mildly OCing a 64 rig

[nny]

just built a 64 3000, ASUS SE deluxe, mushkin 512 pc3500 lvl1 setup. what is the best way to OC with stock HS/fan. I was told earlier to bump the HTT up to about 210. is that sufficient to take advantage of the 433 RAM?

 

[Regs]

You should be able to do 220 x 10 like me. Should. I increased the voltage of my PC3200 RAM to 1.7 and the AGP a little higher. Might of been unnecessary, but I did it just incase.Since you have PC3500 you shouldnt have to touch the voltages. The A64 runs cool. 35-38c idel while 45c-50c load on stock cooling.

 

[InlineFive]

Originally posted by: Regs
You should be able to do 220 x 10 like me. Should. I increased the voltage of my PC3200 RAM to 1.7 and the AGP a little higher. Might of been unnecessary, but I did it just incase.Since you have PC3500 you shouldnt have to touch the voltages. The A64 runs cool. 35-38c idel while 45c-50c load on stock cooling.

Just as a correction but DDR1 doesn't run at anywhere near 1.5v. JEDEC settings are 2.5v but most manufacturers go to 2.6v for DDR1.

-Por

 

[Regs]

Whoops. I must have my AGP/VDIMM confused. 2.7 it is.

 

[nny]

what about the memory settings? right now most of my BIOS is on auto, so i dont even know what the settings are.

 

[mitchafi]

I get higher 3DMark03 scores when it's set on auto than to 1:1 or 2:1 so I assume its the best setup.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: mitchafi
I get higher 3DMark03 scores when it's set on auto than to 1:1 or 2:1 so I assume its the best setup.

Yea. There shouldn't be a problem running 1:1 on 220 HTT. So auto is good. I found that memory timings don't make much of a performance difference either. 3-3-3 timings are good enough.

 

[bluewall21]

Lower timings will obviously be better, if your RAM can handle them.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: mitchafi
I get higher 3DMark03 scores when it's set on auto than to 1:1 or 2:1 so I assume its the best setup.

Yea. There shouldn't be a problem running 1:1 on 220 HTT. So auto is good. I found that memory timings don't make much of a performance difference either. 3-3-3 timings are good enough.

You can;t say that. My SCSI card does NOT like the PCI bus too high. I could only get 218. Now that I have a gig (2 sticks), it only likes about 213. And the lower latency helps stability from what I have seen on the Athlon64 with the on-die memory controller. 210 at 2-3-3 would be a nice mild OC and stable.

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: mitchafi
I get higher 3DMark03 scores when it's set on auto than to 1:1 or 2:1 so I assume its the best setup.

Yea. There shouldn't be a problem running 1:1 on 220 HTT. So auto is good. I found that memory timings don't make much of a performance difference either. 3-3-3 timings are good enough.

You can;t say that. My SCSI card does NOT like the PCI bus too high. I could only get 218. Now that I have a gig (2 sticks), it only likes about 213. And the lower latency helps stability from what I have seen on the Athlon64 with the on-die memory controller. 210 at 2-3-3 would be a nice mild OC and stable.

I asked you not long ago how stable your system was and you said rock solid. Did the added SCSI card create instability?

 

[Markfw]

Regs, it was rock solid at 218, not at 219. (with one 512 meg stick of memory) I added another 512 once I bought Far Cry (uses 700 meg), and I had to turn it back down to be stable to 213 (good so far) It is stable at a certain point. It just changed when I put in more memory.