First of, I?m a noob and should be treated accordingly?
I?ve had the following system at stock for over a year now:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
2 eVGA 128-P2-N368-TX Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail running in SLI Mode
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Not Overclocked
CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PT - Retail
HITACHI Deskstar 7K80 HDS728080PLA380 (0A30356) 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) ATX12V 535W Power Supply - Retail
I?ve recently OCed with the following specs:
Reference clock=250 (stock 200)
CPU Multiplier=9x
HT Freq=4x
Memory Divider=166 (on above MOBO bios reads Mem Index Value=333)
Vcore: 1.45
DDR Ram Voltage: 2.75 (which, according to Corsair, is stock).
Yielding total overclocked CPU Frequency of 2250 on stock cooling (CPU Temp=35 idle/40 load).
I?ve seen small (as expected) jumps in some benchmarking (e.g., 3DMark2003 went from 11600s to 11900s and 3DMark 2005 went from 5900s to 6200s).
I?ve tinkered and found that I can?t run my reference clock beyond 270 with my RAM Divider down to 133. With my Ram divider at 166, I can?t run it beyond 250.
The assumption I?m making is that it?s better to balance my CPU overclock with a higher RAM frequency (thus, I choose the 250/166 overclock combo). Is this true? Or, will I get decent performance by upping the reference clock and lowering the RAM to 133?
Any help concerning the above questions would be greatly appreciated. In turn, any other hints concerning how to tinker with the overclock specs to get a bit more out of my system would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
I?ve had the following system at stock for over a year now:
ASUS A8N-SLI Premium Socket 939 NVIDIA nForce4 SLI ATX AMD Motherboard - Retail
2 eVGA 128-P2-N368-TX Geforce 6600GT 128MB GDDR3 PCI Express x16 Video Card - Retail running in SLI Mode
AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 2000MHz HT Socket 939 Not Overclocked
CORSAIR XMS 1GB (2 x 512MB) 184-Pin DDR SDRAM DDR 400 (PC 3200) Unbuffered Dual Channel Kit System Memory Model TWINX1024-3200C2PT - Retail
HITACHI Deskstar 7K80 HDS728080PLA380 (0A30356) 80GB 7200 RPM SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
ENERMAX Whisper II EG565P-VE FMA(24P) ATX12V 535W Power Supply - Retail
I?ve recently OCed with the following specs:
Reference clock=250 (stock 200)
CPU Multiplier=9x
HT Freq=4x
Memory Divider=166 (on above MOBO bios reads Mem Index Value=333)
Vcore: 1.45
DDR Ram Voltage: 2.75 (which, according to Corsair, is stock).
Yielding total overclocked CPU Frequency of 2250 on stock cooling (CPU Temp=35 idle/40 load).
I?ve seen small (as expected) jumps in some benchmarking (e.g., 3DMark2003 went from 11600s to 11900s and 3DMark 2005 went from 5900s to 6200s).
I?ve tinkered and found that I can?t run my reference clock beyond 270 with my RAM Divider down to 133. With my Ram divider at 166, I can?t run it beyond 250.
The assumption I?m making is that it?s better to balance my CPU overclock with a higher RAM frequency (thus, I choose the 250/166 overclock combo). Is this true? Or, will I get decent performance by upping the reference clock and lowering the RAM to 133?
Any help concerning the above questions would be greatly appreciated. In turn, any other hints concerning how to tinker with the overclock specs to get a bit more out of my system would also be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.
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