My 3500+(130nm)/NEO2 Overclock PLEASE comment/advise thanks.

[RealityTime]

hi. i wanted to get my 3500+(130nm) running at 2.4 on my neo2 platinum. this is all i want i don't want any higher 🙂. I've got it at 2410mhz right now these are my settings, of first off here is my system stats neo2, 3500+ 130nm, and the pain 2 512mb sticks of kingston value pc3200 rated at 2.5-3-3-8. Now I have my settings as follows:

fsb: 219
htt: 4x
cpu voltage: 1.55
I set my ram to run at 166mhz and have ram timings at auto in bios my system on post reports my ram as 2-3-7-3-1t ddr333 179mhz.

Here's my question I have not yet tried setting my ram back up to 200. But feel my ram may not be able to manage. But it would be great if it could. What I'd like to know is, what do you think as per right now at 2.41ghz, 219fsb with my ram running at those speeds vs stock at 2.2ghz,200fsb, ddr400 200mhz 2.5-3-3-8 ... which is performing better for me ?

As far as sandra goes my arithmitec is up to fx-53 levels. but memory bandwidth is down to 5300 from 5900. please advise thanks. And i'd like to try my ram at 200 but could this fry it ?

 

[RealityTime]

quick update. i tried the ram at 200 i get errors when i get into windows and it crashes. try upping the voltage to the ram a bit too and its a no go. curious if lowering my multiplier to 10 and raising my fsb to 240 might be a better idea with my ram running at this slower speed ?

quick update now set to 166mhz in bios 177 mhz on the ram (348) 2-3-3-7-1t
4x htt
fsb:225
cpu: 2473 mhz
cpu voltage: 1.55

question my bios on post reports mem speed at 189 but cpu-z or sandra report it at 177 ? at normal stock this never happened. it was 200 reported by both.

btw my question still is do you think my system is performing better at this setting, with the memory 348Mhz and the cpu at 2473 than it is at 2.2ghz/400mhz stock ?

 

[RealityTime]

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[RealityTime]

updated. I got it stable at 219fsb, 200mhz ram at 2.5-3-3-8-2t but I ran some tests and found that my machine is faster at the lower memory setting with the faster cpu speed.. current stats ,

fsb: 228
cpu mhz: 2506
cpu voltage: 1.6
htt: 4x
memory: Set to DDR333 166Mhz in Bios running at : 190Mhz 2-3-7-3-1t
cpu idle temp: load temp: 57 (as per mbm5)

benches:

Sisoft Sandra-

CPU Arithmetic: 11,534
CPU Multimedia: 23,945
Memory Bandwidth: 5,446

Video stuff: (6800gt at 380/1000)

valve source stress test at 1600x1200, all high, reflect world, 8xaf, 2xaa, no vsync: 82.63fps
doom3 timedemo 1 at 1600x1200 everything on, 8xaf, 2xaa, no vsync: 56fps
3dmark03: 11,636

bah makes me wish i had spent a bit more and gotten 2 512mb sticks of ocz 2300 rev2 🙁 looks like this is a good overclocking cpu.

 

[Xernex]

What sort of cooling you got on that?

 

[RealityTime]

Originally posted by: Xernex
What sort of cooling you got on that?

just a zalman7000-alcu