Pushing individual components

[beatle]

Hopefully I'll find my 2.6C and IS7 waiting for me when I get home. I'm trying to formulate a plan for clocking this puppy as high as possible. I only have PC3200, but it's decent stuff - anyone remember TwinMos/Winbond BH5? I'm thinking of setting the divider @ 3:2 and seeing how high I can push the CPU by itself before erroring out in P95. Surely I'll reach its limit before hitting 3.9 Ghz. 😀

Then to test the ram I'll change the divider to 5:4 and cut back the FSB to achieve the same clockspeed and see if my ram will hold @ spd timings. If it does, I'll tighten the timings, if it doesn't, I'll relax them. If it fails at all timings, I'll put it back to spd and lower the fsb until I reach one that's stable, then adjust the timings again.

Sound good? Anyone else have a tried and true method of getting every component maxed out? 🙂

 

[beatle]

Wow, NOBODY has an opinion?

It turns out that the stock HSF with my 2.6C isn't as good as most people have said. At stock clock and voltage, I'm idling ~50C, using Ceramique. My ram also seems to be garbage, failing tighter timings @ default speed w/CPC on (unless this is expected).