- Aug 17, 2001
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Heres what I got:
MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 1.25B bios installed
3200+ Clawhammer CG stepping
OCZ 3700 Gold Rev 2 2 x 512MB
OCZ 520W Powerstream PSU
Alpha 8150 HS w/hi speed sunon fan
I started out today getting everything installed and making sure things were in order. This is when I found out the MSI board doesnt exactly report temps accurately. Mines reading in the 60-75C range. No, it is not really running that hot....at that temp the HS would be cooking...its barely warm to the touch.
So I started out OC'ing a lil by little. First obstacle was the HT at 4X. SO I backed it down. Then I ran into a wall at 225mhz and it became unstable. No big deal I thought, I wasnt hoping to get a huge OC out of it anyways. Then ram became an issue, more like having two sticks was an issue. This is when I learned there are alot more things on a A64 to tweak than my former i875 chipset board for intel.
Well after installing the new bios and tinkering around wtih things, I ended up being able to do 2.25Ghz with HT set at 4X and the ram at 1:1. I couldnt have both sticks in there at the same time and still be stable. I was able to run at 2.33Ghz, but it wasnt quite stable enough for my liking. I have been using 1.6V for the core voltage, but did experiment with it at 1.65V. Didnt see much or any improvement in stability at 2.33Ghz. Tried higher, but it bombed out during the initialization of USB (appeared to be about that time anyways)
Right now I think there are probably two things holding me back from going any further. The bios and the ram. The bios is a beta version and there is supposedly another version out there floating around that fixed the temp issue some and improved OC'ing. I also need a recommendation for a good single 1GB stick of ram that can do fast timings at low speeds, and run at higher speeds with relaxed timings. Any recommendations here? Looks to be a little thin for choices in the single 1Gb stick market.
MSI K8N Neo Platinum, 1.25B bios installed
3200+ Clawhammer CG stepping
OCZ 3700 Gold Rev 2 2 x 512MB
OCZ 520W Powerstream PSU
Alpha 8150 HS w/hi speed sunon fan
I started out today getting everything installed and making sure things were in order. This is when I found out the MSI board doesnt exactly report temps accurately. Mines reading in the 60-75C range. No, it is not really running that hot....at that temp the HS would be cooking...its barely warm to the touch.
So I started out OC'ing a lil by little. First obstacle was the HT at 4X. SO I backed it down. Then I ran into a wall at 225mhz and it became unstable. No big deal I thought, I wasnt hoping to get a huge OC out of it anyways. Then ram became an issue, more like having two sticks was an issue. This is when I learned there are alot more things on a A64 to tweak than my former i875 chipset board for intel.
Well after installing the new bios and tinkering around wtih things, I ended up being able to do 2.25Ghz with HT set at 4X and the ram at 1:1. I couldnt have both sticks in there at the same time and still be stable. I was able to run at 2.33Ghz, but it wasnt quite stable enough for my liking. I have been using 1.6V for the core voltage, but did experiment with it at 1.65V. Didnt see much or any improvement in stability at 2.33Ghz. Tried higher, but it bombed out during the initialization of USB (appeared to be about that time anyways)
Right now I think there are probably two things holding me back from going any further. The bios and the ram. The bios is a beta version and there is supposedly another version out there floating around that fixed the temp issue some and improved OC'ing. I also need a recommendation for a good single 1GB stick of ram that can do fast timings at low speeds, and run at higher speeds with relaxed timings. Any recommendations here? Looks to be a little thin for choices in the single 1Gb stick market.
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