Help me Get past 165fsb with stability!!!!!!!!

[dnycompbuilder]

Hey looking to take my 2000+xp tb thats currently @1.897 (11.5/165) up to a higher fsb, i just changed it to 173/11.0 for a total of 1903 mhz. Running prime95 right now dont know if itll hold though. Im on an a7v8x MB with 1 gig crucial 2700 ram (2 512sticks), its doing allright so far since i turned my ram timings back to stock aparently it only likes stock timings. Any suggestions as to how i can get this bitch higher, my voltage is allready as high as it will go. 1.9v kind of a steep price for the speed but im buying a 333 barton in a couple months anyways so why not

 

[AtomicDude512]

I am confused. Your title says 165FSB but in here it says 173FSB?! First off, what chipset do you use and is that a Tbred A or B?

 

[dnycompbuilder]

it says 165 because thats the last stable speed i was able to hit, that was at 11.5/165 the new speed i just changed to is 11.0/173 im on a tbred A i beleive and im running via kt400 chipset(asus a7v8x) its still running under prime with a temp up 33c 1.9vcore so i might have gotten past the 165 fsb mark but im not sure until at least 8hrs of prime,

 

[AtomicDude512]

THe A7V8X is an nForce2 if im not mistaken. Besides, I think that FSB is about the max the "A" series of Throughbreds can hit.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Yep. Be happy with what you can get out of a 266mhz rated cpu, and dream of hitting those 200+mhz FSB speeds when you buy the barton.

Or, if you want a more useful comment - keep doing what you're doing, set the ram timings as conservative as possible and the multiplier ridiculously low, and try to isolate the FSB speed as the variable. Kepp raising it until you find the highest stable speed, and then set the memory back to aggressive and the mulitplier to whatever your top cpu speed will allow.

 

[dnycompbuilder]

I did just that lowered multi down to 10.5 got the fsb at 185 now for a grand total of 1942mhz not only 45mhz faster clock speed but 20 more fsb mhz, and i tell ya what from after 180+ fsb i noticed a huge performance difference everything seems faster now

 

[Jeff7181]

I'm unable to get past 165 too... have an MSI KT4VL motherboard... I blame it on the motherboard and RAM... motherboard won't let me increase voltage past 1.6 volts, and I'm using PC2100 ram