Need a little help tweaking my bios on a NF7-S

[Renob]

Ok here is the hardware.
NFS-S
Mobil 2600
512mb Corsair XMS cas 2 mem
ATI 9800 pro
Enermax 550wat

Im running it at 12x200 at 1.52 volts and here are my bois settings, please let me know If I should change anything.

12x200
cpu FSB/dram ratio 5/5
cp cor voltage 1.52
ddr sdram voltage 2.8
chip set voltage 1.7
agp voltage 1.5
agp aperture 64m
agp fastwrite enabled
Mem timings Turbo 7 2 2 2

 

[bootoo]

I don't have that motherboard; only thing I would do is set fastwrites to disabled (works better for me) and set agp aperture size to 128.

I admire your memory timings! Nice job all around.

 

[AWhackWhiteBoy]

bump the cpu voltage and go higher if your cooling will allow it?

 

[loafbred]

Memory timings work a little better at 2-2-2-11 with 6/6 bus/dram ratio on nForce2's.

Chipset should be stable at 200 bus with 2.6v instead of 2.7, which will reduce heat.

Run a cpu benchmark like CPU Mark99 to see if the multiplier you're using is a problem. Some will cause performance drops. Try at multis 11 and 12.

 

[PliotronX]

Is enhanced CPU interface enabled? That one gave a good boost on my board, and also try playing around with the tRAS a.k.a. row active delay (it's the 7 in your timings). A lot of folks have found a setting of 11 gives a small gain. You can make testing easy by using the Nvidia System Utility and changing it from within Windows. I would also play with disabling FW and making sure SBA is enabled in Windows as that seems to make my 9700p happy (~+1 FPS w/FW off, another ~+1 FPS w/SBA on). You can change these on the fly using various utils such as the low level hardware page in RivaTuner, Powerstrip, WPCREDIT, etc.. I agree with Bootoo on the AGP aperture too, my Radeon likes 128 Happy tweakin' :beer:

 

[Shimmishim]

it likes 128 because radeon pros have 128 or 256 megs of ram...

so if you have one with 256, make sure to set the apeture to 256 rather than 128

 

[Fern]

Regarding AGP aperature settings. If this article is correct, and I can understand it, the more ram ur card has, the smaller ur AGP ap s/b

article on AGP Aperature Settings

Here's an all-around good site for OCing with the NF7

LVCoyote's NF7 Site