ECS RX480-A

[the Juice]

I got this board with a 3500+ Newcastle core very cheap from a friend, it was new. I find the review where it was said to be an incredible overclocker but mine isn't. I have tried everything but it wont go past 215 cpu clock. I have tried voltage changes, multipliers, lowering the ram speed, etc. It seems there is no way to lock pci or video card clock. I even went back to the original A version bios after reading that it might help. Anyone have one of these?

 

[the Juice]

Maybe my ram is holding it back? 1GB of Patriot signature with the blue heatspreaders. I cant understand how this mobo got the most overclockable award.

 

[furballi]

Use 3x HT and 5:6 memory divider. Bump Vcore to 1.55. Could be the cheap 2nd hand defective board.

 

[the Juice]

The board was new, the review of this motherboard said it was a great overclocker. It is actually a solid board besides this overclocking thing.
Ok so ram 5:6
and for HT that would be the hammer fid setting? which doesnt go down to 3x
http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles/view.php?cid=6&id=1600

 

[furballi]

Look for hypertransport setting...2x, 3x, 4x, 5x.

 

[the Juice]

I have LDT bus frequency 200,400,600,800, 1000
so 3x would be 600 correct?

 

[furballi]

600 = 3 x 200FSB
800 = 4 x 200FSB
1000 = 5 x 200FSB