Pick the best Overclock for my winchester 3200+

[GuitarDaddy]

I have acheived stability with the following settings on my ASUS A8N-SLI. Which one is the best?

A) 240 x 10 = 2400mhz, ram=240mhz, 4xhtt 960fsb

B) 253 x 9.5 = 2401mhz, ram=253mhz, 4xhtt 1011fsb

C) 266 x 9.5 = 2530mhz, ram=170mhz, 4xhtt 1065fsb

D) 270 x 9.5 = 2565mhz, ram=173mhz, 3xhtt 810fsb

E) 281 x 9.0 = 2528mhz, ram=181mhz, 3xhtt 843fsb

 

[Megamixman]

Definately B, since in C-E you are sacrificing a lot of memory bandwidth. A would be second best.

 

[imported_aragorn18]

I'd have to go with B. The missing ~150Mhz on the CPU is most likely made up for with the faster RAM and HT bus.

 

[Scorpius]

Any ideas on how to accomplish the best stability with an AMD 64 3000 winchester and a MSI K8N-NEO II Platinum

any thoughts would be appreciated...
thanks
merry Xmas and those yots

 

[Scorpius]

Also
where does the HT setting need sto be...lower of higher inorder to get better performance/stability????

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
I have acheived stability with the following settings on my ASUS A8N-SLI. Which one is the best?

A) 240 x 10 = 2400mhz, ram=240mhz, 4xhtt 960fsb

B) 253 x 9.5 = 2401mhz, ram=253mhz, 4xhtt 1011fsb

C) 266 x 9.5 = 2530mhz, ram=170mhz, 4xhtt 1065fsb

D) 270 x 9.5 = 2565mhz, ram=173mhz, 3xhtt 810fsb

E) 281 x 9.0 = 2528mhz, ram=181mhz, 3xhtt 843fsb

Test option B against option D...And then try to use decent real world type of apps, not sissoft sandra mem scores....test sciencemark, superpi, amd's N-bench, 3dmark ( I guess)....If you are really in to games how about a UT2003 demo, or Doom3

MOst of these guys answers makes me discouraged that actually no one test their systems in the real world test....I can tell you I have and the D option is the best...The 150mhz cpu will easily trump the 80ddr....

I am so tired of having to battle this myth.....

Also are you able to run 2-2-2-6 timings with D??? probably not with B though, right??? That makes a difference back in favor of D....

 

[Zebo]

You got em you tell us.

I would not use half multi's cause it cripples A64's performance...I'll look later for AT article on it if you don't find it.

250 x 10 or 260 x 10 is better. with 166 mem seting or 200 depending how high you can go and timmings

 

[Zebo]

Here's what I mean...

http://www6.tomshardware.com/c...19/cpu-scaling-05.html

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Originally posted by: Zebo
You got em you tell us.

I would not use half multi's cause it cripples A64's performance...I'll look later for AT article on it if you don't find it.

250 x 10 or 260 x 10 is better. with 166 mem seting or 200 depending how high you can go and timmings

Thanks for the info on the 1/2 multi's!

Overall, I'm very pleased with this board. The one thing I don't like is the lack of controllable memory dividers. With this board there are two options for running ram, AUTO and MANUAL(DDR400,DDR466,etc..)

1. In AUTO once you pass 217fsb it automatically uses dividers always keeping ram less than 200mhz

2. In MANUAL it always runs 1:1 (no manual dividers)


I can o/c my CPU to right around 2600mhz, or I can o/c my ram to about 262mhz. But when running 1:1
the best I can get is 2400mhz.

From the limited benchmarking I've done (3dmark05,Aquamark3) I get the best scores 2400mhz 1:1

 

[miketheidiot]

d

EDIT: oops i meant E