Overclocking

[Bugen]

Alright, I'll start by showing my setup.
AMD 4000+ San Diego (2.4Ghz) with Zalman CNPS9500
MSI K8N Neo4 Platnium
I just recieved my G.Skill DDR 500 (3-4-4-8)
XFX 7800 GTX (490 Mhz Factory OC) with Arctic Cooling
Xion 600W Power Supply (Not sold anymore)

OK, so I want to clock my motherboard so my memory runs at DDR 500 (250 Mhz) and the 3-4-4-8 timings, OC the cpu to 2.6 (possibly higher if it would be stable?), and maybe push the video card to 500 but that really isn't important. My main problem is I have no idea what to do with the BIOS. For documentation of my BIOS, download this and scroll down to section 3. Last thing, and this has nothing to do with overclocking, but if you look at the motherboard, my chipset fan is directly under my video card and I would like to change it out because it is extremely loud but I don't know of any solutions that would fit under my video card.

 

[letdown427]

jingting heatpipe chipset cooler is about the only option for the chipset if it's under the gfx card.

Numbers wise, getting 250Mhz on the RAM and 2.6.

Either way, in the BIOS, it appears you want to go to Advanced Chipset features and enter DRAM config for the RAM timings.

Try leaving everything at auto, as it may pick up the right timings straight away. You'll be able to check this I assume when the PC first boots (turn off the Full Logo Display in the Advanced BIOS features.

If not, CAS is 3 in your case. Tras is 8. Trcd is 4. Trp is 4.

The 200mhz frequency is the divider setting I'd think, despite what the manual says... 200Mhz being 1:1, 100Mhz being 2:1

The user config mode, might be worth checking Memory Timing is set to 1T. A lot of people say it kills A64s at 2T, then also some say it makes no dif. If you have booting issues at 1T, then try 2T before giving up on other things.

Then, in the Cell Menu are where you want to toy with 'FSB' settings and multipliers.

Once you increase the FSB above 200 (overclock! ) drop the HT Frequency to 4x. If you go over 250FSB (HTT strictly speaking) drop the HT Frequency to 3x.

You can try more voltage if you want, at your own risk hehe, probably not necessary for 'just' 2.6Ghz.

As for the PCIE clock, some people say put it to 100 or 101 for nvidia cards, and I've seen 105 for ATi cards. I don't know anything about those subjects though, so I'd say leave it at 100 unless you find a good bit of info about it.

Have to say, I can't see anything about CPU multipliers in the bios screenshots, it'll be 12x for you by default. If you go to 11x or 10x and a higher FSB, don't use C n'Q, as otherwise it'll restore to your stock 12x multiplier, but with the high FSB = crash.

Have fun.