A64 3800+ Venice Stock clock and voltage 2.4ghz / 1.4v
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nforce 4), BIOS 1.9d Chipset voltage 1.55v
2GB Corsair XMS PC3200 C2 (4x 512) 2.5 , 3, 3, 6 @ 2T 2.7v
Silverstone Strider 550W PSU
PNY Geforce 7900GT OCed to 500/720
Hey all,
This is my evry first time overclocking on any machine, so I thanks for your patience and support in advance.
My goal for this processor was 2.7ghz, which I believe to be EASILY achievable, given that a lot of people have hit it at stock cooling / voltages. I have a Thermaltake Venus12 running and unfortunately, I needed to raise the voltage to 1.58v or so to keep it stable at 2.7. (11.5 x 235, running memory divider at 166 for mem frequency of 195mz) HT set to 4x.
On this setup, my CPU idles at 44 and hits load at around 53. It ran through memtest for 2 hours fine, and Prime 95 for 8 hours with no problem.
Unfortunately, I am now noticing intermittent crashes in Warcraft 3 with this setup...perhaps once every 6 games or so. This is of course frustrating because it is not easily reproducible and I had thought Prime would throw everything at this CPU that it could handle.
I was hoping for general thoughts or comments or advice. Why did I need such a huge (14%!) voltage boost to hit 2.7? Is leaving the voltage at 1.58 a little too dangerous, or is it ok? (I can't seem to fine consensus on this...some think 1.55+ is too much for Venice, while others have no problems at 1.6v+)
Another thought I had was to try to run memory at 1:1 and overclock as much as I can. The stock multiplier of 12 though means that my Corsair would have to run at 450mhz. If I were to do this, would going above 2.7v for the memory be advisable, or loosening the timings?
In the interest of performance, is it advisable then to keep dropping down until I can get Warcraft 3 stable? (I havent tried many other games, I am thinking that newer games might be even more demanding and thus crash it faster).
I hope that being OCD is considered normal, but my heart breaks every time I crash and I am forced to lower the clock / voltages. Maybe someone can reassure me that going from 2.4 to 2.6 or 2.65 is considered decent on this processor, and I didn't get a runt?
Thanks all, PMs checked regularly.
MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum (nforce 4), BIOS 1.9d Chipset voltage 1.55v
2GB Corsair XMS PC3200 C2 (4x 512) 2.5 , 3, 3, 6 @ 2T 2.7v
Silverstone Strider 550W PSU
PNY Geforce 7900GT OCed to 500/720
Hey all,
This is my evry first time overclocking on any machine, so I thanks for your patience and support in advance.
My goal for this processor was 2.7ghz, which I believe to be EASILY achievable, given that a lot of people have hit it at stock cooling / voltages. I have a Thermaltake Venus12 running and unfortunately, I needed to raise the voltage to 1.58v or so to keep it stable at 2.7. (11.5 x 235, running memory divider at 166 for mem frequency of 195mz) HT set to 4x.
On this setup, my CPU idles at 44 and hits load at around 53. It ran through memtest for 2 hours fine, and Prime 95 for 8 hours with no problem.
Unfortunately, I am now noticing intermittent crashes in Warcraft 3 with this setup...perhaps once every 6 games or so. This is of course frustrating because it is not easily reproducible and I had thought Prime would throw everything at this CPU that it could handle.
I was hoping for general thoughts or comments or advice. Why did I need such a huge (14%!) voltage boost to hit 2.7? Is leaving the voltage at 1.58 a little too dangerous, or is it ok? (I can't seem to fine consensus on this...some think 1.55+ is too much for Venice, while others have no problems at 1.6v+)
Another thought I had was to try to run memory at 1:1 and overclock as much as I can. The stock multiplier of 12 though means that my Corsair would have to run at 450mhz. If I were to do this, would going above 2.7v for the memory be advisable, or loosening the timings?
In the interest of performance, is it advisable then to keep dropping down until I can get Warcraft 3 stable? (I havent tried many other games, I am thinking that newer games might be even more demanding and thus crash it faster).
I hope that being OCD is considered normal, but my heart breaks every time I crash and I am forced to lower the clock / voltages. Maybe someone can reassure me that going from 2.4 to 2.6 or 2.65 is considered decent on this processor, and I didn't get a runt?
Thanks all, PMs checked regularly.
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