My first overclock (My 3500+ Winchester on the MSI nForce4 board)

[DEredita]

I finally got everything on my new build running in perfect harmony and also the temps running idle at 33C-34C, and under full load for periods of well over an hour at 100% full cpu loads at 41C-42C.

Before I go further, let me give my system stats:
AMD Athlon 3500+ (Winchester - 90nm)
MSI Neo4 nForce4 Platinium
1 GB Crucial Ballistix DDR400 ram (2-2-2-6)
ATI Radeon X800XL
74 GB 10000rpm Raptor
Windows XP Pro (w/SP 2)


I'm playing around with a utility called Core Center, which is a utility provided by MSI with its motherboard. On this utility, I can increase the FSB speed and the ram voltage.
I increased the fsb up 10mhz and it yielded my 2.3 GHZ from my processor. I increased a little more until I just about hit 2.4 GHZ, when my pc reset itself - and upon reboot it was back to the stock speeds. Running at 2.3 GHZ, I noticed that the cpu runs between 36C-37C at idle. So, I'm still in a good temp range.

How do I go about increasing my proc speed the right way. I don't want to go crazy, but would like to safely see where I could push this thing - I'm still learning and consider myself a noob in the black arts of overclocking.

Suggestions, help, advice - all's welcome to chime in.

- Mike

 

[DEredita]

Sorry - posted this in the wrong section - this can be deleted

 

[TantrumusMaximus]

Change you settings in the BIOS and don't bother with the software tuners that MB vendors supply. I'm not sure what the BIOS for the MSI board looks like but if it's the AWARD BIOS look for Jumperfree and CPU configuration and play with the settings there. Read the overclocking guides here there are some very good stickies.

 

[DEredita]

I have Pheniox Award BIOS v. 1.1 for my MSI nForce4 mobo.

- Mike

 

[Dream Operator]

Sounds like you need a guide. Pay attention to other things like the Hypertransport speed (nvmonitor), your mulitpliers and others.

This should help.

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/showthread.php?t=20942

Depending on how familiar you are with computer details it may or may not be heady.

Good luck.

AND BACK UP FIRST!!!

(recently corrupted my windows install from an overclock crash, not fun!)