o/c endless story. what am I doing wrong?

[Wiglaf3]

I have an EPOX 8k7a+ with and Athlon 1.4 (133x10.5) running w2k
My system contains
2x80HD in RAID0
DVD
CD-r
ATI A-I-W card
and an extra fan, that I removed occasionally to see if the lower power draw would make a difference in system stability. It never did!

So, after following the FAQs and testing my system with siSoft Sandra and 3dMark2001 for stability, I have yet to find any practical overclocking settings.
Yes, I have systematically increased the CPU voltage and/or the DDR voltage for every setting. This has consumed about a day and a half.

Raising the system bus (as the FAQ says) simply prevents me from having a high multiplier. Raising the multiplier does get me to 1.6 (133X12), but this speed is not stable.

This exercise has consumed a collossal amount of my time, and I'm hoping that someone can tell me what I'm doing wrong. There's got to be some way I can get *some* overclocking, right?😱

 

[eeut]

what psu, hs? did you try default bios settings and lower timing for mem while increasing vio/vcore and fsb? what temps also?

 

[Wiglaf3]

Swiftech 370-oa. Supposed to have a Papst fan, but this fan is noisy. Temps no higher than 41C.
I presume that bios settings were in default b/c I hadn't played with any of them other than FSB.

How do you lower timing for memory?

 

[eeut]

lowering memory timings is finding the higher number. example fastest mem time= cas 2,2,2 <lower timing
slowest mem time=cas 3,3,3 <highest timing
the higher the number on mem time, the slower it gets. that is when you try increasing fsb with vio/vcore. when you hit the sweet spot that is when you lower the mem timings finding the lowest stable time. disable byte merge, spread spectrum and virus checker at boot up. don't worry it also applies to all mem.