Help me get my rig overclocked to the max ;)

[osho]

Hi guys so I put my rig together

AMD 3500+ (Newcastle) - yea I know I accidently chose wrong one and found out after it came
DFI LANPARTY UT NF4 ULTRA-D
OCZ PC4200EL Platinum Edition 2.5-3-3-8-1T 2x512
LEADTEK WINFAST PX6600GT TDH EXTREME 128MB
WD raptor 74
SEAGATE 250GB SATA
ENERMAX EG495P-VE NOISETAKER 485W

Cooling - Zalman 7700cu

all in cm Stacker. with 3 120 panolfo on front 1 on back with 4 80mm on side, up and 2 back. all on 2 controllers running low noice system.

well my personal goal was to run the CPU at 2.6Ghz and ram 275Mhz
which I know is possible from reviews and all.

but the best I got is this.

HTT = 236
Multiplier = 11
resulting - 2.597Ghz

Memory running running at 199.7, 2.5-3-3-8-1T

all running stock voltage. 1.456 for CPU and 2.6 for mem.

I run the memory at 9:10 ratio. and CPU LTD x4.0.

and all is running at 39 idle and 36 load. I know I know I just run everything on idle with very load rpm the zalman is 750rpm on idle. and on load it kicks to 2000 and cools the sucker down even more.

I know the system is stable at
HTT = 222
Multiplier = 11
resulting - 2.442Ghz

Memory running running at 222, 2.5 - 3 - 3 - 8 - 1T

ANyone know how to get little more from the memory. I am satisfied with the CPU speed.

Also for some reason in Bios it wont allow me to change the voltage on dram. it always rolles back.

and anyone knows that is the AUX sensor on the board for?

thx for any input

 

[ironique]

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[Shimmishim]

are you using the shipping bios or the newer 3/10?

the deal with the shipping bios and changing the mem voltage is this....

in that menu, if you do anything else like change the cpu voltage or mem timings or etc... then when you try to change the mem voltage, it won't stick...

what you need to do, is exit that menu after you change the mem timings or anything else... then go back into that menu and set the voltage you want and it should stick... it's a little quirk i realized about that 1/25 bios.

this is not a problem anymore with the 3/10 bios.

as for getting more out of your ram...

drop the cpu mult from 11 to 9

and up your htt from 222 to 271

you are running pc4200 which should run default speed of 266 htt

so going 5 past stock shouldn't be a problem at all.

as for getting a 3500+ newcastle, don't sweat it! how new or old is the chip? did you write down the stepping at all?

the newer 3500+ newcastles are actually clawhammers (claw's have 1 meg of L2 while newcastles only have 512kb L2) with 1/2 the cache disabled...

people speculate that these chips might actually be failed 4000+'s or FX-53's

and as you can see in my sig, mine is running 2.8 ghz.