Hey everybody. After lots of reading, I think I'm understanding the concept of overclocking. For right now, my goal is to reach 2.5ghz. I have to admit, I haven't even had the chance of testing my CPU speed, but I'm just hoping that it goes to at least 2.5ghz because I've seen a lot of others at that speed. I've tested my other parts for stability though, but not all have been maxed out completely. I'm just waiting for my new heatsink so that the temperatures won't be too high.
Here's my setup. ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, AMD X2 3800+, and 2GB PC3200 Corsair Value Select ( 1GB x 2 ). Surprisingly, I think my RAM overclocks pretty well. I was almost sure that I could run at 240mhz, but after running memtest, there was an error on the tenth run of test 5. So I went down to 230 and it remains very stable. That was at the default timing of 3-3-3-8 2T. My HTT value is stable at 250mhz. So here's what I think I'll do.
HTT = 250mhz
LDT = 4x
CPU Multi = 10x
RAM = 5:6 @ 208mhz
So that means I get a speed of 2.5ghz, Hypertransport is at 1000, and my RAM is at 208mhz. Am I right here? This is how I understand it so far. I'm not exactly sure how RAM timing works yet, but I changed the timing to 2.5-3-3-7 1T and tested it at 215mhz since I need at least 208mhz to be stable. It passed "memtest 5" 120 times and "memtest 6" 20 times, so I'm good with that.
I have one question though. I've always read about the importance of the FSB and RAM running in sync. Since they're not 1:1 in my setup, is it a hit on performance?
If I'm wrong here, please let me know! Otherwise, your thoughts on these settings would be great. Thanks!
Here's my setup. ASUS A8N-SLI Premium, AMD X2 3800+, and 2GB PC3200 Corsair Value Select ( 1GB x 2 ). Surprisingly, I think my RAM overclocks pretty well. I was almost sure that I could run at 240mhz, but after running memtest, there was an error on the tenth run of test 5. So I went down to 230 and it remains very stable. That was at the default timing of 3-3-3-8 2T. My HTT value is stable at 250mhz. So here's what I think I'll do.
HTT = 250mhz
LDT = 4x
CPU Multi = 10x
RAM = 5:6 @ 208mhz
So that means I get a speed of 2.5ghz, Hypertransport is at 1000, and my RAM is at 208mhz. Am I right here? This is how I understand it so far. I'm not exactly sure how RAM timing works yet, but I changed the timing to 2.5-3-3-7 1T and tested it at 215mhz since I need at least 208mhz to be stable. It passed "memtest 5" 120 times and "memtest 6" 20 times, so I'm good with that.
I have one question though. I've always read about the importance of the FSB and RAM running in sync. Since they're not 1:1 in my setup, is it a hit on performance?
If I'm wrong here, please let me know! Otherwise, your thoughts on these settings would be great. Thanks!
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