi from max. My max is x5 so I set it to x4. Since your board uses ratios you will need to check this out.
Set RAM speed down one multi from its max of 200 MHZ to 166MHZ.

 

[flexy]

>>>
RAM voltage does not need to be raised unless you are OCing the RAM. I don't recommend this, see below.
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hey.

he spent approx $270 on OCZ EL R2, and you tell him NOT to overclock the ram ? This ram does 280-290 at tight timings (see AT shootout)....and NOT overclocking this ram would be a BIG, BIG waste of money...then he could've gotten value ram for half the price

 

[joelslaw]

hold up!!! I've read this board doesn't have agp/pci bus locks, right? So is it safe to over clock? From what I understand if you up the voltage to the ram / cpu it will start giving too much power to the agp / pci cards, right? BUT, what if I tryed to o/c just as far as I could w/o raising the voltage (wouldn't be too much probably, but it's better than nothing) does this still present a danger to my cards? Any help would be greatly appriciated!

 

[Garlic]

I have the Asus K8V se deluxe and the overclocking features are simply awful. If you up the fsb then the ENTIRE system gets overclocked . AGP, PCI, everything. It sucks. and there is nothing you can do about it.

 

[joelslaw]

yeah me too. I was just hoping. thnx.

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Garlic
I have the Asus K8V se deluxe and the overclocking features are simply awful. If you up the fsb then the ENTIRE system gets overclocked . AGP, PCI, everything. It sucks. and there is nothing you can do about it.

lol, i used to have that same mobo...sold that peice of ____ !!!.... my MSI k8n neo platinum is my baby

 

[joelslaw]

Originally posted by: webekyle
lol, i used to have that same mobo...sold that peice of ____ !!!.... my MSI k8n neo platinum is my baby

gee ...... thanks. I'm glad you could make all of us who still own this POS feel better about our lives with that encouraging comment *can't keep straight face* :laugh:

 

[Garlic]

I would go near calling it a POS. It a very nice board just sucky overclocking features. Other than that is a sweet board.

 

[joelslaw]

agreed! so take that webekyle

 

[Tarrant64]

Yeah, i still like my board. I am OC'ed to 2.22ghz right now(although I can't get much higher than that...i got 2.3 once...for about 3 min...).

Bottom Line: Get MSI or even a DFI mobo, no AGP/PCI lock = no good OC. I myself will be picking up a DFI here pretty soon. I will keep my mobo though and probably get a new processor for the DFI.

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: Garlic
I would go near calling it a POS. It a very nice board just sucky overclocking features. Other than that is a sweet board.

lets just say....you a very lucky person to get your sata hdd working on that pos mobo

 

[webekyle]

Originally posted by: joelslaw
agreed! so take that webekyle

...lol...i remember when i was a die hard ASUS mobo lover.... that ended when i tried a couple MSI boards

 

[joelslaw]

i acctualy changed from msi to asus. diffrent strokes.......

 

[webekyle]

lol