Overclocking and Cool and Quiet questions.

[Gankutsuou]

Well, I'm about to start overclocking my system, but one or 2 things are buzzing me.

The first one is my graphic card. I got a 9800 pro from ATI and I believe that will be the only thing holding me. If I overclock the FSB and I want to only marginally overclock my gpu, how can I do it safely? Also, what is the right setting for an AGP card of this kind...

setting is 66~100...

Also, I got some questions about the Cool and Quiet. If I overclock my system, does the feature of Cool and Quiet technology could bring my cpu at retail clock speed? That would be fantastic. I'm asking this because I got a MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum 939 motherboard. This mobo got a special feature called Dynamic Overclocking that overclock your system only when it needs to.

I also got 2 SATA drives, so the voltage involved in the process is really important.

Also, cooling is not a problem. I got a water-cooling system (CPU only) and an awesome airflow in case.

Specs

A64 3000+ winchester
MSI K8N Neo 2 platinum
Radeon 9800 pro (ATI)
1 GB PC3200 OCZ platinum rev-2
2 SATA Seagate Baracuda 7200.8 200 GIG (not in RAID)
Modstream OCZ 520 Watts powersupply

Also a PCI sound Blaster Audigy 2 (for maybe voltage issues... the reason I put it in the list)

Also, everything is at stock speed right now.

 

[peleejosh]

Cool and Quiet doesnt work correctly when you overclock. You should not use Dynamic Overclocking, it sucks. Lock your agp bus frequency to 67. Make sure you use the sata ports that are closest to the processor (3 and 4), because 1 and 2 dont lock. Voltage has nothing to dowith the sata drives. Voltage had nothing to do with the sound blaster. Your psu is more than enough for that system.

 

[Gankutsuou]

Originally posted by: peleejosh
Cool and Quiet doesnt work correctly when you overclock. You should not use Dynamic Overclocking, it sucks. Lock your agp bus frequency to 67. Make sure you use the sata ports that are closest to the processor (3 and 4), because 1 and 2 dont lock. Voltage has nothing to dowith the sata drives. Voltage had nothing to do with the sound blaster. Your psu is more than enough for that system.

Hmmm that's some valuable info from someone who actually got the same mobo, thank you. I will change my setting.

Also, the SMART HD option is something I don't particulary know. Should I activate it?

 

[theMan]

the fsb setting has nothing to do with the gpu core. just make sure you sett the pci lock. read through the "Quick and Dirty A64 Overclocking Guide" sticky in this section. it is really imporant to lock the pci, and use sata 3&4. i wouldnt use dynamic oc'ing, and if you have that good cooling, i wouldnt use cool and quiet. my air cooling gives me ~44C load with my overclock. also, voltage to the cpu is set separately, you can usually modify the agp voltage, but when you use locks, it doesnt matter.

 

[Vegitto]

Also, overclocking an ATi GPU and an AMD CPU is done differently. The CPU is overclocked in the BIOS (pre-OS) and overclocking the GPU is done in Windows, with a utility (ATiTool). Good luck, and post your results 🙂.

 

[Linearsoup]

i think cool and quiet works fine when overclocked as long as you stick to whatever your max oc is on stock volts,works for me.

 

[furballi]

Have the ABIT AX8 board. No problem with CnQ. CnQ lowers the multiplier (9x to 5x in the case of 3000 winchester) when the CPU is NOT running at 100%. The core voltage also drops at the lowered multiplier setting, resulting in a cooler running CPU with less power consumption. When I run a demanding test program like Prime95, CnQ automatically raises the multiplier and Vcore to MAXIMUM settings in BIOS, thus allowing the PC to run at full speed.

And yes, my 3000 is overclocked to +3600 speed.

 

[imported_SLIM]

Anybody using a DFI board and CnQ while overclocking? Their driver page has red bolded text saying this is a bad idea...

 

[saltedeggman]

I tried C'N'Q when overclocking, I did notice some instability when doing so...but i am not 100% sure since i was fiddling with the system, changing this and that

 

[BarboBot]

yeah i was having some problems burning my system in when i had cool n quiet enabled on my system (wouldn't let me adjust cpu voltage) once i turned it off i could finally get to work i'm not planning on turning it back on unless i keep my OC under 10-15% but we'll see if i can get a 20% stable OC (gaming stable) then i'm just not gonna use it. Actually now that i'm thinkin about it i'm pretty sure my comp rand a couple of degrees cooler when i turned it off and rebooted it (like 3 degrees)