- Jul 11, 2004
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Other than overclocking an old P3 (1000Mhz to 1250Mhz), I'm a real noob to this. I got some DDR 500 RAM, so I was really hoping to get my FSB up to 250 Mhz so I could run without a divider.
I went through the "Quick and Dirty A64 Clocking Guide".
I was able to get my HTT up to 355 without any errors, I could have gone further, but I saw no need to waste my time trying.
Next, I raised the stepping on the CPU. My goal was 250Mhz. With 1.5v, I was able to get there, but Prime would fail after about 30 minutes. Not very stable. This is my goal, but I am afraid to raise the CPU voltage. Should I?
I dropped down to 240Mhz and dropped the voltage to 1.4v. I ran Prime on both cores overnight. One core failed after 8 hours. The other instance of Prime crashed pretty early on (about 10 tests) and I got the Windows error reporting box.
Now, I am a bit confused about the whole memory speed. My old Soltek board used to let me key in any frequency I wanted (up to 300). The DFI Ultra-D only lets me select a few freqencies at or below 200. There is also an auto setting. With Auto, the memory runs at 250Mhz, which is stock (DDR 500).
Two questions about this:
1) When I had my FSB at 240, my memory was still at 250. How does that work? I understand having RAM running slower than your FSB, but not faster.
2) On my P3 board and my Soltek 939, I can set the memory to any speed (for instance, I could set it to 240Mhz and be running a 1:1 ratio). Why can't my DFI do this? I assume I'm missing some crucial concept here.
So, right now I stand at 240Mhz x 10 = 2400Mhz overclock that is not very stable. Ive been surfing the web for an hour with no problems, but it failed Prime miserably. What should I be doing?
Should I increase CPU voltage? If so, how far? What is safe? I heard that the x2 series does not take voltage well.
Should I accept my 2400Mhz clocking? My goal was 2500Mhz and I feel that is somehow attainable.
Rig Specs:
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
A64 x2 3800+
2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR 500 Extreme Series
Antec NeoHE 500w
SI-120 w/ 120mm Panaflo
(the rest shouldnt matter)
I went through the "Quick and Dirty A64 Clocking Guide".
I was able to get my HTT up to 355 without any errors, I could have gone further, but I saw no need to waste my time trying.
Next, I raised the stepping on the CPU. My goal was 250Mhz. With 1.5v, I was able to get there, but Prime would fail after about 30 minutes. Not very stable. This is my goal, but I am afraid to raise the CPU voltage. Should I?
I dropped down to 240Mhz and dropped the voltage to 1.4v. I ran Prime on both cores overnight. One core failed after 8 hours. The other instance of Prime crashed pretty early on (about 10 tests) and I got the Windows error reporting box.
Now, I am a bit confused about the whole memory speed. My old Soltek board used to let me key in any frequency I wanted (up to 300). The DFI Ultra-D only lets me select a few freqencies at or below 200. There is also an auto setting. With Auto, the memory runs at 250Mhz, which is stock (DDR 500).
Two questions about this:
1) When I had my FSB at 240, my memory was still at 250. How does that work? I understand having RAM running slower than your FSB, but not faster.
2) On my P3 board and my Soltek 939, I can set the memory to any speed (for instance, I could set it to 240Mhz and be running a 1:1 ratio). Why can't my DFI do this? I assume I'm missing some crucial concept here.
So, right now I stand at 240Mhz x 10 = 2400Mhz overclock that is not very stable. Ive been surfing the web for an hour with no problems, but it failed Prime miserably. What should I be doing?
Should I increase CPU voltage? If so, how far? What is safe? I heard that the x2 series does not take voltage well.
Should I accept my 2400Mhz clocking? My goal was 2500Mhz and I feel that is somehow attainable.
Rig Specs:
DFI Lanparty Ultra-D
A64 x2 3800+
2 x 1GB G.Skill DDR 500 Extreme Series
Antec NeoHE 500w
SI-120 w/ 120mm Panaflo
(the rest shouldnt matter)
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