Help me squeeze more beans out of my system

[otispunkmeyer]

ok i know ill probably get told i sont really need to overclock and possibly ill agree with that, but this computer i have now will probably not get upgraded, (bar new fans n little bits n bobs) for anoter 2 years maybe more.

i spent close to £1600 on my rig in september, im at uni now and obviously have precious little money.

heres the meat of what i have

socket 754 AMD 3200+ (newcastle), ASUS K8N-E Deluxe, Geil Value 1GB PC3200 (DDR400 @ 2.5-4-4-8, DDR333 @ 2-3-3-7) 2xSamsung Sata Drives on the Nvidia NForce 3 250Gb SATA controller
Enermax 475watt noise taker

and i have a Leadtek 6800GT,

graphics card ocing i can handle, and my gt can get to original ultra speeds of 400/1100 (the new ultras the leadteks at least are now 425 core)

so i wanna know how far i can go, how much extra juice i can extract wen the time comes. the furthest i went is i put FSB to 220 and ran at 2.4Ghz but that means my HT is 880 (already toasty chipset) and ram is 440

can i do something like run the cpu fsb high, but keep the ram at say 200 or something?

whats the best way i can get the most from this system

(cooling is provided by a Zalman CNPS7000Cu and 2x120mm case fans)

 

[otispunkmeyer]

wow no one on the overclocking forum has any ideas?

 

[Dough1397]

set up a ram divider... 5:4 so if your fsb is 200 you ram is at like 160 i believe.....then you can make your fsb 250 and your ram will be 200

 

[otispunkmeyer]

how do i set that up....i know my way round my bios but i dont see no divider set up

 

[otispunkmeyer]

ok so for my k8ne deluxe does this sound right.... im sure i can get 2.5ghz, i can get 2.42 easy by doin a 10% oc in the bios.

so does this look right for 2.5

250x10 = 2500 move HT down to 3x therefore 750Mhz, and then MANUALLY set ram in in the chipset settings, to 200

so

FSB = 250
mulitplier cpu = 10
HT multi = 3
Mem = 200


?

what happens if it doesnt boot?

 

[Nait Sirhc]

Originally posted by: otispunkmeyer
what happens if it doesnt boot?

Try, try again.



If it won't post any more, short your CMOS reset jumper. You may have to increase your voltage to DIMM and vcore when you start shooting for really high clocks.

You should be able to get those speeds easily. I've hit 2.5ghz with my 2800+.

 

[otispunkmeyer]

ill give it a try some time anyone tell me if my idea 2 posts up is kosher?

 

[Nait Sirhc]

Sure, give it a shot!