Hi All,
Did my first OC, specs as follows.
AMD 4200+
Asus A8N-e
OCZ 2x 1gigabyte 2-3-2-5 DDR400
Seasonic 430w PS
GeForce 7800GTX
Seagate SATA 250gig HD
Ben-Q DVD Burner
I managed to get up to 241?(2413 I think, 2419?) on Stock Cooling with Stock Voltage. I had to take my OCZ to 333mhz and move it up from there, used 216mhz FSB with x11 multiplier, as it starts failing at 208mhz if I'm running at 400mhz. 4x htt. Vid card is at stock. I used Ntune for temp reading and AMD's CPUInfo for the Clock Speed. For some odd reason, when I'm set to 200mhz FSB and DDR400, NTune reads me as 404 FSB and 2245 CPU Speed, never figured that one out...
It was running at 36c idle, and 48c under load with two instances of P95 running Large FFT's. Completely stable in 3dMark2005, Super-PI, and about an hour of P95.
My questions are...
Should I try to push it a little further, or is that Load Temp high enough that I've gone as far as I should go on Stock Cooling?
Should I try to tighten my timings on my memory down to 2-2-2-5 since it's running under spec?
Should I try to decrease my multiplier to get my memory closer to 400mhz?
Last one question, In 3dMark2005 I noticed some odd behaivior, in the CPU tests it seemed to have difficulty tracking the FPS. Normally I run at a flat 2 to maybe 3 occasionally, but with the OC it was reading 1 to 5 erratically rather than a consistent number with occasional bumps up and down.
I know these are pretty stupid questions to you guys, but I'm new at this and don't want to fry anything.
Did my first OC, specs as follows.
AMD 4200+
Asus A8N-e
OCZ 2x 1gigabyte 2-3-2-5 DDR400
Seasonic 430w PS
GeForce 7800GTX
Seagate SATA 250gig HD
Ben-Q DVD Burner
I managed to get up to 241?(2413 I think, 2419?) on Stock Cooling with Stock Voltage. I had to take my OCZ to 333mhz and move it up from there, used 216mhz FSB with x11 multiplier, as it starts failing at 208mhz if I'm running at 400mhz. 4x htt. Vid card is at stock. I used Ntune for temp reading and AMD's CPUInfo for the Clock Speed. For some odd reason, when I'm set to 200mhz FSB and DDR400, NTune reads me as 404 FSB and 2245 CPU Speed, never figured that one out...
It was running at 36c idle, and 48c under load with two instances of P95 running Large FFT's. Completely stable in 3dMark2005, Super-PI, and about an hour of P95.
My questions are...
Should I try to push it a little further, or is that Load Temp high enough that I've gone as far as I should go on Stock Cooling?
Should I try to tighten my timings on my memory down to 2-2-2-5 since it's running under spec?
Should I try to decrease my multiplier to get my memory closer to 400mhz?
Last one question, In 3dMark2005 I noticed some odd behaivior, in the CPU tests it seemed to have difficulty tracking the FPS. Normally I run at a flat 2 to maybe 3 occasionally, but with the OC it was reading 1 to 5 erratically rather than a consistent number with occasional bumps up and down.
I know these are pretty stupid questions to you guys, but I'm new at this and don't want to fry anything.
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