Newbie Posting {BEWARE!}

[Nikeleye]

Hi There!

I am new to these forums, and for that matter overclocking and the PC mod scene in general. Ive been putting up with a non-XP Athlon with 256RAM and a motherboard from hell for too long, so ive gone and ordered some new components to build myself a nice machine. However, the processor i got, and my RAM to me don't seem too good, but from what i have read in that amazing sticky overclocking could help. My RAM is some ebuyer value 512mb PC2100 {DDR266} cheap stuff, and my processor is a lovely Deleron 315, which is standardising at 256 cache and a 533 FSB. I am getting a case which I intend to seriously air cool, and would like to get my CPU from 2.26Ghz/533FSB upto maybe the 650FSB mark and around 2.8gigsish speed. Any feedback and hints or tips are greatly appreciated. Thankyou for reading.


Nikeleye.

 

[Gamingphreek]

Why in the hell did you get a Celeron. They aren't AS BAD but they are still worthless. You should have gotten a 2.4 or 2.8C. It doesn't matter what one other person got, no chip OCs the same!

You are not going to OC far at all with that RAM. you will be running out of sync as it is since the RAM is so slow. Also looks like you aren't running in dual channel so you are further crippling your processor. Come back and post when you have some PC3200 memory, 2 of them for dual channel. You might make it a little above stock speed with that RAM. All you gotta do is increase the FSB and raise the voltage slightly when it becomes unstable.

-Kevin

 

[o1die]

You have a celeron D cpu. You need pc2700 or pc3200 memory to run at full speed. Your old pc2100 will work, but will slow it down some. You need to set the memory to "auto" or 266, or use one of the ratios, such as 5:4. If you want more help, please list your full system specs.

 

[Nikeleye]

Thankyou both for your feedback.

I know my RAM is of a poor speed, but from what ive researched on it I might be able to get it upto, {If I do it properly} 166Mhz, because from what i can tell it is currently running 133Mhz at Dual Speed. If this is so, and with my CPU running 533FSB at its current level, is there a chance of a good overclock if I play with the vdimm and vcore?

I know this may sound odd and all, but apart from virtual OC'ing, im really new to this.

Oh, and can someone please inform into what the numbers that people put next to their RAM means, is it the voltage or timings or something, i have no idea heh.

Anyways, cheers.


{BTW, Full Specs:}
MoBo:
PcChips M925ALU SKT 478 MATX ATA133 { OnBoard ProSavage8 3D Graphics, Sound, LAN, USB 2.0 }

G-Card:
NVidia GeForce FX 5200 128MB

HDD:
Maxtor 6Y080M0 Plus 9 80Gb Serial ATA 7200rpm

RAM:
Ebuyer 512MB DDR266 PC2100

CPU:
Intel Celeron-D 315 2.26GHz, Socket478 - 533FSB, 256KB Cache

PSU:
Ebuyer 500w Power Supply With Dual Fans

 

[aka1nas]

You won't be doing any successful OCing with a PC chips mobo. The graphics card you just bought is pretty weak. Can you return any of this stuff still? What is your budget? You can do much better for not much more

 

[Nikeleye]

Its an old G-Card, i got it a few months back, and cant afford a new one. And why is the PcChips MoBo not good for OC'ing, is it a BIOS problem, or are they just plain bad?

And my budget was about 300, and this lot cost me 282, with a case, fans, keyboad + mouse and speakers.

Looking back, it now might have been better to get the 2.4Ghz Celeron D and some better RAM.

If I return some stuff, I might be able to afford to get the better CPU and RAM, however that MoBo doesnt look like its gonna shift.

Im thinking about selling a whole loada stuff on ebay, might bring some extra funding in, im not sure.