Overclocking on IT-7 Max w/ P4 1.6A

[dlim85]

My first post so yea...

Just put together a new system:

Abit IT-7 Max
Intel Pentium 4 1.6A Northwood
512 megs Samsung original PC-2700 DDR-Ram
Thermaltake Volcano 7+
ATI All-in-Wonder Radeon 8500 128 megs

40 gig generic Maxtor x2
Turtle Beach Santa Cruz
Antec SX-1030 (2 exhaust fans, 2 intake fans)

Overclocking was surprisingly good on this system. Running stable at:
FSB 157 mHz
33mHz PCI bus
DRAM ratio 1:1
Core Voltage: 1.6 V
DRAM voltage 2.7 V
Cas Latency: 2
Act to precharge delay: 6
RAS# -> CAS#: 2
DRAM RAS# to precharge: 2
2.51 gHz

The AIW is at 300 core speed and the memory is at 312.
3DMark2001SE score: 9881 @ 1024x768
12046 @ 800x600

All I have to say is OMG SAMSUNG RAM IS INSANE!!! I even ran that sucker up to 202 off a 3:4 CPU : DRAM ratio and it STILL RAN STABLE!!!!!!!
Yes... anyways, post your comments on improvements etc. THanx

 

[Mikki]

How high are ya gonna take it? Still got a little room...

 

[dlim85]

I dunno how much further this'll go... so far I have found that this is my optimal and stablest configuration. DO you think any improvements can be made?

 

[Nilonym]

I have this config almost exactly (same mobo, ram, cpu, even case...) . I currently run @150 fsb with the 3:4 dram ratio. I had to up the CAS to 2.5, but the bandwidth increase from 300 to 400 MHz more than makes up for it.

Truly, that Samsung DDR is insane. I have pushed it to 420 just out of curiosity and it didn't even flinch. CPU craps out way before the ram.

Nilonym

 

[Mikki]

dlim85, your system rocks as is, but if you want to see how high it'll go, you can bump it up a bit more (compensating with a bump in v-core, 1.75v actual max). You can also try to compensate for instability by raising your memory timings, I've found in my testing that adjusting the cas timing doesn't affect performance that much. Good luck!