While the system is still not as stable in 100% of the games I play as I'd like to see it, I'm going to just chalk it up to immature drivers / BIOS for now. I am currently using the stock 1002 BIOS, ForceWare 71.25 Beta (WHQL) drivers, nForce 6.37 Beta drivers. It hangs up on a couple games but usually in the exact same spot. . .like in Call of Duty United Offensive single player mode, if I die and it goes to the mission failed screen, the game freezes there and I can't select to continue or quit. Machine does not crash only the game. But I played multiplayer for like 3 hours without any problem. Was crashing occasionally playing BF Vietnam but when I updated the drivers to 71.25 it seemed to pretty much fix that. Anyway, back on topic. Right now, everything is pretty much set to Auto in BIOS and I prefer to do my OC tweaks directly in BIOS. Only things I changed related to CPU and timings were I set the memory command timing to 1T and disabled Cool n' Quiet. Here are the relevant components I am running:
A8N SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 3200+ (2GHz) Winchester
Corsair Twinx512-3200XL (2 x 512 Corsair XMS3200 2-2-2-5) in Dual channel config.
Using CPU-Z I can see that the memory is in fact booting with the 2-2-2-5 timings as specc'ed.
What is the best way to start going about overclocking this beast? I'll be happy if I can get it stable at 2.4-2.5GHz. I'd like to stay with the 1002 BIOS so I can continue to use my Maxtor SATA drive on the nVidia SATA controllers. I'd be willing to give a shot at anothe BIOS again if people think it will help but the one time I tried the 1003 final BIOS it stopped detecting my hard drive. Maybe 1004 beta will fix it? I'd rather not move the drive on to the Silicon controllers just so I can upgrade the BIOS since I understand the nVidia ones perform much better. But I'm flexible. . .if it will give me a stable overclock and the performance is not that much worse. What's the best I should expect to get with stock CPU cooling and 5 case fans (2 front, 2 back, 1 side) and still be able to run memory at 1T?
A8N SLI Deluxe
Athlon 64 3200+ (2GHz) Winchester
Corsair Twinx512-3200XL (2 x 512 Corsair XMS3200 2-2-2-5) in Dual channel config.
Using CPU-Z I can see that the memory is in fact booting with the 2-2-2-5 timings as specc'ed.
What is the best way to start going about overclocking this beast? I'll be happy if I can get it stable at 2.4-2.5GHz. I'd like to stay with the 1002 BIOS so I can continue to use my Maxtor SATA drive on the nVidia SATA controllers. I'd be willing to give a shot at anothe BIOS again if people think it will help but the one time I tried the 1003 final BIOS it stopped detecting my hard drive. Maybe 1004 beta will fix it? I'd rather not move the drive on to the Silicon controllers just so I can upgrade the BIOS since I understand the nVidia ones perform much better. But I'm flexible. . .if it will give me a stable overclock and the performance is not that much worse. What's the best I should expect to get with stock CPU cooling and 5 case fans (2 front, 2 back, 1 side) and still be able to run memory at 1T?
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