Help Overclock my winchester.

[Viiper]

Currently running at these settings

245fsb
166mhz ram
3x HTT
10x Multi
1.6v CPU
2.7v RAM
ram timings = 2/3/3/5

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Its a Gigabyte k8ns-929 board and iam running geil pc3200 UTT BH-5 ram

Will i be able to get any higher?

 

[Cares]

Why don't you just use like 230 with 11x?

 

[Viiper]

I cannot use 11x, upward locked

 

[Viiper]

So is there any other configs i can run to get higer clock?

 

[11427]

Have you tried any higher? Prime95 stable?,...memtest86? BSOD?
From my personal experience with the Winchesters I have played with, they will almost all go to an FSB/HTT of 262 or there abouts. I think you should be able to get some more out of it.

 

[n7]

Determine your maxed for everything.

First test for highest HTT speed, then highest CPU speed, then highest RAM speed.

Follow Zebo's OCing guide which is a post or two above yours.

 

[Icepick]

I'd run 12 hours of Prime 95 on small FFTs. If you can run that without it failing then you're pretty stable. I doubt you'll go much higher than where you are now. 1.6V on Vcore is pretty high for a Winchester. I wouldn't go over 1.55V myself. These CPUs should be able to easily handle a voltage load of 10% over stock. Any more than that and you're taking chances.

One nitpick - A 3200+ @ 2.45GHz does not equal a 4000+. It's equivalent to a 3800+. A 4000+ has 1MB L2 cache and your CPU is only 512k, as is the 3800+. Nice overclock BTW

 

[Viiper]

I ran SuperPI 32mb and memtest86 both fine and stable, and my 3200 winny does beat a 4000+....do i have to prove it

 

[11427]

In that case, bump it up some more!