Is it as easy as this?

[reichter]

So I've just built a new system with some moderate OCing in mind. This was a first time for me so I did alot of reading and research on the subject. Then I downloaded clockgen, oc'd the system by 20% with a slider and then hit apply. Is it really as easy as that? I was expecting to have to do some tweaking in the bios at the very least. I ran cpu-z and sure enough it has both my cpu and ram oc'd to 240 Mhz. I've run Prime95 for several hours and the system appears stable with temperatures not exceeding 38 on the cpu.
I can't help but feel like I'm not doing something important since this just seems way to easy.

I do have one issue though. Before the OC I ran 3dmark and during the cpu test I was getting 0 fps (seemed like I was getting a frame every couple of seconds). I only have an amd 64 3200 but it still felt slow. I then ran it after the OC and got the same result. Is this normal?

 

[F1shF4t]

Yes its pretty easy to overclock, i was suprised that i hit 2.6ghz easy, 2.7ghz took some tweaking to get though.

Thats the cpu test, cpus are absolutely awful at rendering graphics, thats the reason why ur getting those results.

 

[biostud]

yes it's quite simple to o/c if you understand the terms used in o/c guides. The more you o/c the more tweaking is usually needed. With value memory you often need to run with memory dividers and sometimes you need to increase the core voltage of the CPU, but that's more or less the only tweaking you need to do in the BIOS. For more tweaking you can always try to play with memory timings, but usually it doesn't add that much more speed compaired to raw MHz increases.

and yes it's normal to get 0 fps for the CPU test.

 

[DerwenArtos12]

No offense but, shens till you post some more info if not a screencap. That is a decent and very achievable OC on the processor but, what ram do you have running at 240, perfectly stable, without so much as manually setting the timings? What motherboard is this on, what core is your 3200+?

 

[lopri]

Considering RAM manufacturers program SPDs very conservatively (for compatibility, obviously) it's a very possible scenario, I'd say. And many BIOSes set the default command rate @2T. So with everything set at the "Safe" setting (or "Optimal", depending on the manufacturers. ), achieving 20% OC on lower-clocked A64 CPUs just by sliding a bar should be indded very easy. Only thing that could prevent this would be the board's HTT frequency ceiling. (Still, decent Socket 939 boards will have no problem doing 1200MHz HTT)

 

[DerwenArtos12]

Originally posted by: lopri
Considering RAM manufacturers program SPDs very conservatively (for compatibility, obviously) it's a very possible scenario, I'd say. And many BIOSes set the default command rate @2T. So with everything set at the "Safe" setting (or "Optimal", depending on the manufacturers. ), achieving 20% OC on lower-clocked A64 CPUs just by sliding a bar should be indded very easy. Only thing that could prevent this would be the board's HTT frequency ceiling. (Still, decent Socket 939 boards will have no problem doing 1200MHz HTT)

I didn't say it wasn't possible or even plausible, I know enough to know it's not likely though. Your points are the exact reasons I asked for more specs. Based on his post the system could be anything from a Via s754 to a DFI NF4.