DFI AK76-SN
Tbird 1333
Globalwin CAK38 heatsink/fan
512 Crucial 2100 DDR
Enermax 350W PS
Promise FastTrak 100 TX2
2 X IBM GXP75 40gigs
Pioneer 16X DVD
Gainward Geforce 2 Pro 64mb
SB Live 5.1
LinkSys PCI NIC
I believe that the voltage limitations on this mobo are keeping me from hitting some decent overclock speeds. The board doesn't have many overclocking features. The maximum Vcore is 1.85V and I can't find a place to allow me to adjust the voltage to my memory. The FSB has a range of 133 - 166 in bios. The highest completely stable overclock I've reached (tested with prime95) is 11 X 135 for 1485 while default for the cpu is of course 10 X 133. Running at 1485 the highest CPU temperature I received was 40C. I tried setting my multiplier to a lower value and trying to check for a maximum stable FSB(suggested in cpus/overclocking). With an 8X multiplier I was only stable up to a FSB of 137 and CPU temp was 38C. The highest multiplier that worked with the default FSB was 11. Temperature just doesn't seem to be a problem here. Looks like a voltage problem to me. Is it possibly my memory voltage holding me back? I have no idea where to change the memory voltage settings in Bios. Fellow DFI owners help me out please? Has anyone been successful overclocking with this board? Should I ditch this board in favor of something better? Thanks for any input.
-J
Tbird 1333
Globalwin CAK38 heatsink/fan
512 Crucial 2100 DDR
Enermax 350W PS
Promise FastTrak 100 TX2
2 X IBM GXP75 40gigs
Pioneer 16X DVD
Gainward Geforce 2 Pro 64mb
SB Live 5.1
LinkSys PCI NIC
I believe that the voltage limitations on this mobo are keeping me from hitting some decent overclock speeds. The board doesn't have many overclocking features. The maximum Vcore is 1.85V and I can't find a place to allow me to adjust the voltage to my memory. The FSB has a range of 133 - 166 in bios. The highest completely stable overclock I've reached (tested with prime95) is 11 X 135 for 1485 while default for the cpu is of course 10 X 133. Running at 1485 the highest CPU temperature I received was 40C. I tried setting my multiplier to a lower value and trying to check for a maximum stable FSB(suggested in cpus/overclocking). With an 8X multiplier I was only stable up to a FSB of 137 and CPU temp was 38C. The highest multiplier that worked with the default FSB was 11. Temperature just doesn't seem to be a problem here. Looks like a voltage problem to me. Is it possibly my memory voltage holding me back? I have no idea where to change the memory voltage settings in Bios. Fellow DFI owners help me out please? Has anyone been successful overclocking with this board? Should I ditch this board in favor of something better? Thanks for any input.
-J
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