First overclock ever

[INemtsev]

Hey, I just got this:

AMD XP1700 T-Bred (I think revision A)
512 DDr333
Asus A7V8X
EVGA Geforce 4mx 8x


One question I got it running at 1.6 GHZ by changing only the fsb but seems a wee bit unstable.....errors time to time....freezy games....etc.....I never changed timings or anything.....which should I use.....any other settings I should change?

 

[Soulkeeper]

what speed is your mem running at ??
it might need more voltage or looser mem timings

i doubt you would need more for such a modest oc, but you can try bumping the vcore a little

 

[Boonesmi]

your probably going to want to run at 166mhz fsb (since that board uses multipliers and not agp/pci lock) at 166mhz fsb your pci and agp bus's will be in spec

the problem is your cpu may or maynot handle that speed



have you tried changing the multiplier? and if so. did it successfully change the multiplier?
if you can change the multiplier then you probably want to lower it to something like 9x and then set the fsb at 166mhz

 

[Boonesmi]

i didnt really explain the first part of my last post... if you run somthing inbetween 133mhz and 166mhz fsb your pci and agp bus will be out of spec and can cause all kinds of problems... but everything on the board will be totally in spec if you run 133mhz or 166mhz)

 

[INemtsev]

I kinda get the agp/pci thing, what about timings what means loosen up what means not....there are three or four things to change which means what?

 

[INemtsev]

bump

 

[Boonesmi]

Originally posted by: INemtsev
I kinda get the agp/pci thing, what about timings what means loosen up what means not....there are three or four things to change which means what?

memory timings can be adjusted in bios (depending on the bios depends on how many options you have) when he said "loosen" he basically meant to not have them set to aggressivly, ie instead of cas2 run it at cas3 (but or you can just have it set to run default which reads what the memory timings are supposed to be off of the spd chip on the ram itself and sets it accordingly)