Just got my comp up and running.... (bad experience)......

[TweakageMan]

Well, after many hours of trying to get my comp going, it's running now. When I was setting it up, I turned it on and it kept turning off after 2 seconds and booting back up. The CPU fan was also coming on just when I plugged the comp in (before I even hit the power button). Then..... DAMN! smoke came from my CPU area. I turned off the comp and went downstairs..... but ended up going up again and with the luck I was havng I didnt expect anything, but it is working now. THe problem was that me being the newbie I am,. didnt use the stand-offs for the mobo, so it shorted out. Anyways, im running the following:

Asus A7N8X Deluxe
Kingston HyperX 512MB PC-3000 DDR 2-2-2-6
Athlon XP 1700+ JIUHB 0301 @ 1.47GHz (11x Multiplier / Default)
SLK-800 w/ Vantec Stealth 80x80x25 + Artic Silver 3
27C Idle / 29C Windows / 33C Full Load

These temperatures are with the vcore running at 1.85 (I raised it to 1.85 to kind of "burn it in" and to prepare for oc'ing). Are these temps good for my proc? Or not? Now my main question is, how do I start overclocking? I would ideally like to get my CPU to 200x11 and my ram running at 200FSB also (2-3-3-7 if possible)

I cant seem to find an FSB increment in the bios tho. How do I increase the FSB??? I can see where I can increase the multiplier......... help please

 

[SinfulWeeper]

Can not really help you on a lot of the things you are doing since I do not own that motherboard.
But for the life of your CPU, turn it down to stocl voltage. 'Burn-in' is a myth.

To OC it, get the FSB to the highest it will go on stock voltage. Once you reach the peak. Run Prime95, it will most likely fail @ stock voltage. If it does, raise the voltage to the next higher setting and run Prime95 again. If it fails repeat the last step to the second highest setting from stock.
If it passes on the first increase of voltage. Keep raising the bus till you hit the 'new' limit. Then raise the voltage one last time. If it still fails Prime95, start lowing the FSB @ the voltage you are at till it passes one hour of testing.
Keep running the computer all day. But before you goto bed, restart the computer then run Prime95 all night while you are sleeping (with no other programs running).

Some people will say crank it upto 1.85 volts @ the highest FSB it will run at. But AMD CPU's seem to have a lot of STD's.

 

[Batman5177]

you should burn-in AFTER installing everything.

the max vcore most people recommend is 1.85v

BUT your board automatically overvolts the vcore 0.25v!!

so you are at 2.1 vcore, not good!!!!!

 

[Cerberus8080]

Originally posted by: Batman5177
you should burn-in AFTER installing everything.

the max vcore most people recommend is 1.85v

BUT your board automatically overvolts the vcore 0.25v!!

so you are at 2.1 vcore, not good!!!!!

Yeah, better check those specs to be sure. But I am pretty sure batman5177 is right. Better turn it down before you see more smoke.

Good Luck

 

[TweakageMan]

Originally posted by: Batman5177
you should burn-in AFTER installing everything.

the max vcore most people recommend is 1.85v

BUT your board automatically overvolts the vcore 0.25v!!

so you are at 2.1 vcore, not good!!!!!

If the board overvoles 0.25v, then how does it go from 1.85v to 2.1v? And how come if it really is at 2.1, it's running at only 27C idle?? Isn't that like impossible with only a 2200rpm fan?

 

[Batman5177]

according to my math:

1.85+0.25 = 2.1

what are you using to read temperatures?

i used the asus probe, but that only reads the temperature from the socket

i installed Speedfan and read the Diode temp (real cpu temp) and it was much higher.