My Barton sucks or I don't know what I'm doing!

[cmai]

I'm trying to overclock my barton but even if I bump up the FSB 5mhz and leave everything the same, prime95 can't get past the 5th test or so. I've tried doing quite a few combinations like lowering my multiplier to 10 and upping my FSB to 200 at default voltage but that gave me a system halt at boot up. Other settings (never above 2.0) would simply start up and either have errors running programs or simply crash my system. Upping my voltage to 1.7 did not help any of the settings run stable either.

I'm new to overclocking but I tried to read up on it as mush as possible. I'm quite disheartened by the results.

Barton 2500+ - Arctic 3 silver
SLK-7 + YS-tech 4000rpm fan
NF7-S v2.0
350W Turbolink PS
1x512mb Buffalo 3200 (winbond) 5-2-2-2 <- i have no idea what this does my friend said set it to this timing - system runs stable with this timing and default everything else
Radeon 9500
2 hard drives
2 optical

ambient temperatures 40 C and under load it's about 42 C

Any suggestions would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

cmai

 

[Jeff7181]

Most likely it's because of the RAM being set at 5-2-2-2 ... your friend is half right by telling you to set it at that. That's extremely agressive, and when you raise your FSB, you're also raising the speed of the RAM, and because of those agressive timings, it becomes unstable. So it's not your CPU (said with 95% confidence). Try setting the RAM to 6-3-3-2... if you get the same problems, try 7-3-3-2.5.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Your RAM may not be up to snuff for those timings. Those timings are pretty tight so it may be your RAM that's causing it to fail. Try relaxing your timings to SPD for now and try to O/C your CPU by bumping up the FSB to 200MHz and play with the multiplier. It might be a good idea to start around 9x and go up incrementally. This would test overclocking your CPU only so you don't have to worry about other components failing as well.

Once you find a stable speed for your CPU, then trying playing with your FSB and your RAM timings.

 

[Corporate Thug]

all the buffalo i have experiance does 5-2-2-2 just fine

 

[pelikan]

The buffalo pc3200 is winbond ch-5 and usually needs a ras to cas of 3. So maybe try 2-2-3-7. Also more vdimm.