Overclocking with the Asus NOS program

[amheck]

I just put together my new Asus A8N-E/AMD 3200+ Venice system yesterday. While installing all of the software again, I was playing around with the Asus NOS automatic OC utility. I pushed the button for the 110% OC, which I figured wasn't all that much, and the system locked up immediately. I got a little scared, so I rebooted and the system froze when loading up windows. I decided to look around in bios, and thankfully found the settings for the OC'ing and changed it back to none. And I was able to get into windows fine.

I know that manually adjusting the setting is the best way to go about OC'ing. I'm going to get my PC get nice and stable for a while before I mess with anything like that. But since it locked up at a 10% OC thru software, does that mean that maybe I didn't get a good OC'ing CPU? Since stock is 2.0GHz, 10% only means 2.2Ghz, which isn't anything all that crazy, or so I hear.......

Aaron

 

[n7]

Don't use the crappy auto OCing options in teh bios or the software OCing utilities.

A few things to make sure of:
If you have SATA HDDs, make sure they are on locked SATA ports.
Check that the PCI/PCI-e is locked.
Make sure the LDT is lowered when OCing. (LDT x HTT = HT frequency) By default, it will be 5 x 200 = 1000. You will need to lower the LDT to 4x, & if the HTT is running higher than 250, then you need to lower it to 3x. (Max HT frequency you want is 1000)
Don't try OCing RAM right off the bat, even though you do have good RAM.
Read Zebo's OCing guide on the top of this forum

Good luck!

 

[AMDgood IntelBAD]

do you mean max HT frequency is 1000?????

 

[theMan]

when i did that with my mobo, it raised my vcore up to 1.75v to do a 5% oc. i looked at cpuz and i was like HOLY SH!T and i shut down as fast as possible. there are a lot of things you have to pay attension of when you overclock. these programs do not. mostly the stuff that n7 said. i tihnk these programs just ram up the fsb. you need to watch your ram divider, ldt, voltages, and locks.

 

[exar333]

id say put your LDT at x4...mem multi at 166 and FSB at 220...there ya go....a nice 10% overclock...start with something simple!

 

[sangyup81]

don't trust the mobo to do stuff for you when you OC

 

[Sentential]

Originally posted by: sangyup81
don't trust the mobo to do stuff for you when you OC

Especially an amature like Asus. Had this been Abit, my tun might have changed. But Asus doesnt know how to make an oc/ing program if their lives depended upon it.

 

[n7]

Originally posted by: AMDgood IntelBAD
do you mean max HT frequency is 1000?????

Yes thanx.
I mixed that one up.